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1. 1. 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

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. A Landscape of Left-Overs : Changing Conceptions of Place and Environment among Mi'kmaq Indians of Eastern Canada

   Författare :Anne-Christine Hornborg; Religionshistoria och religionsbeteendevetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; animism; traditional ecological knowledge; biocentrism; ecological ethics; environmental relations; being-in-the-world; lifeworlds; phenomenology; power; oral tradition; Kluskap; culture hero; tradition; Canada; Mi’kmaq Indians; Nova Scotia; sacred places; landscape; nature vs. culture; Cultural anthropology; ethnology; Kulturantropologi; etnologi; Canadian Mi kmaq Indians; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation seeks to explore historical changes in the lifeworld of the Mi’kmaq Indians of Eastern Canada. The Mi’kmaq culture hero Kluskap here serves as a key persona in discussing issues such as traditions, changing conceptions of land, and human-environmental relations. LÄS MER

5. 4. Inside the Guru's Gate : Ritual Uses of Texts among the Sikhs in Varanasi

   Författare :Kristina Myrvold; Tord Olsson; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; anthropomorfism; personification; liturgies; ritual practices; religious worship; sacred places; gurdwara; migration; counter-narrative; emic historiography; speech act theory; ritual studies; oral tradition; performance studies; guru; holy scriptures; Adi Granth; Guru Granth; Benares; Varanasi; Punjab; Sikhism; Sikhs; Religious Studies and Theology; Religion och teologi; social agency; Övriga religioner; Humanities; Humaniora; rites of passage; festivals; rites of affliction; Other Religions; religious education; Religionsvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : Summary: For religious Sikhs, the Guru Granth Sahib is a holy scripture which enshrines ontologically divine words and the teaching and revelatory experiences of historical human Gurus. Simultaneously the Sikhs have taken the concept of a sacred scripture much further than any other religious community by treating the Guru Granth Sahib as a living Guru invested with spiritual authority and agency to guide humans and establish relationships to the divine. LÄS MER

7. 5. Post-Secular Tourism : A Study of Pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela

   Författare :Mats Nilsson; Thomas Blom; Lars Aronsson; Mekonnen Tesfahuney; Johan Hultman; Karlstads universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Post-Secular; Tourism; Pilgrimage; Sacred Place; Santiago de Compostela; Kulturgeografi; Human Geography; Turismvetenskap; Turismvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis takes its starting-point in the post-secular changes in society and how these interplay with tourism. In spite of the intensive academic debate on and theorisation of the post-secular and post-secularism, the role of tourism in this change, called the return of religion, has not been studied. LÄS MER