Nonbelief, Majority Church, and National Identity: Conceptions of Cultural Christianity, the Danish ‘Folk Churchʼ, and Danishness

Lundmark, Evelina; Mauritsen, Anne Lundahl

doi:10.18261/njrs.35.2.2

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“…By contrast, the lower degree of believing in Protestant‐majority (Scandinavian) countries among the religiously affiliated has been found in a number of previous studies where it is commonly referred to as “belonging without believing” or cultural religion (Astor and Mayrl 2020; Kasselstrand 2015; Lundmark and Mauritsen 2022). Many remain part of State Protestant Churches in these countries, even if removed from religion in most other ways.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 88%

Religiously Unaffiliated Youth in Europe: Shifting Remnants of Belief and Practice in Contexts of Diffused Religion and Cohort Decline

Coutinho,

Laflamme

2023

Scientific Study of Religion

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This study investigates the remnants and dynamics of religious beliefs and practices among religiously unaffiliated youth in Europe, comparing them with the older unaffiliated as well as with the religiously affiliated. Using EVS 2017–2021 data to test contrasting hypotheses of diffused religion and cohort replacement, the study draws three main conclusions. First, youth believe more on average and older age groups believe less when it comes to eschatological beliefs among both the unaffiliated and the affiliated. Second, youth practice less and older age groups practice more on average among both the unaffiliated and the affiliated. Third, the gaps in levels of religious beliefs and practices remain between the religiously unaffiliated and the religiously affiliated among younger populations, but this gap is now narrower for religious practices. Results confirm both hypotheses (diffused religion and cohort replacement) depending on the dimensions of religiosity at study.

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confidence: 88%

Religiously Unaffiliated Youth in Europe: Shifting Remnants of Belief and Practice in Contexts of Diffused Religion and Cohort Decline

Coutinho,

Laflamme

2023

Scientific Study of Religion

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“…American Christian funerals have been commercialized to a higher degree than Danish funerals, and most Danes actually go to church as part of a family tradition more than as a place of personal faith. The Christianity of the general population has been described as cultural Christianity (Iversen 1997;Zuckerman 2020;Lundmark and Mauritsen 2022). Individually, there is not a lot of religious belief, but collectively (as families) there are a lot of religious practices (Mauritsen 2022).…”

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The role of flowers in the personalization of Christian funerals in Denmark

Christensen

2023

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Flowers are a common element in Danish funerals. Drawing on fieldnotes, interviews and survey data on funeral practices in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark as well as theories of ritualization, meaning-making and practices, this article shows that flowers are not only a sine qua non in the funerals but are also used to make them more personal and to produce and reproduce social relations. Additionally, flowers are material objects and acquire their social meaning in the right ceremonial context. Outside this context they have no inherent meaning and might even obstruct the ceremony because, as physical objects, they have to be put somewhere in ceremonial space. Paradoxically, flowers are ubiquitous yet invisible.

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“Some days Iʼm an Atheist and Other Days Iʼm a Believer”: Variations of Ambivalence among Disaffiliates from Norwegian High-Cost Charismatic Christianity

Gilsvik

2023

NJRS

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Nonbelief, Majority Church, and National Identity: Conceptions of Cultural Christianity, the Danish ‘Folk Churchʼ, and Danishness

Cited by 3 publications

References 21 publications

Religiously Unaffiliated Youth in Europe: Shifting Remnants of Belief and Practice in Contexts of Diffused Religion and Cohort Decline

Religiously Unaffiliated Youth in Europe: Shifting Remnants of Belief and Practice in Contexts of Diffused Religion and Cohort Decline

The role of flowers in the personalization of Christian funerals in Denmark

“Some days Iʼm an Atheist and Other Days Iʼm a Believer”: Variations of Ambivalence among Disaffiliates from Norwegian High-Cost Charismatic Christianity

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