Essays about: "Martyrs"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the word Martyrs.

  1. 1. Imbroglio, Flawed Procedure or a State Scandal? : Untangling the Complexities of the 2020 Restitution of Human Remains from France to Algeria

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Pauline Blache; [2023]
    Keywords : Human remains; restitution; France; Algeria; colonisation; skulls; Provenance Research; political interests; taboo; history.;

    Abstract : In July 2020 France returned 24 human remains to Algeria, designating it as a ‘loan’ renewable every five years. These human remains, identified as skulls, by some considered as “war trophies”, were believed to belong to Algerian soldiers and tribal chiefs who fought against the French army’s invasion in the early 19th century. READ MORE

  3. 2. Hard to be Human : Shaping the Self in an Everchanging Narrative

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Johanna Lensell Rebillon; [2023]
    Keywords : Narrative self; Martyrdom; Hermeneutics; Pragmatist hermeneutics; Christian tradition; Secularism;

    Abstract : This study examines how an existentialistic perspective in a secular context can be enforcedby interpretations of the Self from a Christian martyr narrative. The existentialistic perspective being the questioning of meaning of life and death. READ MORE

  4. 3. Framing the Syrian Civil War : Stories of individuals from the Syrian diaspora on their view on the civil war

    University essay from Jönköping University

    Author : David Karlsson; Liiban Guyo; [2021]
    Keywords : Framing; framing analysis; Syria; Syrian Civil War; Syrian diaspora; Gestaltning; gestaltningsanalys; Syrien; Syriska inbördeskriget; syrisk diaspora;

    Abstract : The Syrian Civil War has displaced millions of Syria’s inhabitants both around the region and throughout the world. These individuals carry different experiences, views, and perceptions regarding what they have left and their views on the conflict. READ MORE

  5. 4. Hagiographical discourse in Medieval Arabic Christianity : A study of Anthony al Qurashi and Bulus ibn Raja as a discourse of parrhesia

    University essay from Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm/Avdelningen för östkyrkliga studier

    Author : Sally Adel Hanna; [2021]
    Keywords : Hagiography- Medieval Arabic Christianity- Christian Paideia- Rhetorics- conversion- apostates- parrhesia- Anthony al-Qurashi- Būlus ibn Raja;

    Abstract : Scholars have faced many challenges in the classification of the literary genre of the hagiographical texts. In addition to their various styles and structures, hagiographical texts tend to move beyond the classical rhetorical approach. READ MORE

  6. 5. ‘Martyrs and Heroines’ vs. ‘Victims and Suicide Attackers’. A Critical Discourse Analysis of YPJ’s and the UK media representations of the YPJ’s ideological agency

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Amelie Malmgren; Michelle Fabiana Palharini; [2018]
    Keywords : YPJ; UK media; media representations; Critical Discourse Analysis CDA ; Postcolonial studies; hegemonic discourse; sensationalism; victimisation; Kurdish female fighters;

    Abstract : The present thesis compares media representations of Yekîneyên Parastina Jin (YPJ or the Women’s Protection Units), an all-female Kurdish military organisation, in British media versus the organisation’s own media outlets, with the aim to see how they differ, more specifically in terms of representations of their ideological agency. By utilizing critical discourse analysis (CDA) in combination with postcolonial theory, the media construction of four soldiers’ deaths have been scrutinized in 30 media texts in order to provide a deeper understanding of the hegemonic discourses and sociocultural practices which underpin these constructions. READ MORE