Sökning: "faith communities"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 16 avhandlingar innehållade orden faith communities.

  1. 1. A matter of faith? : combatting human trafficking in Thailand & Cambodia

    Författare :Andreas Henriksson; Elisabeth Olivius; Malin Eklund Wimelius; Marie Juul Petersen; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; human trafficking; antitrafficking; faith-based organizations; religion in development; faith infusion: secularism; therapeutic governance; holistic development; co-ownership; Cambodia; Thailand; statskunskap; political science;

    Sammanfattning : Human trafficking is estimated to affect about 49 million people worldwide. Faith-based organizations (FBOs) are extensively involved in efforts to counter this global problem, alongside governments, intergovernmental organizations, and various types of non-governmental organizations (NGOs). LÄS MER

  3. 2. Att leva och läsa Bibeln : Textpraktiker i två kristna församlingar

    Författare :Per-Anders Forstorp; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Bible reading; New Testament translation; reception analysis; interpretive colnmunities; ethnography of communication; literacy practice; modernity; reflexivity; free churches; faith communities; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is based on two years of participant observation in two Christian congregations in a Swedish town. The Book-congregation represents the core of Swedish Free Churches (baptism), the Life-congregation (faith community) belongs to a movement inspired by North American Fundamentalism. LÄS MER

  4. 3. A Risk or a Resource? : A Study of the Swedish State’s Shifting Perception and Handling of Minority Religious Communities between 1952-2019

    Författare :Linnea Lundgren; Lars Trägårdh; Annette Leis-Peters; Elisabeth Christiansson; Grace Davie; Ersta Sköndal Bräcke högskola; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; religion; religious diversity; faith community; state; government documents; mixed method; policy; civil society; religion-state; pluralism; religious schools; Människan i välfärdssamhället; Social välfärd med inriktning mot civilsamhället; The Individual in the Welfare Society; Social Welfare and the Civil Society;

    Sammanfattning : In Sweden, as in many other European countries, governments and other public authorities increasingly seem to view religious communities as an important resource that should be included in welfare provision and help combat problems that societies are facing, thereby intentionally or unintentionally bringing religion back into the public arena. However, religious communities also seem to be perceived as a risk and a problem that needs to be further regulated and controlled. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Somali-Swedish Girls - The Construction of Childhood within Local and Transnational Spaces

    Författare :Gunnel Mohme; Nihad Bunar; Kerstin von Brömssen; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Somali diaspora; Somali-Swedish girls; Childhood sociology; School choice strategies; Muslim-profiled schools; Transnational social spaces; Transnational communities; Social constructionism; Duality of structure; Family Change Theory; Child and Youth Science; barn- och ungdomsvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis explores diaspora experiences among Somali-Swedish parents and their daughters where the girls are enrolled in a Muslim-profiled school. The thesis uses migration theory with a transnational perspective, with findings that depart from the traditional view of migrants’ rootedness in a single country. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Your Cradle Is Green : The Islamic Foundation and the Call to Islam in Children's Literature

    Författare :Torsten Janson; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; discourse; genealogy; Manzir Ahsan; Khurshid Ahmad; Khurram Murad; Jama‘at-i-Islami; Islamisation; dialogue; inter-faith; minority; revivalism; migration; R.E.; religious education; publication; Britain; children’s literature; Islamic; Islamic Foundation; Islam; da‘wa; creolisation; modernity; critique; Islamism; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with the conceptualisation of da‘wa, ‘the call to Islam’, of the British organisation the Islamic Foundation, and focuses its 25 years of publication of Islamic-English children’s literature. In order to analyse the implications of the new modalities of da‘wa in the late modern Muslim minority context, the present study applies a genealogical perspective. LÄS MER