Essays about: "History of religion"

Showing result 36 - 40 of 107 essays containing the words History of religion.

1. 36. STRUGGLES BETWEEN UKRAINIAN AND RUSSIAN IDENTITY: THE PEACE CONUNDRUM, THE ROLE OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH, THE EAST VERSUS THE WEST AND THE INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Michelle Marie Soukup; [2020]
   Keywords : conflict; religious freedom; freedom of the media; national identity; Ukraine; Russia; international organizations;

   Abstract : The Russian-Ukrainian tensions have recently sparked greater debates on an international scale, particularly since the Russian attack on Ukrainian independence in 2014. For the purpose of being able to contribute to these, my thesis explores the underlying problems causing this most recent conflict in the modern history. READ MORE

3. 37. Two Sides of the Same Coin : A Comparative Study of Salafi Jihadi and White Nationalist use of History of Religion in Propaganda

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Religionshistoria

   Author : Christian Haag; [2020]
   Keywords : Comparative propaganda; ISIS; Tarrant; sacred history; Dabiq; The Great Replacement;

   Abstract : This master’s thesis is a comparative propaganda analysis that studies the use of history with a religion dimension, similarities and framing of propaganda messages in the Islamic States propaganda magazine Dabiq and Brenton Tarrant’s manifesto The Great Replacement. The propaganda has been analysed with Jowett and O’Donnell’s propaganda model, combined with Jan Assmann’s theories about cultural memory, historia sacra and cultural semantics. READ MORE

4. 38. SACRED ILLUMINATION: The connection between the built form and the history of the modern Swedish Church

   University essay from KTH/Ljusdesign

   Author : STYLIANI LEIVADIOTI; [2020]
   Keywords : sacred illumination; meaning of light; sacred spaces; light and built form; light and architecture;

   Abstract : The use of light has always been a vehicle of symbolic meaning and spiritual experience in religious spaces. Depending on culture and religion this use differs, but in any case, the connection between the built form, the architecture and the history makes the relationship with light a compelling issue that is worth exploring. READ MORE

5. 39. AUTOMATED INK : CNC Tattooing Robot

   University essay from KTH/Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM)

   Author : Yaman Thif; Olle Rendlert; [2020]
   Keywords : Mechatronics; Tattoos; CNC; Stepper motors; H-Bot; 3D printer; Mekatronik; Tatueringar; CNC; Stegmotorer; H-Bot; 3D skrivare;

   Abstract : The art of tattooing has been around for centuries in human history and tattoos are still very popular in today’s society. Tattoos serve as a way to, for example, express people’s personalities, religious beliefs, or culture, and its growing popularity may lead to the need for more technological and automated alternatives. READ MORE

6. 40. A History of Rule by Divine Law among Semitic Cultures

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Historia

   Author : Karl Bjur; [2020]
   Keywords : History; Islam; Arabic; Judaism; Hammurabi; Akkadian; State; Divine law; Sharia; Halakha; Aksum; Ethiopia; Empire; Didascalia; Theocracy; Theonomocracy; Semitic; Israelite; Al-Māturīdī; Al-Māwardī; Religious History; Middle-east; Africa; Kitāb al-Tawḥīd; Māturīdīya; Rulership; Oriental; Despotism; Absolutism; Cultural Darwinism; Comparative oriental studies; Cross-cultural study; Orientalism; Large-scale History; History and Archaeology;

   Abstract : This is a comparative study of several widespread and canonical texts from the lowlands of the Middle East and North Africa, with regard to historically reoccurring interconnected traits of ideal state structure among cultures, where Semitic languages have been main languages of communication from the 18th century BC to the modern day. The study is of reoccurring ideals of state structure with defined limits and causes for its existence across several Semitic speaking cultures. READ MORE