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- Bar-Sawme, Gabriel, 1985-
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Entering the Holy Place in Syriac Orthodox Liturgy : A Ritual and Theological Analysis
- 2021
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Questions concerning sacred spaces and their relationship to ritual is of interest to historians of religion and others as well. How sacred spaces emerge and are constructed and what relationship they have to rituals are some of the areas that are dealt with in this study in relation to Syriac Orthodox liturgy.The purpose of this study is to create a better understanding of how the Sedrō of Entrance has been practiced in earlier periods and architectural contexts and to investigate what role the entrance rite may have had in constructing the sanctuary as sacred space and the worshipping community as church. The Sedrō of Entrance is a prayer employed during the rite of entrance into the altar in Syriac Orthodox Eucharistic liturgy. This study uses ritual theory to frame the rite of entrance and studies the intersection of ritual text, action and place. Two research questions are addressed: a) How is the rite of entrance into the altar, in the Syriac Orthodox liturgy, performed during the 9th-13th centuries? b) How does the rite of entrance construct the sanctuary as sacred space and the worshipping community as church? The study builds on historical material, manuscripts from the 9th to the 13th centuries, architecture, and other historical textual material. The rite of entrance is framed with ritual theory. Theological analysis is also used to support the ritual theory. The themes of the dissertation include, among others, the relationship between ritual process, ritual place, and the ritual body. It also explores the role of language in the ritual process.
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- Edgardh Beckman, Ninna, 1955-
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Ställa om – och sen? : Pandemins effekter på gudstjänst och församlingsliv i Svenska kyrkan
- 2021
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Ingår i: Årsbok för svenskt gudstjänstliv. - Skellefteå : Artos & Norma bokförlag. - 0280-9133. ; 96, s. 169-192
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Readjustment – and then? The Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Church Services and Parish Life in the Church of SwedenThis article studies the effects of the covid-19 pandemic on church life in Sweden, and especially the liturgical life of Church of Sweden. During the first year of the pandemic (spring 2020 – spring 2021) local services were increasingly replaced by worship in front of the computer screen. Eucharist was celebrated less frequently and church buildings were for extended periods of time closed not only for services, but also for visitors. The article discusses ecclesiological challenges related to two aspects of these changes.The first aspect concerns the exploding amount of locally shaped varieties and types of worship, when parishes were encouraged to celebrate ”in a way that is possible”. The author relates this to a longer development that may be observed since the early 1970:s, and which has been summarized by theologian Marie Rosenius as ”autonomization”. Parishes have gradually become more separated from each other on a horizontal axis, while simultaneously being dissociated from their dioceses vertically. The effects of the pandemic seem to intensify this development, in turn challenging the ecclesiological idea of the Church of Sweden as defined by a liturgy that is recognizable from one week to the next and from one parish to another. This relates to the second aspect studied here, which concerns the tension between embodiment and disembodiment of church life. Digitalization of liturgical life clearly taps into the latter trend, challenging the ecclesiological idea of the local gathering as the primary expression of the church
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- Edgardh, Ninna, 1955-
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Diakonalt evangelium i en utmattad tid
- 2022
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Ingår i: Diakoni. - Stockholm : Verbum Forlag. - 9789152638811 ; , s. 141-161
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Edgardh, Ninna, 1955-
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Diakonin och omsorgen om vårt gemensamma hem : en könskritisk analys
- 2020
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Ingår i: Tidsskrift for praktisk teologi. - Oslo : Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society. - 1893-4773. ; 37:1, s. 32-41
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article takes its starting point in a recent tendency to include care for creation in the interpretation of diaconia as a ministry of the Christian church. Among those who argue for a renewed care for our neighbor and for the earth as our common home, we find such diverse Christian leaders as Pope Francis and the bishops of the Lutheran Church of Sweden. The article relates these arguments to a feminist discussion on the present crisis of welfare and care in the Western world. Both social care and ecological systems are exhausted in a system where care and reproductive work is subordinated to market oriented goals of growth and increased consumption. In order for the understanding of diaconia to integrate a responsibility not only in relation to needy human beings, but also to ecological systems that are under serious threat, the article argues for the importance of relating to this wider discussion on the crisis of care within feminist social theory. Feminist social theory may thus enrich theology in order to guard social care as a basic aspect of a global eco-system.
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- Edgardh, Ninna
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Praktisk teologi i ny skepnad
- 2021
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Ingår i: Svensk teologisk kvartalskrift. - : Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift. - 0039-6761 .- 2003-6248. ; 97:1, s. 5-26
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article takes its starting point in the return of Practical Theology as a specialization at the Faculty of Theology at Uppsala University in 2020, half a century after the discipline was replaced by ecclesiology. The question that the author wishes to answer is how the return may be interpreted. The return of Practical Theology has to do with a reform of both study programmes and organization of research at the faculty, resulting in a new research subject called Empirical-Practical Studies of Religion and Theology. Practical Theology is one of two specializations within the new subject area, the other being Sociology of Religion. Both specializations are possible to study with a profile in Didactics of Religion. The empirical turn in theology and humanities at large is a major driving force behind the creation of the new research subject. Lived religion and lived theology are increasingly at the forefront of studies in Sociology of Religion as well as in Ecclesiology, two former research subjects that now are merged. What unites the previously separate disciplines is a common interest in theories and methods for studying practices in a new multireligious Swedish context, where traditional confessional and religious boundaries are increasingly blurred. The special contribution of Practical Theology is the theological perspective, which consciously brings issues related to belief in God into the discussion.
