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1. 1. Labyrinth routes around the Middle Age Baltic Sea

   University essay from

   Author : Christina Fagerström; [2023-08-17]
   Keywords : The labyrinth-symbol; labyrinth monuments; Trojaborg; Jerusalem; Middle Age Catholic Europe; pilgrimages; the Baltic Sea; the Northern crusades; navigatio; mission; the mendicant friars; the Fourth Lateran Church Council; fish markets;

   Abstract : Stone labyrinths are archaeological monuments found predominantly in the Nordic countries around the Baltic Sea, some 500 specimens are noted in Sweden and Finland. The abundance of smaller stones has provided the building material for lasting monuments around the Baltic Sea, the Swedish west coast and Norway, Iceland, the Scilly islands in England, the Barents Sea and the White Sea’s shores and rivers. READ MORE

3. 2. “It’s like my blood, like my oxygen” : Life in a Kimbanguist community in Stockholm

   University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

   Author : Marco Tenti; [2023]
   Keywords : Kimbanguism – Community – Religion – Transnationalism - Ritual;

   Abstract : The aim of this work is to discuss the religious life of the Kimbanguist community in Stockholm; more specifically, it analyses the ways in which religion (in particular Kimbanguism) allows the members of a small religious community, originated by migration, to maintain sense of belonging and to give meaning to their experiences. In order to do this, I focus on the concept of community to define the ways in which a group of people, embedded in a much wider social field, can be defined with this analytical term: community emerges as a social group whose members share a specific inventory of symbols; symbols include representations and narratives, but also practices, artifacts and images. READ MORE

4. 3. The Sound of Silence : Experiencing the memory grove as a site of commemoration

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

   Author : Jonathan Lindfeldt; [2022]
   Keywords : memory grove [in Swedish: minneslund]; post-mortem relations; absence presence; post-mortem rituals;

   Abstract : The memory grove [in Swedish: minneslund] is becoming an increasingly popular custom of burial in Sweden. Unlike traditional Swedish burial customs, the memory grove is a collective and anonymous gravesite, unmooring the obligation and cost of traditional grave maintenance. READ MORE

5. 4. The ban of religious symbols in primary and secondary schools in France : A short analysis of its compatibility with Pettit’s theory of liberty as non-domination

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Filosofiska institutionen

   Author : Fabio Loreggia; [2018]
   Keywords : Secularism; non-domination; liberty; religion; hijab; religious symbols; Philip Pettit; school; education; Laïcité; religion; non-domination; voile; liberté; symboles religieux; Philip Pettit; école; éducation;

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6. 5. Children's Representations of Death : A Thematic and Visual Discourse Analysis of Children's Drawings in a Mexican Primary School

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Barn

   Author : Dulce Karenina Téllez Duval; [2018]
   Keywords : children’s drawings; representations of death; Mexico; thematic analysis; visual discourse analysis;

   Abstract : This study focuses on analysing Mexican children’s representations of death inasmuch as children are perceived as social actors that have an active role in constructing and giving meaning to social reality. The importance of analysing children’s representations about death is that it provides an opportunity to know how children give meaning to a notion that intersects with personal experiences, emotions, religious beliefs, and a sociocultural context. READ MORE