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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 66 avhandlingar innehållade orden definition religion.

  1. 1. Artifacts and Supraphysical Worlds : A Conceptual Analysis of Religion

    Författare :Johan Modée; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Philosophy of special sciences; Two-dimensionality; Supraphysical worlds; Possible worlds; Global supervenience; Physicalism; Tools; Symbols; Rituals; Representations; Proper funtion; Artifacts; Definition of religion; Conceptual analysis; Särskilda vetenskapers filosofi; religion;

    Sammanfattning : It is a contested question in contemporary theories of religion whether the concept of religion can be defined in a sound way or not. Many theorists maintain that a universal but delimiting definition is impossible. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Evocatio deorum : Historical and mythical interpretations of ritualised conquests in the expansion of ancient Rome

    Författare :Gabriella Gustafsson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; Roman religion; evocatio; devotio; Livy; Macrobius; Servius; Veii; myth; historiography; theology of history; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; History Of Religions; religionshistoria;

    Sammanfattning : The dissertation examines the historical evidence, and the historiographical and mythical aspects of the sources, of the evocatio-ritual of Republican Rome. According to some ancient sources, the tutelary deity of an enemy city was, just before a conquest, "called out", that is, asked to abandon the city and promised a new temple in Rome. LÄS MER

  4. 3. According to whose will : The entanglements of gender & religion in the lives of transgender Jews with an Orthodox background

    Författare :Oriol Poveda Guillén; Mia Lövheim; Lena Roos; Peter Nynäs; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; agential realism; entanglement; feminism; FTM; gender; intra-action; Jewish; Judaism; LGBTQ; MTF; non-binary; Orthodox; posthumanism; queer; religion; religiosity; religious change; religious practice; social constructionism; transgender; Sociology of Religion; Religionssociologi;

    Sammanfattning : This study, the first in its scope on transgender religiosity, is based on in-depth biographical interviews with 13 transgender participants with a Jewish Orthodox background (currently and formerly Orthodox). The primary aim of the study has been to elucidate the entanglements of gender and religion in three periods of the participants’ lives: pre-transition, transition and post-transition. LÄS MER

  5. 4. The True New Testament : Sealing the Heart’s Covenant in al-Tabarî’s Ta’rîkh al-Rusul wa’l-Mulûk

    Författare :Ulrika Mårtensson; Claude Gilliot; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; al-Tabarî; Islamic history; Islamic historiography; Islamic Bible exegesis; Orientalism; comparative religious studies; covenant; promised land; testament; redistributive justice; Abbasid caliphate; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; History Of Religions; religionshistoria;

    Sammanfattning : This study is an interpretation of the Muslim jurist Abû Ja‘far Muhammad b. Jarîr al-Tabarî’s (d. 923 C.E. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Svenska kyrkans sociala arbete – för vem och varför? : En religionssociologisk studie av ett diakonalt dilemma

    Författare :Charlotte Engel; Thorleif Pettersson; Jonas Alwall; Jonas Bromander; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Sociology of religion; Religionssociologi; Diakoni; socialt arbete; Svenska kyrkan; marginalisering; marginaliserade grupper; sekularisering; religionssociologi; Sociology of religion; Religionssociologi; religionssociologi; religionssociologi; Religion Theology;

    Sammanfattning : The main purpose of this dissertation has been to investigate how well diaconal work in seven chosen parishes corresponds to an official definition of the diaconal task of the Church of Sweden as above all to represent and direct activities towards the most disadvantaged and/or marginalised groups in society, a definition that well corresponds to the general expectations of the Swedish people regarding the role of the Church. The empirical ground for the dissertation comes from diaconal inventories built mainly on a comprehensive interview material with parish workers and appointed representatives in the chosen parishes. LÄS MER