?Life on a delicate thread?Baptism and godparenting in Bottnaryd and Ulricehamn 1781-1783The aim of this study is to discover if there were differences between the baptism traditions maintained in a typical rural parish and in an urban town parish in the period 1781-1783 and to suggest possible reasons for any differences found. Baptism records from rural Bottnaryd parish and the town of Ulricehamn were studied and compared. In both communities, parents were anxious to have their child christened on the day of birth or the day after. They did not want to wait until the following Sunday, as church law prescribed. Infant mortality was high and if the child died before it was christened, it would not go to heaven.

Meticillinresistenta Staphylococcus Aureus, MRSA, är en bakterie som är resistent mot all form av betalaktamantibiotika och därmed försvåras den medicinska behandlingen av en rad vanliga infektioner i dagens samhälle. Sverige är ett av de få länder i världen som har en förekomst av MRSA under 1 % men har ett gemensamt med resten av världen, smittspridningen ökar också här. År 2008 rapporterades 1306 fall av MRSA, fyra gånger så många som år 2000. Tidigare forskning är fokuserad på t.ex. att undersöka smittspridning, hälsoekonomi och vårdhygien men vi ville fokusera på den som drabbas; patienten.

The main aim of my research essay is to examine two congregations, one in Sweden and one in Democratic Republic of Congo, how theology and the life in the church shape the cultural context. The analysis uses semi-structured interviews of two pastors responsible for organizing the Easter celebration in their churches. The interviews serve the purpose to reveal how they apply theology in their context, how they interpret the Easter celebration liturgically in relation to the early church and how they perceive the cultural development in the congregations Easter celebration 2010-11. To give complementary insights to the interviews I use computer-aided interviews with members of the congregations. The methodological approach is based on a study of contextual theological theories, Easter traditions in the early church, Easter theologies and then applying these theories in the interviews.