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- Alvstad, Erik
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Den rabbinska traditionen
- 2017
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Boken handlar om judisk bibeltolkning. Texter och textpraktiker är helt centrala för den rabbinska judendomen. Här undersöks grunderna för denna på en gång litterära, religiösa och hermeneutiska tradition samt den bakomliggande synen på uppenbarelsen. Frågan om den rabbinska kommentartraditionens legitimitet och auktoritet löper som en röd tråd genom boken. Hur förankrade det rabbinska etablissemanget sina utläggningar och tolkningar, som ibland bara verkar ha ett mycket vagt underlag i Bibeln och emellanåt markant skiljer sig från det kommenterade verket? Med vilken instans sökte man auktorisera sin tolkning? Och vad menade egentligen rabbinerna när de gjorde gällande att Torah är en evigt fruktbar företeelse, vars ord växer och förökar sig precis på samma sätt som en planta växer och förökar sig? I boken behandlas den rabbinska judendomens läsarpraktiker och läsarideologier, kampen om läroauktoritet och tolkningsföreträden, samt hur en religiös tradition (den rabbinska judendomen) och en social grupps (den rabbinska ”klassen”) samhälleliga hegemoni legitimeras genom just text, läsning, tolkning och undervisning. Men i en annan bemärkelse så behandlas vissa närmast allmängiltiga förhållningssätt till tillvaron, och några av de sätt på vilka människan genom förmedlingen av litteratur och religion skapat mening och format sina sociala och kulturella villkor. I sammanhanget ges också en introduktion till några av judendomens centrala verk, såsom Mishnah, Talmud, och Midrash.
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- Alvstad, Erik, 1966
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Encounters between Believers and Non-Believers in a Symbolic Universe: Religious Dialogue and Controversy on the Internet
- 2010
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Religion and Society. - 0809-7291. ; 23:1, s. 71-86
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article examines aspects of the debate on faith between religious and secular actors on the Internet. Point of departure is taken in the question whether the Internet contributes to a deeper understanding and tolerance between religious and non-religious worldviews, or if it rather reproduces or possibly even intensifies existing conflicts related to religious discourse. The examination is situated in the context of what is conceived as an interplay of secularizing and counter-secularizing forces in the post-industrial, late-modern societies of the West. It is implemented by means of an analysis of the contributions posted on the discussion groups that deal with religion on a popular Swedish website.
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- Alvstad, Erik
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Jublets genealogi
- 2013
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Ingår i: Glänta. - : Glänta produktion. - 1104-5205. ; :1, s. 9-11
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Alvstad, Erik, 1966
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Reading the Dream Text: A Nexus between Dreams and Texts in the Rabbinic Literature of Late Antiquity
- 2010
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This study deals with conceptions and practices related to dreams in early rabbinic Judaism. One aspect of the Jewish dream culture in particular is considered, viz. the tendency evinced in the rabbinic literature of Late Antiquity to associate dreams and texts with each other. The juxtaposing of elements pertaining to the discourse on dreams and elements relating to the discourse on texts are discernable in rabbinic texts of many different genres, indicating that aspects of these phenomena were... mer considered analogous on some level. In the study, points of intersection between dreams and texts in the rabbinic literature are identified, described and examined through analyses of narratives, aphorisms, prayers, rituals and omina associated with dreams. It is shown that an examination of the nexus between dreams and texts in the rabbinic literature has the potential to yield substantial knowledge of how the nature of dreams was conceived of in rabbinic Judaism of Late Antiquity, as well as to garner insights into some of the culturally modelled procedures that were contrived specifically to respond to the phenomenon of dreaming. In the study some of the underlying cultural problems and social tensions that the texts involved might represent attempts to deal with are identified. It is furthermore argued that the articulations of a dream-text nexus in the rabbinic literature express and play on a fundamental ambivalence regarding the nature and status of the dream and its relation to the culturally sanctioned texts, first and foremost the Bible.
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- Alvstad, Erik
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"The Jew Monster" : Religion, satir och judisk identitetsproblematik i en karikatyrteckning av Eli Valley
- 2013
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Ingår i: Chaos. - : Forlaget Chaos. - 0108-4453 .- 1901-9106. ; :59, s. 31-56
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article examines cartoons and comics as a platform for religious criticism and satire, with particular focus on a work called The Jew Monster made by the controversial American-Jewish cartoonist and creator of comics, Eli Valley. Valley’s satirical works have a number of recurring themes, such as Israeli politics, Zionism and its legacy, the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, anti-Semitism and Jewish identity and religion. Not least is Valley often using a kind of provocative humour to criticize political and religious leaders. In order to examine some aspects of Valley’s satire, the cartoon The Jew Monster will be analyzed. The first part of the analysis consists of a close reading of the cartoon carried out with regard to its context, viz. the heated debates regarding religious caricatures that have taken place during the last years. The principal aim of this analysis is to establish what kind of phenomena Valley ridicules with this satirical work. In the second part of the analysis the reception of The Jew Monster by its audience is examined. This analysis is conducted through an assessment of the comments on the cartoon on various websites (including Valley’s own), in journals and media statements.
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Identitet i en föränderlig värld : Sju nya historieskrivningar
- 2021
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Antologin visar nyansrikedomen inom det ämne som i vid mening kallas historia. Avståndet mellan texterna kan tyckas vara stort, då det rör sig om skildringar av hur vikingar gestaltas på museum, den svenska adelns förändrade identitet under 1800-talet, hur unga flyktingar i Sverige idag formulerar sin historiska självförståelse i sociala medier och analys av socialdemokraters memoarer som historieskrivning. Vidare berörs materialförvaltares professionalisering inom elitishockey, kulturarv och reggaeturism i Jamaica samt volontärorganisationers förändring till politiska rörelser i flyktingmottagandet 2015. Det gemensamma temat för antologin är frågor om hur individer eller kollektiv formar sin identitet i relation till de temporala sammanhang som de skriver in sig själva i.
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- Karlsson, Anders, 1974-
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Vilket religionskunskapsämne? : Ämneskonstruktioner i religionskunskap på gymnasiet med samtalsförhandlingar i centrum.
- 2015
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis aims to describe one educational sequence in religious education. The study shows articulations and negotiations in the religious education classroom, as well as on digital discussion forums. Two questions are the core of the explorative case study. What is communicated between teachers and students in a Re-classroom in Sweden? How does the content of the communication contribute to constructing the Re-subject in two different discussion forums: digital and analogue? The case study follows an upper secondary school class, with 18 years old students, during one teaching sequence.The theoretical foundation is based in a social-cultural perspective. Data is produced by ethnographic methods and consist of classroom observations and interviews with teachers and students. For the interpretation of speech Even’s relief theory is used concerning what is said and Michel Bakhtin’s thoughts on speech genre concerning how it is expressed and negotiated in the teaching sequence.The analysis of the different forums show that in all of them, teachers and students tend to focus on what religious persons do, their appearance, and how they are limited by their faith. The religious persons are compared to a way of living according to a secular norm that the students find more relevant and up-to-date. When speaking of religious persons the students tend to express it in a derisive and disparaging way. Negotiations on content and framework factors interrupt the actual teaching in the classroom environment whilst digital forums are self-regulating and discussions quickly return to the topic after irrelevant digressions.In the discussion part of the thesis the various discussion forums are evaluated didactically. The impact of gender and framework factors on the student-teacher discussions is also raised. An additional question that is problematized is the tension between the curriculum of the subject and the teacher’s desire to get students interested in religion as a subject, described as ‘the teacher’s dilemma’. It is discussed whether this dilemma controls the teacher’s choice of subject.
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