<p>Har kyrkan något att ge en människa som söker motvikter till den yttre pågående strävan? Ett svar på den frågan kanske en blick emot kyrkokörsången skulle kunna ge. Många människor går till sina respektive körrepetitioner varje vecka för att ge en del av sin tid åt sången, fortbildningen, förberedelserna inför framträdanden, gemenskapen och vilan från vardagen. Finns där också en upplevelse av en transcendent dimension som än mer motiverar sångaren att ge av sin tid till kyrkokören?</p><p>Denna uppsats vill ge några aktiva kyrkokörsångares svar på denna fråga. Rubriken på denna uppsats; ”Vad man ändå fått vara med om…”, är ett citat från en av intervjuerna.</p><p>Jag är intresserad av att veta om det finns körsångare som har fått en känsla av att erfara en annan dimension än det vi kallar verkligheten, under utövandet eller avlyssnandet av körsång.</p><p>Termen man brukar använda för denna dimension, i religionsvetenskapliga sammanhang är ”das ganz Andere”. Många människor grubblar över existentiella frågor: om det finns ett liv efter döden, om Gud finns och om han eller hon i så fall kommunicerar med oss. Och om det finns människor som genom körsången tycker sig ha anat ”något mer”, hur påverkas dessa i så fall av denna upplevelse?</p>

Har kyrkan något att ge en människa som söker motvikter till den yttre pågående strävan? Ett svar på den frågan kanske en blick emot kyrkokörsången skulle kunna ge. Många människor går till sina respektive körrepetitioner varje vecka för att ge en del av sin tid åt sången, fortbildningen, förberedelserna inför framträdanden, gemenskapen och vilan från vardagen. Finns där också en upplevelse av en transcendent dimension som än mer motiverar sångaren att ge av sin tid till kyrkokören? Denna uppsats vill ge några aktiva kyrkokörsångares svar på denna fråga. Rubriken på denna uppsats; ”Vad man ändå fått vara med om…”, är ett citat från en av intervjuerna. Jag är intresserad av att veta om det finns körsångare som har fått en känsla av att erfara en annan dimension än det vi kallar verkligheten, under utövandet eller avlyssnandet av körsång. Termen man brukar använda för denna dimension, i religionsvetenskapliga sammanhang är ”das ganz Andere”. Många människor grubblar över existentiella frågor: om det finns ett liv efter döden, om Gud finns och om han eller hon i så fall kommunicerar med oss. Och om det finns människor som genom körsången tycker sig ha anat ”något mer”, hur påverkas dessa i så fall av denna upplevelse?

This study analysis the concept of human needs form a systematic theological perspective. The definition of human needsis formulated to include the element of deficiency as well as the element of potential The study is divided in three parts according to the author’s definition of the task of systematic theology as coherent articulation of the Christian faith, the apologetic defense of the Christian faith against competing truth claims and the establishment of guidelines for the practical work of the church. According to this definition of the task of systematic theology, the study is divided into three parts. Part one analyses some of the classical loci of dogmatics for their implications for a Christian perspective on human needs. The doctrines of God, creation, Christ and salvation, the Spirit and the church as well as the doctrine of sin are analysed here. Special attention is paid to theological anthropology by analyzing the contributions of Karl Barth and Wolfhart Pannenberg in this regard. Part two analyses the origins and factual basis for the popular claims that a hierarchy of needs exist and that people have infinite needs. Serious deficiencies are found in Maslow’s theory of the pre-potency of needs. The contribution of Max-Neref, especially his distinction between needs and satisfies, facilitates a more nuanced understanding of the subject. As a conclusion to this part the results of part one and two are used to give a short outline of a Christian perspective on human needs. Humans need God as the basic ground and purpose of their existence. The presence of God is both mediated and presupposed by the fundamental need for other people. All human needs have a material basis. Human needs should be thought of as a network and not as a hierarchy. Here the symbolic needs facilitates the integration of the person while the material needs maintain the basis on which integration takes place People do not have infinite needs but needs the Infinite One. The third part provides clarity of what the concepts holistic and relevant mean for Christian ministry. / Thesis (DD (Dogmatics and Christian Ethics))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Dogmatics and Christian Ethics / unrestricted

Current scholarly work on E.L. Doctorow’s (1931-2015) novel The Book of Daniel: A Novel (1971) often ignores the narrator Daniel Isaacson’s implicit critique of Rousseau’s civil religion. This paper will show the importance of civil religion within the novel despite its being overlooked by most scholars. In The Book of Daniel, Daniel frequently examines instances of American civil religion and even goes as far as to describe it as inevitable and intrusive on freedom. Daniel implies throughout the novel that the American government models their civil religion on Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s (1712-1778) conception as described in his treatise The Social Contract (1762). Daniel suggests that Rousseau’s approach to civil religion creates a false dilemma between the ideals of civil religious soldier and enemy. Daniel’s critique shows a limitation within Rousseau’s and possibly America’s understanding of civil religion. Despite there being evidence supporting his critique, Daniel’s extreme intersectional approach to identity makes his critique impossible to implement within societal, political, or legal realms since it allows people to be both soldier and enemy at the same time.

