Essays about: "religious history"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 111 essays containing the words religious history.

1. 11. Roots of Institutional Transformation: Hamburg in the late 16th and early 17th centuries

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Lorenzo Siemann; [2023]
   Keywords : Hamburg; early modern; merchants; institutions; institutional development; Hanse; Hanseatic League; Business and Economics; History and Archaeology; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This study examines the beginnings of Hamburg’s institutional transformation from a predominantly Hanseatic-style city to a Northern European financial and economic center. Existing literature has repeatedly pointed out the importance of migrants in the diffusion of economic institutions in the early modern period. READ MORE

3. 12. From Clonas to Limenius : A diachronic investigation of the prosodion-genre

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

   Author : Jonathan Söderlund; [2023]
   Keywords : prosodia; genres; style; categorization; Limenius; prosodia; genrer; stil; kategorisering; Limenios;

   Abstract : This study aims to define stylistic aspects of the prosodion-genre from the 7th–2nd century BCE, as well as the dominant features in terms of the genre’s categorization, and to determine howand why these changed over time and the role Hellenistic scholars played in this development. The study incorporates material from the genre’s origins until the performance of Limenius’ Paean and Prosodion, as well as relevant scholia. READ MORE

4. 13. Den gudomliga hästen? Hästen i sydskandinavien under bronsåldern

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Arkeologi

   Author : Madeleine Horvath; [2023]
   Keywords : imaging; bronze-age; petroglyphs; horse-gear; iconography; cosmology; status.; History and Archaeology;

   Abstract : This essay is an analysis of the horse during the scandinavian bronze age, more specifically southern scandinavia with a breaking point at circa Gothenburg. The questions regard whether or not the horse was a high status animal during older to younger bronze age in the region and whether or not we can argue this based on rock carvings, horse gear and other pictorial renderings where the horse is present. READ MORE

5. 14. The Conversion of Indigenous Peoples to Pentecostalism in Times of Decolonization and its Potential Consequences on Identity Perception : A narrative research study in Bolivia

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Fanny Hagberg; [2023]
   Keywords : Indigenous; religion; Bolivia; La Paz; Quellani; Copacabana; Cochabamba; Decolonization; Pentecostalism; Catholicism; conversion; syncretism; identity perception; narrative analysis. ;

   Abstract : The research was carried out to show the potential consequences of the conversion of indigenous peoples in Bolivia to Pentecostalism. The research was based on a research conducted by Canessa in 2000 on two movements already taking place at the time of his research, the rise of Indigeonus recognition in society and the rise of Pentecostalism. READ MORE

6. 15. From Dawn to Dusk: studying the origin of the Islamic fivefold daily liturgy in the Qur’ān

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap

   Author : Davide de Francesco; [2023]
   Keywords : Islam; prayer; Qur anic studies; Qur anic exegeses; Christianity; Judaism; Philosophy and Religion;

   Abstract : Despite prayer being one of the most central tenets of Islam, this subject has drawn the attention of surprisingly little scholarship, especially when it comes to studying its origin against pre-Islamic analogues. Thus, this thesis proposes a reconstruction of the very early history of the fivefold daily Islamic liturgy, attempting also to weigh the extent of the influence that pre-Islamic religions, primarily Middle Eastern Christianity and Judaism, might have had in its development. READ MORE