The following bachelor thesis will focus on the Swedish Armed Forces and their military pastoral care in the otherwise secularized society and organization. What kind of duties does the chaplains and other chaplaincy have in the armed forces, why haven't the religious pastoral care been replaced with a secular alternative and how does their work stand against their own organization values? The essay will primarily focus on the works of parson Sten Elmberg that he, together with the Swedish Armed Forces, published during the years of 2000 til 2014. These publications focus on the Swedish Armed Forces foreign missionary during the 1990s in Bosnia and the 2000s in Kosovo.   The theory chapter of the essay is focused on the secularizationtheory from Rodney Stark and Larry Shiner together with the deprivationtheory from Charles Glock and Rodney Stark. The conclusion is that it is hard to replace the religious pastoral care with a secular alternative since the secular care are not as skilled in dealing with the questions of life and death as the pastoral care are and that is because of the deprivation theory the soldiers sometimes even asks for pastoral care. Further wise we can see that the duties are not focused on the religious questions even though the care is delivered by religious representatives.

This is a qualitative interview study that examines the life of young Jewish women in Sweden. The purpose of this essay is to investigate what parts of the Jewish tradition that the young women has chosen to maintain in their lives as well as to investigate the relationship between the Jewish girls and their non-Jewish environment. Material was collected with the help ofeighth semi-structured interviews and used to further be discussed and analyzed alongside previous research and chosen theoretical aspects. According to the result, a Jewish community in terms of family, friends or assemblies is crucial for the Jews’ ability to maintain their culture. In their very own community, the young women celebrate several Jewish holidays and create a strong bond to Israel. The religious aspect of Judaism has none or very little impact on the girls’ lives. This can be explained by their secularized environment and the fact the Judaism is more than just a religion. It is an ethnic group that shares history where the young women see themselves as a part of this collective. Furthermore, their relationship with their non-Jewish surroundings turns out to be quite uncomplicated even though they all have experienced antisemitism to a varying degree. The conclusion from this study is that even though the girls are not religious at all and despite their concerns related to being Jewish, the young women are very proud of their heritage and want to pass it on to future generations.