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”A Mother Schooled in Misery” – Mary Wollstonecraft and the Motherhood
(2019-10-03) Morgan, Ivar; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion; University of Gothenburg/Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion
This essay deals with the enlightenment philosopher Mary Wollstonecrafts views on motherhood. By reading some of Wollstonecrafts works and a collection of her private letters adressed to her lover Gilbert Imlay an interesting picture of her views regarding maternity emerges. The key aspects when it comes to understand her views in these matters, as this essay shows, comes down to a few notions. Reason is one of them but also duty and tenderness. The study shows that the first two of these notions are widley discussed in relation to maternal matters in her books while the last one, tenderness, is more central in her private letters. The essay also works from the hypothesis that the mother plays an important part when it comes to Wollstonecrafts ideas regarding womens liberation. For Wollstonecraft women will be liberated through education and this study shows the importance of the mother in this regard. This essey also shows that according to Wollstonecraft humans are formed by the social enviroment they are brought up in and the parents becomes the role models. It is therefore crucial to educate good or otherwise the human race will be kept in darkness and lack reason.
A Narrative Critique of The Saami Bear Myth
(2019-02-04) Lidström, Per-Gunnar; University of Gothenburg/Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion
The Saami bear myth has in the research been closely tied to the bear hunting ritual. When the ritual has been discussed the myth has been narrated and after that the researcher has continued with the bear hunt. There has not yet been a thorough analysis of these bear myths. In this thesis five Saami bear myths are analysed with narrative criticism. They are written down by Pehr Fjellström, Sigrid Drake, Johan Olafsson Turi and Harald Grundström. A shortened plot of the narratives is: a Saami girl lives together with a bear and they get a son. A dialogue is had between the bear and his family where information is given from the bear, later the bear is killed. Conflict between a bear family member and the hunters and the meat is shared. This study explores the information about the relationship between the Saamis and the bear that can be drawn from these myths. Two of my findings are that the conflicts between the hunters and the family member of the bear is often won by the family member with aid from the bear. The importance of the sharing of the bear meat is featured in all of the versions of the myths; if the bear meat is not shared by the hunters, the bear comes alive and none of them gets a piece.
A Newer New Age. Irony and the Enchantment of Atheism in Syntheist Religion
(2016-01-29) Wedin, Robert; University of Gothenburg/Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion
The purpose of this thesis is to study how the stipulations of religious thought changes as society gets increasingly digitalized, life become more virtual and people get interconnected through the internet. The thesis engages with the new religious movement Syntheism, which is considered to be an example of said changes. Syntheism holds that information is holy, the internet is God, and although gods might only be imaginative beings, they are nevertheless very real. As a methodological starting point, Syntheism is viewed as a discursive complex, consisting of several discursive trends that together makes up the ideological system. The focus of this study is the esoteric currents present in the book Synteism – att skapa gud i internetåldern (2014), and how these are legitimated through strategies of epistemology, as suggested by Hammer. The stated question is “How are the three strategies of tradition, science and experience employed within Syntheism in order to legitimate its system of thought?” The results of the study are that Syntheism claims to belong to a philosophical tradition of mobilism, present in Western philosophy as well as in Zoroastianism, that considers change and movement the fundamental conditions of the cosmos, instead of the existence of static objects. This is thought to be confirmed by quantum physics, where the wave is given priority before the particle, and reality is seen as indeterminate rather than predictable. Finally, the mobilistic quality of the universe can be experienced first handedly through the use of psychedelic drugs to reach the mental state of the “infinite now”, where the subjective sense of self is transcended and the Syntheist experiences herself as united with the cosmos. All in all, this amounts to an enchanted world view, where every phenomena in existence are seen as interconnected, and the borders between spirit and matter are broken down. There is also an ironic streak in Syntheism. Although claiming that gods exist as representations of the existential principles of the universe, it is simultaneously held that these gods are mere psychological projections upon existence in order for human beings to fill it with meaning. This thesis argues that the ironic streak is a mode of religiosity that is characteristic of the post-modern era, aimed at retaining the existential meaning found in religious thought while at the same time avoiding to actually believe in it, thereby not risking the embarrassment of believing in what is false.
