This book is an empirical comparative study of the complexity of
religion in the public spheres of the five Nordic countries. The
result of a five-year collaborative research project, the work
examines how increasingly religiously diverse Nordic societies
regulate, debate, and negotiate religion in the state, the polity, the
media, and civil society. The project finds that there are seemingly
contradictory religious trends at different social levels: a growing
secularization at the individual level, and a deprivatization of
religion in politics, the media, and civil society. It offers a
critique of the current theories of secularization and the return of
religion, introducing religious complexity as an alternative concept
to understand these paradoxes. This book is for scholars, students,
and readers with an interest in understanding the public role of
religion in the West.
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ISBN
9783319556789
Publisert
2019
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Palgrave Macmillan
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Engelsk
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Digital bok