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1. ”I don’t believe the meaning of life is all that profound” : A study of Icelandic teenagers’ life interpretation and values
Sammanfattning : What do teenagers recount about themselves and their interpretation of life and values, and what characterises individual teenagers’ perceptions and statements? What is the relation between teenagers’ life interpretation and values and social circumstances? What challenges to school religious education do the teenagers’ perceptions and statements represent? These questions are central to the study Icelandic Teenagers’ Life Interpretation and Values.The purpose of the study was to investigate some central elements in teenagers’ life interpretation so as to discuss the results in terms of social circumstances in Iceland and of school religious education. LÄS MER
2. Att förklara det oförklarliga : En livsåskådningsstudie om människors tolkningar av paranormala fenomen i en vetenskaplig tidsålder
Sammanfattning : The purpose of the present thesis is to investigate the importance that paranormal phenomena has for the view of life of contemporary Swedes. It is my impression that science and scientific theories generally influence the person who tries to understand specific phenomena in the world. LÄS MER
3. Kränkningens livsförståelse : En religionsdidaktisk studie av livsförståelselärande i skolan
Sammanfattning : The Hard Lesson of Life: A Study of /Re/construction of Life in School from a Religious Educational PerspectiveThe overriding aim of this dissertation is to examine the understanding of life that young people /re/construct, and in this sense learn, in the discursive practices of school, and to describe how such a /re/construction takes place.The theoretical frame of the study is a critical theory perspective. LÄS MER
4. Sammanhangets mening : En empirisk studie av livsåskådningar i föreställningar om genteknik och i berättelser om barnlöshet, assisterad befruktning och adoption
Sammanfattning : This present thesis explores the meaning of contexts for views of life. The first aim of the investigation is to describe the existential meaningful content of views of life in perceptions of gene technology and in narratives about childlessness, assisted conception and adoption, as they are articulated in two separate sets of interviews. LÄS MER
5. Från sonett till drömtext : Gunnar Björlings väg mot modernismen
Sammanfattning : The subject of this dissertation is the Finland-Swedish author Gunnar Björling (1887-1960) and his journey towards Modernism. The principle thesis of this dissertation, the idea that Björling’s distinctive language cannot be understood without an underlying modernistic current, is outlined in Chapter I. LÄS MER