This essay examines the using of consensus method for decision making within the World Council of Churches (WCC) and the process that led to the decision to adopt its usage. The main question of my essay is why the method was introduced to the WCC and what motives lay behind its introduction. Other questions are how the consensus method works; both in theory and in practice, and what the predecessors and prototypes for the method are.The consensus method belongs to a broad Christian tradition of spiritual discernment and spiritual decision making. The New Testament, in particular Acts, gives examples of decision making in the early church which show that discerning God's will was considered essential. However the most influential model for the consensus method have been the decision making process of the Religious Society of Friends or Quakers, and also the consensus model of the Uniting Church in Australia.

Charles Hartshorne (1897-2000) was a religious philosopher. He adopted and developed the cosmologic thinking and concept of God from the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, he was also influenced by Heidegger, Spinoza and other philosophers. According to Whiteheads religious Philosophy Hartshorne claimed that there is a dualistic transcendence within the Godhead. A dualistic transcendence where one unity/transcendence of God is abstract, outside the creation and time and therefore is eternal. The other unity (or transcendence) is inside time and creation and closely in process to it .

Charles Hartshorne (1897-2000) was a religious philosopher. He adopted and developed the cosmologic thinking and concept of God from the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, he was also influenced by Heidegger, Spinoza and other philosophers. According to Whiteheads religious Philosophy Hartshorne claimed that there is a dualistic transcendence within the Godhead. A dualistic transcendence where one unity/transcendence of God is abstract, outside the creation and time and therefore is eternal. The other unity (or transcendence) is inside time and creation and closely in process to it .

Jag har tänkt analysera och presentera de olika skillnaderna eller tolkningarna som finns inom shi'a och sunni islam. Anledningen till att jag valde att koncentrera mig på shi'a-och sunniislam är för att jag alltid har varit intresserad av de historiska skillnaderna och för hur de kom till och vad som var orsaken till dess uppkomst. Jag har alltså alltid varit intresserad av islams tidiga historia och de händelser som inträffade efter profetens död. I denna uppsats kommer jag endast att ta upp tre olika ämnen och belysa dom från shiitisk och sunnitisk synvinkel med deras egna källor.De ämnen som jag tänker behandla och ta upp beskrivs som "Korruption i Quran", traditionen om "De Två Dyrbara Tingen" och "De Tolv Ställföreträdarna". Jag kommer att beskriva olika arabiska termer som är viktiga att nämna och som kommer att dyka upp i uppsatsen samt moderna konflikter mellan dessa riktningar.Shi'a- sunni- islam har varit aktuellt i internationell media lite till och från enda sen den islamiska revolutionen i Iran och fram till dagens ockupation av Afghanistan och Iraq samt nyligen med de hånande, kränkande och mycket provocerande teckningarna av muslimernas siste profet, Muhammad1 som satt igång en explosion av undertryckt vrede i den muslimska världen gentemot västerländska länder som exempelvis England, Frankrike, Tyskland och USA.

Charles Hartshorne (1897-2000) was a religious philosopher. He adopted and developed the cosmologic thinking and concept of God from the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, he was also influenced by Heidegger, Spinoza and other philosophers. According to Whiteheads religious Philosophy Hartshorne claimed that there is a dualistic transcendence within the Godhead. A dualistic transcendence where one unity/transcendence of God is abstract, outside the creation and time and therefore is eternal. The other unity (or transcendence) is inside time and creation and closely in process to it .

Denna rapport är resultatet av ett examensarbete utfört vid Institutionen för industriell och ekonomisk utveckling vid Linköpings universitet på uppdrag av konsultbolaget Sustainia AB. Lean produktion, ofta benämnt Lean, har det senaste decenniet blivit en allt mer attraktiv produktionsfilosofi för att minska kostnader och öka kundnöjdhet genom förbättrad leveransservice och effektivare flöde. Ett flertal författare har påpekat att införandet av Lean direkt kan förbättra ett företags miljöprestanda, främst till följd av det minskade slöseri som Lean avser ge upphov till. Vidare finns studier som visar att vissa möjligheter till förbättringar och kostnadsbesparingar riskerar att gå oupptäckta om verksamheten ses ur ett strikt Lean-perspektiv. Med ett miljösynsätt finns dock chans att dessa blir upptäckta.

The purpose of this essay is to shed light upon the ecumenical work that has been done between the Church of Sweden and the Mission Covenant Church of Sweden. The recent years of work have led to a recommendation for a certain degree of fellowship to be established between those churches. This proposal as well as other documents are analysed in the essay from an ecclesio-logical point of view, to find out how the Church of Sweden looks upon itself in meeting another church.To structure the material, the essay has been subdivided into seven parts that is related to ecclesiology. In those seven chapters the positions of the Church of Sweden and the Mission Covenant Church of Sweden are given individually as well as in common. Questions like the im-portance of dioceses, local congregations or parishes and the national level are described.

