Sökning: "Religious Behaviour"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 30 avhandlingar innehållade orden Religious Behaviour.

  1. 11. Submitting to God: Women's islamization in urban Malaysia

    Författare :Sylva Frisk; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; anthropology; Malaysia; Islam; religious practice; gender; agency; subjectivity;

    Sammanfattning : This anthropological study addresses issues of subjectivity and agency within the context of pious, Muslim, Malay women's religious practice in urban Malaysia. It investigaes how Malay women come to understand themselves as gendered, religious subjects and, thereby, explores the motivations and meanings that women ascribe to their emergent roles in the religious sphere and within the Islamization process. LÄS MER

  3. 12. Tarot : New age i bild och berättelse

    Författare :Magnus Gudmundsson; Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; science faith; rational irrational; rituals; motion; movements; discourse; cultural reserves; illustrations; narration; intertextuality; text; divination; new age; tarot; individual experience; religious beliefs; Theology; Teologi;

    Sammanfattning : In the course of my dissertation work, I have sought knowledge about what New Age is, contains, and conveys by looking at practice and rhetoric, how the participants act and reason regarding their commitment, as well as how the contents of the field is discussed. I have put an emphasis on the small details: the objects, the rituals, and the narrating. LÄS MER

  4. 13. Post-traumatic stress disorder and suicidal behaviour in immigrants to Sweden

    Författare :Marcello Ferrada-Noli; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Nyckelord :transcultural psychiatry; suicide; metasuicide; immigrants; refugees; post-traumatic stress disorder;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of the investigation was to study definite and undetermined suicides in immigrants to Sweden, as well as aspects of suicidal behaviour associated with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among immigrants/refugees. We have also inquired in which modality immigrant suicide victims had been in contact with psychiatric care. LÄS MER

  5. 14. Reproduction in the “Virgin Lands” : Fertility Outcomes in Kazakhstan

    Författare :Maxim Kan; Sunnee Billingsley; Gunnar Andersson; Thomas Spoorenberg; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Kazakhstan; reproductive behaviour and outcomes; ethnicity; religion; gender equality; sociologisk demografi; Sociological Demography;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation studies patterns in childbearing and reproductive behaviour in Kazakhstan, a context that has undergone a process of re-traditionalization since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Study I focuses on ethnic differentials in progressions to first, second, third, and fourth births, and assesses differentials by socioeconomic status. LÄS MER

  7. 15. Making fields of merit: Buddhist nuns challenge gendered orders in Thailand

    Författare :Monica Lindberg Falk; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; anthropology; Thailand; sex; gender; Buddhism; nuns; rituals; gifts; education;

    Sammanfattning : This anthropological study addresses the interaction and interconncectedness between religion and gender relations in Thailand, analysing this through the lens of the Buddhist nuns' (mae chiis') lives, actions and role in Thai society. The mae chiis have a long hstory in Thailand. LÄS MER