Sökning: "orthodox Christianity"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 27 uppsatser innehållade orden orthodox Christianity.
1. Helgonet med ett hundhuvud,en symbol-analys av Sankt Kristoffer : En djupdykning i meningen med forntida monster i ett kristet sammanhang
Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/ReligionshistoriaSammanfattning : This essay studies the historical phenomenon of dog-headed men (cynocephaly) andSaint Christopher who is in eastern-orthodox iconography depicted as a dog headedman. The study argues that a symbolic and phenomenological perspective is preferredto understand mythical figures with “unnatural” depictions. LÄS MER
2. Gender, Sexuality, Race, Nationality, and Religion in Greek Education. : A Critical Discourse Analysis of a Political Education Schoolbook.
Magister-uppsats, Linköpings universitet/Tema GenusSammanfattning : Feminist and Educational research on schoolbooks in the Greek educational context has discussed the ways in which gender or nationality or religion are being portrayed but has failed to touch upon sexuality and race (and other categories) and deploy an intersectional feminist perspective in their approaches, focusing only on one category. This thesis aims to fill the gap identified in the literature and investigate the portrayal and intersection of gender, sexuality, race, nationality, and religion in the discourses of selected texts of the Political Education schoolbook used in the first grade of highschool and the ways in which this portrayal and intersection challenges or reinforces hegemonic exclusionary discourses, power dynamics and hierarchies. LÄS MER
3. Finding the Silver Lining: The Church, The Virus, and The People : How has the Syriac-Orthodox Church adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden?
Uppsats för yrkesexamina på avancerad nivå, Södertörns högskola/LärarutbildningenSammanfattning : Assyrians/Syrians have for over two millenniums been part of the congregation of people that used to live in the Middle East in countries such as Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Turkey. Various circumstances in the form of persecution, war, and, starvation in recent decades resulted in Assyrians/Syrians fleeing their homeland and emigrating to countries around the world. LÄS MER
4. Det som sitter i huvudet måste flytta ner i hjärtat : Etty Hillesum ur ett ortodoxt perspektiv
Magister-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenSammanfattning : Etty Hillesum's brief life met its tragic end at Auschwitz in the autumn of 1943, when she was just 29 years old, where, along with her family, she was brutally murdered by the Nazis. Luckily for us, though, she managed to leave behind a remarkably rich body of work, composed over the course of merely three years (1941-1943), which has moved – and bewildered – readers and scholars alike ever since its first publication in 1986. LÄS MER
5. Food Stories: Bread, Religion, and Identity : An IPA study in the multi-cultural area of Brasov, Transylvania
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenSammanfattning : The paper follows and compares the narratives around sacred bread in four religious communities within the multicultural Transylvanian area of Brasov: Orthodox Christianity, Lutheran Christianity, Romano-Catholic, and Judaic. Information regarding the practice of bread making during key religious celebrations was gathered via six semi-structured interviews and analysed by interpretative phenomenology analysis (IPA), thus providing a summary of what unites and what distinguishes the four religious communities and also indicating a few directions for the common ground in building an inclusive multi-narrative perspective. LÄS MER