The essay seeks to clarify some of the decisive but often obscured issues in the famous debate between Jacques Derrida and Jonn F. Searle. The debate commenced in 1977 with the publication in Glyph of Derrida?s lecture Signature Event Context from -71, followed by Searle?s Reiterating the Differences. A Reply to Derrida and subsequently Derrida?s reply Limited Inc a b c ? which encouraged Searle to renew his criticism.

Forskning har gjorts som visar att musikläraren har ganska stor möjlighet att påverka kunskapsbildningen med egna tankar och idéer om vad som är bra kunskap för eleven. Monica Nerland beskriver detta fenomen som att läraren är en kunskapsagent. Denna undersökning är ett försök att komma närmare några sådana kunskapsagenter och skapa förståelse för deras syn på kunskap. Jag har inte haft för ambition att kategorisera dessa utan endast att beskriva likheter och skillnader i en gemensam kunskapsbild för dem alla. Syftet med undersökningen är att undersöka och måla upp en gemensam bild av några musiklärares syn på kunskap i musik.

During the middle of the 18th century the development of Toyota Production System, TPS, started in order to streamline the processes. TPS was based on the principles of assembly line production but unlike previous performers Toyota let the manufacturing be constantly affected by demand. At the end of the 18th century TPS was described by Womack and Jones in the book "The machine that changed the world - the story of lean producion" where TPS got the name lean. The principles behind lean is to maximize customer value and eliminate waste which means making products and services more valuable to the customer. 1Lean was for a long time a Philosophy and an approach limited to industries and production based companies.

Facebook är ett socialt internet-community som startades 2004 av Harwardstudenten Mark Zuckerberg. Sajten har idag ca 222 miljoner användare spridda över hela världen.Hur kan man, genom att studera ungdomars tankar kring sitt användande av Facebook - och relatera det till två skilda tänkare med mycket olika människosyn, förstå vårt identitetsskapande och vår syn på oss själva på två skilda sätt? Det ena kopplat till modernismen, det andra till postmodernismen.Hegels erkännandebegrepp och Nietzsches idé om vår vilja till makt relateras till modernismen respektive postmodernismen, och observationerna som gjorts under intervjuer med 13 gymnasieungdomar tolkas med hjälp av dem.I analysen bearbetas fyra teman som synliggjorts i intervjuerna. För det första, det frekventa ?rundkollandet? på vad andra gör, vilket ses dels som en kul grej, dels som meningslöst.

What psychologial processes are activated in experiencing mourning after a loss of a belovedperson? How is death described in other authors? novels and short stories compared to mine?This essay aims at analysing my two short stories The follower and The price for love fromdifferent aspects. I discuss the psychological realism and the spirituality using the method ofclose reading, interpreting and applying ideas of texts from other authors in my short stories.Death is a central phenomenon in both of my texts. Therefore I discuss death frompsychological and philosophical aspects in this essay. To get a philosophical frame of death Iturn to Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas and Martin Heidegger.

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) issues have been received much attention in businessand management practises globally. Jensen & Yeh (2009, 3) state that ?The agenda ofCorporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has emerged as a factor in the process of globalization,and Chinese companies may sometimes feel pushed into this agenda without a clearunderstanding of the rationale behind it?. China?s textile and apparel industry, amanufacturing-based economy with its products bounding up with the consumers worldwide,has been facing enormous pressure to take CSR initiatives, particularly in relation toenvironmental issues and labor standards.

What psychologial processes are activated in experiencing mourning after a loss of a belovedperson? How is death described in other authors? novels and short stories compared to mine?This essay aims at analysing my two short stories The follower and The price for love fromdifferent aspects. I discuss the psychological realism and the spirituality using the method ofclose reading, interpreting and applying ideas of texts from other authors in my short stories.Death is a central phenomenon in both of my texts. Therefore I discuss death frompsychological and philosophical aspects in this essay. To get a philosophical frame of death Iturn to Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas and Martin Heidegger.

Unlike previous research, this thesis considers the possibility of regarding the morning prayers in Swedish schools as preaching, rather than teaching. 28 morning prayers, delivered in the church of S:t Johannes in the city of Malmö during 1939-1954 by the religious teacher Astri Heimer (1889-1986), constitutes the material for analysis. The purpose of this thesis is to examine if Heimer's morning prayers may be regarded as preaching, and to discuss the significance of this, in particular considering her role as leader of morning prayers.The examination is conducted in three steps. The first step investigates how morning prayers in general ought to be understood - as teaching or preaching? This is done by describing and comparing the literary genres of religious teaching and preaching, looking into the rules and principles which define the field of application.