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RT 1111 Religion in Scandinavia

Reading list Spring 2025

Berntson, Martin (2016). “Popular Belief and the Disruption of Religious Practices in Reformation Sweden”, in Tuomas M.S. Lehtonen & al. (eds), Re-forming Texts, Music, and Church Art in the Early Modern North. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (pp. 43–64). 21 p.

Bugge Amundsen, Arne (2023). “Religious heritage in the North: Monocultural or multicultural?”. Approaching Religion 13(2), pp. 6-20.

Enstedt, Daniel & Plank, Katarina (eds.) (2023). Eastern Bodies and Nordic Practices: Lived Religion, Spirituality and Healing in the Nordic Countries. Cham: Palgrave MacMillan. (Parts of. E-book)

Frisk, Liseotte, Höllinger, Franz & Åkerbäck, Peter (2014). “Size and Structure of the Holistic Milieu: A Comparison of Local Mapping Studies in Austria and Sweden”. Journal of Contemporary Religion 29(2), pp.303-314.

Grell, Ole Peter (1995/2010). “Introduction”, in Ole Peter Grell (ed.), The Scandinavian Reformation: From Evangelical Movement to Institutionalization of Reform. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (pp.1–11). 11 p.

Ingesman, Per, “Reformation and Confessionalisation in Early Modern Denmark”, in Lars Ivar Hansen & al. (eds), The Protracted Reformation in Northern Norway: Introductory Studies. Stamsund (pp. 29–45). 16 p.

Lewis, James R. & Bårdsen Tøllefsen, Inga (2015). “Introduction”, in Lewis, James R. & Bårdsen Tøllefsen, Inga (eds.) Handbook of Nordic New Religions. Leiden: Brill.

Kardemark, Wilhelm (2013). När livet tar rätt form: Om människosyn i svenska hälsotidskrifter 1910–13 och 2009. Göteborg: Göteborgs universitet. (Read only ”Summary”, p. 278–288). 10 p.

Moberg, Jessica & Skjoldli, Jane (2018). “Introduction”, in Moberg, Jessica & Skjoldli, Jane. (eds.) Charismatic Christianity in Finland, Norway and Sweden: Case Studies of Historical and Contemporary Developments. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-21.

Otterbeck, Jonas (2015). “’I Wouldn’t Call Them Muslims!’: Constructing a Respectable Islam”, Numen, 62:2/3, pp. 243-264.

Plank, Katarina (2015). “The Sacred Foodscapes of Thai Buddhist Temples in Sweden”, Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 26, 201-224.

Reintoft Christensen, Henrik (2023) “The role of flowers in the personalization of Christian funerals in Denmark”, Approaching Religion, 13(1), pp. 90-104.

Stensvold, Anne (2018). “Paving the Way for Pentecostalism: A Historical Exploration of Post-Reformation Revivals in Norway”, in Moberg, Jessica & Skjoldli, Jane. (eds.) Charismatic Christianity in Finland, Norway and Sweden: Case Studies of Historical and Contemporary Developments. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan (pp. 25-47) 22 p.

Thurfjell, David & Remmel, Atko (2023). “’The Forest is My Church’: Christianity, Secularization and Love of Nature in a Northern European Existential Field”, Religion. Published online 2023.06.12.

Wirén, Jakob (2023). “Until death do us part? Swedish cemeteries from an inter-faith and no-faith perspective”, Approaching Religion, 13(1), pp. 123-137.

Woodhead, Linda (2008). “Gendering Secularization”. Social Compass. Vol.55(2): pp.187-193.

Zuckerman, Phil (2009). ”Why are Danes and Swedes so Irreligious?” Nordic Journal of Religion and Society 22 (1): 55-69.