Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-11T13:41:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Agenor Cavalcanti de Vasconcelos Neto.pdf: 591335 bytes, checksum: 94a4c23436a92e723b113b909295781b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-12-07 / FAPEAM - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Amazonas / A descrição do etnógrafo Koch-Grünberg, na obra Dois anos entre os indígenas, foi nosso objeto primário. Investigamos a narrativa do ritual de danças e máscaras contida na obra com vistas a compreender como a máscara articula as relações simbólicas que estão presentes no ritual e que são representadas na literatura estudada. Nesse contexto, a máscara é tomada como um dado que confirma a existência da crença em um mundo metafísico, funcionando como porta de entrada para a abordagem do autor acerca da cultura imaterial dos grupos representados. Problematizando o método neo-kantiano adotado por Koch-Grünberg, respondemos à seguinte questão: quais são os termos e operações que o antropólogo utilizou para representar o mundo segundo a ordem ritual dos indígenas visitados? Com o auxílio da filosofia de Nietzsche, questionamos esse encontro da ciência alemã e da religião dos indígenas do alto rio Negro no início do século XX

In many African traditional societies, the felt needs of people are usually met by the services of the shaman or other traditional medicine specialists. These needs vary and they could include the need for protection against witchcraft and evil spirits. Another need in Africa is for physical and psychical health. These needs are felt by many Africans inside and outside ecclesiastical structures. Despite centuries of western influence and teaching by missionaries, these felt needs have not gone away. The sensitivity to the spirit world and its impact on the human and material word still remains a firm belief in the African socio-spiritual reality. In its missiological responsibilities in the past and now, the church in Africa continues to display a theological deficiency in addressing this vacuum in African spirituality. Consequently, many African Christians are trapped in the dual, two-tier or split-level Christianity. This shows itself in times of existential crises in which many committed and respectable African Christians revert to traditional religious practices as a means of meeting their spiritual needs, due to the church’s inability to do so. This observed lack of traditional Christian theology and its irrelevancy to African life, has left many African Christians in a dilemma. It is this lacuna in Christian theology and practice that the researcher seeks to address in this study. By analysing documents on spirits in the first-century Jewish world and the two-volume work of Luke-Acts, the researcher endeavours to show the relevance and possible appropriation of the New Testament message to African spiritual realities. This is based on the understanding that the world of the first-century Jews and other communities in the Mediterranean region at the time, has more in common with Africans than the extremely naturalistic, rationalistic and abstract-oriented worldview of the early western missionaries who initially brought the gospel to Africa. Central to the researcher’s thesis, is the argument that, if early Christians, as exemplified by the Lucan audience, could respond to the fears, problems and realities of the spirit world by using God-ordained, spiritual and biblically acceptable means and not magical ways, African Christians, too, who find themselves in similar situations, can do the same. The contention in this study is that the rediscovery of the aspect of the spirit world of the New Testament message will go a long way towards resolving the problem of split-level Christianity in Africa. This task remains a theological imperative for New Testament scholarship in order for the church to present a holistic message to the masses of Africa and to demonstrate how the immanence of the Christian God in Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit, relates to the daily needs of spirit-sensitive Africans – a message that Luke tried so hard to convey to his readers in the first century. / Thesis (PhD (New Testament Studies))--University of Pretoria, 2006. / New Testament Studies / unrestricted

Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-01T18:12:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 luiz_henrique_rodrigues_paiva.pdf: 1221162 bytes, checksum: e36363791a7bbfe542743d6c51bbe020 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-05-25 / This work aims to present the phenomenon of possession and exorcism in the Judeo-Christian tradition throughout history; starting from the Jewish antiquity to the present day. Demonic possession, as well as the practice of exorcism, are studied themes from antiquity to the present day. It is intended to provide a summary, in historiographical key, these phenomena of Religious Realm, and a critical analysis supported in studies by scholars like Karl Kertelge, Antonio Lazarini Neto, José Irenaeus Rabuske and Luigi Schiavo and historians as Jaccques Le Goff and Jean Delumeau . For this to be done, the work was divided into three chapters: the first, we analyze the question of the historical overview of the phenomenon; in the second, portray the developments in the phenomenon suffered by the beliefs of the medieval and modern world, culminating in the theological analysis of the possession and exorcism phenomenon in the last chapter. / Este trabalho tem como finalidade apresentar o fenômeno da possessão e exorcismo na tradição judaico-cristã, ao longo da história; partindo da antiguidade judaica até os dias atuais. A possessão demoníaca, bem como a prática do exorcismo, são temas estudados desde a antiguidade até os dias atuais. Pretende-se apresentar uma síntese, em chave historiográfica, desses fenômenos do Campo Religioso, além de uma análise crítica apoiada nos estudos de biblistas como Karl Kertelge, Antônio Lazarini Neto, Irineu José Rabuske e Luigi Schiavo e historiadores como Jaccques Le Goff e Jean Delumeau. Para que isso seja feito, o trabalho foi dividido em três capítulos: no primeiro, analisaremos a questão do panorama histórico do fenômeno; no segundo, retrataremos as evoluções sofridas no fenômeno mediante as crenças do mundo medieval e moderno, culminando na análise teológica do fenômeno de possessão e do exorcismo no último capítulo.

