Essays about: "Divine life society"

Found 4 essays containing the words Divine life society.

  1. 1. The Guardian Forest : sacred trees and ceremonial forestry in Japan

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Forest Ecology and Management

    Author : Oscar Nilzén; [2021]
    Keywords : sacred forests; shrine; Japan; religion; forest management;

    Abstract : Forests have played a major role in the development of human society across the world. It is therefore no surprise that a natural resource which is such an integral part of human life gave rise to religious beliefs, superstition and notions of the supernatural in connection to trees. READ MORE

  3. 2. Den naturliga människan - en undersökning av naturens roll för det mänskliga känslolivet, sett genom Henry David Thoreaus Walden

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoria

    Author : Anna Olsson; [2018]
    Keywords : Henry David Thoreau; Nature; Emotions; Walden; American nature writing; Transcendentalism Henry David Thoreau; Natur; Känslor; Amerikansk naturskildring; Transcendentalism; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study is to examine how the American nature writer Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) writes about nature, and natures role for the human emotions. The study takes basis in one of the writer’s most famous works – Walden; or, Life in the woods, from 1854, which he wrote after he had been living in a small cottage in the woods around walden pond for over 2 years. READ MORE

  4. 3. Humanity Dehumanized: Fordian and Freudian Models in Huxley’s "Brave New World"

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Antonio Domenico Saracino; [2011-07-04]
    Keywords : Huxley; Henry Ford; psychology; individualism; complex of Oedipus;

    Abstract : This essay deals with major topics in Huxley’s Brave New World, the concepts of production efficiency applied to every day’s life, psychology and psychoanalysis. These concepts, which came to the public’s general attention in the beginning of the 20th century, are in the novel taken to the extreme, thus becoming instrumental in the fictionalized controlled society: the figures of Henry Ford and Sigmund Freud are assimilated to one, divine person. READ MORE

  5. 4. Global spirituality - local development

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS)

    Author : Rodrigo Hernandez; Andréas Andersson; [2011]
    Keywords : Dalai lama; religion; development; Divine life society; fieldwork; India; local development; spirituality; Sivananda; Tibet; Tibetan government in exile; yoga;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study was to examine the dynamics between spirituality and development. The point of departure for the study took place in Rishikesh and Dharamsala, in India. Our main object was to examine the role of the Divine Life Society (DLS), in Rishikesh and the Tibetan government in exile, in Dharamsala, in terms of local development. READ MORE