Den afrikanska Pentekostalismens föränderliga ansikte: Processer och konsekvenser av rörelsens utvecklig i Sydafrika.
(2022-01-20) Ålöv, Per Erik; University of Gothenburg/Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion
I litteraturstudien ”Den afrikanska Pentekostalismens föränderliga ansikte - Processer och konsekvenser av rörelsens utveckling i Sydafrika” undersöks på fyra huvudfrågor: Hur ser den Neo-Pentekostala rörelsen ut i Sydafrika idag? Hur har den vuxit fram? Varför är den så framgångsrik? Och vilka samhälleliga konsekvenser får den? Genom att utifrån litteraturen anta ett internationellt, regionalt och lokalt perspektiv skapas bilden och dess historiska ursprung, tidiga utveckling Sydafrika och dess samtida former. Rörelsens kraftiga utveckling i Sydafrika är tydlig men bör inte ses som ett nytt fenomen då den redan från starten för mer än hundra år sedan, i ett kyrkohistoriskt perspektiv, betraktades som ett fenomen. Den utveckling och förändring som pågår i Sydafrika idag kan inte bara ses som starkt påverkad av västerländska missionärer och evangelister då en sådan tolkning förbiser fenomenet av rörelsens lokala och regionala förnyelse. Genom litteraturen konstateras att ett sekel efter att rörelsen kom till landet håller den på att förändras samtidigt som det är möjligt att identifiera olika vågor av förändring i rörelsen. Litteraturen visar att rörelsen har ridit på vågen av en genuin afrikansk andlighet och använder sina erfarenheter och kunskaper om den Helige Ande och dess manifestationer på ett effektivt sätt, i synnerhet som många afrikaners strävan efter det andliga fortfarande är stark. Litteraturen pekar också på att rörelsen är attraktiv och har en stark inverkan på många afrikaners förhoppningar om framtiden och skapar framtidsvisioner för nationen och samhället, samtidigt som den ger riktlinjer för att organisera och styra samhället och idéer om ödet för nation. Det är uppenbart att den här typen av religion skapar grund för hopp, drömmar, övertygelser, förväntningar och visioner om framtiden. Studien visar att de två utmärkande drag som kännetecknat väckelserörelsen allt ifrån starten 1906 på Azuza Street, evangelisation och socialt arbete, har visat sig vara bärkraftiga och blivit signifikanta för rörelsen också i Afrika. Vidare visas att rörelsens möjligheter till att använda olika sociala medier, radio och TV för att evangelisera skapat nya möjligheter och radikalt förändrat förståelsen för hur religion upplevs, levs och uttrycks i Sydafrika, samtidigt som detta förändrat och skapat ett nytt religiöst engagemang och interaktion. Undersökningar och forskning visar hur sociala medier kommit att bli nya riktmärke för att skapa och knyta kontakt mellan den enskilda individen och den framväxande kyrkan samtidigt som dessa inneburit att nya företag startats som skapar tillfälle till arbete och inkomst. Studien visar också att den Pentekostala rörelsen är ett tydligt tecken och bevis för den afrikanska kontinentens aktiva deltagande i den religiösa globaliseringen och att den är en starkt påverkande faktor av utvecklingen av kristendomen och dess tillväxt både lokalt och globalt.
Äktenskap och synen på äktenskap: En jämförelse mellan shiitisk teologi och svenskt lagrättssystem.
