Essays about: "Syriac Christianity"

Found 4 essays containing the words Syriac Christianity.

  1. 1. Footwashing a Syriac Orthodox liturgical setting : A comparative study between the Syriac orthodox rite and the Father Bar Salibi

    University essay from Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm/Avdelningen för östkyrkliga studier

    Author : Isak Lahdo; [2020]
    Keywords : Liturgy; Footwashing; Minor rites; Dionysius Bar Salibi; Syriac Christianity;

    Abstract : In this thesis one can see footwashing from different perspectives even though the focus is from a liturgical and patristic perspective. Using the liturgical dialectical method, I put the liturgical text in a dialectical relationship with the wider patristic context. Footwashing in this thesis is approached from four angles. READ MORE

  3. 2. WAR AND FAITH - COPING STRATEGIES AMONG CHRISTIANS SURVIVING ISIS IN NORTHERN IRAQ

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Beatrice Eriksson; [2019]
    Keywords : Strategies; survival; resilience; resistance; health; religion; faith; identity; peace; altruism; activism; Christianity; Assyrian; Chaldean; Syriac; sense of coherence; coping; northern Iraq; Mosul; Nineveh; Erbil; war; genocide; terrorism; ISIS; extremism; nationalism;

    Abstract : During the last decades, the Christian population of Iraq is estimated to have decreased from about 1.5 million people to about 120,000. READ MORE

  4. 3. St. Thaddeus : Syriac Orthodox Church

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : Aday Leo Demirel; [2018]
    Keywords : Syriac Orthodox Church; Södertälje; Syriac; Modern Church; Orthodox; Suryoye;

    Abstract : The Syriac Orthodox Church is one of the oldest churches in the world. It employs the oldest surviving worships in Christianity. The Syriac Orthodox Church has about 5.5 million members, with only 231 remaining churches. READ MORE

  5. 4. “We Forgive, But We Do Not Forget”: An Ethnographic Account of Assyrian Christians’ Trails of Trauma and the Making of ‘the Muslim’

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Hannah My Falk; [2016-10-19]
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    Abstract : This thesis highlights the multiple layers of how an Assyrian Christian minority group in Sweden constructs the image of ‘the Muslim’. The thesis contributes to a larger debate about diaspora, reconciliation, and local manifestations of Islamophobia by following the view of ‘the Muslim’ in a Syriac Orthodox Church in Gothenburg. READ MORE