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1	Kunskap ur Kaos : En presentation av Kaosgnosticismen och dess förgreningar / Knowledge from Chaos : A presentation of Chaos-Gnosticism and its branches Hermansson, Tobias January 2017 (has links) Chaos-Gnosticism is a branch of the occult tree which through an eclectic approach tries togather all the dark, antagonistic aspects and forces from certain religions and mythologies ofthe world in order to reach back to the primeval Chaos, the stage that existed before theCreation. With a fundamental gnostic worldview the cosmos is seen as a prison, created byDemiurges, and in Chaos a total freedom rules.The philosophy (or Chaosophy to use a term used by the Chaosgnostics) has spread all over theworld during the past ten years or so. It is vital, in connection to this fact, to give the importanceto the music scene, especially the genre called black metal, for the spreading of theChaosgnostic ideas. Some of the leading bands in this genre, for instance Dissection, Watainand Arckanum, have adopted the Chaosgnostic tenets into their music and thus making theseideas more known all around the world than they otherwise would have been. That being said,it is not clear how many actual practioners of Chaos-Gnostcism there are since it is mainly anindividual religion and the handfull of orders that exist display no sorts of missionary ambitionsand are, additionaly, quite closed for outsiders.Although the first ideas of Chaos-Gnosticism emerged in Sweden in the middle of the 1990´s,an in-depth academic survey has not yet been made on the movement itself. This essay aims tochange that by putting Chaos-Gnosticism in its correct historical and occult context and also byshedding some light on the fundamental tenets and beliefsystem aswell as the importance ofnumerology and central symbols. The essay also presents the three different Chaosgnosticbranches that has emerged to date: Temple of the Black Light, with its Qabbalistic approach,Templum Falcis Cruentis, inspired by folktraditions of Central America and the biblical figureof Cain and finally Thursatrú in which the Chaosgnostic worldview is adopted on Old Norsemythology. Kaosgnosticism satanism anti-kosmisk satanism qayin västerländsk esoterism ockultism occulture gnosticism Dissection black metal Left Hand Path post-satanism kabbala thursatru fornnordisk religion Religious Studies Religionsvetenskap
2	Kaosets symfonier : En religionshistorisk analys av innehållet i Black Metalbandet Watains textkorpus Jonsäll, Hans January 2016 (has links) With this essay my aim is to uncover the content in the discography of the Swedish Black Metal act Watain in respect to lyrically expressed religious themes revolving around the tendencies within occulture and the Black Metal scene. To investigate the matter I have combined quantitative and qualitative analysis methods from the fields of corpus linguistics as well as content analysis, which provided me with an array of key words and their respective concordances (Key Word In Context, KWIC) in the texts. Through the analysis three overlapping main themes became apparent: satanism, gnosticism and finally apocalypticism. I described each of the themes in detail based on my linguistic findings in the corpus so as to yield a deeper understanding of the religious symbols communicated in the material and their interrelationship. The result was that neither one of these could be explained in isolation as they are all part of a larger system of philosophy, namely the esoteric movement chaos-gnosticism tied to the Swedish order Temple of the Black Light, but also products of occulture. The discussion proved that, although satanism may seem to be the thematical centerpoint in Watain’s lyrics, it is not, as this is a far too simple conclusion in relation to the complexity of the results. Instead, the content requires to be understood in terms of the dark Left-Hand Path spirituality as well as the occultural melting pot of paranormal and occult ideas. / <p>För att få tillgång till mitt korpus och mina korpusresultat hänvisar jag till min privata e-post adress hans.jonsall@gmail.com alternativt att man kontaktar mig via sociala medier.</p> Watain Black Metal Occulture Satanism Gnosticism Apocalypticism Eschatology Western esotericism Occultism Left-Hand Path Chaos-gnosticism Anti-cosmic Satanism History of religions Reception studies Corpus linguistics Content analysis Watain Black Metal Occulture Satanism Gnosticism Apokalyps Eskatologi Västerländsk esoterism Ockultism Vänstra Handens väg Kaosgnosticism Anti-kosmisk satanism Religionshistoria Receptionshistoria Korpuslingvistik Innehållsanalys

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Kunskap ur Kaos : En presentation av Kaosgnosticismen och dess förgreningar / Knowledge from Chaos : A presentation of Chaos-Gnosticism and its branches

Kaosets symfonier : En religionshistorisk analys av innehållet i Black Metalbandet Watains textkorpus