Sökning: "supernatural"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 27 avhandlingar innehållade ordet supernatural.

  1. 1. Varieties of Supernatural Experience : the Case of High-Functioning Autism

    Författare :Ingela Visuri; Pehr Granqvist; David Thurfjell; Olov Dahlin; Andreas Roepstorff; Södertörns högskola; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Autism; religious cognition; supernatural experience; invisible agency; parasocial relations; embodiment; bracketed ethnography; participatory autism research; atypical cognition; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Historical Studies; Historiska studier; Innovative Learning;

    Sammanfattning : It is argued in the cognitive science of religion (CSR) that the empathic ability to ‘mindread’ others underpins  the experience of supernatural communication with gods, ghosts, and spirits. As autism is characterized by mentalizing difficulties, CSR scholars have expected autistic individuals would find supernatural agency incomprehensible. LÄS MER

  3. 2. 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

  4. 3. The Buddhist World Emperor's Mission : Millenarian Buddhism in Postcolonial Burma

    Författare :Niklas Foxeus; Per-Arne Berglie; Erik af Edholm; Guillaume Rozenberg; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Buddhism; millenarianism; weizzā weikza ; esotericism; supernatural powers; identity; politics; Burma; Theravāda Buddhism; cakkavattin; authority; legitimacy; charisma; History of religion; Religionshistoria; History of Religion; religionshistoria;

    Sammanfattning : In early postcolonial Burma, a number of so-called royal esoteric associations with a millenarian and eschatological orientation, and founded by persons believed to be the world emperor, emerged in response to political turmoil, nation-building projects, modernization, and after-effects of colonialism. These Theravāda Buddhist esoteric congregations, revivalist and innovative at the same time, were indicative of a general crisis of authority and identity. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Straffansvar och modern brottslighet. En idékritisk studie av straffansvar för juridiska personer

    Författare :Sverker Jönsson; Juridiska institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; corporate criminal responsibility; criminal law; corporate crime; corporations; folklore; ideological individualism; industrialization; legal persons; supernatural beings; mediated action; white collar crime; straffrätt;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis seeks to explore critically the idea of corporate criminal responsibility. The criminal responsibility of corporations is constructed as a criminal responsibility of legal persons. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Religion – evolutionens missfoster eller kärleksbarn? : Kognitionsvetenskaplig religionsforskning och dess relevans för religiösa trosföreställningars rationalitet

    Författare :Lotta Knutsson Bråkenhielm; Mikael Stenmark; Ulf Zackariasson; Olof Franck; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Cognitive Science of Religion; epistemic rationality; religious beliefs; cognitive mechanisms; intuitive and reflective reasoning; minimally counterintuitive concepts; hypersensitive agency detection device; theory of mind; religious naturalness; evolutionary byproduct; false positives; sensus divinitatis; causes and reasons; finite and infinite supernatural agency; Philosophy of Religion; Religionsfilosofi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is on Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR) and its relevance for the rationality of religious beliefs. An epistemical model for rationality is developed according to which: a person (or group of persons) is rational to hold a certain belief a) if this belief can be assumed to have been generated by one or more reliable cognitive mechanisms, b) applies whether or not she is aware of what these mechanisms are, but c) only as long as it does not exist or arise some reasons (defeaters) to question the belief; if they occur, she must d) reflect on it and find other reasons or grounds to hold the belief in question. LÄS MER