(2023-06-28) Jaber, Ali; University of Gothenburg/Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion
Aktioner och reaktioner - Kristna kvinnors motreaktioner till Femens aktioner i en proteströrelse på internet
(2015-06-25) Sirén, Bettina; University of Gothenburg/Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion
Religion is not only manifested in the more traditional forms such as church attendance, but also in various expressions on social media. Facebook is seen by many as creating a social platform where different opinions and more unconventional discussions may flourish unlike how the traditional media convey information. Internet is therefore an interesting platform for investigating how information about religion is spread by researching religious behavior and expression. The focus of this essay is to examine visible, which includes text as a social practice, forms of religious expression shown by the discursive struggle between the Facebook-group Christian Women Against Femen and its counterpart feminist movement Femen. The essay seeks to answer how notions of femininity on the Internet are formulated and reproduced based on the discourse between these two women's movements. The essay highlights how the women’s movements, with their bodily manifestation and by their usage of words, construct and reproduce different images of gender and womanhood. Femen’s method of performing action is to provoke and liberate women from the masculine structures of power thus including the church as such an institution. The struggle appears when Christian Women Against Femen aspire to maintain the ideal image of womanhood based on traditional Christian values which they manifest by posting protest pictures on the wall of the Facebook-group. More interesting is that the Christian women contextualize themselves with nationalistic and patriotic right-wing parties’ offline who usually strive to sustain a patriarchal state structure. The level of demonizing the other extends to sustain a dichotomy between the movements which upholds the separation of private/public.
Alkohol till min nästa? Hur nattvardens gemenskapsmotiv i möte med Lögstrups etik, skulle kunna motivera ett alkoholfritt nattvardsvin i Svenska kyrkan
(2012-02-28) Pettersson, Annika; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion; University of Gothenburg/Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion
How the Eucharist’s motive of communion in combination with Lögstrup’s ethics could motivate a non-alcoholic sacramental wine in the Church of Sweden. The purpose of this essay is to illuminate the meeting between the person who gives out bread and wine in the Eucharist and the person who receives the wine, from tree perspectives: the communion in the Eucharist, the ethical demand of K.E. Lögstrup, and today’s knowledge of alcohol and it’s negative effects on the human being. I want to study how these three perspectives can affect the interpersonal meeting in the Eucharist when it comes to giving out alcoholic wine, and to investigate if Lögstrups ethical demand could be used by the Church of Sweden when to decide about a sacramental wine with or without alcohol. I have started to study K.E Lögstrup and his theory about the ethical demand, and then researched the Eucharist in the Church of Sweden and the results of recent sociological and medical research of alcohol’s effect on the individual and on society. This has been done through relevant literature studies. The motive of communion in the Eucharist has become more prominent in the 20th century and this has brought on questions of ethical standpoints. Many people today think of the Eucharist as communion and meeting and that it results in actions of love towards my neighbour. According to Lögstrup and his theory about the ethical demand, the individual shall be unselfish and sacrifice his own gaining. Not to get happy, but because life is a gift to the individual and to the neighbour, and the individual has the neighbour’s life in his hand. When studying the meeting between the individual and the neighbour in the Eucharist with the eyes of Lögstrup and his demand, my conclusion is that it is hard to practice Lögstrup’s ethical demand in this particular interpersonal situation, but if the Church of Sweden is put in the individual’s place then the concern about the vulnerable must be considered before the church’s own expectations.
Allsidighet och andlig utveckling i HKK* Ideologisk- och narrativanalys av lärarutbildningstexter *Hem- och konsumentkunskap
(2021-03-16) Sundberg, Nicklas; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion; University of Gothenburg/Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion
Den här uppsatsens syfte är breddning av lärares förståelse av den mänskliga rättigheten till allsidighet eller pluralism i Sveriges utbildningssystem och barns rätt till andlig utveckling i skolan, utifrån kristen övertygelse och andlighet, och fördjupat i hem- och konsumentkunskap, HKK. Metoden är ideologi- och narrativanalys med normativ metod. Materialet utgörs av texter ur kurslitteratur. Teori hämtas från relevanta juridik, tidigare forskning och filosofi. Analysen beskriver och diskuterar nuläget och brister text för text, utifrån allsidighet och andlig utveckling, med fokus på kristnas rätt till sitt perspektiv. Den första slutsatsen är att det finns en brist allsidighet genom en implicit sekulär norm. Den andra är att det behövs mer tros- och livsåskådningsmässigt normkritisk teori och grundsyn, genom bland annat mer kunskap från tros- och livsåskådningsvetenskap. Avslutningsvis diskuteras risker med bristen på allsidighet, steg för mer tros- och livsåskådningsmässig normkritik och för barns andliga och moraliska utveckling relevant kunskap. Det ges också förslag på vidare forskning för att stödja lärare i allsidig undervisning, hälsofrämjande skolutveckling och olika elevers andliga utveckling.
