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Abstract

The essay’s purpose, which is a qualitative study with an inductive approach, is to investigate how the concept of mystagogy is described. The goal of the study is to gain a deeper understanding of the concept of mystagogy. The study also wants to study and investigate whether it is possible to link mystagogics to the theoretical framework of lived religion.

 Based on the purpose of the study and the goals, there are two research questions that will be addressed. The first question is about how mystagogics is described in a Swedish-language context and the second question is about how the seven dimensions of the theoretical framework of lived religion can be discovered in the material.

 The study's results show that mystagogy described as teaching or as a pedagogy to make people believe. Mystagogy about people being led into what is mysterious, into the mystery, through teaching in different ways. But it is also about the fact that it is something that touches the heart, which makes the mystical indistinguishable from life. The mystagogic learning is about community, sharing and belonging, an environment and a context where there is an opportunity for spiritual deepening. A place where you get the opportunity to learn from each other. As for my second research question about whether it is possible to see any connection between mystagogics and Live Religion, the study shows that connection is most evident in four of the dimensions that Ammerman describes - spirituality, materiality, physicality and the story.