The Syriac Orthodox Church is one of the oldest churches in the world. It employs the oldest surviving worships in Christianity. The Syriac Orthodox Church has about 5.5 million members, with only 231 remaining churches. This project explores the most important and traditional elements for a church, with a focus on the developing possibilities on traditional structure into contemporary approach. A modern proposal in Södertälje Centrum for both religious and non-religious people.

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<p>ÖREBRO UNIVERSITET</p><p>Institutionen för beteende-, social- och rättsvetenskap</p><p>Sociala omsorgsprogrammet</p><p>Socialt arbete 41-60 p</p><p>C-uppsats, 10 p</p><p>Ht 2007</p><p>En studie om hemtjänstpersonalens upplevelser av att vårda äldre med syrisk ortodoxt ursprung</p><p>- Hur upplever vissa syrisk ortodoxa äldre att ta emot omsorg i ett främmande land?</p><p>Författare: Shamiram Gevriye, Mia Sleman</p><p>Sammanfattning</p><p>Denna studies syfte var att undersöka hur hemtjänstpersonal upplever att vårda äldre med syrisk ortodoxt ursprung. Syftet var även att undersöka vissa syrisk ortodoxa äldres upplevelser av att vårdas av hemtjänstpersonal.</p><p>För studiens genomförande valdes den kvalitativa ansatsen som metod. Tematiska intervjuer genomomfördes med öppna frågor för att få del av hemtjänstpersonalens samt vissa brukares upplevelser av omsorgen. De tre teman som användes i studien var bemötande, anpassning och kultur. Kriterierna för urvalet av respondenter var för hemtjänstpersonalen att de skulle arbeta inom hemtjänst i ett invandrartätt område samt att de skulle ha haft kontakt med äldre med syrisk ortodoxt ursprung. För brukarna var urvalskriterierna att de skulle ha syrisk ortodoxt ursprung, vara över 70år samt vara beviljade hemtjänst.</p><p>Resultaten visade att personalen upplevde svårigheter i kommunikationen på grund av bristande språkkunskaper både från sig som personal samt från brukarnas sida. Vidare visar resultaten att personalen på grund av språksvårigheter upplevde att samspelet mellan dem och brukarna med syrisk ortodoxt ursprung inte alltid var välfungerande vilket ledde till att personalen i vissa fall upplevde brister i bemötandet. Brukarna upplevde till skillnad från personalen att samspelet var välfungerande och att de blev välbemötta. Ytterligare visade resultaten att kompetens inom området kultur är en central aspekt för att kunna möjliggöra en anpassning och därmed förbättra brukarnas upplevelser av omsorgen.</p><p>Nyckelord: äldre, invandrare, hemtjänst, hemtjänstpersonal, syrisk ortodox.</p> / <p>Örebro University</p><p>The Department of Behavioral, Social and Legal Sciences</p><p>Social work programme</p><p>Social work advanced course, 41-60 points</p><p>Essay, 10 points</p><p>Ht 2007</p><p>A study about home- care staffs experiences of taking care of elderly with syriac orthodox origin.</p><p>- How do some syriac orthodox elderly experience receiving care in a foreign country.</p><p>Authors: Shamiram Gevriye, Mia Sleman</p><p>Abstract</p><p>The aim of this study has been to investigate how staff in home-care experience taking care of elderly with syriac orthodox origin. The aim also was to investigate some syriac orthodox elderly´s experience of being taken care of by home-care staff.</p><p>The method choosen to carry out the studie was the qualitative. Thematic interviews were carried out with openend questions to acquaint ourselves with the home-care staff as well as some users’ experiences of the care. The three themes used were treatment, adaptation and culture. For the home-care staff the criterieas of selection were that they should work in home-care based in a neighbourhood with a high level of immigrants in conjunction with experience of meeting users with syriac orthodox origin. When it came to the users the criterias of selection were that they should have syriac orthodox origien, be at least 70 years old and be granted home-service.</p><p>The results revealed that the staff experienced difficulties in communication because of deficiency in their own as well as the users’ knowledge of language. Further the results showed that the home-care staff experienced that the interaction with the syriac orthodox users to some extent was insufficient depending on language difficulties which led to that the staff experienced inadequate treatment. The users, in contrary, experienced that the interaction was sufficient and the treatment was satisfying. The results also showed that cultural competence is a critical aspect to facilitate adaptation and with that improve the users experiece of the care.</p><p>Keywords: elderly, immigrants, home-care, home-care staff, syriac orthodox</p>

