Syfte: Mitt syfte med min c-uppsats är att belysa utvalda kvinnors situation inom hederskulturen samt undersöka religionens inverkan på hederskulturen.Metod: Litteraturstudier.Frågeställningar: Vad har kvinnorna gemensamt i sina berättelser om sina liv?  Och som påverkat deras livssituation? Vad för skuld/orsak har religion för livssituationen som kvinnorna har levt?Huvudresultat: Min litteraturstudie handlar om fyra kvinnor som lever eller har levt i hederskulturen. Studien bearbetare frågeställningarna som handlar om vad kvinnorna har gemensamt med varandra, varför de har valt att motarbeta hederskulturen samt relationerna till religion. Syftet med studien är att få en inblick hur det är att växa upp som ung kvinna inom hederskulturen. Studien handlar om kampen hos kvinnorna, att få rättvisa och rätt om sin egen frihet.

I denna uppsats analyserar jag kristen mission i Indien utifrån postkolonial teori. Denna undersökning är en analys av intervjuer som är genomförda med två informanter. Båda dessa har varit verksamma som kristna missionärer i Indien. Jag har även använt mig av forskning om mission som material. För att tillgodogöra mig intervjuerna har jag använt mig av muntlig historisk metod. I denna uppsats är jag intresserad av mina informanters föreställningar av Indien och deras identitet som missionärer.

Denna uppsats syftar till att undersöka om graden av judisk religiositet påverkar hälsan. Religiositet definieras i tre dimensioner; beteende, attityd och tro som tillsammans skiljer en religion från en annan. Hälsa definieras med hjälp av World Health Organisation, WHO, som 1948 menade att hälsa är psykiskt och socialt välbefinnande och inte blott frånvaro av sjukdom och handikapp". "ett tillstånd av fullständigt fysiskt,Studier har visat att ett stort religiöst engagemang har ett måttligt samband med bättre hälsa där religion erbjuder ett litet, men betydande skydd. Vissa forskare menar dock att religion har en negativ påverkan på hälsan, i och med en ökad risk för olika typer av psykiska problem.

The study is aimed at investigating the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj ?i?eks theories ofthe ontology of the subject, the crisis of our modern society and his views on how theology,especially Christian theology, can provide the answer for the threats to our society.My main object is the article Descartes and the post-traumatic subject (2008)where ?i?ek elaborates thoughts about the subject and our capitalistic society. To be ableto grasp these thoughts in full I have undergone an investigation not only on the writingsof Slavoj ?i?ek, but also on the philosophers to whom he owe much of his theories,such as G.W.F. Hegel, Friedriech Schelling, Karl Marx and Jaques Lacan.In the study I have shown how the subject is, according to ?i?eks psychoanalytictheories, decentered.

This case study examined what impact the neurological disorder Asperger?s syndrome has on the line of reasoning about religion and spirituality. Also, the question of whether the four informants showed any tendency to use the cognitive tools calledtheory of mind (ToM), existential theory of mind (EToM) and hypersensitive agency detection device (HADD) or not was put forth. From the interviews five themes were extracted: a stereoscopical view upon the world, thoughts on physical causality, prayer used as one-way communication, spiritual agency and intentionality, as well as existential and social questions. These themes were subsequently matched with theories on ToM, EToM and HADD.

The purpose of the study is to analyse the representations of Jewish festivals and how they affect the teaching in three textbooks for Religious Education 1 in Secondary Upper Education. The textbooks are Religion och livet (2007) written by Börge Ring, Religionskunskap för gymnasiet (2009) written by Lars-Göran Alm and Religion 1 för gymnasiet (2012) written by Lennart Göth, Katarina Lycken Rüter and Veronica Wirström. The basis for the study is the phenomenological perspective as described by Émile Durkheim and in particular Carl-Henrik Grenholm and Karl-Johan Illman. It tells that religion cannot purely be understood as a religious belief without its rituals. This phenomenological perspective on religion both the curriculum and syllabus encourages.

This thesis tackles the subject concerning arguments as a conceptual basis forunderstanding the general strategy of the European Union Commission on issuesconcerning EU-harmonized environmental taxes, politically delicate and intergovernmentaldependent. The Commission's official proposals, communications and other relevant documents are subject to inquiry, where the theoretical bases are that harmonized environmental taxes in the EU is an issue conceived as supported by academic debate, and where the institutional arrangement in relation to an European-national dimension alongside the discursive context, allows meaningfulspace for arguments. The study makes a distinction between substantial (environmental cancerns in itself) and instrumental (other benefits, mostly economic ones) rationality as a foundation in various types of arguments.The study's main findings are that the Commission's official documents over the past 20 years, have been trying to keep a strong image of reason and knowledge based arguments for an EU-wide environmental tax reform. In particular, the types of arguments tend to appeal to the Member States by stressing the instrumental rationality in a European environmental tax reform, indicating the value of good arguments as a part of the Commission's main strategies. In sum, this may have further theoretical suggestions concerning questions of environmental and elimate change policies in a European context or other more general studies relying on theoretical assumptions of logics of argument, legitimacy or studies of motives behind action strategies in politically sensitive issues such as taxation at supranationallevel..

