Sökning: "nordic religions"

Hittade 3 uppsatser innehållade orden nordic religions.

  1. 1. I MITTEN AV CIRKELN - en etnologisk studie om nyhedniska identitetskonstruktioner

    Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

    Författare :Miranda Lindström Kruse; [2013-02-18]
    Nyckelord :neopaganism; witchcraft; magic; wicca; identity; discourse theory; late modernity; self-identity; categorisation; representation;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to analyse how female neopagan practitioners form their identities individually as well as collectively. Using Ernesto Laclau’s and Chantal Mouffe’s discourse theory and Anthony Giddens’ descriptions of late modernity and self-identity, I intend to investigate my informants’ construction and upholding of a meaningful identity and sense of self. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Our basic need for rites and myths : –The functions of ritualization and narration for live acting role-players

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen; Uppsala universitet/Centrum för forskning om religion och samhälle (CRS)

    Författare :Christina Lloyd; [2005]
    Nyckelord :rites; myths; narration; live acting role-players; larp; youth;

    Sammanfattning : This is a master thesis in the discipline of psychology of religion, with a focus on the psychological and psychosocial functions of rites/ritualization and myths/narration in our lives. The main aim was to investigate adolescent male live acting role-players rites/ritualization and myths/narration, generally in their personal life and specifically in the world of the role-playing phenomenon, to see how they used the rites/ritualization and myths/narration in the role-playing world to create and maintain their sense of coherence and meaning in life. LÄS MER

  4. 3. The Golden Rule and Bioethics. A Reflection upon the Foundation of Ethics

    Magister-uppsats, Centrum för tillämpad etik

    Författare :Mette Ebbesen; [2002]
    Nyckelord :Ethics; The Golden Rule; Beauchamp Childress Four Bioethical Principles; Ethical Assessment of Somatic Gene Therapy; Etik;

    Sammanfattning : The object of this thesis is the foundation of ethics. The question is whether there exists a universal core to ethics consisting of a fundamental ethical principle across cultures. This principle could for example be the so-called Golden Rule, which goes as follows: ‘You should do to others what you want them to do to you’. LÄS MER