Browsing Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion by Title
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Les Figures féminines de la Décadence et leurs implications esthétiques dans quelques romans français et suédois
(2013-08-26)“The female figures of the Decadence and their aesthetic significance in some French and Swedish novels” This thesis compares Swedish and French literary prose fiction written between 1884 and1892 and its approach to ... -
Life Outside Life: The Politics of Immortality, 1914-1945
(2018-08-17)Between 1914 and 1945 a discussion took place amongst Christian and Jewish theologians and philosophers on the possibility of immortality and eternal life. The discussion had profound political and metaphysical implications ... -
Litteraturstudiets legitimeringar. Analys av skrift och bild i fem läromedel i litteratur för gymnasieskolan
(2015-10-08)The purpose of the thesis is to identify the dominant legitimations of literature study in five literature textbooks for the upper secondary school in Sweden and how these legitimations are realized textually and visually. ... -
Living Simultaneity: On religion among semi-secular Swedes
(2015-03-18)This thesis aims at contributing to a critical discussion on the supposedly far-reaching secularity of Sweden on the one hand, and on the incongruence and inconsistency of lived religion on the other. At the center are ... -
Märkt av det förflutna? Minnesproblematik och minnesestetik i den svenska 1990-talsromanen
(2009-11-05)In Western civilization memory has always attracted much interest. In the last decades, however, this interest has intensified at the same time as it has taken other expressions than before. The aim of this dissertation ... -
När livet tar rätt form: om människosyn i svenska hälsotidskrifter 1910-13 och 2009
(2012-12-17)Abstract When life gets the right shape: On anthropology in Swedish health magazines 1910-13 and 2009 This thesis describes and analyses anthropologies and understandings of health in Swedish health magazines 1910 ... -
Den nödvändiga manligheten: Om maskulinitet som soteriologisk signifikant i den svenska debatten om prästämbete och kön
(2019-08-22)This thesis examines the theological reasons why male gender is perceived as a necessary qualification for the office of priesthood in the Church of Sweden. The issues that are investigated examine the masculine ideal, ... -
Occultism and Traditionalism: Arturo Reghini and the Antimodern Reaction in Early Twentieth-Century Italy
(2016-10-14)The thesis will aim to analyse the interaction between occultism and different facets of modernity in early twentieth-century Italy, focusing on the figure of Arturo Reghini (1878-1946) as a case study. In his ´The ... -
On the Good Faith
(2012-04-25)Zoroastrianism, a religion originating in the ancient East and having survived to the present day, is currently being practiced on a very small scale throughout the whole world. Since the early 1990s there has been a ... -
Pentecostalism, Globalisation and Society in Contemporary Argentina
(2013-12-16)In Argentina, Pentecostalism had a breakthrough in the early 1980s, and today more than 10 per cent of the population are Pentecostals. The revival coincided with a socio-political transformation of Argentinean society. After ... -
Performing Perfectly: Presentations of Childhood in Knutby Filadelfia Before and After the Breakup of the Congregation
(2019-02-28)The Knutby Filadelfia Congregation, founded in 1921, started out as a Pentecostal congrega- tion. It has, however, been considered a deviant and semi-isolated new religious movement ever since it became known to the public ... -
Piety, Intimacy and Mobility: A Case Study of Charismatic Christianity in Present-Day Stockholm
(2013-01-30)The aim of this ethnographic study is to examine how affiliates of the multicultural charismatic Christian congregation New Life Church practice religiosity within the context of their personal daily lives, within the ... -
Det politisk-teologiska komplexet: Fyra kapitel om Carl Schmitts sekularitet
(2014-11-20)In 1922, the German jurist Carl Schmitt (1888–1985) wrote that “all significant concepts of modern state theory are secularized theological concepts”. He qualified this statement by describing the connection between theology ... -
Prayer in Peasant Communities: Ideals and Practices of Prayer in the Late Medieval Ecclesiastical Province of Uppsala, Sweden
(2010-06-24)The aim of this study has been to identify, explain and delineate praying among peasant communities in the ecclesiastical province of Uppsala, Sweden. Four aspects have been examined through the perspectives of ideals and ... -
Proba the Prophet. Studies in the Christian Virgilian Cento of Faltonia Betitia Proba
(2012-11-06)The present study aims to deepen the critical understanding of the fourth century poet Faltonia Betita Proba’s Cento and its reception, a text of considerable historical and cultural importance. Not only is it one of few ... -
Radera. Tippex, tusch, tråd och andra poetiska tekniker
(2018-11-09)This study examines the field of Erasure Poetry from the 1960s to the 2010s with specific focus on intermedial, multimodal, dialogical and iconical aspects. Erasure Poetry results from erasures in earlier works of literature ... -
Reading the Dream Text: A Nexus between Dreams and Texts in the Rabbinic Literature of Late Antiquity
(2010-05-26)This study deals with conceptions and practices related to dreams in early rabbinic Judaism. One aspect of the Jewish dream culture in particular is considered, viz. the tendency evinced in the rabbinic literature of Late ... -
Religious Education in Contemporary Pluralistic Sweden
(2015-11-19)In the mandatory, integrative and non-confessional school subject of Religious Education in Sweden, all students are taught together regardless of religious or secular affiliation. The overall aim of this thesis is to ... -
Religious Education in Contemporary Pluralistic Sweden
(2015-11-19)In the mandatory, integrative and non-confessional school subject of Religious Education in Sweden, all students are taught together regardless of religious or secular affiliation. The overall aim of this thesis is to ... -
Revolution and Revelation: Theology in the Political Thought of Friedrich Julius Stahl, Wilhelm Weitling and Karl Theodor Welcker
(2016-12-15)This dissertation deals with the political thought of three authors of the Vormärz era in Germany: the liberal Karl Theodor Welcker, the socialist Wilhelm Weitling, and the conservative Friedrich Julius Stahl, who were all ...