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Visar resultat 26 - 30 av 196 avhandlingar innehållade ordet ritual.

  1. 26. Det rituella landskapet : Kosmografiska uttrycksformer och territoriell struktur

    Författare :Leif Sahlqvist; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archaeology; landscape; territories; Bronze Age; barrows; visual network; chiefdom; ritual; religion; cosmography; astronomy; cardinalpoints; medieval churches; Östergötland; cognitive; Arkeologi; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen; arkeologi; Archaeology;

    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

  3. 27. In search of Dionysos. Reassessing a Dionysian context in early Rome

    Författare :Carina Håkansson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Dionysos; Dionysus; Roman religion; Archaic religion; paradigm shift; satyrs; liminality; iconography; ritual; cult; performance; Fufluns; Liber; Bacchus; oral tradition; antefix; small finds; intercontextual;

    Sammanfattning : In the present study the possibility of an early appearance of the god Dionysos and his sphere in archaic Rome, in the decades around 500 BC, will be examined. In early scholarship, rooted in the 19th century, the phenomenon of Dionysian ecstatic rites, cults, and satyr-plays in Roman society was denied. LÄS MER

  4. 28. 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. 29. Over the Threshold, Into the World : Experiences of Transcendence in the Context of Staged Events

    Författare :Kim Skjoldager-Nielsen; Willmar Sauter; Anita Synnøve Hammer; Keld Hyldig; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; performance analysis; model; staged event; aesthetics of the performative; metaphysics of experience; immanent transcendence; theatre; ritual; installation; religion; spirituality; Erika Fischer-Lichte; Dorthe Jørgensen; Theatre Studies; teatervetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of the thesis is to develop an apparatus of theory and method for performance analysis, the purpose of which is to analyse potentials for experiences of transcendence. These experiences are contextualised in terms of the metaphysical, the religious, and the spiritual. LÄS MER

  7. 30. The efficacy of sacrifice : correspondences in the Ŗgvedic Brāhmaņas

    Författare :Clemens Cavallin; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Sacrifice; Veda; brahmana; efficacy; ritual; ontology; metaphysics; breath; correspondence; nominal sentence; identification;

    Sammanfattning : Sacrifice is a major topic in the study of religious rituals, and one of the issues debated is its possible efficacy. In this study, the need for multiple approaches is acknowledged, but the focus is on the world-view in which a sacrificial practice is embedded, and more specifically on the basic ontological questions that are of importance for it. LÄS MER