Conceptions of Religion Among Swedish Teenagers: A phenomenographical study

Abstract

This article is a presentation of some partial results of an investigation into ways of thinking about certain religious questions among Swedish teenagers in their last term of the nine‐year compulsory Swedish public school. The subject is the nature of religion and how this is conceived by these students. The reasons and aims motivating the investigation are clarified in the next section, but it seems fairly obvious that the students’ own understanding of what it is that is actually studied in religious studies, or religious education, ought to be of fundamental interest to anyone concerned with the teaching of religion.