Masteruppsatser / Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion
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ASYL och KONVERSION Asylsökande konvertiters förståelse av sin konversionsprocess
(2024-02-14)The purpose of this study is to analyse asylum seeking converts understanding of their conversion process based on church context, specifically within the realm of evangelical church and theology. Through the method of ... -
Non-Violence: a hallmark of Christian moral life An analysis of Stanley Hauerwas´ theological reflection on non-violence
(2024-01-30)This study analyses Stanley Hauerwas´ reflections on non-violence. In a society where violence and force are marks of the attempt to promote justice, it is required that the Church and the Christian community develop an ... -
UNDERBARA OBEGRÄNSADE OCEAN En ekokritisk studie av havet i Olaus Magnus Historia om de nordiska folken
(2023-11-22)The aim of this thesis is to examine how the sea is portrayed in the book Historia om de nordiska folken (1555), to further understanding about early modern ideas of the ocean as a natural environment. The book was written ... -
Den heliga modern – en eländig fattig piga Den dubbelsidiga mariabilden i 1600-talets predikotexter i Sverige
(2023-07-04)This thesis examines the images of the Virgin Mary in sermons of seventeenth century Sweden. For the study a selection of four postils have been analysed, written by Simon Musæus, Martin Moller, Johannes Matthiæ and Lars ... -
Medel att återställa kroppens och själens krafter? Om Carl von Linnés syn på växters inverkan på människans sinne(n) i Inebriantia år 1762
(2023-06-29)Abstract: Carl Linnaeus’s dissertation Inebriantia (1762) emerges as a transitional piece at the intersection of the early modern and the modern period, reflecting 18th-century beliefs about inebriation, the natural world, ... -
Perspektiv på propaganda Propagandabegreppet i Sverige mellan 1920 och 1951
(2023-06-29)This thesis examines the term propaganda and it´s use and meaning in the public discourse in Swedish press between the years 1920 and 1951. The thesis asks the overarching question of how and why the definition of the term ... -
Face to face: the Beatific Vision according to Gregory of Nyssa and Thomas Aquinas
(2023-06-29)Abstract: This dissertation aims to retrieve the doctrine of the beatific vision from the works of Gregory of Nyssa and Thomas Aquinas, hence the research question is: What are the respective understandings of the beatific ... -
Totalitarismens existensform. Textualitet och politik i tre verk av Imre Kertész
(2023-06-20)This thesis explores the theoretical and political dimensions of textuality and self-reflexivity in the literature of Imre Kertész (1929–2016). Specifically, it investigates the relationship between textuality and reflexivity, ... -
Med äran i behåll Gloria och Virtus i Ciceros tal mot Antonius
(2022-11-10)This essay, by applying principles derived from the thought of Quentin Skinner, explores the Roman concepts of gloria and virtus in the prose literature of the late Roman Republic, primarily in the writings of (in order ... -
En våg från framtiden En materiell ekokritisk läsning av P C Jersilds Efter floden
(2022-08-16)This study explores how different kinds of matter interact and intra-act with each other and with the human dimension in Jersild’s Efter floden. This according to the notion that these intra-actions produce configurations ... -
Jean-Paul Sartre och konsten: Bildfilosofi, Existentialism och Biografi i Sartres konstnärstexter om Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Robert Lapoujade och Tintoretto
(2022-06-22)Sartre ́s writings about artists and their artistic works in the 1940s until the1960s seems to be related to his biographical writings about authors, his phenomenological philosophy of imagination based on Husserl ́s ... -
Längtande Kroppar: Höga Visan som Pedagogik för Begären
(2022-06-22)This study explores how the Song of Songs could and should be interpreted in its own form, i.e., as erotic poetry, and on the basis of sexual desire. The common interpretation of the Song of Songs as an allegory of the ... -
Etik i klimatförändringens tid - en jämförelse mellan den antika dygdeetiken och vår samtida ekofilosofiska diskurs
(2022-06-20)Climate changes is a real threat against a prosperous planet. According to reports from The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is it now urgent to change direction concerning carbon dioxide emissions, ... -
Do Not Forsake Me, O God. Doctrinal Representation of God, Dualistic Literalism, and Attachment to God
(2022-06-17)The present study examines the relationship between individuals’ doctrinal and experiential representation of God, by inquiring for associations between dualistic literalism and attachment to God. By dualistic literalism ... -
“On an ecliptic Tuesday or Saturday the Tantrik practises several black arts.”
(2022-05-12)This thesis investigates descriptions of Tantra within nineteenth to twentieth century Theosophy. 34 accounts from two Theosophical periodicals, The Theosophist (1879–) and Lucifer (1887–97) published between the years ... -
”Mu eallin” – genrens funktion i Mikael Niemis roman Koka björn
(2022-05-10)This master’s thesis studies the functions of the genres in Swedish author Mikael Niemi’s novel To Cook a Bear (2017). The plot is set in Kengis in 1852 and is told through two protagonists: the priest and Jussi Sieppinen. ... -
Den afrikanska Pentekostalismens föränderliga ansikte: Processer och konsekvenser av rörelsens utvecklig i Sydafrika.
(2022-01-20)I litteraturstudien ”Den afrikanska Pentekostalismens föränderliga ansikte - Processer och konsekvenser av rörelsens utveckling i Sydafrika” undersöks på fyra huvudfrågor: Hur ser den Neo-Pentekostala rörelsen ut i Sydafrika ... -
Gabrielle Suchons ord till kvinnan (Textuella förutsättningar, språkliga ytterligheter och symboliskt värde)
(2021-12-08)Gabrielle Suchon (1632-1703), was a seventeenth century philosopher, convinced by the equality of the sexes. Her debut thesis, Ethics and Politics - Divided into Three Parts: Freedom, Knowledge and Authority, is regarded ... -
Samtida mottagande och sentida litteraturhistorieskrivning - Amalia Fahlstedt, en 1880-talsförfattarinna
(2021-09-07)Amalia Fahlstedt (1853 – 1923) was a Swedish author of the 1880s. Her debut I flygten: berättelser (1882) contains a couple of short stories and a realistic approach, a common feature of the time. Her main theme was gender ... -
Jagets reflektion. En studie av överlappningen mellan självframställning av identitet och självreflexiv poetologi inom poesi
(2021-07-05)The study examines the overlap between productions of self-identity and self-reflexive poetology in contemporary Swedish poetry. In the recent decades, modern poetics has increasingly expressed itself self-reflectively, ...