Essays about: "sacred history"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 15 essays containing the words sacred history.

  1. 1. The Lack of Love : The Sacred and the Suffering Experiences of Female Involuntary Celibates

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Maria Brix Rasmussen; [2023]
    Keywords : femcel; Forever Alone Women; FAW; incel; involuntary celibacy; love; online environment; online community; lookism; objectively ugliness; Reddit; Discord; phenomenology; orientation; ethnology; ethnography;

    Abstract : This ethnographic study investigates the reality of female involuntary celibates. To understand how the identification of being a female involuntary celibate has developed online in a shared online environment, I explore the experiences from women who identify as femcels and women who identity as forever alone women. READ MORE

  3. 2. Two Sides of the Same Coin : A Comparative Study of Salafi Jihadi and White Nationalist use of History of Religion in Propaganda

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Religionshistoria

    Author : Christian Haag; [2020]
    Keywords : Comparative propaganda; ISIS; Tarrant; sacred history; Dabiq; The Great Replacement;

    Abstract : This master’s thesis is a comparative propaganda analysis that studies the use of history with a religion dimension, similarities and framing of propaganda messages in the Islamic States propaganda magazine Dabiq and Brenton Tarrant’s manifesto The Great Replacement. The propaganda has been analysed with Jowett and O’Donnell’s propaganda model, combined with Jan Assmann’s theories about cultural memory, historia sacra and cultural semantics. READ MORE

  4. 3. SACRED ILLUMINATION: The connection between the built form and the history of the modern Swedish Church

    University essay from KTH/Ljusdesign

    Author : STYLIANI LEIVADIOTI; [2020]
    Keywords : sacred illumination; meaning of light; sacred spaces; light and built form; light and architecture;

    Abstract : The use of light has always been a vehicle of symbolic meaning and spiritual experience in religious spaces. Depending on culture and religion this use differs, but in any case, the connection between the built form, the architecture and the history makes the relationship with light a compelling issue that is worth exploring. READ MORE

  5. 4. Sacred Resistance : Exploring the Roles of Religious Organizations in the Refugee Movement “Lampedusa in Hamburg” 2013-2014

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Religionsvetenskap

    Author : Vera Ericson von Bahr; [2020]
    Keywords : Lampedusa in Hamburg; St. Pauli; Religion and migration; secularization; religious organizations; securitization of migration; sacred squatting;

    Abstract : This study explores the roles of religious organizations in the refugee movement “Lampedusa in Hamburg”, in Hamburg, Germany during 2013 and 2014. “Lampedusa in Hamburg” consisted of approximately 300 refugees who had come from Libya, and decided to fight for their right to stay in Germany. READ MORE

  6. 5. The naturalization of the urban and corporate logic : how the sacred waters of Lund, Sweden, progressed into a toxic sludge hole

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Mikael Lövgren; [2020]
    Keywords : Commons; Sacred waters; Enclosure; Lund University; Rausing dynasty; Landfill workers of Lund; Moral economies; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In this study a landscape is interpreted from an analytical and binary theoretical framework in order to contrast and extract different social formations that have been conducive to its creation. The landscape in question is a contemporary park found in Lund, Sweden, in the province of Skåne. READ MORE