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Förbudet mot hijab och niqab i Frankrike
No full textThis study is about whether the ban on hijab and niqab in France violates human rights. Also, if there are contradictions between the human rights conventions and the french ban on hijab andniqab. That is the purpose and question of the study. The topic was chosen for an interest on whether the French ban violates human rights, and if so, why is the ban still a law? To fulfill the purpose of the study, the study will be using human right conventions and a case from the European court of human rights. The study will also use a human rights based approach to further analyze whether the french ban violates human rights. The human rights based approach will also focus on the rights themselves and the implementation of the rights. The second theory used in the study is a theory on multiculturalism. The theory will focus on the term “blind fordifference”. In other words, are human rights blind for difference?The method used in this study is a qualitative content analysis. The method was chosen to analyze the content of the french ban of niqab and hijab but also to analyze the content of the human rights conventions. The result showed that there are some contradictions between the french ban and the human rights conventions. The French ban on hijab and niqab showed potential violations towards human rights articles in the human rights conventions
With the Future in Sight : An Exegetical and Contextual Analysis of Zechariah 3
No full textThe prophet Zechariah was active during 520-518 BC, after the exile in Babylon and before the Second Temple was built. The Prophet's book carries clear eschatological features and conveys a message about the restoration of Jerusalem. A specific feature of Zechariah 3 is the presence of the angel of the Lord and Satan standing on his right side. During this time the Israelites had knowledge of Babylonian culture and religion, where the battle myth occurs and a dualistic view of God. Where the good and the evil are in conflict with each other. I therefore wonder if this awareness may have characterized Zechariah's night vision in chapter 3. In this essay, I will examine Chapter 3, where the reader meets the high priest Joshua, the angel of the Lord, and the Prosecutor. With the hope of being able to contribute to a deeper understanding of Zechariah 3's purpose and message
Digital själavård i Svenska kyrkan – utveckling innan, under och efter covid-19 pandemin : Kvalitativ studie i Uppsala pastorat
No full textSyftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka det digitala själavårdsarbete som Svenska kyrkan i Uppsala pastorat har utfört innan, under och efter coronapandemin, vilken plågade världen framför allt under perioden mars 2020 till mars 2022. Undersökningen har fokuserat dels på hur kyrkan har utvecklats i det digitala själavårdsarbetet för att anpassa sig till pandemins och postpandemins utmaningar, dels på hur människors psykiska ohälsa har påverkats under denna svåra tid. Som teoretisk utgångspunkt till uppsatsen har jag valt Berit Okkenhaugs själavårdsteori med hennes tre huvudspår: kerygmatiskt orienterad själavård, konfidentcentrerad själavård och kyrkligt orienterad tros- och livsvägledning, som hon presenterar i sin bok, Själavård – en grundbok, (Okkenhaug, 2004). Undersökningen har gjorts i form av en kvalitativ forskningsmetod, genom djupintervjuer med sex präster i Uppsala pastorat. Fem av intervjuerna genomfördes via den digitala plattformen Zoom, och en i samband med ett fysiskt möte ansikte mot ansikte. Genom dessa intervjuer har det framkommit att graden av digitalisering vid bemötandet av människor varierade stort mellan olika präster vid pandemins utbrott. Under de senaste åren har dock de flesta av de intervjuade prästerna insett behovet av att ha en digital plattform som komplement till det fysiska mötet. Den psykiska ohälsan har förändrats på olika sätt under och efter pandemin jämfört med tidigare. Den vanligaste kommentaren var att man märkte att människor for illa av den isolering och ensamhet som drabbade konfidenter till följd av sociala restriktioner och rädsla för smitta
Moral Infringement and Repair in Antiquity : Supplement 3: Forgiveness
No full textMoral Infringement and Repair in Antiquity, is a series of publications related to a project on Dynamics of Moral Repair in Antiquity, run by Thomas Kazen and Rikard Roitto between 2017 and 2021, and funded by the Swedish Research Council, grant nr. 2016-02319. The volumes contain stand-alone articles and serve as supplements to the main outcome of the project, the volume Interpersonal Infringement and Moral Repair: Revenge, Compensation and Forgiveness in the Ancient World, forthcoming on Mohr Siebeck in 2023. Supplement 3: Forgiveness, contains four articles and chapters by Rikard Roitto, republished in accordance with the publishers' general conditions for author reuse, or by special permission. 1. The Polyvalence of ἀφίημι and the Two Cognitive Frames of Forgiveness in the Synoptic Gospels. 2. Forgiveness, Ritual and Social Identity in Matthew: Obliging Forgiveness. 3. Practices of Confession, Intercession and Forgiveness in 1 John 1.9; 5.16. 4. Forgiveness of the Sinless: A Classic Contradiction in 1 John in the Light of Contemporary Forgiveness Research.Dynamics of Moral Repair in Antiquity 2017-202
God has created all people in His image : a study on spiritual longing in adolescents with neuropsychiatric disabilities
