Sökning: "The Exorcist"
Hittade 4 uppsatser innehållade orden The Exorcist.
1. The Power of Christ Compels You
Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/ReligionshistoriaSammanfattning : This essay aims to explore and answer if the horror movies about exorcism stays true to the historical practices of the ritual. Or if the creators of these films made it all up. But also to see how the ritual has been portrayed in these movies over the years. LÄS MER
2. Mellan livet och döden : Den litterära gotikens närvaro i dokumentära skildringar av självskada
Magister-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärandeSammanfattning : Autobiographies and documentaries usually aim to elicit a discussion about social issues by shocking and horrifying readers and viewers, often through graphic imagery. This study's ambition is to examine how literary documentary borrows from the gothic tradition to depict real societal issues. LÄS MER
3. Jesus, en exorcist såsom Salomo? : en prövning av uppfattningen att den historiske Jesus i sin exorcistiska gärning var formad av en salomonsk typologi
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskapSammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to investigate if, and in what ways, the historical Jesus was considered by his contemporaries to be following a Solomonic typology in his way of performing exorcisms.... LÄS MER
4. Katolska kyrkans roll i skräckfilm En rollteoretisk analys av Katolska kyrkan i filmerna Exorcisten och Ritualen.
Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religionSammanfattning : My problem comes out of the bigger question “why the Catholic church is featured in horror films whenever a religious organization is in one?” I have detected in the horror films that I've seen that when a religious organization is in a horror movie it's the Catholic church that gets to act as church and religion. I have chosen the following problem: How is the Catholic church presented in the horror movies The Exorcist and The Rite, and how can one understand these presentations from a role theoretic perspective? Since role theory has it's background in the world of the theater with it's actors and roles, it came naturally to use role theory, and specifically Goffmans dramatic model. LÄS MER