The purpose of the study is to see how congregations and pastorates within the Church ofSweden in Värmland adapt their activities to be able to carry out a Christmas celebration andstill meet the requirements of the social distancing. The study also intends to see howpreparations and implementation differ between Easter and the Christmas celebrations duringa pandemic. The purpose of this study is based on the assumption that the church does notcancel a holiday, they are instead adapting the celebration to meet the social distancingrequirements. The study seeks to answer how and what the churches do to adjust the holidaycelebrations to meet these requirements. The three questions this study seeks to answer isfirst, what adjustments are made by congregations and pastorates to be able to carry out aChristmas celebration. Secondly, how preparations and implementation of the Christmascelebration differentiate from the Easter celebration in April 2020 and third, is it possible thatthe current pandemic affects the way of how the Christmas celebrations work and creates newrituals which could be viable for the future celebrations. In order to achieve the purpose ofthe study and to be able to answer the study's three research questions, qualitative interviewsand observation have been the study's methods. These have been used to provide the studywith a large amount of data that gives the study wider and deeper answers. The results showthat it is possible to carry out a Christmas celebration in the current situation we are in, evenif it has not turned out as planned from the beginning. The difference between the Easter andChristmas celebrations is substantial, but with the Easter celebrations as an experience,people had begun to understand how to work and think in order to be able to carry out aChristmas celebration.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:kau-83315 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Andersson, Fredrik |
| Publisher | Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013) |
| 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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