Essays about: "religious expressions"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 27 essays containing the words religious expressions.

  1. 21. Islamophobia – Features of Islamophobia and Strategies against it

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Linda Edvardsson; [2009]
    Keywords : Islamophobia bic; Islam; Muslim; Integration; Religion; Ethnic Relations;

    Abstract : Due to increased immigration and Muslim presence in multicultural societies, concepts like Islamophobia become rooted and are used to explain acts by non-Muslims against Muslim Diasporas. Islamophobia comes alive from a spectrum of expressions where traditional West-Christian views and the Occident versus the Orient come to surface. READ MORE

  3. 22. Framtidens begravningsplatser : en historisk tillbakablick, dagssituationen och visioner för framtidens gestaltningsuttryck

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Karin Sidén Lannergård; [2008]
    Keywords : kyrkogård; framtida begravningsplatser; begravningsplats; kyrkogårdshistora; gravskick; kremation; promession; ekologisk begravning; begravningshus; askgravlund;

    Abstract : The purpose of this article is partly to find out how the burial grounds are used today and the needs of its visitors, but also to develop the character and expression of future burial grounds. My suggestions focus on burial grounds without religious attributes; something that, according to the burial law (Begravningslagen, 1990:1144), the manager of the burial ground is ordered to obey. READ MORE

  4. 23. Euphemism: Sweet Talking or Deception?

    University essay from Engelska

    Author : Omar Abu Hammad; [2007]
    Keywords : Linguistics;

    Abstract : The aim of this paper is to shed light on euphemism in two different senses: sweet talking and deception. I shall treat euphemism from two different perspectives: the usual use of euphemism, sweet talking, in which it is used to maintain one's face and the orthophemistic sense, deception, where 'torture' is referred to as "enhanced interrogation techniques". READ MORE

  5. 24. Leyla v. Europe? - Turkish Secularism and Freedom of Religious Expression in the ECtHR

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Adam Göransson; [2007]
    Keywords : Processrätt; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : A number of 'freedom of religion v. secular policies' cases in the European Court of Human Rights (and, before 1998, the European Commission of Human Rights) emanating from Turkey suggest that the Court endorses Turkish secular policies at the expense of Turkish Muslims' human rights. READ MORE

  6. 25. The Struggle for Purity : Naqshbandi-Haqqani Sufism in Eastern London

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap

    Author : Simon Stjernholm; [2006]
    Keywords : islam; sufism; Naqshbandi-Haqqani; London; social movements; group identity; religion and sociology; sociala rörelser; gruppidentitet; religionssociologi; Sociology; Sociologi; Philosophy and Religion; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The Naqshbandi-Haqqani Sufi order has spread throughout the world extensively since it was founded in 1973 by its Sheikh Muhammad Nazim Adil al-Haqqani. The present thesis analyses one local branch of that order in Eastern London within a theoretical framework of New Social Movements, as formulated by the Italian sociologist Alberto Melucci. READ MORE