Sökning: "Vetenskap och religion"
Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 21 avhandlingar innehållade orden Vetenskap och religion.
16. Tigern som tolkar. Konfrontationer i Gustaf Wingrens teologi med särskild hänsyn till teologins uppgift inom universitet, samhälle och kyrka
Sammanfattning : The purpose of this study is to represent and critically analyse the theology of the Swedish theologian and professor in Lund, Gustaf Wingren (1910-2000), with special reference to his confrontational views on the role of theology at the university, in society and in church. The Lundensian school was famous for demonstrating a strictly scientific character of theology as an objective argumentation. LÄS MER
17. De odödliga. Förhistoriska individer i vetenskap och media
Sammanfattning : In the discipline of archaeology death has always been a common subject. Graves and dead bodies in different states of decay are important sources of information. This dissertation investigates how our relation to death can be mirrored through some of the better-known individuals from prehistory in Scandinavia. LÄS MER
18. Mind in Motion: The utilization of noise in the cognitive process
Sammanfattning : The brain is not silent. Even in the absence of stimuli are the neurons activated every now and then in what is called "spontaneous" or "background activity" which provides a noisy background to the operation of the brain. This work shows how this noise can be utilized in the cognitive process. LÄS MER
19. Power, Person, and Place : Tradition, Modernity, and Environment in the United Arab Emirates
Sammanfattning : The thesis investigates human-environmental relations in the rapidly modernizing United Arab Emirates, a federation of seven Arabian Gulf sheikhdoms. Since its establishment in 1971, the UAE has been transformed from a subsistence society based mainly on pastoralism and maritime activities (fishing, pearling, and trade) into an ultramodern society, with an economy based on the export of fossil fuels. LÄS MER
20. Konsten att leva längre : Föreställningar om livets förändring i handböcker 1700-1930
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to explore discursive changes in conceptions of life course and ageing. I am particularly concerned with the relationship between knowledge and power in the distribution of prolongevity and body- technologies, and as referential frame in the definition of normal and deviant bodies and behaviour. LÄS MER