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- Edgardh, Ninna, 1955-
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Queer Theology
- 2022
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Ingår i: The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Theology and Qualitative Research. - Hoboken : Wiley-Blackwell. - 9781119756927 - 9781119756897 - 9781119756910 - 9781119756934 ; , s. 243-251
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Queer theology is a theological field developed during the first decades of the twenty-first century. In queer activism as well as in queer theory, this insult is turned on its head. The deconstructive and anti-normative use of queer theory has given rise to critique, questioning the value of a concept that intentionally is kept empty. In that way, queer perspectives facilitate a questioning of normality, whether related to sexuality, gender, or understandings of God, or a combination of them all. The social context of the gender analysis consists of changes related to gender and families, which are one aspect of the challenges facing European welfare systems. Qualitative methods have the potential of placing experiences of queer Christian life, issues of power and justice, of pandemics and threats against climate and environment, of caring and vulnerability, at the center of theological reflection.
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- Edgardh, Ninna, 1955-
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Research in a Time of Liturgical Change : Nordic Perspectives
- 2020
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Ingår i: Praktische Theologie. - : Walter de Gruyter. - 0946-3518 .- 2198-0462. ; 55:2, s. 82-87
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Der Gottesdienst in den skandinavischen Volkskirchen wird seit den 1970er Jahren immerweniger von staatlichen und gesamtkirchlichen Vorgaben bestimmt; Gemeinden und Regionenentwickeln eigene Liturgien für den Sonntags- wie für thematische und Zielgruppengottesdienste, geprägt von feministischen und anderen kulturellen Impulsen. Der Artikel, miteinem Schwerpunkt auf der schwedischen Situation, skizziert die Agendenentwicklung wiedie begleitende Forschung und weist auf die Vorstellung eines gesamtchristlichen liturgischen»Ordo« hin, an dem sich das gottesdienstliche Leben ausrichten sollte.
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- Lockneus, Elin, Doktorand, 1989-
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Kyrkbänksteologi : En studie av gudstjänstfirares liturgiska praktikers teologi
- 2023
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The purpose of this study is to explore the theology of worshippers’ liturgical practices and to answer how theology appears in and through the worshippers’ liturgical practices. The studied phenomenon is theology in the liturgical life. This is researched through a case study where the unit of analysis is the theology of the worshippers’ liturgical practices. The empirical material is generated through methods inspired by ethnography: a field study with participant observations, and interviews. The abductive analysis is carried out in four steps with two types of theoretical resources: practice theories, and theological theories. With a strong concept of practice, I identify eleven liturgical practices: to sit, to listen, to receive, to give, to create community, to gather, to pray, to sing hymns, to read the Bible, and to confess. By using Natalie Wigg-Stevenson ́s and Christian Scharen ́s theological interpretation of practice theory, I show how theology appears as bodily knowledge that is incarnated by the worshippers and passed on to other worshippers. By showing what it is to be habituated as a worshipper, I reveal how agency varies and affects the worshippers. I show through the analysis how the worshippers conceive God as an agent whom they direct their practices toward. In that way it is possible to understand the liturgical practices as the worshippers’ ways of relating to God, whom they have gotten to know through those same practices. Therefore, I argue that theology is both embedded in and expressed through the liturgical practices. Using the “four voices of theology”, inspired by the ARCS-team’s (Helen Cameron, Deborah Bhatti, Catherine Duce, James Sweeney, and Clare Watkins) methodological framework, I then study how the aspect of language in theology relates to the liturgical practices. Various theological voices are identified. The analysis shows how the articulation of theology is characterized by polyphony and that the worshippers can, at least in part, articulate the theology of the liturgical practices. I argue that it is possible for the theology of liturgical practices to be articulated into spoken language by the sayings of worshippers. With the help from theories about theological wisdom, borrowed from the theologian Paul S. Fiddes and others, I highlight how theology emerge when the worshippers articulate their experiences of liturgical practices. The analysis, using phronesis, sofia, and hokmah, shows how the worshippers know God through the liturgical practices. The worshippers experience theology in and through the liturgical practices and can, at least in part, articulate it. Hence, I argue that there is a dynamic relationship between the personal and communal concerning the body and language as aspects of theology. This relates to the theology in the liturgical life. Thus, I discuss how the theology of the worshippers’ liturgical practices is in motion wherever worshippers engage in practices. The theology is relational by being created in the common social field where the meaning of worship is shared. I also discuss how the theology is lived by the worshippers, in the liturgy and with a God whom they know as a living God.
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