This paper attempts an analysis of Ebrahim Hussein’s drama Mashetani through a critical approach based on the dimension of horror. Despite the pervasive strength of this element in Mashetani, it has rarely been considered as anything more than a mere stylistic element in a vision of this drama which approaches its contents only, using allegory. In this study, Mashetani will be read from a different point of view, which sees the horrific element as bearer of new contents and new subjects not always reachable through an allegorical interpretation, in order not only to make a contribution to literary criticism of this drama, but also to emphasize how horror can acquire an analytic function besides its stylistic role.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:58:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mayla Souza Cruz Homem.pdf: 940572 bytes, checksum: 36ce2bd692ef77200380ba09f374e2b6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-10-29 / The poetry, the musicality, the miths, the faith have always been insert in Ariano Suassuna´s life. These elements take part in his works. The purpose of this is study is to analise the religious aspects in the play A Pena e a Lei, how such characteristics are shown in the story, and if the characters are or are not punished. This analysis will begin with biblics elements study and among with the saints life. The main hypothesis is that Suassuna´s works are influenced by religious aspects, and, due to that his stories will always have a critical and moral aspect. This study is mainly established on the analysis of the third act of the play A Pena e a Lei. The focus of this study is to compare biblical texts, readings about demon´s history and popular literature. This study is divided into three chapters: writer´s life, orality researchs and an analysis of religious aspects. In the end, everything resumes in forgiveness and hope / A poesia, a musicalidade, os mitos, a fé sempre estiveram presentes na vida de Ariano Suassuna.Tais elementos aparecem em suas obras. Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo analisar os aspectos religiosos existentes na peça A Pena e a Lei, como tais aspectos são apresentados no decorrer da narrativa, e a punição,ou ausência dela, sofrida pelos personagens. Os elementos bíblicos fundamentarão esta análise, juntamente com a vida dos santos. Partimos da hipótese de que as obras de Ariano Suassuna são influenciadas por aspectos religiosos e, devido a isso, suas histórias sempre terão um tom crítico-moralizante. A fundamentação teórica norteadora deste trabalho será utilizada, sobretudo, a analise do terceiro ato da peça A Pena e a Lei. Este trabalho centra-se em comparações entre trechos bíblicos e a narrativa, leituras sobre o demônio, e estudos sobre a literatura popular.Compõe-se de três capítulos que se referem à vida do escritor, desenvolve estudos sobre a oralidade e análises sobre os aspectos religiosos da obra. No final, tudo se resume a perdão e esperança

During the last years, with the evolution of technology enabling the control of nano-mesoscopic systems, the possibility of experimentally implementing a Maxwell’s demon has aroused much interest. Its classical version has already been implemented, in photonic and electronic systems, and currently its quantum version is being broadly studied. In this context, the purpose of this work is the development of a protocol for the implementation of the quantum version of an autonomous Maxwell’s demon in a system of superconducting qubits. The system is composed of an Asymmetrical Single-Cooper-Pair Transistor, ASCPT, which has its extremities in contact with heat baths, such that the left one has a lower temperature than the right one. And of a device of two interacting Cooper-Pair Boxes, CPB’s, named as an ECPB, for Extended Cooper-Pair Box. The ECPB is also in contact with a heat bath and possess a genuine quantum feature, entanglement, being described by its antisymmetric and symmetric states, that couple capacitively to the ASCPT with different strengths. A specific operating regime was found where the spontaneous dynamics of the tunneling of Cooper pairs through the ASCPT, will led to a heat transport from the bath in contact with the left extremity of the ASCPT to the bath at the right. And so, as in Maxwell’s original thought experiment, the demon, which is composed by the ECPB and the island of the ASCPT, mediates a heat flux from a cold to a hot bath, without the expense of work. However as expected, the violation of the 2nd law of thermodynamics does not occur, as during the dynamics heat is also released to the bath in contact with the ECPB, compensating the decrease of entropy that occurs in the baths in contact with the ASCPT. / Nos últimos anos, com a evolução da tecnologia que permite o controle de sistemas nano-mesoscópicos, a possibilidade de se implementar um demônio de Maxwell despertou muito interesse. A sua versão clássica já foi realizada experimentalmente com sucesso em sistemas fotônicos e eletrônicos e atualmente a versão quântica tem sido amplamente estudada. Neste contexto, o objetivo deste trabalho é desenvolver um protocolo para a implementação de uma versão quântica de um demônio de Maxwell autônomo utilizando dispositivos supercondutores. O sistema é composto por um Asymmetrical Single-Cooper-Pair Transistor, ASCPT, que possui as suas extremidades em contato com banhos térmicos, sendo que o banho à esquerda possui uma temperatura inferior ao da direita. E por um dispositivo composto por dois Cooper-Pair Boxes, CPB’s, interagentes, denominado ECPB, sigla para Extended Cooper-Pair Box. O ECPB também se encontra em contato com um banho e possui uma característica genuinamente quântica, emaranhamento, sendo descrito por seus estados antissimétrico e simétrico, que se acoplam capacitivamente ao ASCPT com intensidades distintas. Encontrou-se que em um regime de operação específico a dinâmica espontânea de tunelamento de pares de Cooper ao longo do ASCPT origina o transporte de calor do banho à esquerda do ASCPT, ao banho à direita. Desta forma, assim como proposto originalmente por Maxwell, o demônio, composto pelo ECPB e pela ilha do ASCPT, media um fluxo de calor de um banho frio para um banho quente, sem a realização alguma de trabalho. Contudo como esperado, a violação da 2ª lei da termodinâmica não ocorre, já que durante a dinâmica calor é liberado ao banho em contato com o dispositivo de CPB’s, compensando a diminuição de entropia que ocorre nos banhos em contato com o ASCPT.

