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- Egeland, Erik, 1974-
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Christianity, Generation and Narrative : Religious Conversion and Change in Sidama, Ethiopia, 1974–2012
- 2016
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This study presents narratives concerning religious conversion and change in Evangelical-Pentecostal Christian communities in the Sidama zone, Southern Ethiopia. The study is based on narrative data collected through field research, which mainly focuses on the period 1974–2012. This data is supplemented with previous research and unpublished sources.The study discusses how narratives about religious conversion and change intersect with transformations in Ethiopian society during the period. It describes and analyses narratives in order to show that individual narratives are part of collective stories. These stories become formative for common experiences and provide a distinct group identity as part of a social generation.The Ethiopian revolution in 1974 was a major turning point. The encounter with the revolutionary state resulted in narratives about challenges and persecution. On the other hand, this situation became the setting for mobility and connections, and created a communal identity between Christians.The stories about the period after the revolution in 1974 are conveyed in the present. After 1991, political transitions in Ethiopia created a new turning point which influenced narratives about religious conversion and change. The Christian communities experienced religious freedom and revitalisation, leading to growth and expansion. But the religious changes also led to competition and differences in and between Evangelical-Pentecostal communities. The changes created negotiation internally in Christian communities about denominational identities and about religious innovations. This setting intersected with an increase of new members who belonged to a younger emerging generation. This sets the study on the boundaries between generations, and where new narratives are renegotiated in the context of social change.The thesis consists of three parts; the first gives the reader an introduction to the research context of the study, a brief historical background and a discussion of methodology. The second part focuses on the period after the Ethiopian revolution in 1974. The last part discusses religious change in the Christian communities after the political transition in 1991, and into present.
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- Habib Zeiler, Johannes, 1976-
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Crafting Lutheran Pastors in Tanzania : Perceptions of Theological Education and Formation in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania
- 2018
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The quest for theological education is embedded in the history of the churches in sub-Saharan Africa and is, at the same time, inherently linked to how the churches continue to evolve and shift in character over time. It relates to the self-understanding of the churches and their role in society, including their academic and pastoral obligations to adequately educate and train leaders to work in the localities. With its estimated 6.5 million members, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT) is today one of the largest Lutheran churches in the world. The role and impact of institutions for theological education are high on the agenda in the ELCT, not least as the various educational institutions for ministerial training are often seen as important means in the processes of theologising and strategising for the future.This qualitative study draws heavily upon interviews with Lutheran bishops and theological educators in Tanzania, and identifies leading motives and ideas behind their current engagements in the field of ministerial studies. More specifically, it shows how the informants reflect upon, argue about and negotiate their perceptions of higher theological education. It demonstrates by what means, techniques, and practices they claim to govern, guide, and form the students in theology. Formal ministerial studies are not carried out in a vacuum but in and through certain institutions, appropriately designed to serve their purposes. In order to gain academic accreditation, institutional and theological recognition, and to oversee the processes of quality assurance, the ELCT cultivates its links with relevant actors and institutions in Tanzanian society. Even the global networks and connections, such as other churches and missionary organisations abroad, play a significant role in this regard.Drawing inspiration from governmentality studies and the notion of governmentality, this study focuses on ‘how’ questions; it examines how the interviewees think about governing, and how they calculate, strategise, or respond to certain problems linked to the multiple forms and models of theological training. As such, the study focuses on how government operates, and examines what claims, hopes, and visions the informants have in mind when educating a new generation of clergy in a rapidly changing society.
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- Lande, Aasulv, et al.
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Missionsvetenskap med ekumenik
- 2001
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Ingår i: Theologicum i Lund undervisning och forskning i tusen år. - Lund : Arcus. ; , s. 150-155
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Loder-Neuhold, Rebecca
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Crocodiles, Masks and Madonnas : Catholic Mission Museums in German-Speaking Europe
- 2019
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation examines mission museums established by Catholic mission congregations in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland from the 1890s onwards. The aim is to provide the first extensive study on these museums in a way that contributes to current blind spots in mission history, and the history of anthropology and museology. In this study I use Angela Jannelli’s concept of small-scale and amateurish museums to create a framework in order to characterise the museums. The dissertation focuses on the missionaries and their global networks, their “collecting” in the mission fields overseas, and the “collected” objects, by looking at primary sources from mission congregations’ archives. In the middle section of the dissertation the findings of an analysis of the compiled list of thirty-one mission museums are presented. This presentation focuses on their characteristics (for example, the museum surroundings, the opening and closing dates, the role of the curators, and type of objects). From this list of thirty-one museums three case studies were selected for in-depth analysis: (1) three “Africa museums” of the Missionary Sisters of St. Peter Claver (SSPC) in Salzburg, Maria Sorg and Zug, (2) an ethnographically oriented mission museum of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) in the mission house St. Gabriel near Vienna, and (3) a mission museum of the Sacred Heart Missionaries (MSC) in Hiltrup-Münster. This study reveals the reasons for opening mission museums by presenting a list of ten intentions. Then I propose a conclusive definition of a European Catholic mission museum. Finally, short descriptions (“portraits”) in the appendix present and analyse all thirty-one mission museums. In presenting the broad diversity of these museums, the thesis contributes to the understanding of missionary congregations’ development in the late 19th and 20th century and their impact on the material and immaterial exchange between German-speaking Catholic Europe and overseas.
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- Lundberg, Magnus, 1972-
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A Pope of their Own : El Palmar de Troya and the Palmarian Church
- 2017
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In 2018, fifty years will have passed since the first reports of Marian apparitions in El Palmar de Troya in Spanish Andalusia. It will also be the fortieth anniversary of the coronation of the seer Clemente Domínguez Gómez as Pope Gregory XVII, and the consequent foundation of the Palmarian Catholic Church. Still, placing the papal tiara on his head was only seen as a human act of confirmation. He asserted that Christ himself had crowned him just after the death of Pope Paul VI.This book provides a broad overview of the history of the apparitions at El Palmar de Troya and the church that became its main result. It also includes a more systematic analysis of the church’s increasingly unusual doctrines and rituals. Through the study, I try to answer two underlying questions: First, which factors contributed to the foundation of the Palmarian Church? Second, how has the church survived and developed through its four decades of existence?
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- Lundberg, Magnus
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Aasulv Lande and Missiology
- 2004
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Ingår i: Svensk Missionstidsskrift. - Uppsala : Sveriges kristliga studentrörelses förlag. - 0346-217X. ; 92:3, s. 313-318
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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