Sökning: "anthropology of religion"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 84 avhandlingar innehållade orden anthropology of religion.

1. 1. Forces by Which We Live : Religion and Religious Experience from the Perspective of a Pragmatic Philosophical Anthropology

   Författare :Ulf Zackariasson; Dirk-Martin Grube; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; pragmatism; conception of religion; James; Dewey; Mead; philosophical anthropology; views of life; religious experience; Alston; reflective equilibrium; emotions.; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Philosophy of Religion; Religionsfilosofi;

   Sammanfattning : This study argues that a pragmatic conception of religion would enable philosophers to make important contributions to our ability to handle concrete problems involving religion. The term 'philosophical anthropology', referring to different interpretative frameworks, which philosophers draw on to develop conceptions of human phenomena, is introduced. LÄS MER

3. 2. Från invandrarkyrka till mångkulturellt samfund : En kyrkosociologisk analys av katolska kyrkan i Sverige från 1970-tal till 1990-tal

   Författare :Johan Gärde; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; Religion; The Roman Catholic Church; Sweden; Sociology of religion; ecclesiology; cultural anthropology; multiculturalism; civil society; immigration; integration; inculturation; Liberal and Conservative churches; secularism; church and management; strategic planning; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; religionssociologi; religionssociologi; HUMANITIES and RELIGION; HUMANIORA och RELIGIONSVETENSKAP;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation is focusing upon the Catholic Church of Sweden and her transformation from a marginal minority church of immigrants to a multicultural congregation, which has become the second in size after the Lutheran State Church. The process of change is studied in relation to the Swedish Immigration's Policy and the different existing cultural paradigms that have existed since the Second World War. LÄS MER

4. 3. The Birth of Religion among the Balanta of Guinea-Bissau

   Författare :Inger Callewaert; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Herbal medicine 3.Modernisation; Divination; Ritual songs; Witchcraft; Ritual; Prophetic movement; Ancestor cult; Anthropology of Religion; Balanta 2.History of Religions; 1.West Africa; Guinea-Bissau; Gender; Theology; Teologi;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with a recent event within the history of religions, the rise and development of a non-Christian prophetic movement named Kiyang-yang within the oral, kinship and ancestor based society of the Balanta in Guinea-Bissau. Kiyang-yang is headed by young women and men under the leadership of a woman prophet. LÄS MER

5. 4. Ramadan in Java : The Joy and Jihad of Ritual Fasting

   Författare :André Möller; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; traweh; tarawih; holy month; Blora; Yogyakarta; anthropology; lived Islam; written Islam; normative Islam; jihad; Muslim ritual; Java; Muslim; religion; Indonesia; Islam in Indonesia; Islam in Java; Ramadan; fasting; slametan; ruwahan; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ;

   Sammanfattning : FASTING DURING THE holy month of Ramadan is both a joy and a jihad for the Islamic community in Java, and it is arguably the most highly esteemed Muslim ritual in Indonesia (and beyond). To be given the opportunity to abstain from food, drink and sexual relations from the early morning hours until sunset during an entire month in a tropical climate - only to fill the nights with additional and supererogatory Ramadanic rituals - is thus waited upon each year and seen as a true blessing. LÄS MER

7. 5. Erfarenheter av zen

   Författare :Sten Barnekow; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; bodily understanding; learning; transmitting; teaching; rituals; practice; zazen seated meditation ; anthropology of experience; Taiken; Erik; Zuiko; Brian; Minnesota Zen Meditation Center; USA; Dogen; Muho; Docho-san; Uchiyama Roshi; Shohaku and Yuko Okumura; Shorinji; Antaiji tradition; Soto school; Zen Buddhism; History of Religions; Japan; everyday life; slippers; pain; beer; talking; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ;

   Sammanfattning : This work is not so much about religion as about individual religiosity. It is primarily about people practicing Zen, less about Zen Buddhism as a systematic ideology or philosophy. I set out from the start to try to explore the wide gap between theory and practice in Zen. LÄS MER