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This article explores Christian education and learning in the Church of Sweden and the Church of Norway today. Given the impact of major changes in society and in school curricula over the last fifty years, the conditions of this work are changing. What major challenges are identified today? How have these two churches responded to the new circumstances? The Church of Norway has developed a system

The aim of this study is to contribute to the understanding of how gender constructions have been shaped and renegotiated in the modern history of the Church of Sweden. This is achieved through the dissertation’s two general approaches, which are to account for the establishment and development of the Swedish lay movement called the Brethren of the Church (Kyrkobröderna) up until women were allowe

In this essay I examine how in seven different congregations that belong to the Church of Sweden the preparatory office is formulated in ways that differ from the form that is prescribed in the current service-book of the Church of Sweden. My purpose is to examine how and why the congregations have chosen these alternative preparatory offices. This I have tried to find out by reading the written i

Today, Sweden is a secular and individualistic society. Communication is therefore a great challenge for religious organizations. With a social constructionist approach, we examine how employees of the Swedish church believe that the organization should communicate to legitimize their role in the Swedish society. We also examine different communication channels to see how the Swedish church commun

Title: The holy culture - A study in how employees in Church of Sweden perceive normative control Seminar date: June 2nd, 2022 Course: FEKH49, Degree Project Undergraduate level, Business Administration, Undergraduate level, 15 UPC Authors: Sofia Bengtsson, Olivia Persson, Linnea Truedsson Advisor: Olof Hallonsten Key words: brand-centred control, normative control, Church of Sweden, organizationa

Syftet med den här uppsatsen var att analysera synen på nationalsocialism i de svenskkyrkliga tidningarna Göteborgs Stifts-Tidning, Kyrka och folk, Svensk kyrkotidning och Vår Lösen. Jag har fokuserat på vad tidningarna ansåg vara positivt respektive negativt med nationalsocialismen samt på vilka grunder de tog ställning på det ena eller andra sättet, hur de motiverade sina åsikter samt vilka förä

This volume 88 of the Yearbook for Swedish Liturgical Life is dedicated to choir singing and multi-lingual church services. It includes articles by Sune Fahlgren, Rolf Larsson, Gunnel Fagius, Ralf Thiedemann and Mikael Isacson. All articles are in Swedish with summary in English.

Syftet med det här examensarbetet är att belysa sambanden mellan äktenskapsrättens historiska bakgrund å ena sidan, och den politiska kontexten å den andra i fråga om de principiella ståndpunkter som framkommer under revisionsarbetet av giftermålsbalken år 1968 respektive 1973. Syftet är också att belysa den rättskulturella miljön under dessa år. Bland aktörerna i rättskulturen är det särskilt kyr

Rapport från ett seminarium sept. 2014 i Manama i Zimbabwe, om diakonens identitet i Lutherska kyrkan i Zimbabwe och i Sverige, två år efter den första vigningen (ordinationen) av diakoner i Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zombabwe.Report from a seminar i Manama in Zimbabwe September 2014: "The Identity of the Deacon in Zimbabwe and Sweden", two years after the first ordination of deacons in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe (ELCZ).

The subject of this essay is the pre- and post-baptismal education in the Church of Sweden. My method of investigation is a comparative content analysis. The documents analyzed are catechisms, different documents approved by the Church of Sweden, 27 pastoral instructions about baptism, 3 pastoral instructions about confirmation and 60 so-called parish instructions (the Church Ordinance of 1999 req

This inaugural lecture in the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities discusses the silence in Swedish press and in the Church of Sweden on National socialism, 1933-1939. This silence was neither common nor general, it was often concentrated to certain levels or matters. Silence could be compact, while the silent persons could speak on other levels, in other words, often in a the