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1	”Så länge man kan skända finns det helighet” : Helighetsskapande praktik kring nattvardens bröd och vin. / ”As long as one can desecrate, there is sanctity” : Sanctitymaking practice around the bread and wine of the Holy Supper. Westling, Jenny January 2018 (has links) Historically, Christianity has been seen as a religion based on texts. However, many modern scholars claim that the practice of Christianity is at least as important as the holy texts. To see if this is the case, this study sought to examine whether church practice contributes to the making of the sacred, defined here from Mary Douglas's theory that the holy is something which is pure, whole and complete, unlike the impure, which is an anomaly, often separate, broken or divided. This was examined by studying the actual practices relating to the bread and the wine in one of Christianity's most central rites, the Eucharist. The empirical material is based on observations and semi-structured interviews on the handling of the bread and wine before and after communion in five different church communities. However, the focus is on the Evangelical Lutheran Swedish Church, where two different congregations were studied. The study takes as its point of departure Robert Orsis’ theory according to which holiness is created in a dynamic exchange between the practice of individuals and those of hierarchies. According to the present study this appears to be true, although the empirical material is too small to draw firm conclusions. In the churches investigated a variety of actors contribute to the creation of sacredness. Some practices seem to be the same throughout the different communities and parishes studied, for example preserving purity by covering the bread and wine, or by throwing away pieces of the already consecrated bread. Some individuals also created their own personal rituals, like not chewing the bread during the Eucharist, or covering their mouths after having received the bread to prevent the body of Christ from being spat out. It also appears that the wine is always handled with greater respect than the bread. According to Mary Douglas, this may have to do with the possibility of both sacrilising and defiling which rests in bodily fluids. This essay shows that persons in different roles act independently and in different ways to create and maintain the holiness of the bread and wine. In churches with distinct confessional texts, as in the Catholic Church, practices are more often based on dogmas, while individuals in the congregations lacking rules for handling the bread an wine, as in the parishes of the Swedish Church, act more as they themselves think is right. Also here their actions seem to follow Mary Douglas's theory of preserving the wholeness and purity of the holy. According to the study, the creation of sacredness seems to be just as possible for lay people as for specialists. This means that the Church in this way actually distributes the power to establish the sacred, which may contribute to preserving a community-promoting democratic process. This conclusion is reinforced by the fact that some of the congregations studied had created practices for ensuring sacrality which put fellowship before the power of the Words of Institution. Nattvard eukaristi praktik helighet rent orent ritual kyrka gemenskap Philosophy, Ethics and Religion Filosofi, etik och religion
2	Nattvardsvilja i Västerås stift : Prästers förståelse av nattvardsgästers motiv bakom och vilja till nattvarden Karic, Dino, Federley, Fredrick January 2023 (has links) Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka viljan till eller från nattvard hos församlingar i Västerås stift ur församlingsprästernas perspektiv. Vill svenska kyrkans medlemmar i Västerås stift fira nattvarden oftare eller mer sällan? Vilka är de huvudsakliga motiven till att delta i mässa/nattvardsgudstjänst. Vi ställer också frågan om Biskopsbrevet från 2020 Fira nattvard har lett till samtal, åtgärder, förändringar i församlingarna. Vi söker därtill efter intressanta aspekter som kan ligga till grund för en kommande D-uppsats rörande nattvard. Vi gör en historisk resumé av förändringar kring nattvarden sedan instiftandet och från tiden då kristendomen kom till Sverige begränsar vi den till Sverige. Vi avgränsar respondenterna till att vara präster i församling i Västerås stift. Nio frågor gick att besvara i enkäten av både sluten och öppen karaktär. De teoretiska ramverken hämtas ur socialisationsteori, ritualisering samt copingteori. Resultatet visar att viljan till nattvard till stor del är mött i stiftet. I de fall det finns vilja till förändring överväger viljan till mer av nattvard. Motiven är i huvudsak gemenskap med Kristus, gemenskap med församlingen men också nåden och förlåtelsen för den enskilde nattvardsgästen. Ovan nämnda resultat blir självklara slutsatser men därtill konkluderar vi att nattvarden idag ses som så självklart att inga direkta samtal förs kring nattvarden och att biskopsbrevet Fira nattvard inte föranlett samtal eller förändra annat än i ett fåtal församlingar. Nattvard nattvardsvilja nattvardssyn nattvardsgudstjänst Gudstjänst med nattvard Västerås stift sakrament rit mässa eukaristi. Religious Studies Religionsvetenskap
