Essays about: "spiritual practice"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 30 essays containing the words spiritual practice.

  1. 1. ”Ja men jag tror att framtiden är fäbodbruk, fortfarande” : en kvalitativ intervjustudie om fäbodbrukets framtid

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Tova Adrelius; [2023]
    Keywords : fäbodbruk; fäbodvall; kulturlandskap; drivkrafter;

    Abstract : Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka dagens fäbodbruk, hur det upprätthålls och förs vidare till kommande generationer. Den undersöker även olika typer av mervärden som tillsätts fäbodbruket som praktik och själsligt rum, samt drivkrafter för att fortsätta bedriva fäbodbruk. READ MORE

  3. 2. Philosophy of the Teacher Without Contradictions : An Exploration into Indian Philosophy (Advaita Vedanta of Sankara)

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för barndom, utbildning och samhälle (BUS)

    Author : Naga Satya Jonnalagadda; [2022]
    Keywords : Adhyasa; Advaita; Brahman; Consciousness; Contradictions; Existence; Neti-Neti; Sankara; Sutra; Superimposition;

    Abstract : As human beings, we come across situations where our reasons, experience, or guidance from adults can be contradictory. A teacher also experiences these contradictory situations in the educational setting. In such cases, what should be the teacher's philosophy is my main idea or research question of this paper. READ MORE

  4. 3. Nikāḥ as precondition for paradise? Spiritual corporeality and al-Ghazālī’s theology of marriage in the Kitāb ādāb al-nikāḥ

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap

    Author : Mariette Frieda Anita Minnemann; [2021]
    Keywords : al-Ghazali marriage asceticism Medieval theology history of religion Islamic theology Soteriology cosmogony eschatology embodiment Sufism Sufi tasawwuf spiritual corporeality mysticism Ibn Arabi Islamic mysticism jihad body Ihya kitab nikah intercourse sex celibacy embodied resurrection din Medieval Islamic studies religious studies; Philosophy and Religion;

    Abstract : With the 11th century text Kitāb ādāb al-nikāḥ, the “Book on the Proper Conduct of Marriage”, the Islamic thinker al-Ghazālī (1056 –1111/447–504) replies to a contemporaneous debate within Sufi asceticism with a theology of nikāḥ. The text is part of his opus magnum, the “Renaissance of the Knowledge of dīn”, which aims at a renewal of Muslim piety and provides practical guidance to the male audience addressed. READ MORE

  5. 4. Garden of the Hesperides - Female Futures in Rural Morocco

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : Sophia Tligui; [2021]
    Keywords : Architecture; maternal health care; female empowerment;

    Abstract : My thesis proposes a female community and maternal health care center, run by the local Kablas themselves, that is linked to the Tangier hospital in order to provide all necessary medical supplies and offer prosperous opportunities to the local commnunities traditional birth attendants and girls.Linked to this, my thesis proposes a maintained “garden of health”, where all local medicinal species of plants are grown and nurtured and the knowledge around their healing properties is shared, in order to conserve both knowledge and species around the local realm of ethnopharmacy regarding female health. READ MORE

  6. 5. Breaking Myths! : Unveiling the storytelling processes in the reception of Hilma af Klint from the 1980s and 2010s

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Author : Anni Reponen; [2020]
    Keywords : Hilma af Klint; Art criticism; spiritual art; early abstract art; art historiography; the 1980s; the 1990s; Moderna Museet; Swedish art;

    Abstract : This dissertation studies the critical reception of Hilma af Klint trough three exhibitions: Spiritual in Art – Abstract Painting 1890-1985 (Los Angeles, 1986), Secret Pictures by Hilma af Klint, (Helsinki, 1988) and Hilma af Klint – A Pioneer of Abstraction (Stockholm, 2013), addressing the crucial prominent figures and voices in the discursive field around af Klint. The aim is carried out through the Critical Discourse Analysis by Norman Fairclough, coupled with Pierre Bourdieu's concept of the cultural field and habitus. READ MORE