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11	Narativy a náboženství: specifika a funkce příběhů v náboženských kontextech / Narratives and Religion: Particularities and Functions of Narration in Religious Context Širl, Radim January 2016 (has links) The aim of this thesis is to analyse certain aspects connecting religion and narration (which is understood here as a common human faculty to think and express oneself in the form of narratives). The first part of the thesis is concerned with methodology; first of all, the issues of defining narrative are introduced and a more elaborate definition is presented. A complete methodology is then formulated with a help of several authors (mainly James W. Pennebaker and Mary Douglas) in order to distinguish particularities and functions of creating narratives in religious contexts. Two main points are stressed here: that the content of the narratives is often concerned with problematic aspects of experience and that the expression of these narratives is beneficial for their creators. The second part focuses on several religious institutions concerned with creation of narratives which are interpreted with the outlined methodology. In this manner, the act of confession in Catholicism, prayer in Christianity and certain healing rituals are described and interpreted. Conclusions of this thesis should help the reader get a basic idea of the way created narratives in religious contexts affect their authors.
12	Memento Mitten : Re-Collecting Human Hair as a Material Ivarsson, Linnéa January 2020 (has links) Memento Mitten is a project about seeing human hair from the perspective of sustainability as a viable alternative material. The project also aims to question our reluctance in Western Europe to use it in projects and innovations. It explores the process of transforming hair from waste into a functional piece (a mitten) by using traditional handicraft (hand carding, hand spinning and nålbinding) as a change agent in order to alter our perception of hair. Relating anthropologist Mary Douglas’ theory on dirt to the Freudian definition of ‘Das Unheimliche’ (The Uncanny) the project further examines and dissects the emotional aspects of Uncanniness and the anxiety we perceive when in contact with disembodied hair. Leaning on Douglas’ theory on dirt I developed a framework for action that could potentially have the transformative ability to, when applied to creative practices, recontextualize hair from uncanny waste into an emotionally safe material. Utilizing auto-ethnographic documentation, physical exploration and participatory elements (through design interventions), four phases were identified: rejection (identifying hair as waste), re-collection (collecting hair), dissolution (taking apart the hair through acts like hand carding) and assimilation (putting the hair into a new context). These phases, which I titled The Altered Phases of Dirt, showed that they had the potential to move our inner margins of comfort beyond Uncanniness through the physical engagement found in handicraft. Handicraft Wool Hair Design Art Nålebinding Nålbinding Naalbinding Hand Carding Hand Spinning Mittens Memento Mori Death Mary Douglas Uncanniness Dirt Hair Craft Hair Crafting Design Design
13	`Can't nothing heal without pain' : healing in Toni Morrison's Beloved Du Plooy, Belinda 31 January 2004 (has links) Toni Morrison reinterprets and reconstitutes American history by placing the lives, stories and experiences of African Americans in a position of centrality, while relegating white American history and cultural traditions to the margins of her narratives. She rewrites American history from an alternative - African American woman's - perspective, and subverts the accepted racist and patriarchally inspired `truths' about life, love and women's experiences through her sympathetic depiction of murderous mother love and complex female relationships in Beloved. She writes about oppression, pain and suffering, and of the need for the acknowledgement and alleviation of the various forms of oppression that scar human existence. Morrison's engagement with healing in Beloved forms the central focus of this short dissertation. The novel is analysed in relation to Mary Douglas's `Two Bodies' theory, John Caputo's ideas on progressive Foucaultian hermeneutics and healing gestures, and Julia Martin's thoughts on alternative healing practices based on non-dualism and interconnectedness. Within this interdisciplinary context, Beloved is read as a `small start' to `creative engagement' with alternative healing practices (Martin, 1996:104). / English / M.A. (English) Healing American chattel slavery Historical embodiment Healing practices Maternal infanticide Non-dualism Foucaultian hermeneutics Two Bodies Mary Douglas John Caputo Michel Foucault Toni Morrison Beloved 813.54 Morrison, Toni -- Beloved Douglas, Mary Healing in literature
14	`Can't nothing heal without pain' : healing in Toni Morrison's Beloved Du Plooy, Belinda 31 January 2004 (has links) Toni Morrison reinterprets and reconstitutes American history by placing the lives, stories and experiences of African Americans in a position of centrality, while relegating white American history and cultural traditions to the margins of her narratives. She rewrites American history from an alternative - African American woman's - perspective, and subverts the accepted racist and patriarchally inspired `truths' about life, love and women's experiences through her sympathetic depiction of murderous mother love and complex female relationships in Beloved. She writes about oppression, pain and suffering, and of the need for the acknowledgement and alleviation of the various forms of oppression that scar human existence. Morrison's engagement with healing in Beloved forms the central focus of this short dissertation. The novel is analysed in relation to Mary Douglas's `Two Bodies' theory, John Caputo's ideas on progressive Foucaultian hermeneutics and healing gestures, and Julia Martin's thoughts on alternative healing practices based on non-dualism and interconnectedness. Within this interdisciplinary context, Beloved is read as a `small start' to `creative engagement' with alternative healing practices (Martin, 1996:104). / English / M.A. (English) Healing American chattel slavery Historical embodiment Healing practices Maternal infanticide Non-dualism Foucaultian hermeneutics Two Bodies Mary Douglas John Caputo Michel Foucault Toni Morrison Beloved 813.54 Morrison, Toni -- Beloved Douglas, Mary Healing in literature
15	Wastelands, Revolutions, Failures Marzec, Megan E. 30 April 2015 (has links) No description available. Philosophy Linguistics Political Science Environmental Justice political philosophy environmental justice art Tiqqun Julia Kristeva captalism abjection liminality transnational apparatuses Jane Gallop Mary Douglas Gilles Deleuze Felix Guattari Pantex Salton Sea Picher, Oaklahoma Tar Creek

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