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1	Gud - logisk, verklig eller onödig? : en retorisk analys av Richard Dawkins och John Lennox argumentation om Guds existens Gustavsson, Erik January 2012 (has links) This study has its background in the debate about religion and the existence of God, which has been an ongoing issue throughout the Western cultural tradition. Today´s information society has been an impact on the increasing interest for this subject. The essay’s main task is to accomplish a rhetorical analysis of two books, Illusionen om Gud (2008) by atheist Richard Dawkins and Guds dödgrävare (2010) by Christian John Lennox, in order to investigate the authors’ use of rhetorical strategies to influence their audience. The texts are studied using a qualitative approach with the theoretical basis of some well-defined rhetorical variables: ethical, logical and pathetic means of persuasion, propaganda, and the important factor that a message always is presented in a certain context in which the recipients both have their own values and subjects to general truths and common frames of reference. The analysis is intended to convey the rhetorical essence of each author, and uses this image to discuss aims and methods in the communication. Both authors demonstrate varying propagandistic strategies and base their arguments from common context and widely recognized frames of reference. Lennox almost exclusively uses methodological logo arguments, while Dawkins often uses the pathetic persuasion founds. God atheism science and religion qualitative analysis variable method Richard Dawkins The God Delusion John Lennox God’s undertaker ethical logical and pathetic means of persuasion propaganda
2	Stories of life and death: undertakers' perspectives Nel, Elsie Petronella 25 August 2009 (has links) Like death, the defining human reality underlying our relationships and views of life's meaning, the experiences and activities of undertakers, remains an uncommon subject for psychological research. Existential anxiety roots a society-wide denial of the fundamental nature of death. which necessitates the development of institutions to take responsibility for the dying and dead. As the image and service of the stigmatised funeral industry improves, society's experience of death should become more meaningful. The overview of the research into these topics noted the need for further studies. Within a holistic, ecosystemic epistemology, this study adopted a qualitative approach and case study method, which provided descriptions of the ecology, contexts, and relationships characteristic .of the undertaker's vocation by focussing on patterned expressions of views and attitudes. The aim was to gain insight into the undertaker's experience of the many faces of death, with a genuine interest and deep respect for their world. / Psychology / M.A. (Clinical Psychology) Death Bereavement Undertaker Funeral director Existentialism Death ritual Anxiety Denial Meaning Ecosystemic Epistemology Context Constructivism Second-order cybernetics Qualitative research Co-created realities 363.75 Funeral supplies industry Undertakers and undertaking Funeral rites and ceremonies Death -- Psychological aspects Bereavement Constructivism (Psychology) Existential psychology Funeral consultants Death ritual Ecosystemic psychology
3	Stories of life and death: undertakers' perspectives Nel, Elsie Petronella 25 August 2009 (has links) Like death, the defining human reality underlying our relationships and views of life's meaning, the experiences and activities of undertakers, remains an uncommon subject for psychological research. Existential anxiety roots a society-wide denial of the fundamental nature of death. which necessitates the development of institutions to take responsibility for the dying and dead. As the image and service of the stigmatised funeral industry improves, society's experience of death should become more meaningful. The overview of the research into these topics noted the need for further studies. Within a holistic, ecosystemic epistemology, this study adopted a qualitative approach and case study method, which provided descriptions of the ecology, contexts, and relationships characteristic .of the undertaker's vocation by focussing on patterned expressions of views and attitudes. The aim was to gain insight into the undertaker's experience of the many faces of death, with a genuine interest and deep respect for their world. / Psychology / M.A. (Clinical Psychology) Death Bereavement Undertaker Funeral director Existentialism Death ritual Anxiety Denial Meaning Ecosystemic Epistemology Context Constructivism Second-order cybernetics Qualitative research Co-created realities 363.75 Funeral supplies industry Undertakers and undertaking Funeral rites and ceremonies Death -- Psychological aspects Bereavement Constructivism (Psychology) Existential psychology Funeral consultants Death ritual Ecosystemic psychology

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