The purpose of this thesis is to identify power structures and instruments of power within the Jehovah?s witnesses and investigate how they affect the baptized youths baptized within the organization. The material consists of qualitative in-depth interviews and is analyzed with Foucault's theories of power. The results show that the participants have a very strict relationship to the rules of the congregation and also that they take great care in observing these rules carefully. It becomes evident that young members are exposed to disciplinary measures from the organization.

The purpose of this essay is to see if the Swedish nationalist party?Sverigedemokraterna? use religion rhetorically in their paper SD-Kuriren, and if so,then how? The method used to examine this is called rhetorical analysis. Furthermore, thetheory to explore how religion is used rhetorical is Said's Orientalism.The results show that religion is used rhetorically in the articles. Islam is explainedfrom our point of view in the west, and not their own. Islam becomes a religion that is faraway from what the Swedish culture is like, and also a religion that is violent andirrational compared to the Swedish culture, but also other religions, such as Judaism.Also, religion is used rhetorically to show that Islam is the opposite in relation toChristianity and Judaism..

This thesis is a study of how Norse religion and early Christianization is presented in three Swedish museum contexts. Empirical studies of the exhibitions relating to religion have been conducted at The Historical Museum in Stockholm, The Museum of Gotland and Östergötlands Museum and interviews with the museum staff compliment the empirical data. The concept of religion has been problematized to facilitate the analysis. The result of the study is that there are tendencies to make a hierarchical order between the different religions and that Christianity is an organized religion while the Norse religion is semi-organized..

This essay looks to examine the view on religious and non-religious people thoughts on the possible relationship between feminism and religion. The essay in itself relies on semi structured interviews conducted with five informants where focus has been centered on the informants main thoughts on the subject. The theoretic basis of the study is found in post-structuralistic feminism and intersectionalism. The result will show that while all the informants believe there is a kind of relationship between feminism and religion, this relationship greatly varies depending on the informants? preconception of religion and feminism..

Syftet med denna uppsats är undersöka elevers och lärares syn på vetenskap kontra ickevetenskap eller pseudovetenskap. Detta har vi ju gjort genom en kvalitativ undersökning där vi intervjuat fem elever och fyra lärare.Elever anser att det är viktigt att veta vad vetenskap är och de anser att de kommer ha nytta av denna kunskap även utanför skolans dörrar. Anledningen till att det är obligatoriskt att läsa naturkunskap på gymnasiet är att eleverna skall få ett vetenskapligt synsätt. Med hjälp av läraren skall eleverna kunna inhämta den kunskap som behövs för att få rätt uppfattning gällande vetenskapsbegreppet. Enligt både elever och lärare så tas inte vetenskapsbegrepp upp i undervisningen.

With a religious psychological perspective this paper focuses on how religion is communicated during an investigation, and how religion might include in the decisions and the implementation of committed honor killings. This study pinpoints the question if it´s reasonable to unilaterally declare honor killings with culture, which is based on a distinction between culture and religion. The study is done on a court case where the offender confessed to a murder that is categorized as a so-called honorable motives. The material consists of interrogation reports during the investigation and several notes written by the offender before the murder. With a broad definition of religion the text material is analyzed with the theory of attribution.

Syftet med min uppsats är att undersöka de konservativa krafter som verkar i Europeiska Unionen. För att göra det har jag valt att studera hur de argumenterar mot abort. Mina frågeställningar berör de teman jag funnit vara utmärkande i argumentationen: synen på kön, framförallt kvinnan; synen på sexualitet; vad man egentligen menar med rätten till liv, vems rätt man menar; maktförhållandet mellan individ och samhälle samt den mellan Religion och vetenskap, vad vår lagstiftning ska grundas på enligt dessa. Materialet består av citat från beslutsfattare och andra som kretsar runt dessa i EU-parlamentet. Jag har använt mig av diskursanalys, en socialkonstruktionistisk metod där fokus ligger på hur vi konstruerar vår verklighet genom hur vi kategoriserar och pratar om den.

