Browsing Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion by Issue Date
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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 ... -
Hendiadys in the Hebrew Bible. An Investigation of the Applications of the Term
(2012-05-10)It is evident that the term hendiadys, which is derived from the classical rhetorical tradition, has for hundreds of years been frequently applied to constructions and combinations of components in the Hebrew Bible. This ... -
Hjärtats härdar: Folkliv, folkmuseer och minnesmärken i Skandinavien, 1808–1907
(2012-05-10)This thesis deals with the new view of landscapes, buildings and artefacts as significant, memory-bearing structures that emerged in the nineteenth century. It examines the new memory-bearing visibility, i.e., the human-shaped ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
American Dervish: Making Mevlevism in the United States of America
(2013-05-17)In the late 1970s, the Turkish Mevlevi Sufi sheikh Süleyman Dede arrived from Konya, Turkey, in the United States. There he initiated a number of individuals primarily belonging to American esoteric groups as sheikhs in ... -
The Mahdi Wears Armani: An Analysis of the Harun Yahya enterprise
(2013-05-22)The prolific Turkish author and preacher Adnan Oktar has built up a large Islamic publishing enterprise under the name of Harun Yahya, and has attracted international attention in particular for his campaign against the ... -
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 ... -
God dag, min läsare! Bland berättare, brevskrivare, boktryckare och andra bidragsgivare i tidig svensk veckopress 1730–1773
(2013-10-09)The thesis deals with the early press of 'moral weeklies' in Sweden during the period 1730 to 1773, focussing on media technological conditions and the uses of the epistolary form. This genre, which initially followed the ... -
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 ... -
Dikt i rörelse. Ingrid Sjöstrand och poesins retorik i kvinnornas fredsrörelse 1979-1982
(2014-02-03)Poetry has held a significant position in the argumentation employed by the social movements of Sweden ever since their growth during the later decades of the nineteenth century. This tradition lived on in the new social ... -
Förnuftets auktoritet. Upplysning och legitimitet hos La Motte, Thorild och Kundera.
(2014-04-23)Abstract Ph.D. dissertation at University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 2014 Title: Förnuftets auktoritet. Upplysning och förnuft hos La Motte, Thorild och Kundera English title: Authority of Reason. Enlightenment and ... -
Alma Natura, Ars Severa; Expanses and Limits of Craft in Henry David Thoreau
(2014-10-30)The American naturalist, philosopher and writer Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) lived and wrote in a time of vibrant change. During his short life his rural Concord, a small satellite town to Boston, Massachusetts, was ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ...