Essays about: "christianity"
Showing result 31 - 35 of 102 essays containing the word christianity.
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31. Footwashing a Syriac Orthodox liturgical setting : A comparative study between the Syriac orthodox rite and the Father Bar Salibi
University essay from Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm/Avdelningen för östkyrkliga studierAbstract : In this thesis one can see footwashing from different perspectives even though the focus is from a liturgical and patristic perspective. Using the liturgical dialectical method, I put the liturgical text in a dialectical relationship with the wider patristic context. Footwashing in this thesis is approached from four angles. READ MORE
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32. The Core-based Worldview model
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenAbstract : This essay starts at the proposition that there is not yet a satisfying way to differentiate between different worldviews. Although many attempts have been made, they fail in ways that are difficult to pinpoint. READ MORE
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33. WAR AND FAITH - COPING STRATEGIES AMONG CHRISTIANS SURVIVING ISIS IN NORTHERN IRAQ
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenAbstract : During the last decades, the Christian population of Iraq is estimated to have decreased from about 1.5 million people to about 120,000. READ MORE
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34. An Automated Digital Analysis of Depictions of Child Maltreatment in Ancient Roman Writings
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenAbstract : Historians, mostly engaging with written evidence, have argued that the Christianisation of the Roman Empire resulted in changes in both attitudes and behaviour towards children, resulting in a decrease in their maltreatment by society. I begin with a working hypothesis that this attitude-change was real and resulted in a reduction in the maltreatment of children; and that this reduction in maltreatment is evident in the literature. READ MORE
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35. Race and Religion : The Construction of Race in a Pro-Nazi Christian Association in Interwar Sweden
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenAbstract : The aim of this thesis is to scrutinize how Sveriges Religiösa Reformförbund (Swedish Association of Religious Reform), a pro-Nazi Christian association in interwar Sweden, constructed the concept of race during the years 1929–1940. Using hermeneutic content analysis and a theoretical approach based on “biopolitics” and “political theology,” I examine the construction during three identified periods: 1929–1933, 1934–1937, 1938–1940. READ MORE
