Sökning: "Sacred Place"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 21 avhandlingar innehållade orden Sacred Place.

  1. 1. The Presence of the Absent. Memorials and Places of Ritual

    Författare :Anna Petersson; Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; memorial; death; cemetery; space; profane; praesentia; symbol; place; private; sacred; public; ritual; body;

    Sammanfattning : Memorials and places of ritual, such as funeral monuments, roadside memorials and cemeteries, can be said to reveal the politics of religious space as in the tension between sacred and secular and between private and public interests. At the same time they also reflect a given society’s religious structures, cultural differences and social orderings, as well as the changes in these matters over time. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Skapa plats i landskapet : tidig- och mellanneolitiska samhällen utmed två västskånska dalgångar

    Författare :Magnus Andersson; Lunds universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Battle Axe Culture; central place; grave; settlement; wetland deposition; society; landscape space; social organisation; place; space; time; landscape; Scania; Neolithic; Funnel Beaker Culture; Pitted Ware Culture; Stävie group; Archaeology; Arkeologi;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with Early and Middle Neolithic societies in a valley landscape in western Scania, in the southern part of Sweden. Several archaeological excavations conducted by the National Heritage Board have revealed a great number of Neolithic remains in this region. LÄS MER

  4. 3. SACRED or NEURAL? : Neuroscientific Explanations of Religious Experience: A Philosophical Evaluation

    Författare :Anne L. C. Runehov; Mikael Stenmark; J. Wentzel van Huyssteen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Philosophy of religion; Neuroscience; Neurotheology; Persinger; d Aquili; Newberg; neuroimaging technology; epilepsy; meditation; explanatory models; reductionism; religious experience; science and theology; Religionsfilosofi; Philosophy of religion; Religionsfilosofi; Philosophy of Religion; religionsfilosofi;

    Sammanfattning : Neuroscientists place different explanations at our disposal of what religious experiences are. Some neuroscientists explain religious experiences in terms of consequences of a damaged, malfunctioning or mentally deranged brain. Others explain them in terms of existential crises. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Post-Secular Tourism : A Study of Pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela

    Författare :Mats Nilsson; Thomas Blom; Lars Aronsson; Mekonnen Tesfahuney; Johan Hultman; Karlstads universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Post-Secular; Tourism; Pilgrimage; Sacred Place; Santiago de Compostela; Kulturgeografi; Human Geography; Turismvetenskap; Turismvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis takes its starting-point in the post-secular changes in society and how these interplay with tourism. In spite of the intensive academic debate on and theorisation of the post-secular and post-secularism, the role of tourism in this change, called the return of religion, has not been studied. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Sentieri e radure : Le forme del cronotopo d'iniziazione in Alessandro Baricco

    Författare :Broula Barnohro Oussi; Luminita Beiu-Paladi; Krzysztof Bak; Alberto Casadei; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Alessandro Baricco; chronotope of initiation; Mircea Eliade; Mikhail Bakhtin; sacred; profane; space; time; quest; myth; chaos; cosmos; regressus ad uterum; descensus ad inferos; centre; verticality; italienska; Italian;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of the present dissertation is to study the elaborations of the initiation myth in contemporary Italian author Alessandro Baricco. The theoretical and methodological framework consists mainly of Mircea Eliade’s phenomenological theory of initiation. LÄS MER