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Mary the intercessor : A qualitative text analysis of Mary´s role in Kristina Gyllenstiernas devotional book
No full textDenna uppsats skrivs inom ämnesområdet kyrkohistoria, vilket är ett brett forskningsfält. I denna studie ligger tyngdpunkten på att undersöka hur en kristen praktik gestaltades under en viss tid i Sverige. Den kristna praktik som undersöks är Mariafromheten med fokus på Maria under första hälften av 1500 – talet. Det material som studeras är Kristina Gyllenstiernas andaktsbok för att se hur Maria gestaltades för den senmedeltida människan och om den gestaltningen genomgår en förändring i andaktsboken. Inom kyrkan har läro- och trosfrågor alltid varit ett pågående samtal. Under denna tidsperiod var en av frågorna Marias roll i frälsningshistoria. Det är därför intressant att undersöka hur Maria gestaltades för den troende senmedeltida människan och om det sker en förändring av gestaltningen av Marias roll i Kristinas andaktsbok. Andaktsboken anses har tre olika delar. Där de två första anses tillhöra den katolska läran och den sista delen tillförs den reformatoriska läran. Den uppdelningen gör att andaktsboken är intressant som material för denna studie. I analysen av Marias roller i Kristinas andaktsbok används Therese Zachrissons teoretiska aspekter på materialitets kärna (föremål anses besitta gudomlig immanens) och historiska beskrivningar av en kristen praktik. De perspektiven sammantaget skapar en förståelse för hur den troende senmedeltida människan kan ha relaterat till Marias roller. I andaktsboken framträder i de första delarna en närhet till Maria och Jesus med känslor i fokus som förändras till att förstå Ordet, Skriften och Fadern. Maria får lämna rollerna som den himmelska drottningen, profeternas profet, apostlarnas apostel, bibelkunnig, lärarinna, medlerska mellan Kristus och människan och blir kvar som en ren jungfru som föder Jesus Kristus i den sista delen i Kristinas andaktsbok.
Ryssland ska rädda världen från moraliskt förfall
No full textIntervjuad av Kalle Kniivilä, Reporter på HD och Sydsvenskan</p
The possibilities and limitations of spiritual care : A religious sociological perspective on spiritual care in the field of healthcare services and correctional treatment.
No full textThe purpose of this study was to understand what is meant by spiritual care (andlig vård) as structured within the founding statutes and guidelines of the hospital church (Sjukhuskyrkan), the correctional services (Kriminalvården), and the health care services (hälso- och sjukvården) in Sweden. How the possibilities and limitations of spiritual care in Sweden are made visible from a socio-religious perspective is an overarching research question that forms the basis for the three sub-questions on how spiritual care is defined, designated and structured. The basis for the empirical material is partly text material from laws, presentations, guidelines, directives and basic documents for spiritual care and partly interview material from selected informants.Parts of the Constitution of Society by Anthony Giddens (1984) became the theoretical perspective. The method chosen emanated in the qualitative methods of Kirsti Malterud. The conclusions are that the structure for spiritual care in Sweden is strictly community-centered, and is reproduced through the individual actors, where the dominance of the Hospital Church maintains another ongoing and changing social system in spiritual care. This can create an unbalanced social structure in the arena of spiritual care. SST, Myndigheten för stöd till trossamfund (the Swedish Agency for Support to Faith Communities) and the Hospital Church have the means of power through the external caregiver structure on which spiritual care is based. This structure applies in a similar way to the spiritual care within the Swedish Prison and Probation Service, that reports structural imbalances that can lead to social vulnerability, discrimination and intolerance in prisons and demanding a Swedish vocational education. A clearer, patient-centered, approach is pointed out in this study, where patients with an existential crisis can be treated with either a general spirituality or a religious spirituality, where the concept of existential health through existential support can then be about both spiritual care and nursing
Non-profit work for human rights - the role of women? : A qualitativ interview study on non-profit involvment in human rights
No full textThis thesis aims to study gender distribution in non profit work for human rights. Based on an interview study with coordinator ́s for non-profit workers in human rights, the thesis examines how the gender distribution is constructed, the reasons behind the gender distribution, what consequences the distribution can have, and how to create change. The theoretical frameworks that the thesis relates to are gender theory, socialization and role theory. These are theories based on the a social constructivist approach, which means that society is constructed by us humans. The result of the seven semi-structured interviews, indicates that there is a large surplus of women who are voluntarily committed to human rights. Possible causal explanations for the distribution according to the results have to do with education, trends, women's social capacity, and female vs. male interest. The consequences the informants address apply to diversity, societal development and the priority issue. The results also show that coordinators believe that what needs to be done to create change has to do with education, gender norms, salary, and active search for men, except for the two men who, according to the results, believe that the prevailing gender distribution does not need to change.
