Sökning: "Occultism"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 17 uppsatser innehållade ordet Occultism.

  1. 1. Levande men obetydlig : En analys av kosmisk skräck i H.P. Lovecrafts författarskap

    Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper

    Författare :Abraham Jidah; [2024]
    Nyckelord :H.P. Lovecraft; The Call of Cthulhu; The Nameless City; Cosmic horror; fear of the cosmos; fear of the occult; fear of the abyss; occultism; the occult; Cthulhu; Helena Blavatsky;

    Sammanfattning : My essay is called “Alive but Insignificant: An Analysis of Cosmic Horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s Writing”. Howard Phillips Lovecraft has written many short stories surrounding the idea of “cosmic horror”. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Jewels of Humayun’s Sciences : Comparative Esotericism at the Cultural Dawn of Mughals

    Magister-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Författare :Thomas Hans Sune Nilsson; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Humayun; Mughal; esotericism; Arabic Hermeticism; Sufism; syncretism; occultism in Islam; magic;

    Sammanfattning : Nasir-ud-Din Muhammad Humayun (1508-1556), simply known as Humayun, was the second emperor of the Mughal Empire in India. He is often known with a discredited image in history even though recent investigations show a new, different, and regenerated perspective about him. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Western Esotericism references in Dario Argento’s triology The Three Mothers

    Master-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Författare :Emilie Spagnoli; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Occultism; Esotericism; film critic; Steiner; feminine power; gender; Dario Argento; horror cinema; Suspiria; Inferno; The Mother of Tears;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis aims to explore the influences and references, with a particular focus from occultism and western esotericism, found in the film trilogy of The Three Mothers directed by Dario Argento. The trilogy composed of Suspiria, Inferno and The Mother of Tears was produced in a timeframe of thirty years from 1977 to 2007, so it embeds three decades, it also reflects the willingness from the director to disconnect himself from the usual representation of supernatural and horror films of witches and power. LÄS MER

  5. 4. “On an ecliptic Tuesday or Saturday the Tantrik practises several black arts.”

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

    Författare :Maggie Kastlund; [2022-05-12]
    Nyckelord :Tantra; Theosophy; Occultism; Postcolonial Theory; Thematic Analysis; Literature Study; The Theosophist; Lucifer; Helena Petrovna Blavatsky; Arthur Avalon;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates descriptions of Tantra within nineteenth to twentieth century Theosophy. 34 accounts from two Theosophical periodicals, The Theosophist (1879–) and Lucifer (1887–97) published between the years 1879–1941 were analyzed by departing from thematic analysis and postcolonial theory. LÄS MER

  7. 5. The great truth is there isn't one : Nihilism som inspiration i black metal med fokus på bandet Mgła

    Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för musikvetenskap

    Författare :Isak Koskinen Rosemarin; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Music; Philosophy; Black metal; Nietzsche; Mgła; Nihilism; Existentialism;

    Sammanfattning : The subject of this thesis is the music genre black metal and how it holds nihilism as an inspirational source. This has been explored with a focus on the Polish band Mgła, and their music and aesthetics from a music-analytical perspective, as well as from a Nietzschean-philosophical perspective. LÄS MER