Sökning: "Hindu Women"

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  1. 1. Kvinnorna inom hinduismen och buddhismen : En läromedelsanalys om kvinnans framställning inom hinduism och buddhism

    Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV)

    Författare :Rebecka Häll; [2024]
    Nyckelord :Kvinnor; hinduism; buddhism; genus; läroböcker; läromedelsanalys;

    Sammanfattning : In this essay, seven textbooks in the subject of religion education at upper secondary school have been studied. The aim is to examine how these textbooks present women in hinduism and buddhism based on three categories; religious role, religious status and position in society and how the presentation based on the three categories has changed since 1998. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Are Skewed Sex Ratios Impeding Female Empowerment in India? : A Study Looking at Violence and Violations in Indian Households

    Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Författare :Astrid Grube; Lindqvist Line; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Sex ratio; female empowerment; India; son preference; violence; missing women; demography;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis studies the relationship between a skewed sex ratio and female empowerment in India. The study uses cross-sectional survey data from 2015-16, defining empowerment with an index that compiles questions directed toward women regarding if they have been subjected to violence and violations by their husbands or partners. LÄS MER

  4. 3. A Jihad on Love : A study on the phenomenon of love jihad in relation to Hindu nationalist constructs of identities in India

    Master-uppsats,

    Författare :Joakim Björkelid; [2021]
    Nyckelord :India; Hindu nationalism; communalism; propaganda; Vishva Hindu Parishad; Is-lam; hindutva;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this paper is to investigate the Indian Hindu nationalist concept of “love jihad”, an idea based upon the alleged fact that Muslim men actively seeks out non-Muslim women for conversion to Islam by various methods including, false promises of love and abductions. While the accusation that Muslims are conducting love jihad currently is being propagated by several active Hindu nationalist groups, the focus of this paper lies on the Viśva Hindū Pariṣad (VHP) and the Rāṣṭrīya Svayaṃsevak Saṃgh (RSS), two major branches within the so-called family of Hindu nationalist organisations, or the Saṃgh Parivār. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Creating Kabīr : Understanding the use of Kabīr through the lens of Sanskritization

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Religionshistoria

    Författare :Felix Rosén; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Kabīr; Nirguṇa; Saguṇa; Sanskritization; Bhakti; Sants; Dharmadas; Varṇa.;

    Sammanfattning : The so called Bhakti movement spread, during the Late Medieval period, like wildfire across the South Asian subcontinent and acted like a catalyst for the development of nirguṇī-traditions. These newly emerging nirguṇī-traditions rallyd men and women alike, preaching for the abolation of the varṇa-system, for Muslim-Hindu unity, devotion to the one omipresent godhead, nirguṇa. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Texts and Paratexts in a Colonial Context. Krupabai Satthianadhan's English Novels 'Saguna' and 'Kamala'

    Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion

    Författare :Karin Edgardh; [2020-01-15]
    Nyckelord :India; Krupabai Satthianadhan; Saguna; Kamala; Gérard Genette; Autobiography; Conversion; Colonial literature;

    Sammanfattning : The anglophone Indian author Krupabai Satthianadhan (1862-1894) was a second-generation Christian convert and a member of the Christian Tamil family in colonial Madras. Knowledge of English was still a high-caste male privilege when Satthianadhan published reformist articles on female education. Her two novels, the autobiographical Saguna. LÄS MER