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1	En skomakares resa : En kvalitativ studie om västerländsk esoterism och väg-metaforen i Jacob Böhmes The Way to Christ / A Cobblers Journey : A qualitative study on western esotericism and Way-metaphor in Jacob Boehmes The Way to Christ Thornfält, Alexander January 2021 (has links) Detta är en studie om västerländsk esoterism. Dess syfte är att undersöka på vilket sätt väg-metaforen används av Böhme i hans bok The Way to Christ och i vilken utsträckning tillhör boken västerländsk esoterism, studiens teoretiska begrepp är västerländsk esoterism och kognitiva metaforer, för att uppnå rapportens syfte kommer källmaterialet granskas med hjälp av en kvantitativ och kvalitativ metod och frågan om Böhmes tillhörighet till västerländsk esoterism kommer att undersökas med hjälp av Faivres definition. Analysen visar på att Böhme tillhör kategorin västerländsk esoterism i hög utsträckning och Böhme har använt väg-metaforen i sin bok The Way to Christ enligt tre olika mönster där det första mönstret har varit i relation till Kristus samt det andra mönstret som ett medel/verktyg och slutligen det tredje mönstret idéer om att vara på fel väg. västerländsk esoterism Jacob Böhme väg-metaforen The Way to Christ Religious Studies Religionsvetenskap
2	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
3	Frimurarna och religionen : En religionssociologisk studie av Svenska Frimurare Ordens plats i det samtida religiösa landskapet Bentelid, Dina, Tellqvist, Olle January 2019 (has links) The aim of this study is to situate the locus of the Swedish branch of freemasonry, Svenska Frimurare Orden, in the contemporary religious landscape. The research questions are as follows: On what grounds can the Swedish branch of freemasonry be considered religious? If the Swedish branch of freemasonry is considered religious, how does it fit into the contemporary society among the plethora of new religious movements? In regard to the first question, a definition of religion is required, thus Bruce Lincoln’s theory with four domains of religion is used to decide to what extent the Swedish branch of freemasonry can be described as a religion or a religious movement. To be able to answer the second research question the four sociological narratives as presented by Meredith B. McGuire are used to analyze the results of our study. The results are reached through examination of the common laws of the Swedish branch of freemasonry and the data found on their official website, combined with hermeneutic interpretation. Our conclusion is that the Swedish branch of freemasonry through its explicit connection to Christianity, in addition to its esoteric and occult practices both fits into a historical continuity regarding religion in Sweden, as well as with contemporary societal currents regarding new religious movements. Freemasonry Christianity religion definition of religion sociology of religion western esotericism Svenska Frimurare Orden frimureri kristendom religion religionsdefinition religionssociologi västerländsk esoterism Religious Studies Religionsvetenskap History of Religions Religionshistoria Sociology Sociologi Didactics Didaktik
4	The Quest for Gnosis : G. R. S. Mead’s Conception of Theosophy / The Quest for Gnosis : G.R.S. Mead's Conception of Theosophy Gruffman, Paulina January 2020 (has links) G. R. S. Mead is an important but neglected historical personality of the British fin-de-siècle occult, Theosophical, and post-Theosophical milieu. While previous scholars of Theosophy have portrayed the Theosophical movement as quite cohesive in nature, I argue that it might have been a lot more pluralistic, with ostensibly key Theosophical concepts being open for debate. By a careful study of Mead’s editorial activity, his debates with other Theosophists in leading occultist journal over the period 1890s through 1910s, I illustrate that Mead held alternative views of key Theosophical concepts. This gives us a clue as to how the movement of Theosophy can be characterized differently. I suggest that we speak of many different “Theosophies” rather than one singular “Theosophy” to better capture the seemingly diverse makeup of the Theosophical movement. I look at three areas wherein Mead’s views differed from those of other important Theosophists: the concept of “the Masters” as spiritual authority, which sources to turn to and how to interpret them, and the question of whether occultism should be understood primarily in theoretical or in practical terms. I propose that by seeing Theosophy as a debating ground where many different Theosophists competed over the definition of their particular kind of Theosophy, we might also better account for why so many post-Theosophical currents emerged. Lastly, Mead’s concept of “Gnosis” might have served as a bridge between his Theosophical and post-Theosophical periods, as the concept’s meaning, along with Mead’s spiritual outlook, does not appear to have changed over time. This gives some consequences to how we conceive of post-Theosophy, since he does not fit neatly within that category. theosophy theosophical society gnosis g.r.s. mead helena blavatsky annie besant c.w. leadbeater occultism esotericism western esotericism new religious movements new spirituality quest society the quest teosofi teosofiska samfundet gnosis ockultism esoterism västerländsk esoterism nyreligiösa rörelser History of Religions Religionshistoria
5	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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