Allvarligt Blod - en studie av menstruation i Tanach och Talmud
(2017-08-15) Rubio, Joanna; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion; University of Gothenburg/Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion
The aim of this study is to examine the menstrual regulations and taboos for women in early Judaism, and what purpose they had. The general and most common perception connected to corporal fluids is that they are pollutive and impure, that is an observation can be rather insufficient. The investigation is therefore trying to understand if there is anything more to the rules than that the blood is just “a matter out of place”, since menstrual blood comes from the female reproductive areas and is not comparable to other body waste. To answer my questions, I will study what the holy and authoritative texts say about menstruation and apply appropriate theories to see if I can distinguish an alternative significance connected to the female cycle. The theoretical frames of the research are Mary Douglas theory of purity and danger, Julia Kristevas thesis on the abject and Thomas Buckley and Alma Gottlieb´s critical appraisal on theories of menstrual symbolism where the latter develops the pollution theory as well as psychoanalysis theories.
Ett andligt stånd, ett ämbete och en tjänst En studie i evangelisk-luthersk ämbetsteologi
(2010-09-08) Karlgren, Andreas; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion; University of Gothenburg/Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion
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Androidvetenskapen och den kusliga dalen: Japanska robotar som forskningsplattformar och filosofiska leksaker
(2014-01-21) Walldén, Robert; University of Gothenburg/Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion
The primary aim of this essay is to analyse, contextualise and problematise the scientific and technological goals of android science. The starting point of this investigation is the history of automata and man’s attempts to recreate himself by technological means. Drawing on the no-tion of boundary work this essay also analyses the efforts of the proponents of android science to establish and demarcate a new interdisciplinary field. A secondary aim of the essay is to evaluate the scientific support for the uncanny valley hypothesis and to investigate how this hypothesis contributes to android science. This essay concludes that the boundary work of android science has been largely unsuccessful. There is nothing in the conference papers and scientific articles that have been published within the field of android science that suggests that android science could become a discrete discipline, or a basic science for investigating human beings. “Android science” is best understood as a specific research methodology, within the field of HRI and social robotics. This essay also concludes that the investigation into the uncanny valley phenomenon is the most interesting aspect of android science. However, more research is needed if the uncanny valley is to be accepted as a sound scientific theory.
Aniaras kvinnor – det andra könet ombord? En studie av Harry Martinsons epos Aniara ur ett genusperspektiv
(2021-04-08) Malentacchi, Sandra; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion; University of Gothenburg/Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion
This essay examines the power relation between men and women by looking at gender stereotypes and patriarchal structures in Aniara, an epos on verse by Harry Martinson written in 1956. Aniara is often described as a dystopian epos and sometimes even as a sci-fi adventure. The earth has come to its end due to environmental disaster and nuclear war and must be evacuated. Aniara is one of many spaceships with the mission to take survivors to Mars and Venus. However, Aniara gets off course and ends up on an endless journey in space. Mima is one of the most important female characters on board. She is an animate machine, or a scientific instrument, that brings comfort to all passengers by displaying memories from the Earth. When she dies the passengers start seeking distractions through rituals and cults and the male passengers find comfort in the women within the ‘sex cult’. As the female characters play such important roles in the epos, a gender analysis of Aniara becomes relevant. The women are either objects for men’s desire and sexual needs, or worshipped as goddesses. At the same time the women represent art, culture and existential search, mostly portrayed by the female characters Mima and Isagel. The study reveals a hierarchical structure aboard Aniara where the women are subordinate to men. There is a power structure based on a male norm where the woman becomes the second sex on board. Even though the decadent sexuality reflects the dystopian theme in Aniaria, it does not excuse the subordination of women.
