Changing Religiosities in the Nordic Countries

Preface

List of Tables and Figures

List of Abbreviations

Notes on contributors

PART 1: The Complexity Approach: Trends and New Concepts

Introduction: Complexity and Religious Changes

 Peter B. Andersen and Peter Gundelach

1 Religion in Nordic Societies: Legal Structures and Demographic Trends

 Sille Fusager, Kimmo Ketola, Pål Ketil Botvar and Maria Klingenberg

part 2: Complex Changes in Religiosity

2 Belief in an Irrelevant God: Exploring Fuzzy Belief in the Nordic Countries

 Maria Klingenberg and Evelina Lundmark

3 ‘Religious Change Is Not Only about Decline’: the Complexity of Religious Change from a Family Perspective in Finland

 Kati Tervo-Niemelä

4 The Ritual Shift: Examining Religious Complexity in the Light of Life Cycle Rites

 Ida Marie Høeg and Karin Jarnkvist

5 A Complexity Analysis of Religiosity in the Nordic Countries

 Peter Gundelach and Peter B. Andersen

6 Between God and Caesar: Young People’s Views on the Public Role of Religion

 Pål Ketil Botvar

7 Who are the ‘Spiritual but Not Religious’? Complex Patterns of Religiosity in Nordic Countries

 Kimmo Ketola

part 3: State Regulation, the National Church and Religiosity

8 Considering the Default Template: Supreme Overseers of Legality and Religion Complexity in Finland

 Pamela Slotte Russo

9 ‘There Is No Proof that the Law Has Had No Effect’: Recent Danish Legislation on Islam and the Problem of Complexity in Regulating Religion

 Niels Valdemar Vinding

10 National Identity and Religion in the Nordic Countries

 Hans Morten Haugen and Heikki Hiilamo

11 The Danish Folk Church and the Complexity of Social Cohesion

 Karen Marie Leth-Nissen and Marlene Ringgaard Lorensen

12 An Unexpected Dimension of Care Work: Feminine Evangelization among Christian Filipinas in Denmark

 Astrid Krabbe Trolle

13 School and Religious Complexity: Lessons from Four Nordic Countries

 Anders Sjöborg

part 4: Testing the Complexity Approach in International Settings

14 Complexity Religiosities beyond the Nordic Countries

 Peter B. Andersen and Peter Gundelach

Index