I Den onde, den gode och den fule. Jakten på den goda läroboken i Religionskunskap A ämnar vi att undersöka hur religionerna hinduism och buddhism presenteras i tre läromedelsböcker i Religionskunskap A för gymnasiet, samt hur väl Skolverkets styrdokument och en skola för alla förankras i dessa framställningar. Vi har använt oss av en komparativ analysmetod där vi har jämfört och ställt de tre läromedelsböckerna i relation till varandra för att kunna belysa deras likheter och skillnader. De teorier vi har använt oss av är: analytisk/positivistisk och hermeneutisk/dialektisk kunskapssyn, induktion, deduktion och abduktion samt ett etnocentriskt och genusrelaterat perspektiv. Teorierna bidrar till ett djup och en bredd i vår analys och belyser den mångfald som de tre läromedelsböckerna visar. Detta framgår i vårt resultat vilket tyder på att trots att samtliga av de undersökta läromedelsförfattarna har en gemensam och näst intill identisk kunskapssyn skiljer sig deras val av bredd, fokus och tillägnat utrymme för var och ett utav de olika avsnitten för religionerna. Undersökningen visar även att två av tre av de undersökta läromedelsböckernas författare speglar religionerna i enlighet med Skolverkets styrdokument.

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Revision of the author's Thesis (Ph. D.)--Sukhadia University, Udaipur, 1987). / Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-162) and index.

Thesis (M. Div.)--Emmanuel School of Religion, Johnson City, Tennessee, 2000. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [106]-131).

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The aim of this study is to analyze Hinduism in upper secondary school textbooks using a gender-based perspective. The specific material used consists of four textbooks, whereof two are published prior to the curriculum Lgy 11 and two are published after Lgy 11. In order to analyze the textbooks the following methods are used: content analysis, picture analysis and comparative analysis. First, the contents and pictures of the textbooks are analyzed using theories on gender. After this analysis the results are compared to the relevant curriculum and its guidelines for the analyzed subject. To complement this analysis a further comparison is made between the results of the two kinds of textbooks in order to determine whether any similarities or differences exist. The results show that men are represented more often than women in the chapters on Hinduism and that women are found to be represented more sparsely and separately from their male counterparts. The study also show that Lgy 11 doesn't emphasize gender very strongly as a part of the mandatory guidelines and that this can be a plausible explanation for the lack of female representation in the textbooks. Despite the difference between the two curricula there is no palpable difference between the older and the newer textbooks.

This dissertation is an analysis of discursive productions of Kālīghāṭ, a Hindu temple dedicated to the goddess Kālī in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), India. It is the most famous temple in what was once the capital of the British Empire in India and what is now India's third largest city. Kālīghāṭ has a reputation for being ancient, powerful, corrupt, and dirty. This dissertation aims to discover how and why these are the adjectives most often used to describe this temple. While there are many stories that can be told about a place, and many words that can be used to characterize it, these four dominate the public discourse on Kālīghāṭ. I demonstrate in these pages that these ideas about Kālīghāṭ are not discoveries made about the site, but are instead creations of it that have been produced at certain times, according to certain discursive practices, toward certain ends.

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The purpose of the present study is to recover from selected Hindu and Buddhist texts ideas and images of aging and illumine their historical, semantic and metaphysical dimensions. The results of this endeavor indicate that as cultural adaptive systems, both religion and gerontology share a common concern in seeking to provide aging with purpose and meaning. Further, the internal logic and semantics expressing this relationship in the texts examined are governed by the formal and literary modes of simile, metaphor and myth. The analysis of such age-sensitive concepts as jara (aging), asrama (stages of life), kala (time), parinama (change), karma (determinate actions), kama (desire), and vaja (rejuvenatory and revitalizing force) suggest that the bond between the traditional Indian values of life and gerontology is particularly close and mutual.