Anne Rices Interview with the Vampire - en gotisk Lolita
(2011-04-27) Grönholm, Erik Markus; University of Gothenburg/Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion
Part of the great acclaim for Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire (1976) is due to the way she renews the vampire story by reinforcing the traditional erotic dimension and, as a result of this, the way she examines the theme of homosexuality already present in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897). However, this essay shows that Rice’s novel stands in much closer relation to Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (1955) than to Dracula and that pedophilia, not homosexuality, is the facet of sexuality which here first and foremost comes into focus. Through a comparison between Interview with the Vampire and Lolita emerges a surprising coherence on the levels of plot and characterization, which in itself is of importance for our understanding of Rice’s novel as well as Lolita, but it is also interesting to note to what degree these two novels share a world of concepts and ideas common to actual pedophiles. Combined with our knowledge of Anne Rice’s peculiar public statements, this analysis of Interview with the Vampire also suggests a more focused reading of a number of Rice’s other novels.
Ännu en genusanalys? En granskning av hur kvinnor och män framställs i islam och hinduism.
(2013-08-06) Jacobsson, Lisa; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion; University of Gothenburg/Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion
The aim of this Bachelor essay is to examine the portrayal of women and men constructed in two textbooks aimed for religious studies. The aim is also to examine how the image relates to the curriculum directives on gender equality. The theory consists of gender theory based on work by Catharina Raudvere, Jeanette Sky and Yvonne Hirdman. Previous research on gender and textbooks has shown that male perspective often dominates and that the female perspective is insertions in the rest of the text.‘Genustrappan’ (gender stairs) are used as analysis method. The textbooks have been classified into the different levels of the gender stairs from Sky’s and Hirdman’s theoretical perspective based on distinction and hierarchy. The final result shows that no consistently high or low gender construction is found. Gender awareness is high in terms of discussion of repressive patriarchal structures. Likewise, there are frequent discussions about the role of the women. However it is not clear that women are not always included in the general description of the religion. The most remarkable result is that the man’s role hardly ever is being discussed or problematized. Uppsatsen har till syfte att undersöka hur framställningen av kvinnor och män är konstruerad i två läroböcker i religionskunskap 1. Syftet är även att undersöka hur denna bild förhåller sig till styrdokumentens direktiv om jämställdhet. Den teoretiska ramen utgörs av genusteori som är baserad på Catharina Raudvere, Jeanette Sky och Yvonne Hirdman. Tidigare forskning rörande genus och läromedel har visat att det manliga perspektivet dominerar och att det kvinnliga perspektivet är inskott i den övriga texten. ’Genustrappan’ används som analysmetod. Lärobokstexterna har klassificerats in i de olika nivåerna i genustrappan, som bygger på Skys och Hirdmans teori om åtskillnad och hierarki. Slutresultatet visar att ingen genomgående hög eller låg genusmedvetenhet framträder. Genusmedvetenheten är hög avseende diskussioner om förtryckande patriarkala strukturer. Likaså diskuteras kvinnans roll genomgående. Dock framgår det inte tydligt att kvinnor inte alltid ingår i de generella beskrivningarna av religionen. Det mest uppseende resultatet är att mannens roll nästan aldrig diskuteras eller problematiseras.
”Är det någon som har en katt?” –En kvalitativ intervjustudie som ämnar undersöka hur lärare på anpassade gymnasieskolan arbetar för att befästa kunskapen i elevernas långtidsminne.