3	Hopp i relation till hoten mot biosfären / Hope in Relation to the Threats to the Earth’s Biosphere Sund Sandberg, Anneli January 2021 (has links) This thesis explores how hope in relation to the threats to the earth’s biosphere can be formulated theologically. The starting-point is a questioning of hope raised by the French sociologist and anthropologist Bruno Latour. In Facing Gaia. Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime (2015) he asks why so little has happened to reduce the emissions of CO2. Parts of his answers relate to the view that hope is preventing action. Since hope is a central part of Christian doctrine, this study lets Latours scepticism meet some eco-theological litterature, mainly representing evangelical, orthodox and radical material theology, and religious naturalism. Since critic against eschatology is important in Latours explanatory model, this theme is discussed together with the possibilities of the church practices of liturgy and eucharistic celebration, especially in relation to the concept of time and space, the latter elaborated by the radical material theologian Petra Carlsson Redell. Although putting different emphasis on an ultimate eschatological hope, all authors stress the importance of acting now. The evangelical authors Daniel Brunner et al. present a strategy “living as if”, practicing restoration of the Earth here and now. In religious naturalism the hope lies in the common biological ground for all humanity and living things, also leading to a caring ethics. In general, relationality and materiality as well as including marginalized voices are important concepts when the authors are formulating environmental ethics and eco-theology. The concept of hope is shown to be important to define, in order to sort out especially false hope from a possibly fruitful concept: resilient hope. A resilient hope is grounded in Christian discipleship, is adaptive and able to recover. It is in a reciprocal relation to action. To develop a resilient hope I argue that it is important to allow both desperation and hope, since the free moving between the two “poles” can act liberating and enable action. A resilient hope gives space for scepticism since it is grounded in a reality always on the move. It is open for emergence and construction. Christianity has resources to house the space between hope and despair both in central biblical narratives and in bodily practices as liturgy and eucharist. Resilient hope in this thesis is earthbound, withstands being lost, and arises again and again in search for new constructive possibilities. Bruno Latour ekoteologi emergens eskatologi eukaristi Daniel Brunner hopp klimathot klimatkris materialitet miljöhot miljökris Petra Carlsson Redell politisk teologi relationalitet resilient hopp uppståndelse ömsesidighet Religious Studies Religionsvetenskap
4	A Colombian Nun and the Love of God and Neighbour : The Spiritual Path of María de Jesús (1690s-1776) / En Colombiansk Nunna och Kärleken till Gud och till Nästan : María de Jesús (ca 1690-1776) Andliga Väg Cadavid Yani, Helwi Margarita January 2016 (has links) María de Jesús (1690s-1776) was a white-veiled Discalced Carmelite nun of the San José convent in Santa Fe de Bogotá, founded in 1606. She professed in the year 1714, and her spiritual journal was printed in a chronicle about the convent in the 1940s. The aim of this study is to examine the love of God and of neighbour, as expressed in the spiritual journal of María de Jesús. In this study I will proceed from the understanding of love as charity. In Christian thought God Himself is love, and its source. Charity, the third, and greatest, of the theological virtues, is a state of being in and responding to God’s love and favour. This way of loving consists in loving God wholeheartedly and loving our neighbour as ourselves. Included in loving our neighbour are acts related to his or her spiritual benefit and salvation. These are all present themes in María de Jesús’ text, but my aim is to examine how she incorporates these themes in her spiritual testimony by analyzing the imagery she uses, and the affective language in her spiritual journal. I will also seek to understand her way of writing by analyzing her text against the background of the tradition of women’s spiritual writings. Being a Discalced Carmelite, it will also be interesting to discover the Teresian presence in María de Jesus’ text, i.e. the influence of her predecessor and the reformer of the order, Teresa of Ávila (1515- 1582). I suggest that this can be noticed in certain rhetorical techniques. I also aim to examine if there are any similarities and differences in their expressions of love of God and of neighbour. love God neighbor charity affective Discalced Carmelites Barefoot Carmelites spirituality convent nun white-veiled Catholic church mission mysticism mystic Eucharist Communion heart blood imagery metaphor Purgatory salvation soul sacrament vision visions ineffable union rhetoric rhetoric of femininity humility spiritual journal writings path María de Jesús Teresa of Avila Teresian presence Colonial Spanish America Colombia New Granada. kärlek Gud nästan Caritas affektivt språk Oskodda karmeliter Barfota karmeliter andlighet andlig spiritualitet spirituell väg kloster nunna katolsk kyrka mission mystik eukaristi kommunion hjärta blod bildspråk metafor Skärselden Purgatorium själ sakrament vision visioner obeskrivlig förening retorik ödmjukhet andlig dagbok skrifter María de Jesús Teresa av Avila kolonial Amerika Nya Granada.

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