Essays about: "role of religion"

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  1. 16. Representation Grounds for the Muslim Brotherhood with Focus on Muslim Brotherhood in Syria

    University essay from Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm/Avdelningen för östkyrkliga studier

    Author : Mohamad Obeid; [2023]
    Keywords : Muslim Brotherhood in Syria; Representation; Ideology; Democracy; Domestic and International Relations;

    Abstract : The relationship between religion and politics is a controversial issue. It is one of the most difficult issues in many regions of the world. READ MORE

  3. 17. “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. 18. When Religious, Civil, and National Representations Clash : A Decolonial View on Georgian Muslims as Internal Others

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Avdelningen för migration, etnicitet och samhälle (REMESO)

    Author : Gvantsa Gatenadze; [2023]
    Keywords : Adjara; Adjarian Muslim; Decolonial Approach; Decoloniality; Ethnicization of Religion; Georgia; Soviet Colonialism; Soviet Modernity.;

    Abstract : The othering and exclusion of religious minority groups in Georgia is often understood through the prism of religious nationalism, which is argued to have developed as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the respective need to fill up the leftover systemic void. Ethno-national and religious identity markers were used to create the image of true, pre-Soviet Georgian – Christian, ethnically Georgian group. READ MORE

  5. 19. Tensions between Religion and Feminism in Muslim Communities in Mallorca : A Qualitative Analysis of Women’s Lived Experiences

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

    Author : Lola Abrahams; [2023]
    Keywords : Women in Islam; Islamic Feminism; Secular Feminism; Gender Roles;

    Abstract : This thesis delves into the relationship between religion and feminism in the context of Muslim women residing in Mallorca. The study conducts a qualitative analysis to evaluate the impact of defined gender roles on their everyday experiences. READ MORE

  6. 20. Education and Assimilation of Turkish Immigrants in Germany

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Tianqi Liu; [2023]
    Keywords : Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The thesis reviews research about assimilation and education of Turkish immigrants in Germany. The thesis describes Human Capital theory, multiculture and cultural hegemony and segmented assimilation model. READ MORE