Essays about: "religious expressions"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 27 essays containing the words religious expressions.

  1. 11. Framing "Gay Propaganda": The Orthodox Church and Morality Policy in Russia

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Caroline Hill; [2017]
    Keywords : Russian Orthodox Church; framing; morality policy; content analysis; LGBT; religion; propaganda;

    Abstract : The adoption of laws in the Russian Federation prohibiting propaganda of homosexuality and “non-traditional sexual relationships” to minors at the regional and federal levels, respectively, has raised questions regarding the role of the Russian Orthodox Church in politics. This project shall evaluate public statements by clerics and other figures serving in the Orthodox Church from 2011 through 2013, as well as interviews conducted with clerics of the Moscow Patriarchate in order to analyze the strategies employed when arguing against public expressions of homosexuality. READ MORE

  3. 12. Social Representations of Taukuka: A social knowledge approach to the preservation of Bellonese intangible cultural heritage

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : David Leeming; [2016]
    Keywords : Communication; Social representations; Pacific Islands; ComDev; Cultural heritage; Tattoo; Polynesia; Bellona; Oceania; Culture policy; Cultural education;

    Abstract : Solomon Islands along with other Pacific Islands nations is adopting legislation designed to protect traditional knowledge and expressions of culture from misappropriation, attrition and loss of economic opportunity for owners. These developments require the state to engage across a highly pluralistic customary and social landscape. READ MORE

  4. 13. Differences in the ascetic behaviour in the Sahih al-Bukhari and the synoptic gospels through the stories related to Muhammad and Jesus

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap

    Author : Rasuole Baleisaite; [2014]
    Keywords : Asceticism; synoptic gospels; hadith; gospel; Sahih al-Bukhari; Jesus; Muhammad; Philosophy and Religion;

    Abstract : Asceticism is a widely discussed topic. The aim of the thesis is to compare two textual blocks – the Sahih al-Bukhari and the Synoptic Gospels - from two different religious traditions and deduce the most vivid particularities of the respective visions of asceticism, situating the findings in context of the related academic scholarship. READ MORE

  5. 14. With Cold Foreign Eyes? Existential Meaning in Truth vs. Mystery in Religion and Art

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap

    Author : Linus Edenwall; [2014]
    Keywords : meaning; mystery; mysticism; sensuousness; immediacy; ineffability; truth; objectivity; existentialism; science; art; concepts; conceptualization; Philosophy and Religion;

    Abstract : This essay explores two approaches to finding existential meaning in religion: either by an approach advocating feelings of mystery and sensuous immediacy, thus justifying an ineffability of mysterious experiences, or by an approach which advocates truth and objectivity. Although the latter approach views truth in existential terms (“existential truth”) it can be criticised for diminishing the “magic” of religion much in the same way science does in its pursuit of material truth. READ MORE

  6. 15. Att förnimma det vilda

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

    Author : Agnes Nordin; [2014]
    Keywords : det vilda; landskapsarkitektur; upplevelser i det vilda; det vilda i staden;

    Abstract : Att förnimma det vilda utforskar det vilda som fenomen, hur det konstitueras, upplevs och uttrycks i ett urbant sammanhang. Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka landskapsarkitekturens möjligheter att skapa goda - vilda - livsrum där det vilda låter sig förnimmas. READ MORE