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1	"Folk brukar vilja falla här" : En studie om religiösa kroppsliga upplevelser hos kristna karismatiker / "The Holy Spirit will surely fall..." : A Study in Bodily Experiences Interpreted as Religious by the Individual, in a Christian Charismatic Context Lundqvist, Emma January 2012 (has links) In this paper I aimed to explore the bodily experiences and expressions that Christian charismatics interpret as religious. The so-called presence of God and the so-called gifts of the spirit were in focus in the gathering of information. My purpose was to find out how the social community of the Christian charismatics affects the subjective bodily experiences that are interpreted as religious by the individual. The main questions were: 1: How do Christian charismatics describe religious experiences and their effect on the body? 2: What bodily expressions of religious experience can be observed in Christian charismatic contexts? 3: Is there a common way of expressing the experience of God's presence (individually or in a group) and how, in this case, can any resemblance be explained? The methods used to answer these questions were qualitative interviews and participant observations, which then were analyzed by the anthropologist Thomas J. Csordas theory of embodiment. By applying his theory on a Swedish-based material I hope to bring a new perspective into the research on this subject and inspire to further research and curiosity about Christian charismatics in Sweden. In this essay phenomena such as falling in the spirit, speaking in tongues, and healing were analyzed. Some of the phenomena, which are interpreted as presences of God by the believer, could be explained according to the theory of embodiment, but some could not. The similarities of bodily religious experiences among different groups of Christian charismatics can be explained with the concept of habitus. That is because even though the groups may have long distances between them, the still share behaviors and belief systems , for example the Bible, as common ideas in the global habitus of Christian charismatics. charismatic gifts of the spirit baptism in the holy spirit speaking in tongues profecy healing embodiment habitus Thomas J. Csordas karismatisk nådegåvor andedop tungotal profetior helanden embodiment habitus Thomas J. Csordas Religion/Theology Religionsvetenskap/Teologi
2	Rock ‘n’ Roll Took Me There: Its Effects Upon Individual and Communal Religious Experience Wood, Matthew 14 November 2013 (has links) From the claims of punk rocker GG Allin aiming to shed his own blood for Rock ‘n’ Roll to the religiously tinted narratives of Bruce Springsteen we come to find artists using religious references to color their artistic medium. A question arises: Could these utterances and narratives show a deeper meaning behind Rock ‘n’ Roll such that it can give individuals a way to obtain religious experience? This thesis aims at arguing for the ability of Rock ‘n’ Roll as having a way to incite feelings of religious experience and communitas. Through the usage of auto-ethnography coupled with subsidiary sources from academic to pop culture writers this thesis will investigate if such a creative form helps to enable individuals to experience transcendence and feelings of community while immersed in Rock ‘n’ Roll. Music Culture Religion Anthropology Sociology Auto-Ethnography Memoir Thesis Awesome Turner Peak Experience Absorption Theory Communitas punk rock Indie Ernest Becker Bruce Springsteen GG Allin Religious Experience Rock 'n' Roll Rock n Roll Csordas Brahinsky Luhrmann
3	Rock ‘n’ Roll Took Me There: Its Effects Upon Individual and Communal Religious Experience Wood, Matthew January 2013 (has links) From the claims of punk rocker GG Allin aiming to shed his own blood for Rock ‘n’ Roll to the religiously tinted narratives of Bruce Springsteen we come to find artists using religious references to color their artistic medium. A question arises: Could these utterances and narratives show a deeper meaning behind Rock ‘n’ Roll such that it can give individuals a way to obtain religious experience? This thesis aims at arguing for the ability of Rock ‘n’ Roll as having a way to incite feelings of religious experience and communitas. Through the usage of auto-ethnography coupled with subsidiary sources from academic to pop culture writers this thesis will investigate if such a creative form helps to enable individuals to experience transcendence and feelings of community while immersed in Rock ‘n’ Roll. Music Culture Religion Anthropology Sociology Auto-Ethnography Memoir Thesis Awesome Turner Peak Experience Absorption Theory Communitas punk rock Indie Ernest Becker Bruce Springsteen GG Allin Religious Experience Rock 'n' Roll Rock n Roll Csordas Brahinsky Luhrmann

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