The study examines medias impact on every day racism through Agenda Setting and Framing. Prior studies on the subject are either conducted from an American perspective, or are several years of age. In this study we highlight how todays media depicts our society and how it affects the concept of the world on an individual level. The study is a content analysis of the case study on the news stories ?The hunt for the unregistered immigrants?, which have been analyzed through critical discourse analysis.

The aim of this thesis is to examine the fear of crime in old peoples lives. Notwithstanding that the age category is exposed to crime to a low degree, old people are experiencing a great fear of crime relative younger people. This is the paradox of fear, also recognized in gender studies. The question is how this paradox can be understood. To answer this, twelve elderly men and women have been interviewed and the reports about crime in the local newspaper, Norrköpings Tidningar, has been analyzed, through discourse analysis.The discursive construction of fear is here discussed in terms of discourses of a fearful society, and stereotypes of old age.

This thesis, entitled The Headmaster and the Music, is based on interviews with four headmasters, who are all working in the Swedish compulsory school. The purpose is to investigate how they view music, both in general and as a school subject. Since the research on this topic is scarce, the study can be described as explorative.The result shows that the headmasters? personal experiences have an impact on the way they view music. Four different focus points on music in school have emerged from the material, and these represent the four very different views that each headmaster holds.

Detta är en jämförande undersökning mellan hinsidesföreställningar i de skriftliga källorna till fornskandinavisk religion och bildscener på de sena (700 ? 1100-talet) gotländska bildstenarna. Den tidigare forskningen kring hinsidesföreställningarna har ofta fokuserat på Valhall vilket enligt mig kan ha lett till att andra centrala föreställningar kan ha kommit i skymundan. Jag visar med min genomgång av föreställningarna i de skriftliga källorna att de olika platserna som den döde kunde komma till bär på gemensamma aspekter i form av kvinnan som möter den döde, kvinnan som härskar över den döde samt hallen där man åt och drack. Samma tema återkommer på de sena gotländska bildstenarna .

Syftet med denna uppsats är att belysa hur eleverna på Björkhagsskolan uppfattar ämnet religion. Tycker eleverna att det är viktigt att ha religionsundervisning och ska den ligga kvar som en obligatorisk kurs eller bör den vara en tillvalskurs? Jag vill också titta på om eleverna kan hitta något som de tycker är viktigt i undervisningen. Kan man efter införandet av Lpf 94 se någon skillnad i elevernas syn på religionsämnet när det gäller de som går teoriinriktade eller yrkesinriktade linjer. Jag vill även se om det finns någon skillnad på hur pojkar och flickor ser på ämnet religion.För att få svar på mina frågor genomfördes en enkätundersökning på Björkhagsskolan under våren 2002.

The study is aimed at investigating the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj ?i?eks theories ofthe ontology of the subject, the crisis of our modern society and his views on how theology,especially Christian theology, can provide the answer for the threats to our society.My main object is the article Descartes and the post-traumatic subject (2008)where ?i?ek elaborates thoughts about the subject and our capitalistic society. To be ableto grasp these thoughts in full I have undergone an investigation not only on the writingsof Slavoj ?i?ek, but also on the philosophers to whom he owe much of his theories,such as G.W.F. Hegel, Friedriech Schelling, Karl Marx and Jaques Lacan.In the study I have shown how the subject is, according to ?i?eks psychoanalytictheories, decentered.

Teachers in social sciences have a broad subject field to base their education on. This term paper examines, thru interviews, which factors that have an influence on the subjects contents in the A course of Social Sciences at Swedish high schools. Having interviewed four active teachers at three different schools, it shows that control documents like subject- and national curricula have little to say about what kind of subject that should been taught. Teachers seem rather to rely on local collegiate consensus, the textbook, locally prepared control documents, and adjusting to program directions while choosing material. In the final discussion the risk of structuring the subject around the text book is being investigated, along the fact that new locally control documents need to be written even for basic planning structures.

The aim of this study has been to discuss ideas of knowledge within classification theory and subject analysis in the light of theories of fundamental changes in the production of scientific knowledge. Guiding questions have been: How have the conditions of knowledge production changed? How has interdisciplinarity as part of this development evolved? What assumptions lie behind theories of classification and subject analysis? How do these stand in relation to the alleged changes in the production and understanding of science? Three works about the changing conditions for knowledge production and the growth of crossdisciplinarity have been presented and discussed. These works stress the loosening up of boundaries between traditional knowledge domains and open up for discussions about how to organize knowledge production in the light of these changes. In the study it is argued that their works also could open up for discussions about the way knowledge is organized for retrieval purposes.