Sökning: "anthropology of religion"

Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 44 uppsatser innehållade orden anthropology of religion.

1. 16. Den gudomliggjorda skapelsen: en konstruktiv studie om gudomliggörelse och antropologi inom nutida luthersk teologi

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap

   Författare :Tobias Blomberg; [2015]
   Nyckelord :Teologi; Systematisk teologi; Luthersk teologi; Gudomliggörelse; Theosis; Rättfärdiggörelse; Helgelse; Tuomo Mannermaa; Robert W. Jenson; Ted Peters; Philosophy and Religion;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this MA thesis is firstly to describe and investigate the theologico-anthropological aspect of the doctrine of deification within contemporary Lutheran theology. Secondly, the aim of the thesis is to propose a theological anthropology that considers the human need and ability to grow, mature and deepen in life and in relationship to oneself, one’s neighbor and God. LÄS MER

3. 17. Sufiland - Everyday life with the living dead in Upper Egypt

   Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för mellanösternstudier

   Författare :Frédéric Brusi; [2015]
   Nyckelord :Sufism; Upper Egypt; Islam; Sanctity; Baraka; Everyday religion; Anthropology of religion;

   Sammanfattning : This paper describes how everyday muslims with no formal (or weak) affiliation to sufi brotherhoods in Upper Egypt practice and relate to sufism as a grand scheme or larger islamic tradition. The thesis highlights the importance of islamic sainthood in everyday religion, whereby the saintly dead are regarded as acting intermediaries between the divine and the worldly realms. LÄS MER

4. 18. Witchcraft And Development Among The Giriama: Understanding How Witchcraft And Development Can Work Side By Side.

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Socialantropologi

   Författare :Robin Öberg; [2015]
   Nyckelord :Causation; Culture Theory; Development; East Africa; Giriama; Grid; Group; Luck; Mystical Participation; Rationality; Social Anthropology; Social Control; Witchcraft; Philosophy and Religion; Social Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : A bulk of research states that witchcraft is an antithesis to development. This thesis finds that that is an assumption, which cannot explain the case of the Giriama. LÄS MER

5. 19. From Demonic Agency to Divine Presence: A Study of Human-Entity Relations at an Ayahuasca Treatment Centre

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Socialantropologi

   Författare :Christoffer Stuveback; [2015]
   Nyckelord :anthropology of religion; Ayahuasca; Peru; Amazon; demons; human-spirit relations; religious syncretism; Social Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : The present thesis is a qualitative exploration of a group of patients’ experiences of going through an ayahuasca treatment as well as the human-entity relations they come to be constitutive of during the treatment. The ingestion of ayahuasca allows the drinker to enter a non-ordinary reality which opens up the possibility of having encounters with demons, spirits, angels, saints, animals and God, as perceived by informants. LÄS MER

7. 20. Teologi som kontrapunkt. En studie i Sarah Coakleys metod théologie totale

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

   Författare :Anna Cöster; [2014-06-27]
   Nyckelord :Sarah Coakley; Théologie totale; trinity; power-in-vulnerability; desire; contemplative prayer; kenosis; new Catholic feminism; Gregory of Nyssa; David F. Ford; Stephen Bevans;

   Sammanfattning : The theologian Sarah Coakley has developed a theological method, which she calls théologie totale. This essay examines the methodological criteria for this method. To understand how its anthropology, epistemology and theology are shaped, the criteria are analyzed within a theoretical framework, in which mainly David F. LÄS MER