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Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 42 avhandlingar innehållade ordet funeral.

  1. 21. Rum för avsked : Begravningskapellets arkitektur och konstnärliga utsmyckning i 1900-talets Sverige

    Författare :Emilie Karlsmo; Hedvig Brander Jonsson; Gunilla Frick; Lena Johannesson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Art history; burial service; ecclesiastical architecture; mural painting; public art; secularization; Stockholm’s Woodland Cemetery; Swedish Cremation Society; Konstvetenskap; Art; Konstvetenskap; History Of Art; konstvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : The dissertation focuses on a building for one sole purpose: burial services. The aim is to understand the funeral chapel in both functional and representational terms; to chart the course of the architecture and artistic decoration. The presentation is chronologically structured into four periods. LÄS MER

  3. 22. The Presence of the Absent. Memorials and Places of Ritual

    Författare :Anna Petersson; Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; memorial; death; cemetery; space; profane; praesentia; symbol; place; private; sacred; public; ritual; body;

    Sammanfattning : Memorials and places of ritual, such as funeral monuments, roadside memorials and cemeteries, can be said to reveal the politics of religious space as in the tension between sacred and secular and between private and public interests. At the same time they also reflect a given society’s religious structures, cultural differences and social orderings, as well as the changes in these matters over time. LÄS MER

  4. 23. Den nödvändiga riten? Om upplevelser av kvalitet i begravningsgudstjänsten

    Författare :Unni Wiig-Sandberg; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Sociology of Religion; Religionssociologi;

    Sammanfattning : What function can collective rites fill for both individual and society in late modern Sweden?How do the processes of individualisation and relativisation influence people’s relationships tothe life interpreting rite? This study aims above all to complement existing research with knowledgeabout how the closest relatives experience a funeral service. What is a funeral service andunder what conditions does the Church of Sweden hold a mandate to function as a steward ofritual in the proximity of death? We live in a society which is borne, to some extent, by anotherlogic than that which sustained agricultural and industrial societies. LÄS MER

  5. 24. Den goda döden : Arkeologiska studier av gravar och begravningspraxis i S:t Olof konventet i Skänninge

    Författare :Hanna Menander; Anders Kaliff; Caroline Arcini; Mats Anglert; Martin Hansson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Archaeology; graves; burial customs; Dominican convent; Skänninge; mendicant orders; arkeothantology; spatial practice; written sources; Dominican church room; Archaeology; Arkeologi;

    Sammanfattning : ”The Good Death,” an archeological study of graves, burial rituals and practices at the Dominican convent St. Olof in Skänninge, is a dissertation arising out of the large grave materials from various archeological investigations of the convent. LÄS MER

  7. 25. Materialising Modern Cemeteries : Archaeological narratives of Assistens cemetery, Copenhagen

    Författare :Sian ANTHONY; begravning och social identitet Gravarkeologiska forskargruppen – Död; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Burial customs; Cemetery; Cremation; Copenhagen; Denmark; Death; Excavation; Gravediggers; Materiality; Modernity; 19th and 20th century;

    Sammanfattning : This doctoral thesis examines the encounter between the dead and the living within 19th and 20th century landscape cemeteries. It shows how the relationship unfolds through the materiality and practices occurring within them. LÄS MER