Guds lilla barnaskara - barn och ungdomar inom Jehovas vittnen
(2005)School of Social Work
- Abstract
- My intention was to explore the childhood of children and adolescents within the religious organization of Jehovah´s Witnesses, in Sweden. I used a technique where I interviewed three active witnesses and four former members. The former members either had left the religion freely or had been excluded by the movement. I wanted to know more from those two different perspectives, because they often seem to conflict. First of all, I wanted to learn about the persons own upbringing. Secondly, I wanted to learn more about children and adolescents within the movement in general. I wanted to explore both positive and negative aspects of belonging to a Christian organization. I also wanted to know more about their every-day-life. Finally, I wanted... (More)
- My intention was to explore the childhood of children and adolescents within the religious organization of Jehovah´s Witnesses, in Sweden. I used a technique where I interviewed three active witnesses and four former members. The former members either had left the religion freely or had been excluded by the movement. I wanted to know more from those two different perspectives, because they often seem to conflict. First of all, I wanted to learn about the persons own upbringing. Secondly, I wanted to learn more about children and adolescents within the movement in general. I wanted to explore both positive and negative aspects of belonging to a Christian organization. I also wanted to know more about their every-day-life. Finally, I wanted to know how people handled difficult relationships within their families and when the support or advice of the congregation was sought. The seven interviews have given a lot of information about both every-day-life, positive and negative aspects of growing up as a witness and how family difficulties are handled. Since children within Jehovah´s Witnesses attend regular schools, I have learnt a lot about difficulties that the interviewed people have experienced during school and in relation to non-witness children. (Less)
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- author
- Jägfeldt, Kristina
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2005
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Jehovas Vittnen, sekt, socialt arbete, avhoppare, barn, ungdom, Social problems and welfare, national insurance, Sociala problem, social välfärd, socialförsäkring
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1326407
- date added to LUP
- 2006-02-06 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2006-02-15 00:00:00
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abstract = {{My intention was to explore the childhood of children and adolescents within the religious organization of Jehovah´s Witnesses, in Sweden. I used a technique where I interviewed three active witnesses and four former members. The former members either had left the religion freely or had been excluded by the movement. I wanted to know more from those two different perspectives, because they often seem to conflict. First of all, I wanted to learn about the persons own upbringing. Secondly, I wanted to learn more about children and adolescents within the movement in general. I wanted to explore both positive and negative aspects of belonging to a Christian organization. I also wanted to know more about their every-day-life. Finally, I wanted to know how people handled difficult relationships within their families and when the support or advice of the congregation was sought. The seven interviews have given a lot of information about both every-day-life, positive and negative aspects of growing up as a witness and how family difficulties are handled. Since children within Jehovah´s Witnesses attend regular schools, I have learnt a lot about difficulties that the interviewed people have experienced during school and in relation to non-witness children.}},
author = {{Jägfeldt, Kristina}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Guds lilla barnaskara - barn och ungdomar inom Jehovas vittnen}},
year = {{2005}},
}