This dissertation addresses two questions fundamental to Russian nineteenth-century intellectual history: 1) Why does literature about paranoid psychosis figure so centrally in the nineteenth-century canon? and 2) How did the absence of an epistemological tradition of reflexive self-consciousness influence the development of Russian ideas of subjectivity? I propose that the presence of paranoia in Russian fiction extends beyond the medical or psychoanalytic aspects of character traits or themes. I argue that literary representations of paranoia perform fundamental philosophical gestures and function as "epistemological speech acts." Russian narratives of paranoia (e.g., Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Garshin, Sologub) constitute a means of exploring the operations of a self-reflexive consciousness, familiar in the West through the Cartesian Cogito. In other words, the theme of paranoia in nineteenth-century Russian fiction actively responds to the regnant philosophical discourse and functions as a praxis for the exploration of philosophical questions. However, this is done in an alternative discourse to the propositional language generally favored in philosophical texts; as a result, the philosophical function of the fictions of paranoia has gone unrecognized, and the genre has been "exiled" from philosophical discourse. I argue that Russian texts of paranoid psychosis should be reconceived as venues for the play of the transcendental ego outside social or communal axes. Paranoia emerges as the Jakobsonian “dominant” within these texts, in that it is paranoia that engages with other narrative components and transforms them. Further, as prose fiction, these texts had the discursive and social capacity to resonate and divagate in ways impossible to philosophical texts. Ultimately, these narratives of paranoia are meta-epistemologies that interrogate their own discursive function and status. They raise critical questions not only about the ways in which we represent truth but about the ontological status of truth itself. / Slavic Languages and Literatures

Der Begriff "Böse" ist seinem Bedeutungsumfang nach derart allumfassend, dass es unmöglich erscheint, sich diesem substanziell zu nähern. Die Arbeit versucht daher, das Phänomen des Bösen über seine Personifikationen zu erfassen und diese anhand begriffsgeschichtlicher Methoden aufzuarbeiten. Dabei steht das Zeitalter der Aufklärung im Zentrum der Analyse, da sich in jener Epoche ein elementarer Wandel vollzog, der das bis ins 18. Jh. hinein religiös geprägte Bild des Bösen ins Reich der Mythen und Legenden verbannte, ohne jedoch seine Personifikation, den Teufel, gänzlich zu vernichten. Ausgehend von diesem wichtigen Schritt in der Geschichte des Abendlandes entwickelt die Arbeit einen roten Faden der Kulturgeschichte des Bösen, der sich von den biblischen Anfängen bis hin zu den heute geläufigen Vorstellungen zieht. Damit wird verdeutlicht, inwieweit die religiöse Vorstellung des Teufels ein Paradigma bilden konnte, welches epochenübergreifende Geltung gewann.

This thesis is concerned with the irreversibility of certain information processing operations. The two main results of this thesis concern the recording and erasure of information on a physical memory and the measurement, or acquisition of information by a physical device. These operations are shown to be irreversible, and their degree of irreversibility is related to the amount of information processed.

Der Begriff "Böse" ist seinem Bedeutungsumfang nach derart allumfassend, dass es unmöglich erscheint, sich diesem substanziell zu nähern. Die Arbeit versucht daher, das Phänomen des Bösen über seine Personifikationen zu erfassen und diese anhand begriffsgeschichtlicher Methoden aufzuarbeiten. Dabei steht das Zeitalter der Aufklärung im Zentrum der Analyse, da sich in jener Epoche ein elementarer Wandel vollzog, der das bis ins 18. Jh. hinein religiös geprägte Bild des Bösen ins Reich der Mythen und Legenden verbannte, ohne jedoch seine Personifikation, den Teufel, gänzlich zu vernichten. Ausgehend von diesem wichtigen Schritt in der Geschichte des Abendlandes entwickelt die Arbeit einen roten Faden der Kulturgeschichte des Bösen, der sich von den biblischen Anfängen bis hin zu den heute geläufigen Vorstellungen zieht. Damit wird verdeutlicht, inwieweit die religiöse Vorstellung des Teufels ein Paradigma bilden konnte, welches epochenübergreifende Geltung gewann.