Essays about: "shrine"

Found 5 essays containing the word shrine.

  1. 1. The Guardian Forest : sacred trees and ceremonial forestry in Japan

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Forest Ecology and Management

    Author : Oscar Nilzén; [2021]
    Keywords : sacred forests; shrine; Japan; religion; forest management;

    Abstract : Forests have played a major role in the development of human society across the world. It is therefore no surprise that a natural resource which is such an integral part of human life gave rise to religious beliefs, superstition and notions of the supernatural in connection to trees. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Shrines of Gebel el-Silsila : and their function

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

    Author : Alexandra Boender; [2018]
    Keywords : Gebel el-Silsila; shrines; cenotaphs; Qasr Ibrim; function; religion; helgedom; kenotaf; funktion; Gebel el-Silsila; Qasr Ibrim; religiös; funktion;

    Abstract : In 1963 came Ricardo Caminos to the conclusion that the shrines of Gebel el-Silsila functioned as cenotaphs. However, his views have never been reassessed by contemporary Egyptologists, which has led to the shrines still being interpreted as cenotaphs today. READ MORE

  4. 3. Home of the Japanese Heart : Socio-historical Contextualization of Gender Politics, Commodity Animism and Super State-Nationalism of Japanese Modernity through the Indigenous Faith

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Juno Crown; [2018]
    Keywords : Shrine Maidens; Miko; Shinto; Acculturation; Super State-Nationalism; Ethnic Religion; Monoethnicity; Gender Politics; Hegemonic Femininity; Commodity Animism; Uniform Fetishsm; Rupture of Modernity.;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to contextualize gender politics, nationalism, and animism as interconnected cultural patterns reflecting 19th century acculturation and post-WWII national reconstruction of Japan. In particular, state-nationalism, hegemonic femininity, commodity animism, uniform fetishsm, and power structure are analyzed through the symbolisms and discourse of the Japanese indigenous faith: Shinto, female practitioners, and followers. READ MORE

  5. 4. From Slave Wife of the Gods to " ke te pam tem eng". Trokosi seen through the Eyes of the Participants

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Lärarutbildningen (LUT)

    Author : Sofia Wiking; [2009]
    Keywords : Human rights; women’s rights; feminism; post colonial feminism; religious education; human right’s education; Ghana; minor field study; religious cultural traditional practice;

    Abstract : AbstractThis final essay in religious studies at Malmö Lärarutbildningen (Teacher’s education) is a minor field study (MFS) carried out in Ghana about Trokosi. Trokosi is a tradition, system and practice where young girls are given to village shrine priests as sexual and domestic slaves, or "wives of the gods", in compensation for offenses allegedly committed by a member of the girl's family. READ MORE

  6. 5. Towards Becoming a "Normal Country". The History Issue and Sino-Japanese Relations in the Koizumi Era

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

    Author : Kamila Szczepanska; [2007]
    Keywords : normal country ; history issue; state-centred patriotism in Japan; Koizumi Junichirô; Yasukuni Shrine; Sino-Japanese relations; Social sciences; Samhällsvetenskaper; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The presented thesis was devoted to exploring how the problems stemming from the unsettled wartime past between the People's Republic of China and Japan influence the latter's effort to become a "normal country". It was a nonexperimental study based mainly on secondary sources and enriched with the findings from qualitative semistructured interviews. READ MORE