Secular and sacred? : : the Scandinavian case of religion in human rights, law and public space / / Rosemarie van den Breemer, José Casanova, Trygve Wyller (ed.).

Shaped by five hundred years of Lutheran impact and with a strong influence of big majority churches, Scandinavian secularity is a very interesting and fruitful material for the historical and contemporary theoretical debate on the secular. It can be discussed, for example, whether the strong positi...

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Superior document:Research in Contemporary Religion (RCR) ; v.15
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Place / Publishing House:Göttingen : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Research in Contemporary Religion (RCR)
Physical Description:1 online resource (330 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Preface; Table of Contents; Body; Rosemarie van den Breemer, José Casanova, Trygve Wyller: Introduction; José Casanova: The Two Dimensions, Temporal and Spatial, of the Secular : Comparative Reflections on the Nordic Protestant and Southern Catholic Patterns from a Global Perspective; Kim Knott: Interrogating the Secular : A Spatial Approach; John Witte, Jr.: "God is Hidden in the Earthly Kingdom:" The Lutheran Two-Kingdoms Theory as Foundation of Scandivanian Secularity
  • Dag Thorkildsen: West Nordic and East Nordic Religiousness and Secularity : Historical Unity and DiversityLisbet Christoffersen: Sacred Spaces in Secular (Post)-Lutheran Contexts; Helge Årsheim: Legal Secularism? - Differing Notions of Religion in International and Norwegian Law; Inger Furseth: The Ambiguity of Secular and Religious Space: The Norwegian Penitentiary System; Rosemarie van den Breemer: Graveyards and Secularism in Norway : In Search of a Fitting Category ; Knut W. Ruyter: Space for Religion in Public Hospitals: Constructive Coexistence Can Be Negotiated
  • Trygve Wyller: The Undocumented Embodied: Shaping the Space Where the Sacred and the Secular IntertwinePål Ketil Botvar and Anders Sjöborg: A Comparative Study of the Relation Between Religion and Human Rights Among Young People; Oddbjørn Leirvik: Interreligious Dialogue and Secularity : The Secular as Non-Hegemonic Condition; Johannes A. van der Ven: From Divine Law to Positive Law. A Perspective from the Science of Religion; Rosemarie van den Breemer and Trygve Wyller: Conclusion; List of Contributors; The Editors; Index ; Back Cover