Läroböcker i religionskunskap för gymnasieskolan - ur ett genusperspektiv : En undersökning av hur kvinnor inom kristendom och nyreligiositet framställs

The purpose of the study is to examine how women in Christianity and new religious movements are presented in two textbooks, which were written after the introduction of the new curriculum in 2011 in religious studies in high school. The purpose is also to examine what values and norms are expressed in the textbooks and how they are in line with Gy11. The theoretical starting point will include the concepts of gender and gender equality, which will be defined on the basis of theories developed by Yvonne Hirdman, Jeanette Sky, Ingvild Saelid Gilhus and Lisbeth Mikaelsson. In the analysis of the textbooks, the so-called “gender staircase” will be used to categorize the level of gender awareness. The result shows the difficulty for authors to handle religions based on patriarchal structures in the preparation of teaching materials. The study also shows that the patriarchal structure is presented in the sections on Christianity, which are a central part of the education but in relation to new religious movements it shows a greater equality between the sexe