Essays about: "embodied religious practice"

Found 3 essays containing the words embodied religious practice.

1. 1. “God Lives in Peru Today” : The israelita religious movement and the transmission of faith across digital and transnational networks

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Nordiska Latinamerikainstitutet

   Author : Andrea Villa Franco; [2022]
   Keywords : AEMINPU; religious transmission; transnationalization; embodied religious practice; modernity; AEMINPU; transmission religieuse; transnationalisation; pratique religieuse; corporalité; modernité; AEMINPU; transmisión religiosa; transnacionalización; práctica religiosa; corporeidad; modernidad;

   Abstract : After emerging from the central Peruvian Andes in the 1950s, the israelita religious movement has expanded across Latin America and beyond, reaching the urban centers of the Global North. The growth of the Peruvian israelitas makes part of a regional trend that has transformed the Latin American religious field. READ MORE

3. 2. “God Speaks to Me Through the App” : A Digital Ethnographic Study of Religious Practices Through the YouVersion Bible App

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

   Author : Elizaveta Grozman; [2022]
   Keywords : digital religion; affect in religion; YouVersion Bible App;

   Abstract : The present thesis analyses the online religious practices of Christians through the mobile app YouVersion Bible. Particularly, it explores the ways in which Christians interact with sacred texts online and the phenomenon of a digital Bible. READ MORE

4. 3. Nikāḥ as precondition for paradise? Spiritual corporeality and al-Ghazālī’s theology of marriage in the Kitāb ādāb al-nikāḥ

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap

   Author : Mariette Frieda Anita Minnemann; [2021]
   Keywords : al-Ghazali marriage asceticism Medieval theology history of religion Islamic theology Soteriology cosmogony eschatology embodiment Sufism Sufi tasawwuf spiritual corporeality mysticism Ibn Arabi Islamic mysticism jihad body Ihya kitab nikah intercourse sex celibacy embodied resurrection din Medieval Islamic studies religious studies; Philosophy and Religion;

   Abstract : With the 11th century text Kitāb ādāb al-nikāḥ, the “Book on the Proper Conduct of Marriage”, the Islamic thinker al-Ghazālī (1056 –1111/447–504) replies to a contemporaneous debate within Sufi asceticism with a theology of nikāḥ. The text is part of his opus magnum, the “Renaissance of the Knowledge of dīn”, which aims at a renewal of Muslim piety and provides practical guidance to the male audience addressed. READ MORE