Essays about: "new spirituality"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 essays containing the words new spirituality.

1. 1. Tänk på döden : en undersökning av minneslunden som helande plats i möte med den multifunktionella kyrkogården

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

   Author : Ellen Sperr; [2023]
   Keywords : minneslund; kyrkogård; gestaltning; multifunktionalitet;

   Abstract : During the last couple of years there has been articles in the news about people, around Sweden, using our cemeteries for recreational purposes. There have been people drinking beer, sledding and having picnic and cities that have defined cemeteries as green areas to be able to fulfil the environmental goals in a new neighbourhood. READ MORE

3. 2. Talking Communities : Sámi Trail of Tears as a Model of Habitus-Based Reconciliation

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Janne Sirniö; [2023]
   Keywords : Truth Commissioning; Reconciliation; Forceful Displacement; Indigeneity; Slow Violence; Green Transition; Verdi System; Slow Tourism; Theory of Communicative Action;

   Abstract : This conflict study in Theology investigates reconciliation possibilities in indigenous lands in northern Sweden to be discussed through the Sámi Trail of Tears Walking Trail – a real-life innovation project. The historical material is based on the depiction of forcefully dislocated Sámis and the now polarized situation where local indigenous groups risk new conflicts partly with each other, partly with extractive industries, motorized tourism, and the majority’s society. READ MORE

4. 3. The Challenges of Goenka’s Vipassana : How Participants of the Ten-Day Course Make Sense of the Intense Internal Experiences Induced by Vipassana Meditation

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Religionshistoria och religionsbeteendevetenskap

   Author : Jan Wallentin; [2023]
   Keywords : Goenka; dhamma; Vipassana; meditation; meditation retreats; ten-day course; energe-like somatic experiences ELSE ; adverse experiences; anomalous experiences; subtle energy; Theravada Buddhism; modern Buddhism; body psychotherapy; secular spirituality; new spirituality; phenomenography; Philosophy and Religion;

   Abstract : In this study, 28 individuals were interviewed about their experiences and interpretations of S. N. Goenka’s ten-day Vipassana course, which involves intense meditation practices. READ MORE

5. 4. 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

6. 5. DRÖMDAGEN

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Industridesign

   Author : Alexander Ekholm; [2021]
   Keywords : Arts and Architecture; Technology and Engineering;

   Abstract : Humans are irrational. What happens when you disregard this fact? When we let only logic and reason be acceptable ways of life? Science is the reason behind most of our advances as a human race, and with this, it has pushed aside spirituality and, on a certain level, the room for fantasy and thought. READ MORE