A feminist study of the Church of Swedenlectionary 2002
No full textThe purpose of this essay has been to make a feminist study of the Church of Sweden lectionary 2002. I have been interested in two specific subject areas. The first is whether the biblical text have helped to highlight women´s experience, and if that is the case, in which way? The second area has been to investigate whether the texts have an oppressive or liberating tendency. In my study I have used Rosemary Radford Ruethers definition of experience which includes experience of the divine, experience of oneself and experience of the world, although they can be understood separately, they interact with each other. As for the second subject area I have used Elisabeth Shüssler Fiorenzas definitions of oppression and liberation. Oppression is defined based on the underlying or direct meaning that hinders or denies liberation. Liberation implies resistance and change by examining contradictions between the religious-cultural politics of “femininity” and the radical democratic politics of meaning and dignity. My study takes its approach from feminist theology and to it I connect two fields of method. One is feminist theological practices and the other is qualitative textual analysis. The analysis has been made from two biblical texts, one of the New Testament and one of the Old Testament. Both texts describe the biblical woman’s experiences in multiple ways which includes Radford Ruethers definition of experience. The text of the New Testament included a larger part of experience of oneself while the text from the Old Testament included as lager part of experience of “the world”. Both texts are liberating for women since they both meet Shüssler Fiorenzas definition of liberation. But the story of Rahab also has an oppressive tendency. Both women in each story contribute to their own liberation and in the story of Rahab also her family´s liberation. Another likeness in the texts is that both women have an experience of fear.
Sara's role in Gen 11:29 - 23:20
No full textIn this essay, I go through the stories that are about Sara, or Saraj, from Genesis 11 through Genesis 23 with the goal of finding out what theology we can read from the character Sara. The central elements of the theology conveyed through Sarah are how God relates to Sarah and Sarahs role in the promise of a people and a land, the promise that Abraham receives in Genesis 12. Sarah has only lines in three stories; Genesis 16, 18 and 21 so these chapters form the basis of most of the study. Other stories where Sara is included will only be treated briefly. In Genesis 16, which is about the conflict with Hagar, I come to the conclusion that the story intends to answer the question why Abraham does not have children through another woman. Furthermore, I argue that Sara is the character who initiates the story and despite her hesitant actions is a positive character from God's perspective. In Genesis 18, which is about when Sarah meets God, she is at the center of the story and is portrayed as a person considered by God. In Genesis 21, Sara is both the character at the center of the story and the one who initiates the conflict in the second part of the story. Here, too, she is portrayed as a person considered by God. Common to all the stories is that the consequences of the stories always mean that Sara is the chosen one to give birth to the promised son. Furthermore, Sara is portrayed as a person with human reactions and feelings that God understands and takes into account. Through her, the promise of a people is fulfilled and the promise of a land also begins with her
Silenced Detainees in Repressive Hijab : A Marxist Analysis of the Hijab of Afghan women in Sweden, the patriarchal coercion to veil, and the responsibility of the Swedish government
No full textThis empirical research focuses on the subject of Hijab in Sweden. It demonstrates that Afghan (Muslim) women residing in Sweden do not consider the Hijab as an element of their culture/identity. Additionally, the empirical data gathered through interviews with twenty Afghans residing in Sweden reveals that Hijab is socially imposed on women, particularly by male relatives. Afghan women reveal verbal and physical violations exercised against women by male relatives in order to force them to veil. Therefore, if multiculturalism favors the Hijab as a human right and/or an identity/cultural element of these women, it neglects the violations implied by Hijab on women. By adopting a Marxist feminist lens, the research explains that although veiling and controlling women’s body existed for centuries before the birth of capitalism, controlling women’s