Sökning: "History of religions"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 60 uppsatser innehållade orden History of religions.
1. Accommodating Perspectives on Religious History : A Study of Satire and Narrative Structure in Aldous Huxley’s Crome Yellow
Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraSammanfattning : This essay is an analysis of Aldous Huxley’s novel Crome Yellow and how it can be read as exposing social hypocrisy and tracing social flaws through England’s religious history. The analysis uses narratology as a tool for exploring how the author can be perceived as offering a perspective on religious history that might have been controversial in his day. LÄS MER
2. Är det möjligt att framställa hinduismens mångfald i religionsläroböcker? : Förändringen i representationen av hinduismens mångfald i läroböcker från 1968–2012
Uppsats för yrkesexamina på grundnivå, Karlstads universitetSammanfattning : This study is about the changes in the representation of the diversity in hinduism in textbooks between the years 1968 and 2012. The theory builds on Robert Jacksons interpretive didacitcs of religion, it is about how individuals, groups and religions in generall are represented in religious education and it is being used here as a way of highlighting diversitey. LÄS MER
3. From Dawn to Dusk: studying the origin of the Islamic fivefold daily liturgy in the Qur’ān
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskapSammanfattning : Despite prayer being one of the most central tenets of Islam, this subject has drawn the attention of surprisingly little scholarship, especially when it comes to studying its origin against pre-Islamic analogues. Thus, this thesis proposes a reconstruction of the very early history of the fivefold daily Islamic liturgy, attempting also to weigh the extent of the influence that pre-Islamic religions, primarily Middle Eastern Christianity and Judaism, might have had in its development. LÄS MER
4. Celebrations in Dark Guise : A Definitional Study of Contemporary Satanic Ritual
Master-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/ReligionsvetenskapSammanfattning : This thesis aims to answer the question “what is contemporary Satanic ritual?” It explores the historical development of Satanic ritual from being a fictional nineteenth-century literary concept, to a means of giving voice to 21st century activism and identity. From its roots in Christian history when the Satanic Black Mass was once a polemic instrument for subduing the other, and its transformation into a meaningful practice with which the oft subdued raise their own voice. LÄS MER
5. A portrait of a Witch : Research on the resurgence of Neo-Pagan & Modern Witchcraft movements in the Western societies and what it means to be a Pagan in 21st century.
Magister-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenSammanfattning : Records suggest that throughout human history, our cultures have always been tied to some form of religious beliefs. Religions evolve, transform, rise and fall. LÄS MER
