Essays about: "priest"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 essays containing the word priest.

1. 1. Tracing afterlife : A comparative study of visionary motifs in the Apocalypse of Paul, near-death experiences and Karl Rahner’s theology of death and dying

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

   Author : Fredrik Sterner; [2023]
   Keywords : The Apocalypse of Paul; Near-death experience; Karl Rahner; eschatology; apocalypse; To die is gain; Johan-Christoff Hampe;

   Abstract : This essay aims to explore the tradition of visionary experience as expressed through the 4th century apocryphal text The Apocalypse of Paul. Emerging motifs from The Apocalypse of Paul is studied alongside those from the 1979 study on near-death experience, To die is gain, by German Lutheran priest Johann Christoph Hampe. READ MORE

3. 2. Father Michael’s Gangsters: An Ethnography of Musical Community After Gang Life

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Genni Guglielmetti; [2023]
   Keywords : priest; religion; music; gang members; ethnography; interpretivism;

   Abstract : This qualitative exploratory case study covers Lebanon’s conflicted history that has left itspeople with unfulfilling history education. The purpose was to explore potential stakeholdersand possible factors to motivate participation in Lebanon’s process towards a formal historyeducation. READ MORE

4. 3. “Unking and Unpriest the Earth!” : Conspiracy Theory, the Illuminati and Revolutionary Freemasonry in the Writings of the abbé Barruel and Nicolas Bonneville

   University essay from Södertörns högskola/Religionsvetenskap

   Author : Linnea Björnegren; [2022]
   Keywords : Augustin Barruel; Nicolas Bonneville; Illuminati; Freemasonry; Jesuits; French Revolution; Conspiracy theory; conspiracism; secret societies;

   Abstract : This thesis proposes an explanation for origin of conspiracy theories about the French Revolution. Despite being unfounded, the conspiracy theory blaming the Illuminati for the Revolution became widespread because it appeared to be supported by evidence. The primary source material consists of texts produced by two contemporaries. READ MORE

5. 4. From Undertaker to Funeral Director: A Social Change in Cyprus

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Anastasia Roumpeka; [2022]
   Keywords : Death; Social Change; Technology; Funeral Director; Cyprus; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : How often do we think of our own death? And how often do we stop and think of the changes surrounding death that affect our lives? Thanatology, the study of death and dying, examines death from different perspectives. Following a thanatological path, this research aimed to explore the relationship between death and technology in terms of social change, specifically in the Republic of Cyprus. READ MORE

6. 5. The Apostle to the Intelligentsia : Father Alexander Men’ and the Rediscovery of the Russian Silver Age

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

   Author : Robert Lindsay; [2021]
   Keywords : religion; Russian Orthodox Church; Alexander Men’; Vladimir Solovyov; Nikolai Berdyaev; Nadezhda Mandelstam; Silver Age; philosophy;

   Abstract : This thesis seeks to shed light on a remarkable figure in Russian history, Father Alexander Men’. How and why did Men’ identify Vladimir Solovyov, Nikolai Berdyaev, and other pre-revolutionary cultural figures as representatives of authentic Russian religious culture? Why would a popular Russian Orthodox priest present the writings of mystics, anarchists, and the Silver Age counterculture as the antidote for seventy years of Soviet materialism? What role did Judaism and the Russo-Jewish intellectual tradition have on Men’s identifications as an Orthodox priest? I use a semiotic theory of culture following Yuri Lotman and the Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School as a framework to analyze the historical development of Orthodox personalism. READ MORE