Sverige beskrivs som ett mångkulturellt samhälle. Detta är av betydelse för förskolans uppdrag med att utveckla barnets medvetenhet och förståelse för andra kulturer och religioner. För att undvika fördomar och diskriminering är det betydelsefullt att redan i tidig ålder påvisa mångfalden av kultur och religion eller annan trosuppfattning Syftet med studien är att få en inblick i hur ett antal förskollärare talar om hur man praktiskt arbetar för att synliggöra och lyfta fram kultur och religion eller annan trosuppfattning i förskolan. Studien utgår ifrån ett sociokulturellt ? och interkulturellt perspektiv. Syftet och frågeställningarna har besvarats genom en kvalitativ undersökningsmetod med hjälp av semistrukturerade intervjuer.

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.

The objective of the essay has been the studying of the importance of religion for children. To answer and satisfy my objective, I have some questions: How do children talk about their own and others? religions? In what way do children associate themselves to religion? Which meaning does religion have for children?s identities? Which thoughts rise about religiontuition in the school?To answer the problem formulation, I have done a qualitative interview study with five children of different religious and cultural backgrounds in a Swedish communal school. The results showed that children?s thoughts about religion are mostly inherited from the parents.

Tack vare ständigt förbättrade metoder för diagnostisering ökar antalet patienter med diagnosen cancer. Syftet: Syftet var att belysa cancerpatienters uppfattning om sjukdomen cancer utifrån ett kulturellt perspektiv. Metod: Metoden som användes var en litteraturstudie. Databassökning gjordes i PubMed och CINAHL. Resultaten i studien byggde på tio valda artiklar.

This is a study concern high school student?s view of religion and their religiosity. I dispensed a questionnaire to 124 high school students studying comparative religion in a large high school in Sweden, with the students from different socio-economic backgrounds. The result I came up with is that traditional religion activities have decreased, religion has not disappeared but taken other shapes than before. And I also came up to with the result that more than half of them who answered the survey likes the subject and there are tendencies by them who doesn?t like the high school subject religion that they live in a non-religious family.The study concerns following aspects: sociology, youth, human needs, religion, spirituality and individualization..

The purpose of this paper is to examine if there are any differences or similarities when it comes to teaching religion in a multicultural school versus teaching religion in a homogeneous school in Sweden. How do teachers describe religious education in schools and how do they justify their teaching strategies? What similarities or differences are there between teachers' approaches when teaching religion in homogeneous versus multicultural schools?The study is based on qualitative interviews which includes a total of four schools; two homogeneous and two multicultural. These schools have been selected with the help of the Migration Board's annual report from 2014 as well as from my own personal knowledge. One religious teacher from each of the schools was interviewed.The conclusion, among others, is that ethnic Swedish pupils do not have the same understanding of religion as students of different ethnicity.

In the curriculum from 2011 for Religion in Swedish Upper Secondary School, a new content has been added regarding the relationship between religion and science. The pupils are supposed to acquire a view of how the understanding of religion and science can express questions concerning creationism and evolution. The purpose of this study is to identify how this relation between religion and science is represented in textbooks for the subjects of Religion and Biology and how pupils are encouraged to reflect on and discuss this relationship. The method of this essay consists of a qualitative content analysis of textbooks from both Religion and Biology. The result of this study showed an overall multifaceted picture of the relation between religion and science..

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka genom hermeneutisk analysprocess hur fornnordisk mytologi, samhälle och kultur har inspirerat The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Uppsatsen börjar med en övergripande genomgång av den historiska epok som kallas för vikingatiden. Här får läsaren en inblick i vikingarnas vardag, som innefattade jordbruk, handel och sjöröveri. Även samhällets uppbyggnad och dess klassindelningar nämns för att läsaren skall få lite av den generella kunskap som behövs för att följa med i analysen som denna uppsats baseras på. Även grundläggande beskrivning av den religiösa kulten tas upp och ett antal av gudarna beskrivs.

The aim of this essay was to investigate how religious topics and events are presented in five coursebooks in social studies. To do this the following questions were answered: In which context do discussions about religion take place? Are religions brought up in different contexts? To which extent do discussions about religion occur? The method consisted of a both quantitative and qualitative content analysis. The results of this essay showed that discussion regarding religion in social studies coursebooks mainly focuses on wars, conflicts, terrorism and to some degree the human rights. Islam was the religion that occurred most frequently in the coursebooks.

Syftet med denna studie har varit att undersöka fyra lärares uppfattningar och tankar om kristen tro i arbetet på en mångkulturell skola. I arbetet ingår intervjuer med fyra kristna lärare och deras perspektiv över att vara religiös i ett månkulturellt samhälle. Arbetet innehåller också en lexikon definition och litteraturgenomgång om religion, kultur, samhälle och religion i skolans historia. I arbetet framkom det att tro bland annat inte är något man talar högt om utan något privat men samtidigt inget man förnekar. Acceptans för andra religioner och deras högtider fanns men förståelsen för dessa var svår.

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..

Sverige är ett mångkulturellt land med invandring sedan en lång tid tillbaka. Det finns idag cirka 200 000 muslimska kvinnor i Sverige och sjukgymnaster möter dagligen muslimska kvinnor i sitt yrke, vilket kan ge upphov till problem av språklig, kulturell, etnisk och medicinsk art. Syftet med studien var att belysa sjukgymnasters erfarenheter av att arbeta med patientgruppen muslimska kvinnor. Fem sjukgymnaster i invandrartäta förorter i södra Sverige deltog i studien. Resultatet i studien visar att informanterna upplever stora individuella skillnader hur kultur och religion påverkar de muslimska kvinnornas synsätt och därmed agerande vid kontakt med sjukgymnast.

[?If we zigzag in the middle, it?s OK?] The purpose of the following study is to examine the relationship between tourism and religion in a Balinese context. We look specifically at changes in religious practice, culture and mentality, as well as how religious philosophy is used as a tool for limiting the negative impact of tourism. The methods used are semi-structured interviews and participant observations. Central themes in the following essay are globalization in the form of tourism, westernization, subsystem theory and capitalism, which also make up the theoretical framework.

Nilsson, A & Svensson, T. Omvårdnad i livets slutskede i ett kulturellt perspektiv. En litteraturstudie om vårdpersonalens omhändertagande av döende patient från islamsk och judisk religion/kultur. Examensarbete i omvårdnad 10 poäng. Malmö högskola: Hälsa och samhälle, Utbildningsområde omvårdnad, 2005. Genom världens globalisering och de öppna gränser det har medfört, har arbetet som sjukvårdspersonal fått ytterligare en inriktning, nämligen den kulturkongru-enta vården.

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..