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The book argues that changes in religiosity in the Nordic countries cannot be adequately explained by the dominate all-encompassing generalizations theories of religious change because religious changes are both similar but and diverse in the Nordic countries. For instance, church membership is decreasing in all countries, but the state-church relationship varies. The book argues for the fruitfulness of the Complexity Frame of Reference, a new theoretical framework which is favours a more nuanced analysis of religious change. This is demonstrated in qualitative and quantitative studies of comparative studies and case studies of religious participation, beliefs, rites, and values.
Contents
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