Essays about: "religious revival"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words religious revival.

  1. 1. Role of Religion in Global Politics - The case of France and Turkey

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Sara Stancevic; [2022]
    Keywords : Religion; Ontological security; Secularism; Politics; France; Turkey; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Despite the fact that a great majority of experts predicted that religion would lose its power and influence, we are currently experiencing a worldwide revival of religious sentiments. The purpose of this study is to investigate how religion, politics, and security impact identity construction in France and Turkey. READ MORE

  3. 2. How attachment facilitates Christian religiosity and the importance of faith : A study among believers within the Læstadianism revival movement

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Psykologiska institutionen

    Author : Jörgen Lehmivaara; [2021]
    Keywords : Attachment; Religion; Læstadianism revival movement; Congregation; Religious support.;

    Abstract : The present questionnaire study examined attachment-religion connections among 175 believers from Christian congregations within the Læstadianism revival movement in Sweden and Finland. Results generally supported the study’s hypotheses, thus partly replicated, and extended previous research. READ MORE

  4. 3. 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

  5. 4. Transformative Islamic Ecology - Beliefs and Practices of Muslims for Sustainable Agriculture and Permaculture

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Inga Viola Härmälä; [2014]
    Keywords : Islamic ecology; environmental activism; permaculture; sustainable agriculture; Islamic activism; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : A growing number of environmental movements recognize the need for changing our spiritual approach to the environment, while we simultaneously witness a revival and development of ecotheologies and religiously motivated environmental initiatives. Islamic theological discourse on ecological issues is quite well studied, but less attention has been directed to how Islamic ecology has been translated into activism and practical ecology. READ MORE

  6. 5. Shinto-Buddhism Syncretism - A historical peculiarity or a renewed spiritual paradigm?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Fredrik Westman; [2013]
    Keywords : Critical discourse analysis; Japan; Shinto; Japanese Buddhism; Shinto-Buddhism syncretism; shinbutsu-shuugou; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The long process of syncretization between Shinto and Buddhism has defined much of Japan's philosophical and theological history. This process was only interrupted with the Meiji Restoration, following which the Meiji government enforced an ideology of the two religions being completely separate as part of its State Shinto system. READ MORE