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Changing Religiosities in the Nordic Countries

A Complexity Perspective

Series: International Studies in Religion and Society, Volume: 39

Cover Changing Religiosities in the Nordic Countries

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Print Publication Date:: 19 Jan 2026

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- Religious Studies
  - Sociology of Religion

Front Matter

Preliminary Material

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

Chapter 1 Religion in Nordic Societies: Legal Structures and Demographic Trends

Part 2 Complex Changes in Religiosity

Chapter 2 Belief in an Irrelevant God: Exploring Fuzzy Belief in the Nordic Countries

Chapter 3 Religious Change Is Not Only about Decline: the Complexity of Religious Change from a Family Perspective in Finland

Chapter 4 The Ritual Shift: Examining Religious Complexity in the Light of Life Cycle Rites

Chapter 5 A Complexity Analysis of Religiosity in the Nordic Countries

Chapter 6 Between God and Caesar: Young People’s Views on the Public Role of Religion

Chapter 7 Who are the ‘Spiritual but Not Religious’? Complex Patterns of Religiosity in Nordic Countries

Part 3 State Regulation, the National Church and Religiosity

Chapter 8 Considering the Default Template: Supreme Overseers of Legality and Religion Complexity in Finland

Chapter 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

Chapter 10 National Identity and Religion in the Nordic Countries

Chapter 11 The Danish Folk Church and the Complexity of Social Cohesion

Chapter 12 An Unexpected Dimension of Care Work: Feminine Evangelization among Christian Filipinas in Denmark

Chapter 13 School and Religious Complexity: Lessons from Four Nordic Countries

Part 4 Testing the Complexity Approach in International Settings

Chapter 14 Complexity Religiosities beyond the Nordic Countries

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