Sökning: "ritual mode"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade orden ritual mode.

1. 1. Ritual Invention : A Play Perspective on Existential Ritual and Mental Health in Late Modern Sweden

   Författare :Maria Liljas Stålhandske; Valerie DeMarinis; John McDargh; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Psychology of religion; Religionspsykologi; religionspsykologi; religionspsykologi;

   Sammanfattning : Is it possible to create rituals for meaning and belonging in a late modern context? Can the existential ritual become a place in which people today can develop a sense of being alive and real? In this thesis, four ritual contexts are identified in late modern Sweden, representing different ritual needs and possibilities. The two ritual contexts of change are focused, and thus people that are characterized as “ritually homeless”. LÄS MER

3. 2. Cultivating the Sacred : Ritual Creativity and Practice among Women in Contemporary Europe

   Författare :Åsa Trulsson; Religionshistoria och religionsbeteendevetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; dance; sacred places; authority; pilgrimage; power; intersubjectivity; somatic modes of attention; the body; embodiment; habitus; goddess spirituality; new age; paganism; practice; ritual criticism; multi-sited fieldwork; ritual; anthropology of religion; performance; music; healing; gender; sacralisation; everyday spirituality;

   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

4. 3. Hope Rites : An Ethnographic Study of Mechanical Help-Heart Implantation Treatment

   Författare :Haris Agic; Marja-Liisa Honkasalo; Lars-Christer Hydén; Robert Desjarlais; Linköpings universitet; []
   Nyckelord :Medical technology; uncertainty; ritual; emotions; ethnography; liminality; end-stage heart failure; mechanical help-heart; progress; hope.; Medicinsk teknologi; ovisshet; ritual; emotioner; etnografi; liminalitet; akut svår hjärtsvikt; mekaniskt hjälphjärta; framsteg; hopp.;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis is about cultural aspects of advanced medical technology for treating end-stage heart failure. New medical technologies like mechanical help-hearts save lives, but they also bring new uncertainties, risks, and challenges. LÄS MER

5. 4. Ge ifrån och föra hem: Kognitiva aspekter av pilgrimsfärder i Himalaya

   Författare :Andreas Nordin; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; pilgrimages; Hinduism; cultural selection; commonality; supernatural actor; counterintuition; supernatural immediacy; gifts; sin; blessing; contamination magic ; psychological essentialism; imagistic mode of religion; theological incorrectness; context of validation; Muktinath; Pasupatinath; Mt. Kailash and Manasarovar;

   Sammanfattning : Pilgrimages to Muktinath, Pasupatinath, Mt. Kailash and Manasarovar in the Tibetan and Nepalese Himalayas form part of a broader South Asian pilgrimage tradtition. Pilgrimages are usually analyzed as culturally heterogenous and conested events. LÄS MER

7. 5. Post-Deleuzian Investigations of U.S. Avant-Garde Film, 1943–81

   Författare :Atene Mendelyte; Filmvetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; U.S. avant-garde film; Gilles Deleuze; film-philosophy; sobjective image; metaphysics of technique; conceptual cartography of film-worlds; transcendental empiricism; film semiotics; postmodernism;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to investigate a number of U.S. avant-garde films using Deleuzian film-philosophy in order to describe their thought. I develop the taxonomy of cinematic images created by the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze by introducing a new type of image. LÄS MER