Essays about: "divinity"

Showing result 6 - 9 of 9 essays containing the word divinity.

  1. 6. The Faith and Actions of Greta Andrén, Missionary to the Jews of Vienna, 1938-1941

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Kyrko- och missionsstudier

    Author : Samuel Wenell; [2020]
    Keywords : Greta Andrén; Svenska Israelsmissionen; Microhistory; Mission History; Vienna; Holocaust; Deaconry; Carlo Ginzburg;

    Abstract : In this Master’s thesis, I conduct a micro-historical study of deaconess and missionary Greta Andrén (1909-1971) and her work for Svenska Israelsmissionen, the Swedish Israel Mission, in Vienna during the National Socialist occupation. By examining letters as well as select publications, I try to uncover her motives and how she found meaning in her work, and how this could be seen in relation to the origins of the Mission in the Swedish Low Church awakening and certain apocalypticviews on the Jews. READ MORE

  3. 7. In the Cave of Mysteries: Analyzing Ritual Space within the Roman Cult of Mithras through the examples of Santa Prisca, Walbrook, and Carrawburgh

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Antikens kultur och samhällsliv

    Author : Adam Norberg; [2016]
    Keywords : Mithras; ritual; mithraeum; space; practice; movement; presentation; Santa Prisca; Walbrook; Carrawburgh;

    Abstract : The Mysteries of Mithras, dedicated to the eponymous Persian divinity, was one of several mystery cults of the ancient world. It flourished during the second and third centuries CEthroughout the Roman Empire, but with special frequency in Italy and the frontier provinces along the Rhine and Danube. READ MORE

  4. 8. Miss Emily, Imaged as Goddess, in "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner

    University essay from Sektionen för humaniora (HUM)

    Author : Göran Eriksson; [2011]
    Keywords : A Rose for Emily; William Faulkner; Miss Emily; Role; Godess;

    Abstract : In my essay I will discuss the role of the main character, Miss Emily, in the short story "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner. The short story was written in 1930 and takes place in the small town of Jefferson, in the south of the USA. READ MORE

  5. 9. The Phantasmatic in romantic subjective experience and aesthetics

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Adrian Gerardo De Jong; [2010]
    Keywords : G.H. von Schubert; turn into the self; 19th century; Romanticism; Dresden; dream images; Caspar David Friedrich; phantasmatic; absence; Imagination; aesthetics; ichonography; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : The goal of this research is to asses the reach and characteristics of the Phantasmatic as a proposed concept, useful to understand fundamental aspects of the romantic subjective experience in artists, aesthetes and writers. This experiential level has been exemplified in artists that had been living or intermittently residing in Dresden during the first half of 19th century. READ MORE