Sökning: "ascension"

Hittade 4 avhandlingar innehållade ordet ascension.

  1. 1. The Performative Structure : Ritualizing the pyramid of Pepy I

    Författare :Nils Billing; Eva Hellman; Harold Hays; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Pyramid Texts; monumentality; iconicity; performativity; Pepy I; reconstitution; manifestation; resurrection; ascension; ritual agency; mortuary temple; cult; pyramid; Religionshistoria; History of Religions;

    Sammanfattning : This study investigates the ancient Egyptian pyramid complex as a ritualized structure. In accordance with an indigenous cultural pattern, the category of an eternal architecture had been created at the beginning of the Old Kingdom (ca. 2700 B.C. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Götisk kabbala och runisk alkemi : Johannes Bureus och den götiska esoterismen

    Författare :Thomas Karlsson; Erik af Edholm; Henrik Bogdan; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Western Esotericism; Gothicism; Kabbalah; Alchemy; The Swedish Great Power period; Millennialism; History of religion; Religionshistoria; History of Religion; religionshistoria;

    Sammanfattning : Gothicism in general, and the Swedish Gothicism in particular, had a close connection to the esoteric currents that were flourishing all over Europe in the Early Modern Period. Apocalyptic predictions and prophecies useful to Gothic propaganda were derived from contemporary esoteric streams, but alongside these came Hermetic and Neo-Platonic speculations of a more individual character that emphasized man’s gradual ascension toward a higher state. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Öppna universum! : slutna traditioner i Salman Rushdies Satansverserna

    Författare :Mats Bergenhorn; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Islam; hindutva; hinduism; rasism; nationalism; islamism; globalisering; Margaret Thatcher; Enoch Powell; Muhammed; Khomeini; Frantz Fanon; Salman Rushdie; Michail Bachtin; General and comparative literature; Allmän och jämförande litteraturvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis in islamology shows how Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses (1988) examines questions concerning religion, nationality, race, and power, compromise and authenticity in a time when different global processes have created new ways of perceiving and relating to different traditions. It examines how The Satanic Verses portrays how people apprehend themselves and others when the conditions for these traditions are changing, and the potential threats of religious fundamentalism, nationalism and racism. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Kungen är en kvinna : retorik och praktik kring kvinnliga monarker under tidigmodern tid

    Författare :Karin Tegenborg Falkdalen; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; female rulers; early modern; authority; sovereignty; monarchy; political debate; gender; virtue; Queen Christina; Queen Ulrica Eleonora; kingship; queenship; female succession;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of the present dissertation is to investigate and discuss the political debate on female monarchs during the early modern era (principally circa 1600 to 1720), while specifically pro- blematizing the relationship between rhetoric and practice.The study consists of three sections. LÄS MER