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"The Swedish Principle is the Christian Principle" : Christianity and the Concept of the People in Swedish Patriotism during World War II
No full textTo strengthen Swedish patriotism during World War II, representatives of the Swedish Parliament and the Church of Sweden gathered at Stockholm’s City Hall and issued the motto “The Swedish principle is the Christian principle.” This study analyzes the role of Christianity in Swedish patriotism as expressed at that meeting. Using Viroli’s theories of nationalism and patriotism, this unifying message is found to contain a variety of understandings regarding the relationships between the Swedish people, Christianity, and the Church of Sweden. Christian faith was presented as part of both nationalism and patriotism and as both an instrument for increasing national loyalty and an objective in itself.</p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Spiritual Preparedness : The Church of Sweden’s Work for Strengthening Swedish People’s Fortitude During the Second World War, 1939-1945
No full textThe study investigates how and why representatives of the Church of Sweden attempted to contribute to Sweden’s defence during World War II by raising people’s fortitude and will for defence, thus highlighting the role of the Church in modern Swedish society and nation-building. The wartime period is divided into five parts based on historical events that influenced the Swedish perception of threat from foreign powers. For each subperiod, the initiatives taken by Church actors are investigated and the forms of work, actors, formal structures, and networks are mapped out. Particular interest is paid to Church representatives’ use and interpretation of slogans such as “spiritual preparedness” and “the Christian principle”. The source material consists of minutes, correspondence, memoranda, reports, petitions, manifestos, public speeches and statements, newspaper and magazine articles, books, pamphlets, and films. Several theoretical perspectives are combined, with Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory as the basis. The Church of Sweden is viewed as a social field competing against other fields, most noticeably those of the state and the dissenter movements, for certain capitals in an “arena of spiritual preparedness”. This struggle involves the use and exchange of resources that are either particular to the Church or available through interactions with the other fields. Among the actors within the Church of Sweden who took up the call to strengthen the people’s fortitude were bishops, clergymen, and laypeople, who worked individually, in groups, through a temporary formal organisation, or the Oxford group movement. They used a combination of traditional and innovative work forms that changed over time and highlighted the Church’s practical as well as motivational resources. They wished to demonstrate that the Church of Sweden was an integral part of Swedish national history, culture, and identity. This understanding was contested by outsiders as well as by actors within the Church, who either opposed the conservative, church-oriented vision of the nation that was often expressed or warned against the risk of instrumentalising the Church for the purposes of the state.
Andlig beredskap : Beredskapstidens insatser för att stärka den svenska befolkningens inre styrka
No full text"På svensk botten om också på främmande mark" : Tillkomsten av Svenska Olaus Petri-församlingen i Helsingfors 1919-1922
No full textDen 19 oktober 1922 bildades Svenska Olaus Petri-församlingen i Helsingfors. Efter tre års intensiva strävanden hade såväl Kungl. Maj:t i Sverige som Finlands Stadsråd godkänt församlingsbildningen, ett besked som firades med stor glädje bland rikssvenskarna i Helsingfors. Denna bok försöker besvara frågan Varför? Kyrkligt sett hade ju svensktalande i Helsingfors goda möjligheter att höra Guds ord på sitt eget modersmål också i de finlandssvenska församlingarna. Varför var det så viktigt få en rikssvensk präst och Kungl. Maj:ts gillande? Vilka var det som ivrade för församlingen? Och vad hade en rikssvensk församling att erbjuda, som inte fanns i de finlandssvenska?”På svensk botten om också på främmande mark” belyser en del av Svenska kyrkans utlandsverksamhet vid 1900-talets början och berör därmed relationerna mellan Sverige och Finland och deras båda evangelisk-lutherska kyrkor. Framför allt ger boken dock en inblick i den rikssvenska befolkningens i Helsingfors syn på sin egen nationella och kyrkliga tillhörighet i ett land som bara ett drygt sekel tidigare var förenat med deras eget.</p
Finland som förebild? : Den svenska receptionen av erfarenheter från Andliga Befolkningsskyddet i Finland 1939–1940
No full textDet finländska vinterkriget 1939–1940 väckte ett starkt gensvar i Sverige. Hos den rikssvenska befolkningen växte en omfattande Finlandsrörelse fram som ville bistå den finländska krigsinsatsen med såväl materiellt och ekonomiskt stöd som med frivilliga. Beskrivningarna av den finländska arméns bedrifter, förmedlade genom pressen, väckte stor beundran och det gjorde även civilbefolkningens insatser och uthållighet. När det i Sverige våren 1940 bildades tre separata organisationer i syfte att stärka den egna civilbefolkningens inre styrka och ”andliga beredskap” var det så kallade Andliga Befolkningsskyddet i Finland en viktig inspirationskälla.I detta föredrag avser jag presentera hur tre rikssvenska organisationer (Folkberedskapen, Kommittén för Kristen Beredskap och Diakonistyrelsens utskott för den andliga beredskapen) fick information om hur Andliga Befolkningsskyddet i Finland organiserat sig och vilka åtgärder de vidtagit, vilken bild av den finländska verksamheten bland civilbefolkningen som förmedlades till dessa organisationer och vilka element de verksamma aktörerna särskilt tog fasta på i de inledande faserna av att organisera ett liknande arbete i Sverige.Föredraget bygger främst på arkivmaterial hämtat ur Diakonistyrelsens arkiv, Folkberedskapens arkiv inom Statens Informationsstyrelse (båda vid Riksarkivet i Sverige), samt korrespondens och handlingar ur ärkebiskop Erling Eidems arkiv (Uppsala Landsarkiv) och Biskopsmötets arkiv (Svenska kyrkans arkiv i Uppsala). Föredragets innehåll anknyter till mitt avhandlingsprojekt om Svenska kyrkans arbete för andlig beredskap 1939-1945.</p
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