Overview
- Contributes to the study of governance of religious diversity and shows importance of a risk/resource perspective
- Offers a more complex understanding of the regulation of religion by including the post-freedom of religion era
- Deepens the understanding of the changing relationship between religion and state in Sweden
Part of the book series: Boundaries of Religious Freedom: Regulating Religion in Diverse Societies (BOREFRRERE)
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About this book
Through the analysis of an extensive number of government documents over a period of seventy years (1952-2022), Lundgren challenges the idea that many of the recent controversies concerning religious diversity are new. She argues that many of the discussions held today regarding the accommodation of Muslims are decidedly similar to previous discussions regarding the management of Catholics and the Free Churches in the 1950s and 1960s. She shows that the underlying fear has remained the same; that the individual’s rights can become weakened or diminished in religious communities and that religious minorities will challenge the common shared values of the society. In light of this Lundgren concludes that in order to understand what is really at stake in the debate regarding religious diversity in Sweden today, there is a need to look at underlying tensions that exist between the state, civil society and the individual, a relationship that differs considerably in the Nordic context compared to other contexts. This text appeals to students and researchers working in the sociology of religion and people who work with governance of religion, religion and civil society, and religion and law in Europe.
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Book Title: The State and Religious Minorities in Sweden
Authors: Linnea Lundgren
Series Title: Boundaries of Religious Freedom: Regulating Religion in Diverse Societies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42155-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-42154-9Published: 25 October 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-42157-0Due: 25 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-42155-6Published: 24 October 2023
Series ISSN: 2214-5281
Series E-ISSN: 2214-529X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 154
Topics: Sociology of Religion, European Politics