ÖREBRO UNIVERSITET Institutionen för beteende-, social- och rättsvetenskap Sociala omsorgsprogrammet Socialt arbete 41-60 p C-uppsats, 10 p Ht 2007 En studie om hemtjänstpersonalens upplevelser av att vårda äldre med syrisk ortodoxt ursprung - Hur upplever vissa syrisk ortodoxa äldre att ta emot omsorg i ett främmande land? Författare: Shamiram Gevriye, Mia Sleman Sammanfattning Denna studies syfte var att undersöka hur hemtjänstpersonal upplever att vårda äldre med syrisk ortodoxt ursprung. Syftet var även att undersöka vissa syrisk ortodoxa äldres upplevelser av att vårdas av hemtjänstpersonal. För studiens genomförande valdes den kvalitativa ansatsen som metod. Tematiska intervjuer genomomfördes med öppna frågor för att få del av hemtjänstpersonalens samt vissa brukares upplevelser av omsorgen. De tre teman som användes i studien var bemötande, anpassning och kultur. Kriterierna för urvalet av respondenter var för hemtjänstpersonalen att de skulle arbeta inom hemtjänst i ett invandrartätt område samt att de skulle ha haft kontakt med äldre med syrisk ortodoxt ursprung. För brukarna var urvalskriterierna att de skulle ha syrisk ortodoxt ursprung, vara över 70år samt vara beviljade hemtjänst. Resultaten visade att personalen upplevde svårigheter i kommunikationen på grund av bristande språkkunskaper både från sig som personal samt från brukarnas sida. Vidare visar resultaten att personalen på grund av språksvårigheter upplevde att samspelet mellan dem och brukarna med syrisk ortodoxt ursprung inte alltid var välfungerande vilket ledde till att personalen i vissa fall upplevde brister i bemötandet. Brukarna upplevde till skillnad från personalen att samspelet var välfungerande och att de blev välbemötta. Ytterligare visade resultaten att kompetens inom området kultur är en central aspekt för att kunna möjliggöra en anpassning och därmed förbättra brukarnas upplevelser av omsorgen. Nyckelord: äldre, invandrare, hemtjänst, hemtjänstpersonal, syrisk ortodox. / Örebro University The Department of Behavioral, Social and Legal Sciences Social work programme Social work advanced course, 41-60 points Essay, 10 points Ht 2007 A study about home- care staffs experiences of taking care of elderly with syriac orthodox origin. - How do some syriac orthodox elderly experience receiving care in a foreign country. Authors: Shamiram Gevriye, Mia Sleman Abstract The aim of this study has been to investigate how staff in home-care experience taking care of elderly with syriac orthodox origin. The aim also was to investigate some syriac orthodox elderly´s experience of being taken care of by home-care staff. The method choosen to carry out the studie was the qualitative. Thematic interviews were carried out with openend questions to acquaint ourselves with the home-care staff as well as some users’ experiences of the care. The three themes used were treatment, adaptation and culture. For the home-care staff the criterieas of selection were that they should work in home-care based in a neighbourhood with a high level of immigrants in conjunction with experience of meeting users with syriac orthodox origin. When it came to the users the criterias of selection were that they should have syriac orthodox origien, be at least 70 years old and be granted home-service. The results revealed that the staff experienced difficulties in communication because of deficiency in their own as well as the users’ knowledge of language. Further the results showed that the home-care staff experienced that the interaction with the syriac orthodox users to some extent was insufficient depending on language difficulties which led to that the staff experienced inadequate treatment. The users, in contrary, experienced that the interaction was sufficient and the treatment was satisfying. The results also showed that cultural competence is a critical aspect to facilitate adaptation and with that improve the users experiece of the care. Keywords: elderly, immigrants, home-care, home-care staff, syriac orthodox

Religious education in Swedish schools aims to be as objective and non-confessional as possible. This sort of education can lead to that the different religions are presented in a way which is unfamiliar to the followers of the different religions. This problem is what I have focused on in this essay since I myself was a victim of a similar situation. As a syriac-orthodox youth I felt that my Christianity was not the same as the one presented in school. I felt that it had nothing in common with what I learned in my church, therefore I asked myself the question: Whose Christianity is being represented? Therefore I have focused on the syriac-orthodox church in this research. The purpose of my essay was to enlighten the differences between religious education in syriac-orthodox churches and Swedish community schools. I choose In addition to that I also wanted to enlighten how religious syriac-orthodox youths are affected by the difference in the religious education in both the churches and schools. To gain the necessary information for the research I used qualitative studies in form of semi-structured interviews and observations. My informants were made up by five girls and three boys, all of them being eighteen years old and living in areas close to Stockholm. The conclusion of my research was that there are several differences between the religious education within churches and schools. One of the differences is the approach towards religion, and the churches have a more positive and personal approach towards religion while the schools have a more negative and distant approach towards religion. Another one is that the churches seem to have more knowledge about Christianity than the schools and therefore the churches can provide a more in depth study of different topics regarding Christianity than the schools. Regarding how the students were affected by the differences the result was that the aspect of knowledge had made the religious youths to lose their trust in the education given to them by the school. This was an effect of how they experienced that the teachers taught the pupils wrong facts about Christianity and therefore they felt that they could no longer trust the teachers in school, because if they taught wrong thing about Christianity they could also teach wrong things about the other religions as well.

