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- Hvordan kan det være, at de stater i verden, der betragtes som nogle af de mest sekulariserede i verden stadig har statskirker med en mere eller mindre defineret relation til staten?
- Hvorfor er et mindre flertal af befolkningen stadig medlem af statskirken, som mere eller mindre er reguleret offentlig lov?
- Og hvordan kan det være, at de andre religiøse samfund har deres egen interne lovgivning?

Indholdsfortegnelse
Acknowledgements
Introductions

An Innovative Nordic Discourse.
From Church and State to Law & Religion

Introduction to European Church and State Discourses

Introduction to American Law and Religion Discourse

Prologue
Internal Convergence - External Divergence.
Religion in Nordic Legal Culture and Tradition at the Threshold of the Third Millenium

Part one. Law and Religion
The Long Way towards Traditional Autonomy
- The Swedish Church and the Law 1968-2008

Finland's Policy on Church and Religion

A Case Study of the Evolution of a Nordic Lutheran Majority Church

And They Lived Happily Together?
On the Relationship between Confessionalism, Establishment and Secularism under the Constitution of Norway

State, Church and Religion in Denmark.
At the Beginning of the 21st Century

Part two. Late Modern Challenges
A Remoralized and Resacralized Society
- a Late Modern Challenge to Law and Religion

On Law, Language and Human Embeddedness

The Tenacity of Identity Politics in Norway.
From Unabashed Lutheran Monopoly to Pseudo-Lutheran Semi-Hegemony?

A Little Church, a Little State, and a Little Commonwealth at Onces.
Towards a Nordic Model of Religious Instruction in Public Schools?

Promoting Normative Cracks in the Surface.
Strasbourg Changing Swedish Legal Culture

Secularism - A Quest for Privatization of Religion?

Beyond National Majority/Minority Dichotomies.
Towards Legal Traditions & Religions of World Society
- A Local Example

Messianism and the State of Exception
- the political theology of Giorgio Agamben in a nordic context

How Long is "Now"?
The Christian Eschatological Concept of Time within International Laws of, in, and after War: A Critique of Law and our Nordic Societies

Part Three. Challenges from Particular Normative Traditions
Law in Nordic Lutheranism

Lutheran Natural Law. Thought in the Nordic Countries in the 21st century

Law, Religion and Ethics in Christian Hymns
- A Swedish Example

Presence and Mission.
The Social-Ethical Engagement of the Catholic Church Within the Nordic Context 1970-2006
Jewish Perspectives on Law and Religion.
In the Nordic Countries in the 21st Century

Islam & Law in the Nordic Countries in the 21st Century. Challenges and New Perspectives
Feminism and the Challenge to Religious Truths on Marriage.
The Case of Nordic Protestantism

Secular Human Rights Perspectives.
As a Challenge to Nordic Law & Religion Solutions

Part four. A Defining Challenge?
Church Autonomy in Nordic Law

Epilogue
Nordic Law in Changed Religious Landscapes

Contributors - Alphabetically

Books Published in the Law & Religion in the 21st Century Series

Index

Omtale af bogen
"This book deserves af a celebration, as for the first time ever, a comprehensive survey on law and religion in the five Nordic countries has been published. Various scholars have met in the Nordic Research Network on Law, Religion and Ethics for nearly a decade and their ensuing projects is by nature an interdisciplinary one. The contributors come from law and human rights studies, ethics, religion, the social studies and theology. (...) This book is valuable both as historical documentation concerning the initial development of the traditional Lutheran State Church in the Nordic countries and onwards up to the current secular, late modern situation and as a deeper reflection on how moral values, religion and theology are still present in law and legal institutions in our somewhat secularizes Nordic societies.(...) I am so impressed after reading this splendid book that I almost feel it is unfair to point out fields which are not sufficiently elaborated upon when the volume contains in excess of 600 pages (my suggestion may therefore be appropriate for a second volume)."
- Paul Leer-Salvesen, Professor of Ethics, University of Agder

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Description
- How come that countries which are regarded as being among the most secularized in the world, still have national churches with more or less defined relations to the state?

- Why is a vast majority of the population still members of these churches, which are all more or less regulated by public law?

- And why then do the other religious communities present in the public sphere have their own internal legal structures?

