Studien avser att ge en bild av hur samtal om gudsrelation hanteras i psykoterapi. Data samlades in genom en fokusgrupp och 13 intervjuer. Urvalet bestod av terapeuter och själavårdare med erfarenhet av att samtala om gudsrelation med konfidenter. Materialet analyserades med en modifierad version av Consensual Qualitative Research. Analysen gav sju kategorier som beskrivs ingående: Förekomst, Initiering, Samtalens karaktär och behandlarens förhållningssätt, Behandlarens strategier och arbetssätt, Relevans, Möjliga vinster och risker samt Metanivå.

In this work, you get drawn into a different and distant world than the one we are usedto. You get to know what shamanism is, in a basic and understandable way, easy to lookupon for a newcomer to this gigantic subject. The world of raging spirits and meddlingshamans with the belief of three worlds where spirits roam will be compared toreligions that we might know better, with big focus on the Aesir Faith. Oden and otherwell-known characters from this belief are in a historical way looked upon and relatedto beliefs, storys and findings.The archaic belief of the humans are intriguing and exciting, and I hope you find outthat yourself, when you dig in to this essay.

Jag redogör i denna uppsats för debatten om religiös omskärelse inom judendomen i Sverige och internationellt under perioden 2000-2008. Jag redogör vidare för hur argumenten från båda sidor yttrar sig, både de som motsätter sig omskärelse och de som inte gör det. Detta gör jag utifrån olika perspektiv som religion, svensk lagstiftning, HIV och allmänhälsa. Mina frågeställningar är: Hur har debatten om omskärelse artat sig under 2000-talet? Vilka aspekter har debatterats mest om ingreppet omskärelse?.

In 1809 the citizens of Sweden where given the freedom to practice their Christian faith through the Swedish constitution of 1809, 16 §. This proclaimed that there should be religious freedom in Sweden, albeit restricted to Evangelical-Lutheran faith. Although after the law regarding dissenters was passed in 1860 by choosing another church than the Evangelical-Lutheran church you lost some civic rights, for example you could not become a public official. The freedom to choose religious affiliation was given through the Law of Religious Freedom in 1951. The purpose of this study is to evaluate in what way the concept of religious freedom has developed in Swedish law between 1809 and 1951.In the background I treat two historical events and one era, with focus upon religious freedom, which have in my opinion influenced the view of religious freedom in Sweden during the chosen period of 1809?1951.

With increasing wine consumption and a growing assortment at available to Swedish consumers, there is an interest in understanding the decision making process of Swedish wine consumers. In this thesis the expert phenomenon is studied with respect to wine through wine critic reliability: grading objectivity, understanding the process of wine criticism and possible critic influence on consumer behavior. Two studies were performed; a qualitative in-depth session of interviews with industry connoisseurs and a quantitative analysis of 589 online wine reviews. Our results indicate that wine reviews are highly subjective and defy prediction through analysis of external variables. Critics are likely to judge differently based on what information they have at hand, suggesting that expectations affect grading.

In the aftermath of three high-profile honor killings the social service administrators became strongly criticized for their lack of skills and knowledge when it comes to dealing with honorrelated cases. In order to fix this lack of knowledge and to respond to the criticism from the society, the Swedish government allocated resources to train administrators in social services to improve their knowledge of honor-related violence and know how to handle clients who are victims of honor-related crimes.The aim of this study is to examine how social service administrators perceive their professional knowledge regarding to their work in honor-related cases. How they perceive their competence and discretion in relation to the work of honor-related problems and their perception of what resources the organization has to provide training and skill development in this area. The study shows that the social service administrators experience that there has been a development of knowledge in some areas regarding their work with honor-related cases but that there still exists an uneven distribution in terms of knowledge between small and large communities in Sweden..

Bakgrund: Ett omvårdnadsvetenskapligt synsätt är att se människan som en enhet av kropp, själ och ande. Omvårdnad ska, enligt sjuksköterskans kompetensbeskrivning, utgå från en helhetssyn på människan. Trots detta försummas andlighet hos patienter på grund av bristande utbildning och förståelse av begreppet andlighet samt organisatoriska begränsningar. En vanlig uppfattning är att religion och andlighet ses som synonymer, trots att andlighet är ett vidare begrepp. Syfte: Att beskriva hur svårt sjuka patienter uttrycker sin andlighet.