The study of the phenomenon of religion is a field that has many challenges regarding what its object of study is and how to observe and interpret the different religious phenomenon in a way that reflects both its origin and how its practiced. The study is carried out through a philosophical approach. In this essay Lua Nazerian intends to address the four different theoretical perspectives: Critical Religion Theory, Cognitive Sciences of Religion, Positive Psychology and Platonic Idealism. The two former ones are well established theoretical frameworks in the study of religion, while the two latter ones are lend from the field of psychology and philosophy to test whether they could be used as analytical tools in the study of religion. Moreover the perspectives different view on the human nature in particular are further examined through the lens of the subcategories: Materialism, Conceptualism and Realism. Furthermore, by adding the two subcategories of 1) a virtuous life 2) transcendence, the essay examines whether the perspectives touches on these topics which seems to be central concepts in the majority of religious doctrine. Finally, some possible conclusions of the perspectives inherent premises impacting the understanding of religion are carefully examined and presented. Suggested further studies to be done cross-disciplines, such as religious studies, positive psychology and philosophy. Also by a combination of descriptive and prescriptive approach within religious studies.

Chinese people, like those of many other cultures, understand themselves as belonging to a specific gender, one with social rules and positions that can be difficult to stray from. Such gender norms have existed in China for millennia. There are a number of ways to examine what these gender norms are (or have been), and a number of ways in which one can understand how they dictated the lives of the Chinese people they defined. The present thesis is a translation and study of two Chinese hagiographical collections from the late Song or early Yuan Dynasty. These collections detail the exploits of Daoist transcendents. The first collection translated is concerned with male transcendents, the second with female transcendents. In translating these texts, I seek to understand how gender is portrayed in the lives of exceptional religious figures. As an examination of gender within a patriarchal—or at least male-dominant—society, I expected the female transcendents to be relegated, somehow, to a lesser station. Through my translations I argue that, though they could not wholly extricate themselves from gender norms, religious Daoism, as portrayed in the hagiographies, offered both men and women from certain social obligations. These social obligations include such institutions as marriage and reproduction (for both men and women). The hagiographies also depict a greater sense of equality for Daoist women than they might have found otherwise. At its most ambitious, Narrating Transcendents serves to demonstrate the multivalent function of hagiographies as tools religious communities used to define and guide themselves. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)

This research determines the ground for a Christian theological anthropology that makes provision for a doctrine that supports human self-realization. It is evident from the study that anthropological self-realization is an involved process of becoming truly human, not an isolated course founded solely on the biblical knowledge of being created in the image and likeness of God. All sciences, and in particular anthropological sciences, enjoy the prerogative of unraveling and analyzing the human person. Whether these sciences are neuro-biological, psychological, theological, philosophical, biblical, spiritual or mystical in character, each with its specific method legitimately attempts to explain the complexities of the human person. In the light of this neither philosophy nor theology possess the exclusive claim to authentic human wisdom. In truth most scientific insights have a combined impact on the self-realizing growth and development of humanity. The process of self-realization links theology to real life questions such as evil, suffering, hope, love, justice and freedom, as well as with the immanent, the transcendent, the human and the divine. This thesis holds to the opinion that a theology of self-realization would contribute to the 'humanization' of theology since it brings praxis and theory into close alignment. This study equally expresses the conviction that the doctrine of consecrated vowed life, an ecclesiastical structure in the Roman Catholic Church, is particularly in need of humanization, as the notion of 'self' as a strength has been notably absent from traditional treatises on the practices of religious life. Conventional forms of consecrated vowed life called the woman to suppress and spiritualize at least some of her femininity. This was due to the distorted theological anthropology that sustained consecrated life in which God was presented as an idea to be grasped intellectually, and not an experience to be lived. / Philosophy, Practical & Systematic Theology / Th. D. (Systematic Theology)

As a consequence of a process of semiotic totalization of public life in totalitarian societies, a system of social, esthetic, ethic and language norms becomes radically altered. This system is partially described in Totalitarian kitsch section, in chapters called Totality, Kitsch, Art, Language, Esthetics and Myth. In a passage called Underground, totalitarian realism and Egon Bondy's and Ivan Vodseďálek's gauche poetry is interpreted as a model reply on totalitarian society conditions. A concept of total poetry is introduced. We ask a question: what actually total poetry is, if not an art? Eleven answers are being sequentially found: 1. it is a complex of apocryphal texts of socialistic realism, 2. it is a game about art, 3. it is culture at the phase of being born, 4. a method of phenomenological reduction, 5. a language game, 6. de-construction of myth, 7. occupation of game position within totalitarian society, 8. a myth, 9. a semiotic clearance process carried out through semiotic rage, 10. symbolization of reality and realization of symbol, 11. call for a game. In the end, we try to define total poetry in relationship to avant-garde, modern art and postmodernism. Three points have been discussed in a chapter called Kitsch and underground: 1. recapitulation of acceptation of Egon Bondy's and...

