Mellan verklighet och vision – en diskursanalys av Riktlinjer för Svenska kyrkans konfirmandarbete

In the Lutheran Church of Sweden, Guidelines for the Confirmation Work serves as a framework for the confirmation process and presents the conditions within which Swedish church congregations can conduct high-quality confirmation work. The latest version of the document was presented in 2008; the previous version was released in 2000 and the version before that was published in the late 1990s. The present article aims to contribute to a perspective on the 2008 edition by exploring the discourses that are reflected in the document. The analysis reveals three dominant Orders of discourse: the target group, the context, and the content. The results raise the question of how guidelines can be expected to balance the expectations and visions from the national church, the dioceses, and the congregations.Nøkkelord: kirkelig konfirmasjon, retningslinjer, diskursanalyse, svensk kirke