Sökning: "Religion and Modernity"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 67 avhandlingar innehållade orden Religion and Modernity.

1. 11. Det politisk-teologiska komplexet. Fyra kapitel om Carl Schmitts sekularitet

   Författare :Hjalmar Falk; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Carl Schmitt; political theology; secularity; postsecularism; intellectual history; modernity; politics and religion; contextualization; Marianism; occidental rationalism; political Christology;

   Sammanfattning : In 1922, the German jurist Carl Schmitt (1888–1985) wrote that “all significant concepts of modern state theory are secularized theological concepts”. He qualified this statement by describing the connection between theology and state theory as being both historical – signifying a process of transition and transmission – and structural-systematic – signifying a structural likeness. LÄS MER

3. 12. Death and the Self : A Metaphysical Investigation of the Rationality of Afterlife Beliefs in the Contemporary Intellectual Climate

   Författare :Johan Eddebo; Mikael Stenmark; Karin Johanneson; Charles Taliaferro; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; death; subjectivity; selfhood; afterlife; irreducibility; critique of naturalism; immaterialist ontologies; dualism; idealism; philosophy of religion; quantum theory; interpretations of quantum mechanics; modernity; Philosophy of Religion; Religionsfilosofi;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation's purpose is to test the hypothesis that beliefs in the possibility of post-mortem survival can be rationally held within the context of the contemporary scientific and philosophical environment. In terms of criteria of rationality, a basic evidentialism is assumed, such that propositions which are sufficiently supported by the available evidence can be rationally held. LÄS MER

4. 13. Alma Natura, Ars Severa; Expanses and Limits of Craft in Henry David Thoreau

   Författare :Henrik Otterberg; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Thoreau; nature; nature-writing; ecocriticism; poetics; aesthetics; modernity; technology; railroad; autobiography; immanence; transcendence; rhetoric; perspicuity; obscurity; parable; animals; myth; mythology; Walden; “hound; bay horse; and turtle-dove”; “A Winter Walk”; Journal; A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers;

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5. 14. Occultism and Traditionalism: Arturo Reghini and the Antimodern Reaction in Early Twentieth-Century Italy

   Författare :Christian Giudice; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Occultism; Traditionalism; Religious Studies; Western esotericism;

   Sammanfattning : The thesis will aim to analyse the interaction between occultism and different facets of modernity in early twentieth-century Italy, focusing on the figure of Arturo Reghini (1878-1946) as a case study. In his ´The Modernity of Occultism: Reflections on Some Crucial Aspects’, Marco Pasi convincingly evaluates the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (est. LÄS MER

7. 15. Bibeln på mina egna villkor : En studie av medierade kontakter med bibeln med särskilt avseende på ungdomar och Internet

   Författare :Anders Sjöborg; Anders Bäckström; Alf Linderman; Jørgen Straarup; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Internet; religion; young people; youth; late modernity; mediated religion; the Bible; detraditionalization; individualization of religion; weakening of tradition; collective memory; plausibility structure; Sociology of religion; Religionssociologi;

   Sammanfattning : Does mediation via the Internet contribute to the use of the Bible as a cultural resource, and if so does this contribute to other ways of relating to the Bible as an authority? This is investigated in three steps. Firstly, quantitative survey data concerning Bible reading and other forms of contact with the Bible as well as attitudes to the Bible are scrutinized for variation over time and generational differences. LÄS MER