På 1940-talet började Kyrkohistoriska arkivet vid Lunds Universitet arbeta med att klarlägga förändringar i den samtida kyrkliga seden. Insamlingen av sådana uppgifter fann sin form på 1960-talet, då arkivet började sända ut rikstäckande frågelistor om den aktuella kyrkliga seden. Genom dessa LUKA-listor har den kyrkliga seden inventerats för hela landet med jämna mellanrum från och med 1962. År 2

Om låsta kyrkor.

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 essay studies the frequent habit of using Orthodox icons in the Church of Sweden. Over the last 30 years, these icons have become very popular. How come a symbol, traditionally foreign to the Swedish, Lutheran tradition, has become so accepted? Is the use of icons an expression of a shift of religious practice in Sweden today? Interviews were conducted with people employed by the Church, who

This thesis takes on the distribution of influence at the local level of the Church of Sweden from a legitimacy theory perspective. It is argued that the high levels of member resignation could be viewed as a manifested lack of confidence due to the failing legitimacy of the Church of Sweden. In order to continue the academic discussion on the democratic relation between the Church and its members

The Church of Sweden has a long history of social work, and until year 2000 the Church of Sweden was a part of the government. Officially, the divorce between the two has not implied other changes than that each one is now in charge of its own economy. This study was done with a qualitative method in which semi-structured interviews were conducted with three deacons and three social workers. The a

This thesis looks at present-day ecclesial use of the Bible by investigating the reception of narrative parables from the Gospel of Luke, chapters 10–15, in sermon guidelines published 1985–2013 in two periodicals aimed mainly at Church of Sweden clergy. The main problems can be expressed by the words “what”, “how” and “why”: What is received – and what is not received? How is that which is receiv

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