Essays about: "Providence"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the word Providence.

  1. 1. Give us this day our daily bread : The moral order of Pentecostal peasants in South Brazil

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Leonardo Marcondes Alves; [2018]
    Keywords : peasantry; Peasant Pentecostalism; peasantness; moral order; moral economy; multiple livelihood strategies; economic anthropology; anthropology of religion; Brazil; campesinato; pentecostalismo camponês; campesinidade; ordem moral; economia moral; múltiplas estratégias de subsistência; antropologia econômica; antropologia da religião; Brasil;

    Abstract : This ethnography aims to identify the role of the Pentecostal beliefs that peasants in South Brazil use in justifying their life situations. Anthropological data were collected in the Sertão region of Jaguariaíva, in the Brazilian State of Paraná. READ MORE

  3. 2. Political and judicial strategies for the care of marine and coastal ecosystems. The case of Creole People in San Andrés Island, Colombia.

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Antikens kultur och samhällsliv

    Author : Miguel Ángel Núñez Riaño; [2016]
    Keywords : Archipelago of San Andres Old Providence and Santa Catalina; caring principle conservarion; preservation and recovering ; coastal and marine ecosystems; Creole People; environmental governmentality.;

    Abstract : This thesis illustrates how native populations exert a crucial ecological role through deliberate strategies in order to conserve and preserve marine and coastal ecosystems. The investigation identifies political and judicial practices of the Creole people that have contributed to care of ecosystems placed in the Caribbean Archipelago of San Andrés. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Catholicism of Edmund Burke : Assessing recent scholarly discussions over the contested Catholic influence on Burke

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för idé- och lärdomshistoria

    Author : Karl Gustel Wärnberg; [2016]
    Keywords : Edmund Burke; Catholicism; Providence; Jacobitism; Thomism;

    Abstract : This essay studies recent scholarly debates over Edmund Burke’s (1729/30-1797) relation to the Roman Catholic faith. In this essay the main arguments and considerations that have been presented in Burke scholarship since the 1990s are presented and assessed. READ MORE

  5. 4. Breaking the Bonds of Oblivion : An Analysis of the Role of Fate and Providence in the Apocryphon of John

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Religionshistoria

    Author : Petter Spjut; [2014]
    Keywords : Nag Hammadi; Christianity; Judaism; Fate; Providence; Pneumatology; Gnosticism; Antiquity;

    Abstract : This essay aims to investigate the role of fate in the Apocryphon of John – an issue which, with a few exceptions, has been surprisingly overlooked by modern scholarship. In the few modern publications available on the subject, the concept of fate has previously solely been examined in the light of the Greek Philosophical schools, often neglecting texts from a Jewish-Hellenistic context. READ MORE

  6. 5. Providence : H.P. Lovecraft and the puritan tradition

    University essay from Karlstads universitet

    Author : Martin Moberg; [2013]
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