Essays about: "Secularity"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the word Secularity.

  1. 1. Must God be dead in Swedish feminist research?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Genusvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Isabella Johansson; [2020]
    Keywords : firstness; religion; tradition; politics of naming; spirituality; Philosophy and Religion; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The thesis has two aims. Firstly, to explore and challenge the secularist tradition in Swedish gender studies, as well as, the secularist ideology in the conceptualisation and treatment of religious topics and subject positions. READ MORE

  3. 2. Conditional Freedom: Identifying How Orientalism Informs Structural and Cultural Violence Towards Muslim Women in Turkey

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Yousor Akrawi; [2019]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to point out the ways in which Muslim women who wear the headscarf are subject to cultural and structural violence, and to discuss how that violence is informed by Orientalism. The study answers the following question: How does Orientalism inform structural and cultural violence against the wearing of the headscarf by Muslim women in Turkey? The theoretical framework applied to this study explores Johan Galtung’s different forms of violence: structural and cultural violence. READ MORE

  4. 3. Is Religion a Dividing Force? A mixed methods approach to the experiences of religious Muslims in the secular society of Sweden

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Global Studies

    Author : Lisa Christina Kirschbaum; [2018]
    Keywords : Religion; Sweden; immigration; Muslims; integration; religious freedom; mixed methods; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The idea that increasing immigration will lead to a growing Muslim presence in Western Europe and that this in turn stands in contrast to the secularity of these states frames the context of this study. Therefore, this thesis explores the experiences of religious Muslims in the secular Swedish society. READ MORE

  5. 4. Student Activism for Socio-Political Change: Constructing a Secular Habitus in the American University of Beirut

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för Mellanösternstudier

    Author : Sofija Barakate; [2016]
    Keywords : secularism; Lebanon; AUB; student activism; sectarianism; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the activism of AUB students for social and political change promoting secularism on campus and in the Lebanese society and politics. It draws from 17 interviews, a focus group and observations during four months of fieldwork. READ MORE

  6. 5. Teaching About Religion in a Post-Soviet State : An Examination of Textbooks in Kazakhstan's Upper Secondary School System

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Religionshistoria

    Author : Henrik Ohlsson; [2014]
    Keywords : Religion in Central Asia; official ideology; secular; post-secular; passive secularity; assertive secularity; separationism; accomodationism;

    Abstract : The search for new identity factors and shared values in the post-Soviet region has given rise to a process of reevaluation of the role of religion in society. Not least the Central Asian countries are struggling with these issues in their nation building processes. READ MORE