Sökning: "soul conceptions"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 avhandlingar innehållade orden soul conceptions.

1. 1. Soul and Self in Vedic India

   Författare :Per-Johan Norelius; Nils Billing; Jens Wilhelm Borgland; Joel Brereton; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Vedic religion; Brāhmaṇas; Upaniṣads; ritual interiorization; soul; personhood; Religionshistoria; History of Religions;

   Sammanfattning : The study employs the analytical concept of “soul” as an umbrella term under which, it is argued, a variety of conceptions pertaining to life, personality, consciousness, and afterlife may be usefully grouped to-gether and analyzed. A survey is conducted of the various Vedic con-cepts which fall within this category, their development being traced from the earliest times to the close of the Vedic era. LÄS MER

3. 2. Conceptions of the soul among North American Indians : a study in religious ethnology

   Författare :Åke Hultkrantz; Stockholms högskola; []
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4. 3. Personhood and human-spirit relations among the Yuracaré of the Bolivian Amazon

   Författare :Annica Djup; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; anthropology; Amazonia; Bolivia; Yuracaré; personhood; soul; body; gender; human-spirit-relations; cosmology; animism.;

   Sammanfattning : This anthropological dissertation is based on fieldwork carried out among Yuracaré people in the Bolivian Amazon. The study explores local conceptions of personhood and human-spirit relations by looking into Yuracaré life cycle practices and associated ideas, particularly in connection with birth, girls’ initiation (menarche), illness and death. LÄS MER

5. 4. Muntlighet och minne : Sagatraditionen, kulturhistorien och det kulturella minnets blinda fläck

   Författare :Frederik Wallenstein; Peter Jackson Rova; Birgitta Svensson; Stephen Mitchell; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Cultural memory; collective memory; Assmann; cultural forgetting; continuity; discontinuity; culture; tradition; memory; collective relevance; oral prose; oral tradition; Icelandic sagas; soul conceptions; Old Norse religion; draugar; History of Religion; religionshistoria;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation focuses on two distinct areas of study that do not have a predetermined or necessary connection to each other. The first area concerns issues of more immediate relevance to the cultural history of the Icelandic sagas, whereas the second area concerns issues of more general relevance to cultural memory research (Cultural Memory Studies, Kulturelles Gedächtnis) and what the author perceives as a deficiency or “blind spot” in this theory. LÄS MER

7. 5. Grav och kultplats : Eskatologiska föreställningar under yngre bronsålder och äldre järnålder i Östergötland : [eschatological conceptions during the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in Östergötland]

   Författare :Anders Kaliff; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archaeology; burial rituals; grave; cremation; eschatological conceptions; structuralresemblance; history of religion; Late Bronze Age; Pre-Roman Iron Age; Ringby; Östergötland; Arkeologi; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen; arkeologi; Archaeology;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis focuses on archaeological evidence of eschatological conceptions, during theLate Bronze Age and the Pre-Roman Iron Age in southern Scandinavia. There is a greatdeal to suggest the prehistoric find sites we usually call cemeteries also had an importantfunction as cultic sites. LÄS MER