According to the directives of Lgr11, learning about Christianity should be an important part of religious education in secondary school (7th-9th grade) in Sweden. A school teacher must therefore have good knowledge of the field and of different aspects of the beliefs of the various Christian traditions. This essay is about how salvation is conceived of by two members of the laity in each of three different Christian traditions: the Syriac Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of Sweden (which is Lutheran). As a theoretical perspective for my analysis, I have chosen the official views of salvation of these three churches. That is to say, views of the members of the laity have been compared with the official views of the respective churches. It is thus a very limited qualitative study aiming at finding out how the views of the laity conform to the official creed concerning salvation and whether there are any differences here between the churches. The result of this essay is that there were few differences and a lot of similarities between the laity belief in the relation to the official doctrines of salvation. Only among the protestant laity differences were prominent.

<p>Mitt syfte med denna uppsats var att undersöka Katolska och Syrisk-Ortodoxa kyrkans förståelse av bikten. Det var på grund utav mitt intresse för båda kyrkorna samt att jag inte funnit något liknande material på svenska som jag valde just detta syfte med min uppsats. Jag har i bästa möjliga mån försökt presentera och analysera bikten utifrån katolsk och syrisk-ortodox tradition. Jag har genom att granska de båda traditionernas katekeser samt bibeln och andra källor, försökt söka deras förståelse av bikten samt hur de tänker kring de olika delarna som bikten omfattas av. Jag valde ut de texter som jag kände passade bäst och var mest representativa för traditionerna samt de texter som har en koppling till kyrkans auktoriteter, det vill säga påvar och patriarker. Genom att använda mig av primärkällor som är skrivna ur ett inifrån perspektiv har jag kunnat få ta del av den korrekta förståelsen om av vad traditionerna egentligen tycker om och förstår av bikten.</p>

Mitt syfte med denna uppsats var att undersöka Katolska och Syrisk-Ortodoxa kyrkans förståelse av bikten. Det var på grund utav mitt intresse för båda kyrkorna samt att jag inte funnit något liknande material på svenska som jag valde just detta syfte med min uppsats. Jag har i bästa möjliga mån försökt presentera och analysera bikten utifrån katolsk och syrisk-ortodox tradition. Jag har genom att granska de båda traditionernas katekeser samt bibeln och andra källor, försökt söka deras förståelse av bikten samt hur de tänker kring de olika delarna som bikten omfattas av. Jag valde ut de texter som jag kände passade bäst och var mest representativa för traditionerna samt de texter som har en koppling till kyrkans auktoriteter, det vill säga påvar och patriarker. Genom att använda mig av primärkällor som är skrivna ur ett inifrån perspektiv har jag kunnat få ta del av den korrekta förståelsen om av vad traditionerna egentligen tycker om och förstår av bikten.

The Purpose of this essay is to seek an answer to whether or not a conflict exists between priests of the Assyrian Church, the Syrian Orthodox Church and the Coptic Church in contemporary Swedish society, as well as to examine the environment between the three. The theological dissimilarities will be studied (from a historical standpoint), along with the interviewed participants views on the division in Christianity which will be presented also. I choose to interview six priests/chorbishops who live and work in Sweden, and the result was analyzed according to the senior professor of peace- and conflict, Peter Wallensteen’s theories on conflict and conflict resolution, where important issues are laid out to identify the core problem, and theological differences are discussed and compared from a union perspective. The result of the interviews illustrate a clear response that the participants experience a lack of functioning collaborations (from the Assyrians Church view, a collaboration is absent from the Syrian Orthodox Church and the Coptic Church, and vice versa) and most of the participants experience negative consequences from the divide in churches, as they strive for unity in Christianity as a whole. The theological differences between the churches proves not to be as significant as expected, the actual predicament lies partly in language-and phrase division along with a general rejection of each other’s interpretations. In many instances all the churches mean to express the same things, but it is the explanation of expressions that vary and cause misunderstandings. Consequently it is imperative for these churches to develop functional communication to (amongst other issues) solve their interpretations. If not to unify, then to develop an acceptance for each other and the different understandings.