Sökning: "religion 2012"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 56 avhandlingar innehållade orden religion 2012.

1. 1. Negotiating Thainess : Religious and National Identities in Thailand's Southern Conflict

   Författare :Marte Nilsen; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; The southern Thai conflict; Thai nation-building; Thainess; Patani Pattani; ethnicity; nation; religion; legitimacy; multiple identities; Malay Muslims; Thai Buddhists; interethnic relations.;

   Sammanfattning : The purpose of this study is to investigate how people express religious and national identities in the conflict-ridden Patani region of southern Thailand. In a historical framework of disputes over territory and political legitimacy, where identities have developed in response to an emerging Thai nation, it is of relevance to understand the dynamics of these identities and to disclose how local people perceive themselves, their communities and society at large. LÄS MER

3. 2. Not the Whole Story : The Impact of the Church, Traditional Religion and Society on the Individual and Collective Perceptions of HIV in Swaziland

   Författare :Gunilla Hallonsten; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HIV; AIDS; gender; churches; traditional religion; focus groups; Swaziland; southern Africa; symbolic power; symbolic violence; male dominance; HIV-related stigmatization; silence; denial; mis-recognition.;

   Sammanfattning : The thesis is an attempt to contribute to a critical discussion around the discourses that characterize HIV in southern Africa in general, and in Swaziland in particular. The aim of the study is to explore and visualize the experiences of HIV-positive Swazi Christians in church and society, as well as an attempt to explain these experiences with the contributions of key informants and the Swazi tradition. LÄS MER

4. 3. När livet tar rätt form: om människosyn i svenska hälsotidskrifter 1910-13 och 2009

   Författare :Wilhelm Kardemark; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; religionsvetenskap; Livsåskådningsforskning; Hälsa; Hälsotidskrifter; Genus; Genus - hälsa; Medical humanities; Människosyn; Hälsoförståelse; Kropp;

   Sammanfattning : Abstract When life gets the right shape: On anthropology in Swedish health magazines 1910-13 and 2009 This thesis describes and analyses anthropologies and understandings of health in Swedish health magazines 1910 to 1913 and 2009. It focuses on the three anthropological concepts of corporeality, relationality and rationality. LÄS MER

5. 4. Advance Directives and Personal Identity

   Författare :Elisabeth Furberg; Torbjörn Tännsjö; Niklas Juth; Wayne Sumner; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; advance directives; personal identity; psychological continuity; animalism; posthumous harm; moral authority; rights; utilitarianism; Filosofi; Philosophy; Practical Philosophy;

   Sammanfattning : Advance directives are instructions given by patients – or potential patients – specifying what actions ought to be taken for their health in the event that they are no longer capable to make decisions due to illness or incapacity. Over the last decades, there has been a rising tide in favour of advance directives: not only is the use of such directives recommended by most medical and advisory bodies, they are also gaining increasing legal recognition in many parts of the world. LÄS MER

7. 5. Förhållandet mellan praxis och teori inom etiken

   Författare :Niclas Lindström; Ulf Görman; Helena Röcklinsberg; Anders Nordgren; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Practice; theory; norms; ideals; principles; moral philosophy; casuistry; discourse ethics; virtue ethics; theocentric ethics; pragmatism; experimental ethics; empirically informed ethics.; etik; etik;

   Sammanfattning : The main question of this thesis is if a practice is right because it is prescribed by an ethical theory, or if an ethical theory is right because it follows from certain practices? I propose the following definitions to illustrate the main alternatives: (1) if a practice is determined by an ethical theory and the ethical theory is not determined by practice, it is possible to speak of a top-down model of ethical thinking. (2) If a theory, conversely, is determined by a practice and the practice is not determined by theory, it can be described as a bottom-up model. LÄS MER