Essays about: "counter-culture"

Found 4 essays containing the word counter-culture.

  1. 1. Black Metal in Turkey: Islamic Semiotics and Subcultural Resistance

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap

    Author : Douglas Mattsson; [2018]
    Keywords : black metal; extreme metal; metal; subculture; Turkey; Islam; counter-culture; identity; resistance; social semiotics; Philosophy and Religion;

    Abstract : The most extreme subgenre of metal, black metal, is famous for its anti-Christian and Satanic aesthetics. Violent incidents connected to the formation of the Norwegian black metal scene in the early 1990s, such as Church-burnings, murders, and arsons, would make the genre notorious and solidify the perception that its fans and musicians reject religion. READ MORE

  3. 2. Christian – Vaishnava Dialogue in the US : An action-research minor field study

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för historia och samtidsstudier

    Author : John Doherty; [2015]
    Keywords : Christian predominance; Vaishnavism; ISKCON legitimacy; ecumenical; interfaith dialogue; boundary; exclusivism; inclusivism; pluralism; typology; religious diversity; faith religion religious;

    Abstract : Religious diversity is the inevitable corollary of globalization and with it comes the challenge and opportunities of greatly increased interaction with religious Others. The United States was founded on an Anglo-Saxon Protestant basis but has now become "the world’s most religiously diverse nation" according to one Harvard religious studies scholar. READ MORE

  4. 3. Anarconomy – A study of the culture of counterculture

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Betina Skelbæk Nielsen; Lasse Lambertsen; [2012]
    Keywords : Anarconomy; culture; open source; counterculture; netnography; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : As contemporary literature on countercultures often have a onesided focus on being against other cultures, we set out to explore the culture of countercultures. Through our literature review, the theoretical framework and the empirical data, we have formed a new perspective on what counter culture is and what it means to belong to a counter culture. READ MORE

  5. 4. Hierarchy through Anarchy : performing punk and the outline to a theory of scene

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Erik Hannerz; [2004]
    Keywords : punkare; livsstilar; subkulturer; punk culture; scene; properties; performance; subculture; crust; stratification; social construction; Sociology; Sociologi; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study is to analyze and theorize punk and to investigate how punk is being performed. But also to counter previous descriptions of punk as a subculture, counter-culture or field and present the outline to a theory of scene. READ MORE