Such puzzling - and challenging - questions are the focus of this book in which Nordic scholars from the disciplines of law, ethics, religious studies, and theology offer critical analyses of religious and secular norms influencing Nordic law. Their research analyzes the historical roots and the current status of relations between religious and secular norms and the law, and they point to possible new routes to offer in this relation in the 21st Century.

This book not only demonstrates where and to what extent the Nordic models need adjustment with inspiration from Europeanized or globalized perspectives. A central conclusion is that the Nordic models themselves can be used for adjustment of other legal and religious systems. The Nordic idea of public religions combined with the secularity of law might be worth reflecting on also outside these countries. .

With this rich publication an old scientific field is reopened within Nordic research in new contexts and with new theories and methods. The book explains why studies in Law & Religion have been undermined throughout modernity.

Content
Acknowledgements
Introductions

An Innovative Nordic Discourse.
From Church and State to Law & Religion

Introduction to European Church and State Discourses

Introduction to American Law and Religion Discourse

Prologue
Internal Convergence - External Divergence.
Religion in Nordic Legal Culture and Tradition at the Threshold of the Third Millenium

Part one. Law and Religion
The Long Way towards Traditional Autonomy
- The Swedish Church and the Law 1968-2008

Finland's Policy on Church and Religion

A Case Study of the Evolution of a Nordic Lutheran Majority Church

And They Lived Happily Together?
On the Relationship between Confessionalism, Establishment and Secularism under the Constitution of Norway

State, Church and Religion in Denmark.
At the Beginning of the 21st Century

Part two. Late Modern Challenges
A Remoralized and Resacralized Society
- a Late Modern Challenge to Law and Religion

On Law, Language and Human Embeddedness

The Tenacity of Identity Politics in Norway.
From Unabashed Lutheran Monopoly to Pseudo-Lutheran Semi-Hegemony?

A Little Church, a Little State, and a Little Commonwealth at Onces.
Towards a Nordic Model of Religious Instruction in Public Schools?

Promoting Normative Cracks in the Surface.
Strasbourg Changing Swedish Legal Culture

Secularism - A Quest for Privatization of Religion?

Beyond National Majority/Minority Dichotomies.
Towards Legal Traditions & Religions of World Society
- A Local Example

Messianism and the State of Exception
- the political theology of Giorgio Agamben in a nordic context

How Long is "Now"?
The Christian Eschatological Concept of Time within International Laws of, in, and after War: A Critique of Law and our Nordic Societies

Part Three. Challenges from Particular Normative Traditions
Law in Nordic Lutheranism

Lutheran Natural Law. Thought in the Nordic Countries in the 21st century

Law, Religion and Ethics in Christian Hymns
- A Swedish Example

Presence and Mission.
The Social-Ethical Engagement of the Catholic Church Within the Nordic Context 1970-2006
Jewish Perspectives on Law and Religion.
In the Nordic Countries in the 21st Century

Islam & Law in the Nordic Countries in the 21st Century. Challenges and New Perspectives
Feminism and the Challenge to Religious Truths on Marriage.
The Case of Nordic Protestantism

Secular Human Rights Perspectives.
As a Challenge to Nordic Law & Religion Solutions

Part four. A Defining Challenge?
Church Autonomy in Nordic Law

Epilogue
Nordic Law in Changed Religious Landscapes

Contributors - Alphabetically

Books Published in the Law & Religion in the 21st Century Series

Index


About the Book

"This book deserves af a celebration, as for the first time ever, a comprehensive survey on law and religion in the five Nordic countries has been published. Various scholars have met in the Nordic Research Network on Law, Religion and Ethics for nearly a decade and their ensuing projects is by nature an interdisciplinary one. The contributors come from law and human rights studies, ethics, religion, the social studies and theology. (...) This book is valuable both as historical documentation concerning the initial development of the traditional Lutheran State Church in the Nordic countries and onwards up to the current secular, late modern situation and as a deeper reflection on how moral values, religion and theology are still present in law and legal institutions in our somewhat secularizes Nordic societies.(...) I am so impressed after reading this splendid book that I almost feel it is unfair to point out fields which are not sufficiently elaborated upon when the volume contains in excess of 600 pages (my suggestion may therefore be appropriate for a second volume)."
- Paul Leer-Salvesen, Professor of Ethics, University of Agder

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