Essays about: "freedom of religion"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 59 essays containing the words freedom of religion.
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16. Collaboration of interreligious workers and the perception of help seekers in interreligious organizations
University essay from Ersta Sköndal Bräcke högskola/Institutionen för socialvetenskapAbstract : “if we do not meet with people from another faith or with another knowledge then we will not be able to integrate with each other. The purpose is to be ourselves, not to change one another but to understand one another…” (No. READ MORE
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17. Rights, Religion and Atrocity Prevention - An explorative field study of the involvement of religious leaders in Uganda
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studierAbstract : This study examines the nexus of human rights, atrocity prevention and the involvement of religious leaders in Uganda. States hold legal responsibility for preventing atrocity crimes, but influential nonstate actors also have a role in minimizing risks of mass atrocity crimes. READ MORE
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18. Conditional Freedom: Identifying How Orientalism Informs Structural and Cultural Violence Towards Muslim Women in Turkey
University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : This thesis aims to point out the ways in which Muslim women who wear the headscarf are subject to cultural and structural violence, and to discuss how that violence is informed by Orientalism. The study answers the following question: How does Orientalism inform structural and cultural violence against the wearing of the headscarf by Muslim women in Turkey? The theoretical framework applied to this study explores Johan Galtung’s different forms of violence: structural and cultural violence. READ MORE
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19. RELIGIOUS AMBIVALENCE AND THE PROBLEM OF AGENCY : A Qualitative Study on Cognitive Dissonance among Mormon Feminists
University essay from Umeå universitet/Sociologiska institutionenAbstract : The scholarly field of traditionally religious women has during the last decade gone from a so called “paradox-approach” which identifies women’s agency with the capacity of acting autonomously – something most clearly demonstrated through acts of resistance – to a nonparadox approach defining agency as a continuum encompassing both resistance to and compliance with traditionally religious structures. While the latter approach assumes that women’s participation in traditional religions is not necessarily a paradox – mainly because some women value religious submission – this thesis argues that the paradox of women and religion becomes essential when speaking about religious feminism. READ MORE
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20. "A Jerusalemite Armenian. That's a thing of its own" : A Case Study about Identity, Agency and Structure among Armenian women
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis is an analyses of interviews and observations in the Armenian quarter of Jerusalem. It explores the identity and agency of twelve women in a patriarchal context. A context furthermore marked by religion and several conflicts. The aim is to increase knowledge about this unique environment. READ MORE
