The Power over the Marriage Ritual: Positions in the Administrative Consultation Prior to the Implementation of Same-Sex Marriages in the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Denmark

Johansen, Kirstine Helboe; Pedersen, Helene Helboe

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“…Ganzevoort et al share a similar finding that gay Christians had to negotiate their double affiliation with both Christian and gay culture (2011, 221; see also Yip 2004). This double affiliation is further confirmed by Bos, according to whom same-sex culture aimed to be rebellious against all institutions and marriage was interpreted as an outdated and patriarchal institution that bred inequality (2017,(188)(189). The participants of this study had thus two cultures toward which to show resistance and this produces complex forms of conformity and resistance.…”

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“…For instance, a recently published study (van den Berg 2017) focuses on the religious opposition to same-sex marriage in Sweden but does not deal with same-sex rituals as such. On the other hand, a Danish study analyzes the situation in which the state has ordered the church to conduct a marital ritual for same-sex couples following the state's legalization in 2011 (Johansen & Pedersen 2015). This highlights the fact that the Evangelical-Lutheran church in Denmark is still a state church in the sense that the state can intervene in its decisions more easily than in Finland.…”

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Conformity and resistance in personalized same-sex prayer rituals in Finland

Vähäkangas

2019

Theology & Sexuality

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This article studies the experiences of same-sex couples in connection with a prayer ritual conducted over their registered partnerships and focuses on the pre-legal context of same-sex marriage in Finland. The aim is to analyze conformity and resistance in the participants' understanding of personalized ritual through Grimes's categories of language, space, time, and actors. The findings reveal that most of the rituals had both elements of resistance that was understood as following the same-sex culture and of conformity with heterosexual nuptial traditions. Double affiliation with Christian and gay culture produces complex forms of conformity and resistance. Personalization of the religious rituals was more important to the participants of the study than following heterosexual traditions.

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Conformity and resistance in personalized same-sex prayer rituals in Finland

Vähäkangas

2019

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Securing Moral Authority: A Cross-National Analysis of Protestant Engagement in the Implementation of Morality Policies in Western Europe

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Churches have a hard time defending their moral values in the political sphere of an ever more secular and liberal Western Europe. A largely neglected means of navigating this crisis is through the Church’s role as a charitable provider during the implementation of morality policies. This paper examines this type of church involvement from a cross-national and cross-sectoral perspective. We describe the activities of Protestant churches in four morality policy areas in three European countries: Germany, England, and Denmark. The variation in religious engagement observed in these areas and countries appear to be driven by the churches’ room to maneuver and their policy congruence with state goals, whereas governance capacities are secondary. Thus, the provision of social services can still serve as a means by which Protestant churches can exert moral authority, especially if these social services are related to moral issues.

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The Power over the Marriage Ritual: Positions in the Administrative Consultation Prior to the Implementation of Same-Sex Marriages in the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Denmark

Cited by 5 publications

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Conformity and resistance in personalized same-sex prayer rituals in Finland

Conformity and resistance in personalized same-sex prayer rituals in Finland

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Securing Moral Authority: A Cross-National Analysis of Protestant Engagement in the Implementation of Morality Policies in Western Europe

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