body by forcing them to veil serves the capitalist project as well. The veil is one of the diverse ways of controlling women (‘s body) and is one of the ways to help the interests of capitalism since women are the source of reproduction of labor. Rejecting the position of both left-wing and right-wing parties (and specifically racists) in the political sphere in Sweden, it is suggested that the former (no matter intentionally or unintentionally) justifies and serves the preservation of the repressive Hijab and does not protect Muslim women and their human rights. And (far) right-wing actors, by pointing to the repressive Hijab, merely aim to cut the budget that is essential for protecting the fundamental human rights of immigrants and target the existence of immigrants per se to enable (further) development of capitalist (economic) policies. This research argues that discourse cannot make a substantial change in behaviors, and not only men should be considered as the responsible actor to diminish the violations. A third alternative/approach is instead suggested for the change in the material condition of such communities so as to diminish the violations. By reminding the responsibility of the Swedish government, it is suggested that the government should take responsibility for material provision regarding awareness, education, employment, and development of oppressed veiled women. This is how the government can protect human rights and actualize women’s capacity in order to combat the violations
Value and the Market’s Disorder : Market Prices as a Theological Problem in Patristic Thought and the Value Theory of Peter of John Olivi
No full textThis article analyzes prices and value as constituting a theological problem in early and medieval Christian thought. First, it looks at the patristic critique of wealth and market prices and shows that such critique was rooted in a concern with a disordered world. Next, it moves on to medieval just price theory and particularly the value theory of Franciscan theologian Peter of John Olivi (1247/8–1298). While Olivi’s legacy in the history of economic thought is well known, the problem of value as such has not been theologically analyzed. By relating Olivi’s concept of value to the older patristic critique of wealth, the article sheds new light on the problem of value: the historical treatment of market prices has cosmological and theological implications. This way, the article contributes to theological and historical analyses of the relationship between the Christian tradition and the market economy
The best interests of the child in Swedish refugee law : An analysis of applicable law
No full textIn 2020, the Convention on the Rights of the Child was incorporated into Swedish law, with the aim that the child perspective and the best interests of the child would be reinforced in areas such as refugee law. At the same time, the temporary law (2016:752) was introduced in 2016, which limits the child's possibility of obtaining a Swedish residence permit. Using the legal dogmatic method, this study answers the purpose and aim of this thesis that is; what factors determines whether a child is allowed to stay in Sweden or not, how the best interest of the child and child-specific grounds for residence permit are interpreted in applicable law and in cases where children's asylum cases are tried in the Court of Migration, and lastly what conclusions can be drawn from these findings. The thesis achieves this by analyzing and comparing four different judgments from the Court of Migration to examine how the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Aliens Act and the best interest of the child is applied in the different cases as well as the varying factors that makes them differ. The results in the thesis goes through the applicable law in the field and present child-specific provisions in applicable law such as in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Aliens Act and the Temporary law from 2016, combined with the preparatory work of the laws that contributes to how these provisions are interpreted and understood, and praxis in the form of 4 different judgements. The analysis concludes the differences in the judgements and that there are certain aspects and factors in the judgments that seem to have been crucial in the Migration Court's assessment and decision. Finally, the thesis presents the conclusions that can be drawn from these outcomes, as well as an investigation on the limitations of the principle of the best interest of the child in asylum law, which ultimately results in the child's best interests being, in principle, complex and requiring interpretation