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1	“The Post-Christian Christian Church” : Ecclesiological Implications ofMattias Martinson’s Post-Christian Theology Hallonsten, Simon January 2018 (has links) Starting in the socio-cultural changes associated with the recent proliferation of various post-terms, this essay explores Mattias Martinson’s proposal for a theological response to these developments. Based on Martinson’s Post-Christian Theology and The Cathedral in the Center, the essay sketches a post-Christian theology that attempts to transcend both traditional Christian theology and atheism as a response to a societal situation of widespread disbelief. To address the ambivalence of the post-Christian society, post-Christian theology needs to be open, adaptable, and provisional, characterized by a ‘neither/nor’ and an ‘in-between,’ rather than by strong metaphysical claims. In a second step, the essay investigates the post-Christian Christian church. To this end, the essay develops an ecclesiological heuristic model to examine the ecclesiological implications of Martinson’s proposal. Situating the Christian church in the nexus of tensions between the divine and the human, the past and the future, and the open and the bounded, the essay demonstrates how the post-Christian church breaks with the established ecclesiological thinking about the church, rejecting the divine elements, the normativity of past and future, and the boundedness of the church. The result is a flattened or weakened church that is better described as a post-Christian atheist church. Kristendom och samhälle Sekularisering Postmodernism Ateism Postkristen Religiöst liv Martinson Mattias 1970- Religious Studies Religionsvetenskap
2	Det ”sekulära” Sverige? : En kvalitativ studie av begreppet sekularisering i relation till det postkristna svenska folket / ”Secular” Sweden? : A qualitative study of the process of secularization in relation to the post-christian Swedish population. Dalfors, William January 2017 (has links) Sweden is often described as being one of the more secular nations in the world by various surveys and sources, but how true is this statement? In this paper I examine what has been said on the topic of secularization in Sweden by leading sociologists in the field and then in turn analyze this information in order to finally reach a conclusion of my own. My intention with this bachelor’s thesis is to shine a light on the relationship between what has come to be described as the ”post-christian” population by sociologist David Thurfjell and the process of secularization on an individual level.The two questions that form the basis for this paper are: ” Is the swedish population as secular/non-believing as it’s claimed to be?” and “Has there been a shift in the form the Christian religion takes on an individual level and if so what can this new shape then possibly look like?”.The result of the analysis indicates that the swedish population might not be as secular as it is often put forward as being. While the church-oriented religion that the Church of Sweden represents might be losing traction amongst the post-Christian population, this does not necessarily mean religion as a whole is in a gradual decline in swedish society. The information presented herein points towards a possible shift in swedish society from a mainly church-oriented form of religion to a more privatized version sometimes described as the invisible religion. Religious Studies Religionsvetenskap Social Sciences Samhällsvetenskap
3	Subjektivitet i översättning : En översättningsteoretisk undersökning av Augustinus och Friedrich Hayeks förståelser av människan i relation till Gud och marknad / Translating Subjectivity : An Examination of Augustine and Friedrich Hayek’s Notion of the Human in Relation to God and the Market in the Context of Cultural Translation Schyborger, Josef January 2024 (has links) This thesis examines Augustine and Friedrich Hayek’s notion of subjectivity in the context of cultural translation theory, following Talal Asad. Previous researchers have related Hayek to political theology and economic theology by observing the notion of market’s divinizing implications and tendencies, often through generalized methods of analysis and allegorical comparison. Research treating neoliberal subjectivity seldom considers it building on Christian theological notions. Given the lack of research on the given topic, more specific the relationship between theological and neoliberal understandings of subjectivity, it is pertinent to examine neoliberal subjectivity as expressed by Hayek, by comparing to saint Augustine. By a close reading of one of western societies most important theologians, Augustine, and comparing to Hayek’s economic vision of society, this study examines how Augustine and Hayek interact by using cultural translation as a methodological framework. Augustine’s notion of God, and Hayek’s notion of the market, is analyzed as explicitly proposing, or implicitly presupposing, notions of subjectivity. Translatability and untranslatability are used as methodological concepts for discussing where Augustine and Hayek’s notions overlap and where they differ. This study demonstrates that Hayek’s understanding of subjectivity in relation to the market has comparable aspects with Augustine’s understanding of human subjectivity in relation to God. Though some aspects where the authors differ, such as the understanding of knowledge, might be described as untranslatable. Use of cultural translation theory, allows for important nuances in the relationship between theology and economic understandings of subjectivity to transpire in analysis. Cultural Translation Political Theology Post-Christian Theology Economic Theology Subjectivity Secularization Neoliberalism Augustine Friedrich Hayek Talal Asad Charles Taylor. Kulturell översättningsteori politisk teologi postkristen teologi ekonomisk teologi subjektivitet sekularisering neoliberalism Augustinus Friedrich Hayek Talal Asad Charles Taylor. Religious Studies Religionsvetenskap

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“The Post-Christian Christian Church” : Ecclesiological Implications ofMattias Martinson’s Post-Christian Theology

Det ”sekulära” Sverige? : En kvalitativ studie av begreppet sekularisering i relation till det postkristna svenska folket / ”Secular” Sweden? : A qualitative study of the process of secularization in relation to the post-christian Swedish population.