Avsikten med uppsatsen är att undersöka vilken funktion mat har i romantrilogin Hungerspelen samt vilket budskap som därmed förmedlas genom maten som symbol. Med hjälp av Hans Biedermanns Symbollexikonet tokas de olika råvaror som förekommer i maten i Hungerspelen för att därefter analyseras med hjälp av teorier från Umberto Eco och Roman Jakobson. UNdersökningen viasr att maten används för att symbolisera flera olika relationer eller identiteter, inte sällan med sexuella undertomer. Flera av råvarorna har också metalingvistiska funktioner och kan därmed sägas skapa bilder i bilden. De budskap som förmedlas genom maten är främst ett ifrågasättande av ung kvinnlighet och vad det innebär samt vad en uppdelnig i vi och dem kan leda till..

Within this essay a study is made of an LGBTQ-orientated Christian service in Stockholm called Queer Service. The following questions seek to be answered: What reasons does an individual set for his/hers participation in Queer Service? Which aspects of a queer service highlight the participants as important to them?As a method to answer these questions, the author has observed a number of queer church services in autumn of 2012. Moreover communication within the group of the assembly on the social media page Facebook has been followed and five individuals from the Queer Service congregation have been interviewed. As a background to the study, the European religious climate seen from Grace Davies eyes is depicted.  The reader also learns of how the Swedish church has handled questions about homosexuality and bisexuality and what liberation theology is.

During the three first centuries A.D the cult to roman emperor was practiced over the absolute majority of the known world. It was based on the idea of the deified ruler, where religion was used as a way of legitimizing a social position of an absolute few. It arrived from below but was promoted and spread from above as a way of governmental control. During the same period of time did a new aristocratic social group emerge in remote Scandinavia that eagerly sought new ways to identify themselves and their newly found social standing. With a base consisting of an economic surplus they wanted to create an acceptance for their new way of life and thus in doing so change the very foundation and core beliefs of their own society.The central theme of this study is the cultural exchange that took place between these two cultural spheres and mainly of the effect that the cult to the roman emperor had on the emergence and identification process of the Scandinavian aristocracy..