No full textThe purpose of this thesis is to investigate whether young people with neuropsychiatric disabilities feel that they have a spiritual longing. The research questions are also about what young people experience that which their spiritual longing is expressed and what conditions and obstacles exist to meet their longing and needs. With the help of role theory, language theory, and the theory of the illusionist world, new knowledge about young people's spiritual longing is gained. The essay uses a qualitative method and collects empirical data by having two (2) group interviews, the first was with key people who are active in the business. And the second interview was with some young people who are active in the same business. With the help of the key people, broader knowledge has been achieved. By interviewing young people, their spiritual longing has been identified. The essay shows that young people have a spiritual longing and that it must be allowed to take place and be taken seriously. The young people and the key people show signs that a language and an expression of spiritual longing is something that needs to be explored and developed. The essay concludes that young people have a spiritual longing and there are good conditions for further development, but more knowledge is needed when dealing with young people and their spiritual longing. The Church of Sweden has come a long way on its journey to a community, but there are still unexplored paths to follow
A value-based model in crisis management : ethical, theological and decision analytical perspectives
No full textThe starting point of the work is that an analysis of the value bases of critical social issues is difficult to carry out in any qualified sense from an unstructured basis and that attempts to do so easily result in relatively superficial discussions of particular issues. Instead, we suggest how this might be viewed from a more holistic ethical and systems theological perspective. In doing so, we review a new framework that aims to distil relevant issues regarding necessary trade-offs and how this can be done. Broadly speaking, this consists of a kind of Socratic dialogue that systematically examines the value base of the decisions that need to be made, as well as whether the effects of the decisions become unacceptable and thus need to be modified vis-a-vis the normative system embraced by the decision-maker. We discuss the role of theologians in this and emphasize that they should take a larger place in discussions on how to deal with complex societal crises, and the main point of this work is therefore to demonstrate the importance of a systematic and transparent method for filtering out critical components from ethical and theological standpoints, and to clarify the effects of the trade-offs between fundamental values that are made in real decision-making situations.
A Critical Reading of the Epistemology of New Materialist Theology
No full textThis study aims to examin how the production of knowledge is intrinsic to the production of power in the New Materialist Process theology of Catherine Keller. The object of critical examination is the theology of Keller and her essay; ”Tingles of Matter, Tangles of Theology: Bodies of the New(ish) Materialism,” from her book Intercarnations: Exercises in Theological Posibility (2017). Keller’s essay will be analyzed through Linda Alcoffs, Alison Baileys and Sara Ahmeds epistemological critical theory of how power produces knowledge and vice versa. Keller’s theology will be examined based on the study points of analysis on texts of Alcoff, Bailey and Ahmed: subjectivity, making of knowledge, epistemology, making of ignorance, power and authenticity/purity. The study shows that Keller’s notion of apophatic matter has the effect of producing knowledge practices about the object. When the object is obscured from the subject in Keller’s theology, a theological analysis of power and the subject’s position in producing knowledge through theology, is prohibited. By analyzing Keller's notion of entanglement through Ahmed’s thinking, it is shown that the subject is presupposed as free, white and independent. Entanglement among human beings exists as bodily physicality for Keller. Social and economic factors are, thus, made irrelevant for the existence of knowledge and relations between humans. Life situations that are, for example, violent or in position of dependence are incompatible with the reality constituted in entanglement. The subject’s knowledge as socially situated and possibly part of structural power, is also made irrelevant in entanglement-thinking. Thus, the study shows that through the reading of Alcoff, Bailey and Ahmed, theology has the ability to constitute knowledge making practices, that forms the subject’s production of knowledge and ignorance
The Angels, the Baptism and the Children : A Study of the Angelology of Luther and Swedenborg
No full textThis study aims to clarify the angelologies of Emanuel Swedenborg and Martin Luther, using textual study as method, and to use comparative analysis to distinguish both differences and similarities between them. The theory I have applied is new historicism, which views the text as an artefact and holds that a text and its context influence each other in a constant give-and-take-relationship. As the topic of angels is vast, I have chosen to focus on the angel’s being and task within creation, their relationship to humans and especially children, and their relationship to baptism. In the process of the study several similarities and differences between Swedenborg’s and Luther’s angelologies have become obvious, many of which have been shown to depend on their contexts as well as their respective theologies and basic assumptions about what an angel in essence is. What has also become clear after conducting this study is that both Luther and Swedenborg saw angels as a natural part of human life and specifically life in the church.