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Religious Complexity in the Public Sphere

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Significant changes have taken place in the Nordic countries since the 1980s, with a growing religious diversity. How has this diversity affected the role of religion in the public sphere? The aim is to study how religion is addressed, regulated, contested, and negotiated in the state, the polity, the media, and civil society. The introduction explains the use of key concepts before it places the topic within contemporary sociological debates on the secularization and the return of religion in the public sphere (Casanova, Berger, Habermas). By drawing on complexity theory, it introduces religious complexity as a metatheoretical concept to understand the simultaneous and seemingly contradictory religious trends at different levels.

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Furseth, I. (2018). Introduction. In: Furseth, I. (eds) Religious Complexity in the Public Sphere. Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55678-9_1

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