Sökning: "ritual fields"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 14 avhandlingar innehållade orden ritual fields.
1. Western esoterism : Ultimate Sacred Postulates and Ritual Fields
Sammanfattning : The greater part of Western Esoterism holds beliefs in five important matrices. This branch of esoterism, rooted in a Hermetic milieu, is labelled dialectical esoterism because of the dialectical relationship between the ‘lower’ (man, earth) and the ‘higher’ (heaven, the divine, God). LÄS MER
2. Cultivating the Sacred : Ritual Creativity and Practice among Women in Contemporary Europe
Sammanfattning : Ritual creativity may seem like a contradiction in terms, yet the religious landscape in contemporary Euro-America is permeate with experimentation of ritual forms, different modalities of action, imagination and play as routes to authenticity. The present study examines different settings in Europe involved in such ritual creativity, which would commonly be classified as postmodern spirituality, new age or Paganism. LÄS MER
3. Synliga och osynliga gränser : Förändringar i gravritualen under yngre bronsålder - förromersk järnålder i Södermanland
Sammanfattning : The burial ritual in Södermanland during Late Bronze Age–Pre Roman Iron Age is characterized by change. Although seldom, cairns – the most characteristic grave form of the Bronze Age – are erected also in the Iron Age, but the grave tradition is above all dominated by an increasing number of grave fields. LÄS MER
4. Fornminnen : det förflutnas roll i det förkristna och kristna Mälardalen
Sammanfattning : This thesis examine how farm-dwellers in the Mälaren region during the late Iron Age and early Middle Ages created, transferred, and preserved memory by deliberately placing new houses and graves on the houses and graves of previous generations. Focus is on memory as a social phenomenon and culture-specific resource created by these deliberate practices. LÄS MER
5. Det rituella landskapet : Kosmografiska uttrycksformer och territoriell struktur
Sammanfattning : Symbolic landscapes have now for some time been discussed in various disciplines. They have been interpreted as the result of culturalactivities, often connected with territoriality and religious or political ambitions and in particular steered by human desire to leave animprint of power and control. LÄS MER