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- Willgren, David, et al.
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Adventsuppropet problematiskt
- 2012
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Ingår i: Dagen. - 1652-5264.
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- "Vi har problem med Adventsuppropet och den privilegierade ställning som den kristna tron förutsätts ha i det, skriver 18 pastorer och församlingsledare."
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- Willgren, David, et al.
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Ett annat sätt att se på makt
- 2013
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Ingår i: Dagen. - 1652-5264.
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Andersson, Greger, 1958-, et al.
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Unga i karismatiska och evangelikala kyrkor resonerar om sin tro
- 2017
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal for Leadership & Theology. - : Ansgar Teologiske Hoegskole. - 1894-7875. ; :4, s. 1-22
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The subject that is examined in this article is how young Christians in Swedish Charismatic and Evangelical churches talk about their faith. The study takes its point of departure in Charles Taylors suggestion that both believers and non-believers in the Western world live in a “secular age” and that this affects the conditions for religious beliefs. Taylors reasoning as well as some American and Swedish studies about young believers are presented in the first part of the article. The main part consist of a presentation of two focus group interviews with young adults. In a final section the interviews are discussed in relation to earlier research. The authors argue that the interviewees emphasize the personal and the authentic, and that it is vital to have “a relation with Jesus”. They refer to, and long for, charismatic experiences butare also searching for a mature faith and an acceptance of “ups and downs” in their spiritual life. Although they shy traditional expressions and admit that they find certain dogmas difficult to understand,their belief offers them a certain “wholeness” in life. They are unhappy about the stereotypes about Christians they encounter in society but want to share their beliefs through testimony and a loving life style. Ethics, in the form of love and tolerance rather than rules, is very important. However, this is a problem not least in relation to issues about homosexuality. Finally, the au-thors note, that the church, or groups within the church, are salient for these Christians.
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"Man ska vara sig själv" : En bok om ungdomar, tro och delaktighet
- 2019
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Hur man ska förstå ”dagens ungdom” tycks vara en evig och olöslig gåta för de lite äldre. Det gäller också vår tid: Undersökningar visar att dagens unga har andra värderingar än sina föräldrar, och att de oroar sig för andra saker. Dessutom formas deras liv av ny teknologi och ständigt föränderliga sociala plattformar.Men hur är det med de eviga frågorna: hur relaterar unga till religion, andlighet och församlingsliv? I denna unika volym kombineras sociologiska data med kulturanalys och teologiska reflexioner. Några av Skandinaviens mest kompetenta forskare och teologer ger oss en inblick i pågående projekt som rör unga i gudstjänsten, lovsång, bibelläsning, konfirmandarbete och barns möte med kristen tro. Detta är omistlig läsning för alla som arbetar eller lever med unga människor. Boken är dessutom ett bidrag till en bredare förståelse av religionens plats i ett pluralistiskt samhälle.
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- Wenell, Fredrik, 1971-
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Omvändelsens skillnad : En diasporateologisk granskning av frikyrklig ungdomskultur i folkkyrka och folkhem
- 2015
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The Difference of Conversion examines theologically the possibilities for a religious minority group to maintain its own corporate identity while contributing as a member of the greater society. The research centers on the Swedish Baptist denomination, Örebromissionen, and focuses on its youth ministry. The research material is the weekly newspaper Missionsbaneret. This examination is twofold: part one is a historical analysis, and the second, a Diaspora-theological analysis that results in the development of a Diaspora ecclesiology.The historical analysis is influenced by a discursive approach and emphasize two areas of focus; what makes something visible, or problematic, and which steering techniques that are used. The study covers three different periods – 1930s, 1950s and 1980s. The research shows that it has been a great challenge for Örebromissionen to maintain a corporate identity in Sweden, both during the Folk Church period as well as in the Folkhemmet period. The examination suggests that this depends on two coexisting processes; first, the understanding of personal conversion primarily as an emotional, datable, and complete experience within the denomination and secondly the strong emphasis of a shared identity in society.The theological analysis begins with a description of the late Mennonite theologian John Howard Yoder’s Diaspora theology. Using Diaspora-theological analysis shows that the strong emphasis of a shared identity in Swedish society has changed the theology concerning personal conversion in relationship to moral values; where once conversion preceded moral change to later when moral development preceded conversion. This shift in understanding was brought about by new practices introduced in Youth Ministry. In conclusion it is suggested that a Diaspora ecclesiology that both wants to maintain a corporate identity as well as to contribute to a good society must emphasize a multi-cultural society, accentuate the individual as a part of a specific religious social body, and understand the religious corporate identity borders as porous, and therefore constantly re-negotiated.
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- Wenell, Fredrik, et al.
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Swedish Christian Schools as a Case Study of How New Practices Relate to Theological Issues
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Ingår i: Ecclesial Practices. - : Brill Academic Publishers. - 2214-4463 .- 2214-4471. ; 9:2, s. 206-226
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Swedish Pentecostal and neo-Pentecostal churches have, since the 1990s, started elementary schools. In this study, we examine theological issues that this new ‘practice’ brings about or makes visible. We have performed semi-structured interviews with church and school leaders, as well as focus group interviews with staff at three schools. In our analysis, we note that the aim of the schools is not to convert pupils but to create a certain culture and thereby to develop good people. These schools do not have other core values or different aims than public schools but describe these values and aims as Christian. However, the informants believe that they have better tools with which to accomplish these values and aims. We suggest that the informants assume an ethics that focus on values such as individual freedom, tolerance, and love, that conversion is not regarded as a requisite to a good life, and that explicit religious activities are placed in the private sector. These assumptions are not, we argue, seen as new, or caused by the engagement in elementary schools; rather they are regarded as ongoing ‘changes’ in the churches under consideration here that become visible in this praxis.
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