”Det officiella är väl att man tror på treenigheten” : en komparativ studie av tre utav Utbildningsradions pedagogiska filmer

Sammanfattning: The aim of this thesis is to study how Utbildningsradion’s movies about religion differ in content, how the individuals are presented, how the individuals present compared to the expert and if the movies fulfils the pedagogic aims of Utbildningsradion. Three movies of the series “Jude”, “Muslim”, and “Kristen”, included in “UR-val: Swedish as a second language”, are analyzed through a film analysis and a comparative analysis method. Each movie consists of a religious individual who presents his/her religion, and the historian of religion Christer Hedin who gives a comprehensive picture. The thesis concludes that the presentation of the individuals differ, a clear orientalism emerges as the Christian youth is presented as more western than the other youths. The pedagogic ambitions and aim of the movies are achieved in some manner, but not entirely.