La part de l’irrationnel dans les processus de sélection des futurs dirigeants des grandes entreprises françaises. Cette thèse explore la part d’irrationalité intervenant dans les processus de sélection des futurs dirigeants français. Examinant les profils des dirigeants français du début du 21ème siècle, elle souligne la persistance d’une doxa cartésienne, c’est-à-dire la croyance en l’autorité de la conscience et de la raison dans la détection, la sélection ou la génération d’élites et plus particulièrement de dirigeants dans les organisations, réalisant en particulier un biais de sélection sociale précoce pour l’accès à la direction des grandes entreprises. Combinant les apports des théories de l’agence, des échelons supérieurs, et de la rationalité limitée, ce travail construit une vision intégrative des enjeux et paramètres de la sélection des futurs dirigeants à plusieurs niveaux (individus, systèmes, réseaux, organisation, culture), et analyse comment des processus rationnels peuvent être modifiés par des formes d’irrationalité, des premiers moments de détection et de fabrique des talents à celle, à la fois plus symbolique et signifiante, de la dirigeance. Le cadre conceptuel du leader transcendant permet de représenter une vision intégrative du leadership, et d’explorer les « nouvelles » qualités que les processus de sélection devront identifier, illustrant l’inadéquation des processus traditionnels aux enjeux des entreprises modernes. Ce travail met en lumière la nécessité de réévaluer les pratiques de la sélection des dirigeants au travers d’une rationalité procédurale plus en adéquation avec la réalité opératoire, à la fois sur le plan de la rationalité sous-jacente (les valeurs et critères du leadership), de ses outils (les méthodes d’évaluation), et de son objet (une articulation intégrative et continue du développement et de la sélection assumant une part d’irrationnel). / The purpose of this research work is to investigate how irrationality plays a significant role in selecting top executives in French corporates. Upon an in-depth review of the making of top executives in France at the beginning of the 21st century, it appears that a Cartesian rationale still prevails, based on the sheer belief that conscience and reason must be the unique dimensions used in selecting, promoting, and thus, perpetuating elites, from the early school years to the appointment of the C-suite in large organisations. Three theories are central in this research work: the agency theory, the upper echelon theory, as well as the bounded rationality theory. Combining them in an integrative conceptual framework allows to understand how strong rational patterns might be affected by forms and mechanisms of irrationality all along the process of identifying and developing future leaders to the more significant moment when they are appointed. Ultimately, the outcome of this research work shows that the model of « transcendent leadership » seems more effective than others to address the challenges of identifying and selecting executives in modern organisations. This leads to examining how to build more robust systems of executive selection at three levels of progress: (a) underlying values and patterns of leadership, (b) assessment tools and processes and (c) conscious acceptance of irrationality as a significant part of talent and executive spotting and development.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T19:20:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Amir Aparecido dos Santos Piedade.pdf: 1813772 bytes, checksum: 80a90e6adad20ad953830a76de58833c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-05-19 / This work analyses the Brazilian Children s Literature in between 1950 and 1985, and has as main objective to identify in which authors whose works are still published we can find references to the Sacred, whether in poetry or prose. The methodology used was a research in publications of Children s Literature and hermeneutics from the works of the selected authors. The hypothesis is that the Sacred s marks left by the authors never should be seen like evangelization and catechesis, but like a childish and loving engagement with the Transcendent. And also, it can be used as an orientation to the new authors and to the editorial business, that there is no problem in publishing texts that contains representations, symbols or Sacred manifestations to children, on the contrary, it helps them to see the experience with the Sacred as an integral part of their formation and it can follow them, with no problems, throughout life, contributing to the individual and collective formation, and the search for understanding of great questions of humanity / Este trabalho analisa a Literatura Infantil brasileira no período de 1950 a 1985 e tem como objetivo principal identificar em quais autores, cujas obras estão publicadas até hoje, se encontram referenciais ao Sagrado, seja em poesia ou prosa. A metodologia utilizada foi a pesquisa em publicações de Literatura Infantil e a hermenêutica das obras dos autores selecionados. A hipótese é que as marcas do Sagrado deixadas pelos autores em nenhum momento devem ser vistas como evangelização e catequese, mas como encontro lúdico e amoroso com o Transcendente. E, também, podem servir de orientação para os novos autores e para o mercado editorial que não há problema algum em publicar textos que contenham representações, símbolos ou manifestações do Sagrado para crianças, pelo contrário, ajudaas a vivenciarem a experiência com o Sagrado como parte integrante de sua formação e que pode acompanhá-las, sem nenhum problema, pela vida afora, contribuindo à formação individual e coletiva e a busca de compreensão para os grandes questionamentos existenciais da humanidade