Selaus syöttöajan mukaan kokoelmassa 6160 Muut humanistiset tieteet

This is an article-based thesis that explores the religious, human rights, and media dimensions of healing of mental illness at prayer camps in Ghana. Prayer camps are healing centres established across various parts of ...

Jazz musicians often talk about the changes, referring to the chord sequences of a tune. The changes are the harmonic framework for improvisations, and as such they govern what the appropriate note choices are for improvising ...

The Anthroposophical Society, founded by the Austrian polymath Rudolf Steiner, came to Sweden in 1913, but for the generation of present-day Swedish Anthroposophists whose voices are heard in this study, the great flowering ...

With Finnish independence in 1917, long-awaited legislative reforms were put in force in the country. Jews gained the right to obtain Finnish citizenship. The same year, the Finnish Parliament implemented the Civil Marriage ...

This doctoral thesis analyses the occurrence and context of human sacrifice in Old Norse religion. The aim of this study is to investigate the written sources that mention human sacrifices in the Late Iron Age Scandinavian ...

This thesis is a study of the Rajatieto scene in Finland. The Finnish word rajatieto (Fringe-Knowledge) was created in the 1970s by a group of people interested in ufology, spiritualism and different kinds of alternative ...

This thesis is a compilation of four articles concerning various aspects of intertext, intertextual practice, and various ‘goings-on’ of fandom. Specifically this thesis concerns the folklore of Discworld fandom as expressed ...

Most of us are familiar with the saying “actions speak louder than words”. As the saying implies, a lot can be read from a single action, but how are our actions made meaningful and significant? And what can be discovered ...

This thesis contributes to the growing body of research on non-religion by examining shared and differentiating patterns in the worldviews of Finnish non-religious group-affiliates. The organisations represented in this ...