Essays about: "atheism"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the word atheism.
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1. Conflict in Central Asia - A Soviet Affair
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : After the fall of the Soviet Union, two prominent Islamic groups, the IMU in Uzbekistan and the IRPT in Tajikistan, took to arms against their governments. To explain the contexts of these movements, this thesis utilises historical legacy theory to establish a continuity between the Soviet and post-Soviet regimes, which together with relative deprivation theory can explain why violent religious conflicts arose in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan after the collapse of the USSR. READ MORE
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2. “The Post-Christian Christian Church” : Ecclesiological Implications ofMattias Martinson’s Post-Christian Theology
University essay from Uppsala universitet/KyrkovetenskapAbstract : Starting in the socio-cultural changes associated with the recent proliferation of various post-terms, this essay explores Mattias Martinson’s proposal for a theological response to these developments. Based on Martinson’s Post-Christian Theology and The Cathedral in the Center, the essay sketches a post-Christian theology that attempts to transcend both traditional Christian theology and atheism as a response to a societal situation of widespread disbelief. READ MORE
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3. Illuminating Voices In The Dark: The utilisation of communication technology within online Arab atheist communities
University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : The presence of atheists within the Muslim world has begun to receive global attention after a number of cases in which atheist bloggers and writers in majority Muslim countries were killed for criticising Islam. The rise in number of Arab atheist Facebook groups has sparked conversation about the rise in number of atheists across the Arab world, and to what extent the use of social media platforms has facilitated this. READ MORE
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4. A Newer New Age. Irony and the Enchantment of Atheism in Syntheist Religion
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religionAbstract : The purpose of this thesis is to study how the stipulations of religious thought changes as society gets increasingly digitalized, life become more virtual and people get interconnected through the internet. The thesis engages with the new religious movement Syntheism, which is considered to be an example of said changes. READ MORE
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5. The Discourse of Religion in Swedish Secular Humanism. A Discursive study of religion and the secular in the Swedish Humanist Association
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religionAbstract : This study combines the two scholarly fields of studying atheism and secular humanism and the discursive approach of studying the uses of the category “religion” in socio-political interests. As an empirical case, the study looks at The Swedish Humanist Association, Humanisterna, with examples from some of the videos on their official website, as well as examples of articles from debates between the chairman of Humanisterna and critics of the association. READ MORE
