The aim of this study is to analyze how buddhism and hinduism has been portrayed in textbooks for high school in the subject of religious studies. The textbooks are scrutinized with a content analysis. I will therefore scrutinized and compare the contents of three different textbooks from 1968, 1997 and 2015 with each other. The study of how Hinduism and Buddhism has been presented takes place from a perspective that makes a difference between "us" and "them". Furthermore, I use Edward Said's postcolonial theory of orientalism. This theory is used as an approach to investigate the extent to which orientalism occurs in the textbooks. The analysis shows that orientalist tendencies can be found in all books. It’s common to make a difference between "we" and "them" in different respects. As one might have previously thought, some changes has taken place over the years, but no drastic change has been made. Orientalism still occurs, albeit to a lesser extent.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-465693 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Aspgren Kreivi, Sofia |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Religionshistoria |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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