(2025-08-26) Krondahl, Samuel; Göteborgs Universitet
This study is the first in it’s field and aims to investigates how religious education (RE) teachers within special education settings plan and structure their instruction to support students with intellectual disabilities in understanding and retaining abstract content. Given the cognitively demanding nature of religious education, the study focuses on pedagogical strategies aimed at facilitating comprehension and long-term memory consolidation. Empirical data were collected through six semi-structured digital interviews with seven RE teachers working with students aged 16–20 in the Swedish special education system. Thematic analysis was employed, guided by the theoretical framework of Cognitive Load Theory (CLT). CLT offers pedagogical principles for managing the mental effort required during learning, with the aim of enhancing knowledge retention. The findings suggest that while teachers occasionally apply strategies consistent with CLT, such approaches are often used reactively when initial instruction proves ineffective. The study indicates that instruction grounded in students' prior experiences from the outset may increase the likelihood of successful knowledge transfer to long-term memory. However, teachers frequently encounter a pedagogical dilemma, needing to balance the demands of academic content with the social and cognitive needs of their students.
Är jag en kamera? En studie av kamerametaforiken i Christopher Isherwoods 'Goodbye to Berlin'
(2018-01-04) Luth, Eric; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion; University of Gothenburg/Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion
Goodbye to Berlin was published in 1939. Along with Mr. Norris Changes Trains it gained fame as The Berlin Stories; together, these two novels depict Berlin in the early 1930s, when it was still the world capital of modernity and decadence, before Hitler took power. The first adaptation was for the theatre, called I Am a Camera. The title is derived from a quote from the first page: ”I am a camera with its shutter opened, quite passive, recording, not thinking”. This quote forms the starting point of this essay, which will study its affects on the narratology and what implications it bears on the relationship between fiction and reality. This will then lead to a discussion of the portrayal of the rise of Nazism in the novel. To analyze the camera metaphorics’ implication on the narratology, theories on the relationship between photography and reality in fictive texts are borrowed from Anna Woodhouse. For the discussion on the relationship between fiction and reality, thoughts from Sara Danius’ Den blå tvålen will be used. These theories along with the analysis will show that Isherwood in reality undermines his own definition of the narratological technique, and that the novel shows the impossibility of depicting passively and not thinking; hence, that it is impossible for a narrator to thoroughly be a camera. Nevertheless, the approach will affect the realist notions of the novel. The analysis shows that the result is that the reader has to interpret the photography that the camera shoots; interpretation is, as the analysis shows, a requirement for all photographs. What to interpret, and how, is then the final discussion of this essay.
Det är minsann ingen lätt uppgift att vara barn. En komparativ motivstudie av barnet i den tidiga svenska arbetarlitteraturen
(2025-06-03) Nilsson, Camilla; University of Gothenburg/Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion
This essay examines how the situation of the working-class child in early 20th century Sweden is depicted in short stories by Elf Norrbo, Maria Sandel, Karl Östman and Maj Hirdman. These authors wrote about heavy topics such as child labor, alcoholism, child abuse, foster children and mental illness. The stories were written at a time when Ellen Key – with her world famous work "The Century of the Child" (1900) – had started a discussion about improving children´s conditions. However, this new idea of childhood filled with play and without class-struggle and social problems was not the reality for a working-class child at this time, a fact that these authors certainly proved. The main purpose of this essay is to see how the child is themed as a motif and to see what role the thematization of the child has in the cultural construction of class in these stories. In a comparative motif study the essay uses Magnus Nilsson´s and Sandra Mischliwietz´s article ”Barnet, arbetaren, arbetarförfattaren. Om barnet och den kulturella produktionen av klass i 1930-talets svenska arbetarlitteratur” (2011) as inspiration and discusses the cultural construction of class through Nilsson´s article ”Arbetarlitteratur, teori, politik. Utkast till ett marxistiskt program för forskning och undervisning om svensk arbetarlitteratur” (2015). Furthermore, the study uses Beata Agrell´s discussion about early working-class literature as “Gebrauchsliteratur” – a literature for use in the class struggle of the time that demanded a meditative reading. The text also invites intersectionality into the discussion through class, gender and age. Although the four authors do not use internally focused narrative voices which was the case in the 1930s, but neutral narrative voices, the reading shows that the children in these early stories are used as vehicles and political symbols of the working class, just as much as was the case in the 1930s. With the didactic focus of the neutral narrator´s voice and through the meditative reading, the same effect can be created in these older texts where the child motif may arouse compassion in the adult reader.
