The purpose of this thesis is to study and compare communication strategies in three different parishes located in three quite different contexts to get a starting point to answering questions concerning the rate of members leaving the Swedish church, 1.6% per year. It is of outmost importance for a parish to be regarded as a positive and responsible organisation contributing to the local communit

The purpose of this research is to identify how God’s actions are talked about in sermons in the Church of Sweden and how this is perceived by the listeners. The research questions that guide this study are: How do priests in the Church of Sweden in the diocese of Lund talk about God in their sermons? And how is this perceived by the participants in the Sunday service? To answer these questio

Every Sunday we have the opportunity to visit a service in the Church of Sweden, to confess our sins and to hear that we are forgiven. But we human beings are not just sinners, we are also sinned-against. Therefore I have written this master’s thesis on how experiences of being sinned against affect experiences of worship, or more specifically experiences of the main Sunday service with Eucharist

Abstract The aim of this study was to describe and analyze the church’s social work, with socially vulnerable individuals, in a municipality in the southern part of Sweden. The church of Sweden has a history of social work because it was a state church until 2000. Since the separation it has been defined as any other faith-communities. Therefore this study includes other faith-communities within

The aim of this thesis is to contribute to the theological discussion of heteronormative structures in the Church of Sweden. Specifically, the purpose is to examine how the Trinity is described in the High Mass in the proposal for the Book of Worship of the Church of Sweden, from a queer theological perspective. The questions asked are: What patriarchal and heteronormative structures exist in the

I det här kapitlet spelar diakonen Nestor Sundins beskrivning av sin tid som "ödemarksdiakon" under 1920-talet en viktig roll. Detta material kompletteras av diakonissan Inga-Karin Olssons mer kortfattade rapport till sin uppdragsgivare, Diakonirådet i Nyköping från1961. Efter en historisk bakgrund och en nulägesbeskrivning av gruppen diakoner relateras detta till professionsteori.

Handlingsutrymmet för kyrkans sociala engagemang har sett olika ut i olika tider, för att de senare decennierna öka i takt med att legala restriktioner minskat eller försvunnit. Relationen till staten har varit en styrande faktor för detta. I en omvärld alltmer präglad av marknadsvillkor och välfärdspluralism ställs nya krav. Ett sådant är att församlingar tydligare behöver artikulera vad de vill

Införandet av en könsneutral äktenskapslagstiftning röstades i Sverige igenom av riksdagen den 1 april 2009. En liknande lagändring röstades i Danmark igenom av folketinget den 7 juni 2012. I uppsatsen undersöks hur förhållandet mellan kyrkan och staten påverkade införandet av en könsneutral äktenskapslagstiftning i Sverige jämfört med Danmark. Lagstiftningen rörande ingående av äktenskap är likThe legalization of same sex marriage was decided by riksdagen in Sweden on 1 April 2009 and by folketinget in Denmark on 7 June 2012. In this essay it is examined how the relationship between the church and government effected the legalization of same sex marriage in Sweden compared to Denmark. The legislation regarding matrimony is similar in Sweden and Denmark. Spouses can choose to be offici

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The purpose of this essay is to shed light upon the ecumenical work that has been done between the Church of Sweden and the Mission Covenant Church of Sweden. The recent years of work have led to a recommendation for a certain degree of fellowship to be established between those churches. This proposal as well as other documents are analysed in the essay from an ecclesio-logical point of view, to