Browsing Masteruppsatser / Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion by Issue Date
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Guds manifestation genom profeterna. Flavius Josefus syn på den hebreiska profetismen - En studie av Antiquitates Judaicae bok 5-11
(2010-03-03)Den judiske historieskrivaren Flavius Josefus som i Rom skrev sitt verk Antiquitates Judaicae om det hebreiska folkets historia betonade starkt den hebreiska profetismen, profeterna och profetian. Den tidiga kristna kyrkan ... -
Fr. Alexander Schmemann och Kyrkan som mysterion
(2010-06-28)What is the Church? This question has been asked in many times and places. In Sweden, it seems as if there's a general identity crisis among the churches. It seems like many churches don't know why they exist, or at least ... -
Anne Rices Interview with the Vampire - en gotisk Lolita
(2011-04-27)Part of the great acclaim for Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire (1976) is due to the way she renews the vampire story by reinforcing the traditional erotic dimension and, as a result of this, the way she examines ... -
Mellan kors och hakkors - Svåra val i en svår tid En studie av Biskop Alois Hudals förståelse av nationalsocialismen uttryckt i Die Grundlagen des Nationalsozialismus
(2012-06-20)Bishop Alois Hudal is a man who is often mentioned when the relationship between the Vatican and the national socialistic Germany of 1933-1945 is discussed. In these cases he is usually presented as a Nazi and sometimes ... -
Den uppståndne Kristus universella framtid - En studie om utvecklingen av Jürgen Moltmanns eskatologi
(2013-02-08)This thesis is a study on the development of the German theologian Jürgen Moltmann’s understanding of eschatology. Eschatology is often described as ‘the doctrine of last things’ but Moltmann considers this to be a mistaken ... -
Dietrich Bonhoeffer och den religionslösa kristendomen – eller att vara kristen är att vara människa
(2013-02-08)The overall purpose of the essay is to analyse what Dietrich Bonhoeffer meant by Religionless Christianity. For this I have chosen to use the substantial idea analysis. I first came across the concept of freedom of religion ... -
Becketts papegojor. Språk, tal och berättande
(2013-02-12)The parrot is a common symbol, or even cliché, in Western literature, going all the way back from ancient Greece to the present date, and in many a genre. This study reads the oeuvre of the Nobel Prize winner Samuel ... -
Enhet av olika slag: En komparativ studie av Amma och Bhagavans Oneness rörelse i Indien och Sverige
(2013-08-06)The process of globalization is today an increasingly integrated component within the academic field of religious studies. As more and more religious movements work as transnational agents, and have the ability to spread ... -
Opplyst barbari. Overtrokritikk i Reginald Scots "The Discoverie of Witchcraft" (1584) og William Perkins' "A Discourse of the Damned Art of Witchcraft" (1608)
(2014-01-07)Witch-skeptic Reginald Scot and “witchmonger” William Perkins are typically cast as polar opposites in England’s early modern debate on witchcraft. When their differences are played down, Scot tends to be stripped of his ... -
Androidvetenskapen och den kusliga dalen: Japanska robotar som forskningsplattformar och filosofiska leksaker
(2014-01-21)The primary aim of this essay is to analyse, contextualise and problematise the scientific and technological goals of android science. The starting point of this investigation is the history of automata and man’s attempts ... -
”Att ikläda sig ansvar” Inhemskt aktörskap i Skandinavisk Pingstmission i Tanganyika 1932-1945
(2014-01-29)A common phenomena in descriptions of Western mission initiatives to the South is the overrepresentation of depictions of the missionaries and underrepresentation of the indigenous people. It is fair to say that there ... -
Hemsökta gränser. En studie av gotisk barnfiktion och dess position i den gotiska genren
(2014-05-27)Although research on gothic fiction has given limited attention to children’s fiction, the last two decades have witnessed an increasing interest. To date the focus has been mainly on English literature with a recurring ... -
Teologi som kontrapunkt. En studie i Sarah Coakleys metod théologie totale
(2014-06-27)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 ... -
Rött, vitt, svart - Vedisk kosmologi och klassificering i Chāndogya-Upaniṣad 3:1-11 och 6
(2014-06-27)Chapter 6 of the Chāndogya Upaniṣad has often been treated in works on early Indian philosophy, as well as in some comparative studies on color symbolism. Attempts to place it in a larger framework against the background ... -
Dopet för framtiden. En studie av teologiska motiv i dopgudstjänsten
(2014-06-27)This essay studies the christening rites in Church of Sweden and what theological motives that are present herein, and how the current revision of the rites have brought in new theological motives with the basis in the ... -
Atopon. En intersektionell studie över svenska gymnasieungdomars tal om religion, etnicitet, klass och kön
(2014-07-01)This master’s thesis problematizes how students in two Swedish secondary schools think and speak about, and relate to, topics such as gender, class, ethnicity, religion and sex, but also how they move in, make use of, and ... -
"Från mörkret stiga vi mot ljuset". Den socialdemokratiska memoaren som retorisk genre: exemplen Palm, Erlander och Persson
(2015-02-12)Although Social Democratic Memoirs comprise an extensive material, these texts have not attracted any systematic analysis as a distinct and yet varied form of textual genre. The focus in this MA-paper is the Swedish Social ... -
”Religion” som diskursiv strategi. Diskurser kring kategorin religion i fyra offentliga debatter i Sverige
(2015-02-13)The thesis explores how the category religion is used discursively in Swedish public debates and in what way the discourses can be related to debate-positions. The thesis also explores questions of power and how social ... -
När Sanningar Möts. Unga i interreligiös dialog
(2015-03-09)This study centres on the question of how interfaith dialogue can function as a meeting place for young people from different social and cultural backgrounds. The study is based on qualitative interviews with five young ... -
Vilt växande Fula Flickor. Om kvinnoblivande hos Mare Kandre - an analys av "Bübins unge" och "Aliide, Aliide"
(2015-06-23)The purpose of this master’s thesis is to examine from a psychoanalytic point of view how Mare Kandre narrate the complex process when girl becomes woman. Earlier theoretical work concerning Mare Kandre is sparse and limited ...