Essays about: "Orthodoxy"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the word Orthodoxy.

  1. 1. Remembering Imbros Island : Studying The Memory Of Imbros Greeks From The Imvriwtika Magazine

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

    Author : Iason Giannakis; [2022]
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    Abstract : Once a thriving community of farmers and fishermen consisting mostly of ethnic Greeksbelonging to Christian Orthodoxy who inhabited the Aegean island of Imbros, the ImbrosGreeks left their natal land between 1923 and the 1970s. Through the theory on culturalmemory and the method of thematic analysis, this study aims to uncover the story of thiscommunity and the way their suffering is depicted through the Imvriwtika magazine, aquarterly publication by the Imbros Greeks residing in Thessaloniki, Greece. READ MORE

  2. 2. The Church-State Symphonia Resounding Through Third Rome : The Strive for Transnational Religious Identity and Unity

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk och industriell utveckling

    Author : Zoran Zivkovic; [2020]
    Keywords : identity; religion; spirituality; Orthodoxy; Russian Orthodox Church; Russia; Soft power; Ukraine and Belarus;

    Abstract : The Soviet Union population was unified under the shared belief of being a part of a common goal for proletarianism, in disregard of religion. These sentiments were prevalent up until the union’s dissolution. Something which created an identity void, reinvigorating the need for spirituality. READ MORE

  3. 3. NEVER AGAIN THESSALONIKI – AUSCHWITZ : THE FIRST MEMORY WALK FOR THE JEWS OF SALONICA AND THE REACTIONS OF THE LOCAL PRESS. : A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS (CDA) AND REFLECTION.

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Georgia Gleoudi; [2018]
    Keywords : Jews; Thessaloniki; collective memory; national identity; Media; Orthodoxy; Never again; urban identity; Hellenization; social change; critical discourse analysis;

    Abstract : The end of the Second World War found the city of Thessaloniki devastated by the loss of nearly its total Jewish population in the concentration camps of the Third Reich. A few survivals return to their city just to realize that their fortunes have been confiscated either by the local authorities or by their Christian neighbors. READ MORE

  4. 4. Faustin Linyekula : Postcolonial perspective and heterodoxy in dramaturgy

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Author : Marc Antoine Vumilia Muhindo; [2018]
    Keywords : Faustin Linyekula; Postcolonial theatre; Dramaturgy; Congo; French theatre; postcolonial studies; Pierre Bourdieux;

    Abstract :                                          ABSTRACT Bachelor´s thesis in Performance Studies, Stockholm University Spring 2018 Faustin Linyekula: Postcolonial perspective and orthodoxy in dramaturgy Marc-Antoine Vumilia Muhindo  This thesis aims to bring to the fore the means through which artistic postcolonial practices could qualitatively impact the evolution of the performance field in the Western. Research questions include the existence or not of a postcolonial aesthetics. READ MORE

  5. 5. THE OTHER SIDE OF FREEDOM: CONCEPTS OF LIBERTY IN CHINESE ORTHODOX PHILOSOPHY FROM 1980 TO 2002

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Urmas Pappel; [2011]
    Keywords : China; orthodoxy; intellectuals; freedom; negative liberty and positive liberty; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Chinese orthodox philosophy is often described as communitarian and characterised by the concept of positive freedom, which, defined by Isaiah Berlin's two concepts of liberty, deems it necessity to curb individual freedom for the good of a community. Still, some orthodox Chinese writers also use aspects of negative freedom, insisting on a sphere of individual freedom that no authority can curb, and thereby seem to defy the categorisation as wholly communitarian. READ MORE