Sökning: "Religion violence"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 44 avhandlingar innehållade orden Religion violence.

1. 1. Violence, power, and justice : A feminist contribution to Christian sexual ethics

   Författare :Sólveig Anna Bóasdóttir; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; male battering; male violence against women; intimate relationship; marriage; asymmetry of power; social construction of sexuality; sexual ethics; Christian sexual ethics in intimate relationships; feminist theories; feminist ethics: social contract theories; human nature; women s oppression; women s experiences; social control; equality; justice; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Etik; Ethics;

   Sammanfattning : This study discusses how male battering of women can be understood through due attention to contemporary psychological and sociological interpretations and concludes that a critical feminist perspective offers the most adequate explanation of the problem. Feminist theories on the function of male violence in patriarchal societies coupled with theories on power and the social construction of sexuality as well as feminist theories about the institution of heterosexual marriage are then discussed; the result is a serious critique of marriage as an institution which is not safe with regard to women, reproducing and reaffirming as it does the patriarchal power relations of the sexes. LÄS MER

3. 2. Not the Whole Story : The Impact of the Church, Traditional Religion and Society on the Individual and Collective Perceptions of HIV in Swaziland

   Författare :Gunilla Hallonsten; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HIV; AIDS; gender; churches; traditional religion; focus groups; Swaziland; southern Africa; symbolic power; symbolic violence; male dominance; HIV-related stigmatization; silence; denial; mis-recognition.;

   Sammanfattning : The thesis is an attempt to contribute to a critical discussion around the discourses that characterize HIV in southern Africa in general, and in Swaziland in particular. The aim of the study is to explore and visualize the experiences of HIV-positive Swazi Christians in church and society, as well as an attempt to explain these experiences with the contributions of key informants and the Swazi tradition. LÄS MER

4. 3. Krig och kön. Feministisk etik och den moraliska bedömningen av militärt våld

   Författare :Anna T. Höglund; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; Feminist ethics; military violence; narrative ethics; the just war tradition; pacifism; maternal thinking; moral agency as gender construction; rape in war; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Etik; Ethics;

   Sammanfattning : The present study aims to develop a critical evaluation of feminist ethics and of ethical theories on military violence. The thesis combines a constructivist view of gender and morality with a narrative and communicative approach to ethics, based in theories developed by Iris Marion Young, Seyla Benhabib, Sharon D. Welch and Eva Lundgren. LÄS MER

5. 4. Pastor in the Shadow of Violence : Gustavo Gutiérrez as a Public Pastoral Theologian in Peru in the 1980s and 1990s

   Författare :Olle Kristenson; Kajsa Ahlstrand; Jorge Castillo Guerra; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bartolomé de Las Casas; CELAM; discourse analysis; Christian hope; God of life; Gustavo Gutiérrez; hermeneutic of hope; human rights; institutionalised violence; La República; liberation theology; pastoral theology; political theology; political violence; preferential option for the poor; reconciliation; resurrection; theology of life; Roman Catholicism in Peru; Sendero Luminoso; social movements; Truth and Reconciliation Commission.; Missionsvetenskap; Studies of Missions;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation is a study of the role of Gustavo Gutiérrez as a public pastor in the 1980s and 1990s in Peru. His collaboration with the Lima newspaper La República from the early 1980s gave him a figurative pulpit from which he addressed the Peruvian public on specific occasions. LÄS MER

7. 5. Religion as a lifeworld : an alternative to secularist concept of religion in social work

   Författare :Magnus Weber; Carin Björngren Cuadra; Marcus Herz; William Cavanaugh; Malmö universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Violent extremism; lifeworld; social work; religion;

   Sammanfattning : The discourse on religious extremism and jihadism has stimulated deep interest in religion as a factor in social problems. So have other religion-related issues such as honour-related violence, migration and integration, and female circumcision. LÄS MER