Religion in Scandinavia

This course provides an orientation about how religious beliefs and practices in Scandinavia, with a focus on Western Sweden, have influenced and been influenced by cultural and societal conditions and processes of change. Special attention is payed to how, what we today call “Religion”, historically has been intertwined with and part of everyday life, culture and politics. In this course, a few more important historical events and time periods such as Christianization process, the Reformation, the emergence of reviewal movements and the contemporary religiously pluralistic Sweden are emphasized. By studying these, Religion in Western Sweden is situated in its national, Scandinavian and global contexts.