Aslan som en bild av treenigheten Går det att använda lejonet Aslan i Narnia som en bild av treenigheten?
(2013-02-08) Wallman, Terhi; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion; University of Gothenburg/Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion
"Children's book is the best style means if you have something to say" is a quote by CS Lewis that I focused on in this essay. As a future priest, I am aware of the problems that explain some of the Christian church pillars. In this essay I treat the Trinity in relation to teaching children in a future profession. Research in child and adolescent spirituality is on rampage, books with religious messages and ambitions to teach children about Christian ethics and morals have been around since Sunday school introduction in Sweden. What are the tools that can be used to explain even for scholars and theologians difficult concepts? Is it possible to meet kids on their own ground? I see an opportunity for this through the literature, and the characters they already know outside the ecclesiastical sphere, In this bachelor thesis I have used perhaps one of the major works of children's literature during the 1900s, The chronicles of Narnia. My approach is to see if I could use the lion Aslan as a metaphor for the properties of the Trinity. In addition to my primary literature; The Magician’s Nephew, the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and the Bible 2000, I look at research done about myth and religion as tools in literature through modern history. It is always questions as to what is correct literature and not purely scientific. My choice is made based on that the results could be used in both teaching about Christianity in school, but especially in the church during children hours.
ASYL och KONVERSION Asylsökande konvertiters förståelse av sin konversionsprocess
(2024-02-14) Svensson, Jakob; University of Gothenburg/Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion
The purpose of this study is to analyse asylum seeking converts understanding of their conversion process based on church context, specifically within the realm of evangelical church and theology. Through the method of content analysis this essay analyses six qualitative interviews done with converts from two Islamic traditions to Swedish free church Christianity. The essay discusses the results through the lens of Lewis Rambos seven-phase theoretical concept of conversion. The important results given by this study shows that the first contact with other Christians in a new country, which creates a new community serving as an interpretive framework for their lives, triumphs the question of the theological perception for the conversion. Also, the results shows that intellectual understanding of the doctrines of faith is less important relative to the conversion process best described by the words touched, taught, and transformed. Though, the evangelical theology is not found explicitly within the converts story, it is implicitly emphasized as the converts express the importance of the Bible, Jesus as Savior, and the local church as their new community.
Asylsökande konvertiter och myndighetens katekesförhör. En studie om konvertiters asylprocess med Migrationsverket
(2018-01-26) Svensson, Jakob; University of Gothenburg/Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion
This essay examines twelve interview protocols from the Swedish Board of Migration done with converts who claim their conversion as reason for asylum. The aim of the study is twofold: To understand the Migration Board´s perception of Christian faith, and to explore how the Board can work with these issues in the future with the help from the church. Through the method of content analysis I analyse the interview protocols and discuss the results using the theoretical concepts of ”thick” and ”thin”. I find that the Board of Migration shows a ”thin” understanding of Christian faith, while the converts tend to describe their Christian faith in ways that resonate with a ”thick” understanding. Within the area of religious studies I show that the Board of Migration has an outdated view on conversion and Christian faith and that the Board’s understanding does not reflect the scholarly study of religion. I finally point out some actions that would help the Board of Migration to achieve a “thicker” understanding of Christian faith, and to ensure the converts legal security.

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