Essays about: "apocalyptic"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 29 essays containing the word apocalyptic.

  1. 1. “Whaddaya Mean Biblical?” Apocalypticism and Apocalypse in Ghostbusters (1984)

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion

    Author : Jack Roempke Andersson; [2024-03-06]
    Keywords : Ghostbusters; apocalypticism; intertextuality; exegesis; reception history; apocalyptic hermeneutic;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to examine the sci-fi horror comedy film Ghostbusters (1984) from an exegetical perspective of reception history with a focus on questions of apocalypticism and apocalypse. This splits the study in two, with the first question being what the four ghostbusters of the movie mean when they talk about the end of the world in a biblical context: their apocalyptic hermeneutic. READ MORE

  3. 2. COMPARATIVE STUDY OF HEBRAISMS IN THE SHORT RECENSION OF ENOCH 2

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Inna Ohlsson; [2023-06-26]
    Keywords : Fornkyrkoslaviska; Enoch; Hebraism; apocalyptic; Old Church Slavonic;

    Abstract : It has long been known that Enoch 2, short recension, contains plenty of Hebraisms and many scholars commented on them. The present work is the first systematic study of Hebraisms based on two methods: comparative, where Enoch 2 is compared to Zerubbabel, and corpus linguistical, where AntConc software is used to study the words, which can give rise to a Hebraism. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Howl of the Lone Wolf

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi; Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Jonna Rolfsson; [2023]
    Keywords : Lone Wolf; Manifesto; Narrative; Targets; Right-wing; Underdog; Ideology; Social System; Social Order; Crisis; Violence; Mass-harm; Replacement; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Attacks of mass-harm perpetrated by lone actor terrorists, also known as lone wolves which they are called in this study, have been increasing in the last few decades and has become one of the main national security threats in Sweden. With the increase in attacks, so has the research on this type of terrorism, looking at ideological reasons, target selection and the radicalisation process as well as comparisons to group-based terrorism. READ MORE

  5. 4. Ageing Into the Apocalypse : Exploring How Age and Institutionalisation Shapes Environmental Organisations through Apocalyptic Framing and Blame Attribution

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : John Wester; [2023]
    Keywords : Institutionalisation; environmental movement; social movements; framing; blame attribution; apocalypse; age; Extinction Rebellion; Naturskyddsföreningen;

    Abstract : This study investigated how the age of an environmental movement organisation and its degree of institutionalisation impacted the usage of threat-related framing and blame attribution in regards to environmental issues. Environmental discourse has lately developed a rhetoric that embraces urgency and severity, but how different types of environmental movement organisations have approached this, historically and today, has not been widely studied. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Mobilization of Civil Disobedience : A qualitative content analysis of the collective action framing of the civil disobedience movement Återställ våtmarker

    University essay from Jönköping University/HLK, Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

    Author : Ellinor Röjne; [2023]
    Keywords : Environmental movement; Collective action; Core framing tasks; Emotions; Social media; Civil disobedience; civil olydnad; social rörelse; miljörörelse; sociala medier;

    Abstract : The study “The Mobilization of Civil Disobedience” intends to shed light on how environmental movements frame climate change issues, present solutions and mobilize climate action through their communication on the social media platform Instagram. This study will examine the case of Återställ våtmarker (Restore wetlands), a Swedish movement known for its civil disobedience protests. READ MORE