Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion / Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion: Recent submissions
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American Dervish: Making Mevlevism in the United States of America
(2013-05-17)In the late 1970s, the Turkish Mevlevi Sufi sheikh Süleyman Dede arrived from Konya, Turkey, in the United States. There he initiated a number of individuals primarily belonging to American esoteric groups as sheikhs in ... -
Piety, Intimacy and Mobility: A Case Study of Charismatic Christianity in Present-Day Stockholm
(2013-01-30)The aim of this ethnographic study is to examine how affiliates of the multicultural charismatic Christian congregation New Life Church practice religiosity within the context of their personal daily lives, within the ... -
När livet tar rätt form: om människosyn i svenska hälsotidskrifter 1910-13 och 2009
(2012-12-17)Abstract When life gets the right shape: On anthropology in Swedish health magazines 1910-13 and 2009 This thesis describes and analyses anthropologies and understandings of health in Swedish health magazines 1910 ... -
Proba the Prophet. Studies in the Christian Virgilian Cento of Faltonia Betitia Proba
(2012-11-06)The present study aims to deepen the critical understanding of the fourth century poet Faltonia Betita Proba’s Cento and its reception, a text of considerable historical and cultural importance. Not only is it one of few ... -
Hendiadys in the Hebrew Bible. An Investigation of the Applications of the Term
(2012-05-10)It is evident that the term hendiadys, which is derived from the classical rhetorical tradition, has for hundreds of years been frequently applied to constructions and combinations of components in the Hebrew Bible. This ... -
Hjärtats härdar: Folkliv, folkmuseer och minnesmärken i Skandinavien, 1808–1907
(2012-05-10)This thesis deals with the new view of landscapes, buildings and artefacts as significant, memory-bearing structures that emerged in the nineteenth century. It examines the new memory-bearing visibility, i.e., the human-shaped ... -
Taha Husein, Dagarna. I översättning till svenska av Karl Vilhelm Zetterstéen
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On the Good Faith
(2012-04-25)Zoroastrianism, a religion originating in the ancient East and having survived to the present day, is currently being practiced on a very small scale throughout the whole world. Since the early 1990s there has been a ... -
Svensk bröllopsdiktning under 1600- och 1700-talen. Renässansrepertoarernas framväxt, blomstring och tillbakagång
(LIR.skrifter, 2011)The production of printed marriage poems (epithalamia) in 17th and 18th century Sweden was a comprehensive, and for almost a century also a highly esteemed, poetical activity. To date these Swedish epitha¬lamia have not ... -
Psalmer i 2000-talet. Nya psalmer i Svenska kyrkan.
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Vikten av kropp: Frågan om kött och människa i Maurice Merleau-Pontys Le Visible et l’invisible
(2011-11-25)Abstract Helena Dahlberg: The Weight of the Body. The Question of Flesh and Human Being in Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Le visible et l’invisible. [Vikten av kropp. Frågan om kött och människa I Maurice Merleau-Pontys Le visible ... -
Discourses of Empire: The Gospel of Mark from a Postcolonial Perspective
(2011-11-15)Generally regarded as the first written gospel, Mark probably began circulating in this form during the 70s C.E, the hey-days of Flavian Rome. Reading Mark as a representation of a collective identity position, this ... -
J. F. Hallmans lånbibliotek i Uddevalla
(LIR. Skrifter, 2011-09-01)This thesis has been written with the intention to investigate a commercial lending-library in Uddevalla from 1838 to the last decades of the nineteenth century. This lending-library was founded by Johan Fredrik Hallman, ... -
X. Tre etyder över ett tema av Iannis Xenakis (1922 – 2001).
(2011-09-23)Ten years after his death, Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001) is generally acknowledged as one of the most influential composers of the recently past century, working in all genres of modern music – from acoustic to electronic, ... -
Att sluta från början. Tidigmodern läsning och folkbokens receptionsestetik
(2011-05-09)The thesis poses the question, why were Volksbücher read and loved by some people in the early modern period and at the same time criticized by others. By doing so three important goals are aimed at : 1 ) to arrive at a ... -
Fria flickor före Pippi: Ester Blenda Nordström och Karin Michaëlis – Astrid Lindgrens föregångare.
(2011-05-09)Abstract University of Gothenburg Eva Wahlström Free Girls Before Pippi. Ester Blenda Nordström and Karin Michaëlis: Astrid Lindgren’s predecessors Ph.D. dissertation in Swedish with a summary in English, p. 304. Department ... -
I kärlekens namn : om människosynen, den nya kvinnan och framtidens samhälle i fem litteraturdebatter 1881-1909
(Stockholm : Normal, 2009)Hur skulle en ny emanciperad kvinna skildras i litteraturen? Kring sekelskiftet 1900 rådde hårda strider mellan kvinnor om vilket kvinnoideal som skulle gälla. I kärlekens namn skildrar fem unika debatter som djupast handlar ... -
Samtalets möjligheter. Om litteratursamtal och litteraturreception i skolan.
(2011-02-17)The objective of this dissertation is literature discussion as a learning activity in school. The aim is to examine the conditions under which literature discussions may help students to develop their reception of a commonly ...