Essays about: "Theology essays"

Found 2 essays containing the words Theology essays.

1. 1. The Sultanate of Oman as a Venue for Inter-faith Dialogue and Intercultural Immersion : A Case-Study on Christian Semester Abroad Students living in a Muslim Context

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Matias Uusisilta; [2019]
   Keywords : interfaith dialogue; religious dialogue; dialogue; transformative learning; Islam; Christianity; Muslim-Christian dialogue; OMan;

   Abstract : This paper is a case-study on a group of American students, who spent a four- month period in Oman on a semester abroad program hosted by Al Amana Cen- tre. This paper examines the changes that have occurred in the students concep- tual thinking, their attitudes towards Muslims, Arabs and Islam and their personal theology, and identifies causes of those changes. READ MORE

3. 2. Law, Biopolitics, and the Problem of Historical Specificity : An Analysis of the Juridical Paradigm of Aesthetic Genre between 1750 and 1850

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

   Author : Ludwig Schmitz; [2015]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : Abstract Within the conceptual framework of biopolitics and political theology, the author draws from the work of Foucault, Agamben, Derrida, Benjamin, and Schmitt to discuss the historical and theoretical conditions for an aesthetic theory structured according to a legal logic. The thesis discusses the two contrary positions of Foucault and Derrida on the historical specificity of madness, in order to argue that the same theoretical and methodological impasse emerges in subsequent discussions of biopolitics and the ontology of law. READ MORE