Some researchers claim that we are witnessing the advancement of becoming a network society, and in spite of the different problems associated with the network form of organization, many cities still choose to engage in different types of networks. On account of that the aim of the study is to examine which expectations Swedish member cities of the network Eurotowns might have, and if their actions in the initial period of engagement in Eurotowns mainly could be explained by ?Logic of Consequentiality? or ?Logic of Appropriateness?.A qualitative research method was used and a major part of the empirical material consists of the information given by the interviewees.Regarding the expectations Swedish member cities have on Eurotowns, the result showed that five main areas could be identified mutual resource exchange, activities, breadth, security and meeting place. The results also showed that the actions of Swedish member cities may vary between ?Logic of Consequentiality?, ?Logic of Appropriateness? or a combination of the both logics.Furthermore the study also provides empirical evidence supporting the previously theoretical criticism expressed regarding the central assumption that the strategic actions of an actor can be regarded as a direct consequence of the mutual resource dependency..

Sammanfattning Är virtuella världar sakraliserade?Virtuella är sakraliserade i jämförelse med vår sekulariserade värd och jag hade inte förväntat mig ett så stort utbud av religion i onlinespel. I och med min forskning anser jag att Final Fantasy XI och World of Warcraft i största grad är sakraliserade virtuella världar där människor världen över antar rollen som så kallade ?cyberpiligrims? och ge sig ut på ett äventyr för att upptäcka sin identitet och utforska sig själva. I spelen förekommer religiösa föreställningar och de är en plats där man kan konstruera sin andlighet liksom på övriga Internet.

Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka hur idealen i statskyrkan och frikyrkorörelsen interagerade med arbetarrörelsens under sent 1800-tal och tidigt 1900-tal. Sverige är under den här perioden ett samhälle i förändring på såväl politisk, social som religiös nivå och i detta arbete undersöks några perspektiv på konsekvenserna av dessa förändringar. Med en teori om varför människor blir religiösa, undersöker jag närmare vilken natur engagemangen i rörelserna kunde ha. Den tidiga arbetarrörelsen inspirerades av Marx och då marxism och en positiv religionsyn inte är förenliga vill jag visa på att när religionen slutade vara det som skänkte mening och tillhörighet ersattes den av den politiska ideologin.

Our society has become increasingly digitized, and all around us information flows constantly. Knowledge about valuing different sources of information, and not least the information itself, are becoming increasingly important. Media and information have come to play a big role in our society, and knowledge of media and information literacy becomes important to learn in school. High school students are at the beginning of their adult lives as educated citizens.In this study, we measured high school students experience of media and information literacy, during their three years in high school. Students answered a questionnaire, with questions based upon theoretical concepts in media and information literacy.

The purpose of this article is partly to find out how the burial grounds are used today and the needs of its visitors, but also to develop the character and expression of future burial grounds. My suggestions focus on burial grounds without religious attributes; something that, according to the burial law (Begravningslagen, 1990:1144), the manager of the burial ground is ordered to obey. In my design I aim to fulfill any requests regarding the place of burial that have been raised during my study. I have chosen the history of burial grounds as my starting point and will subsequently discuss their significance in today's society. I describe what distinguishes the burial ground throughout history from medieval times and onwards. Tradition and religion are closely linked regarding burial rituals.

In our bachelor thesis we have strived to examine the representation of journalism students in Nicaragua. The freedom of press is much lower compared to Sweden and the journalist profession is protected by a certificate. It is also a high level of corruption within the country. Our investigation concerns who has access to the journalist education and the goal is to compare that with the public in Nicaragua. To be able to examine the representation among the journalism students we have chosen seven different aspects to examine, the sex of the student, witch social class they belong to, their academic background, religion, ethnicity, geographical belonging and political view.

The aim of this bachelor thesis is to examine the current situation as regarding the political equality in Iran. The method of this reaserch is based on a single-case studie wich grounds in secondary sources. The analysis of this paper is based on fields that concern political equality which in this study will focus on the right to vote, candidacies in the parliament election 2004 and the presidential election 2005. A democracy theory by Jack Lively is used to analyze the political equality in Iran´s political system.The Iranian regim is strongly criticized by the goverments in the Western world and NGO´s for the situation of the democracy and the human rights in the country. Despite the criticism, Iran still continues in the same political direction, although the democracy has gained a stronger role in the political sphere.

Kultkontinuitet är ett omdiskuterat begrepp inom religionshistorisk forskning. Vid övergången från en religion till en annan kan olika typer av beständighet ibland urskiljas, exempelvis när det gäller val av kultplats samt handlingar vid denna plats. Ofta har diskussionen kring kultkontinuitet i Norden rört uppförandet av kristna kyrkor på förkristna kultplatser. Inom folkreligiositeten har även offrandet vid vissa källor ansetts ha förkristna anor. Längs Ångermanälven finns exempel på den här typen av källor, där offrande och källdrickning från katolsk tid och framåt påstås ha sina rötter i förkristen kult.