With this thesis I have examined the views of religion among six comparative religion teacherstudents, with the perspecitve of their life stories. I have also examined what stance they want to take due to their personal beliefs in their forthcoming teaching. To achive this I have used in-depth interviews among the six soon examined teacher students, and within the interviews I have had a particularly focus on turning points of the students? life stories. Later on I have used their turning points in an analysis with the hypothesis of ?Rites des Passage? and ?Structure and Anti-Structure?.In my survey I have found a significant relationship between the students? life stories - inparticularly their backgrounds and tourning points - and their views of religion.

Swedish students in the upper secondary school will recieve informaition regarding religion from multiple sources. If we look past the students surroundings like the family, friends or multimedia school is still the primary arena for religous education. Discussions about religion will take place in other lessons than just the subject religion. History is in my opinion the subject closest related to religion and the two makes up for a lot of the values work in swedish schools. Textbooks is still one of the most important tools for education and that makes them important as objects to study.

Since 2007 the American sitcom the Big Bang Theory has spread throughout the world. With its twenty million watchers it is one of the most popular sitcoms of our time. The starting point for this essay is that the humourus series with the more or less geeky main characters is more than just entertainment - it is a part of the mediatization of religion. This means that media is affecting the recipients? view on religion in general and the personal religion.

Utbildningsdepartementet la år 2000 fram ett förslag om ett nytt kärnämne i den svenska gymnasieskolan. I detta ämne ska religion, samhälle och delvis historia ingå. Skulle detta förslag gå igenom så skulle det påverka både elever och lärare. Hur skulle det påverka ämnet religion? I dagens kursplan för religion belyser man vikten av etik och moral, förståelse och respekt för andra människor.

This study aims at using discourse analysis to analyze SFI students attitudes to religion and religiosity in an SFI-context. The questions are: How is the discourse constructed and maintained by religion and religiosity of SFI students in an SFI context? How do SFI participants experience that their religion has affected their time at SFI?Using a case study approach, interviews were conducted with a group of SFI students. The results show that the religious discourse in SFI is influenced by the SFI-context and affected based on the current education discourse that exists there. Furthermore, the discourse is designed and maintained by the participants private religious beliefs and the religion of the majority of the group, One canhere speak of a strong social unit forming a plausibility structure The power structure that emerges is that the majority has the power to define the significance of religion and place within the SFI context. In the SFI-context the participants view is that religion is something private that should not be expressed in the school environment.

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Syftet med vår studie har varit att undersöka idrottslärares inställningar till, och uppfattningar om, situationer som kan uppstå i mötet mellan religion och idrottsundervisning. För att komma åt vårt syfte samt skapa oss en bild av verkligheten använde vi oss av en kvalitativ metod i form av intervjuer med idrottslärare. Intervjuerna har sedan analyserats och på så vis har vi fått fram det vi anser vara lärarnas uppfattningar och inställningar inom vårt område. Resultatet visade att lärarna inte anser att religion påverkar idrottsundervisningen nämnvärt även om deltagandet till viss del tycks påverkas. Överlag verkar religion ha mindre påverkan på idrottsundervisningen än vad vi inledningsvis, och utifrån vår teoretiska bakgrund, trodde..

Sammanfattning:I studien intervjuas sju religionskunskapslärare angående undervisning om fornskandinavisk religion och samisk religion. Studiens utgångspunkt är att fornskandinavisk religion och samisk religion kan ses som en del av Sveriges kulturarv. Informanternas utsagor studeras utifrån didaktikens tre översiktliga frågor: undervisningens vad?, hur? och varför? Deras utsagor diskuteras även mot tidigare läromedelsforskning som anknyter till pedagogiska texters framställande av fornskandinavisk religion och samisk religion. Sammantaget diskuteras informanternas utsagor mot utmålad fond.Studien visar att undervisning om religionerna anknyter till både gällande och annalkande nya styrdokuments yttranden om kulturell mångfald och identitet.