Changing Religiosities in the Nordic Countries: A Complexity Perspective

From decades-long shifts in state–Church relations to the intimate spiritual journeys of individuals, religious change in the Nordic countries defies simple explanation. This volume advances the Complexity Frame of Reference, a new theoretical framework that enables nuanced analysis of transformation at every level of scale.

Together, the fourteen chapters offer a vivid and multifaceted portrait of religious change in the Nordic region, showing how the Complexity Frame accommodates analyses ranging from comparisons of large-scale social trends – examined in ways that reveal significant local and national disparities – to the most personal religious quests.

Peter B. Andersen Ph.D. (1994), dr.phil. (2023), is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen. He has published monographs, edited volumes and articles on religion and modernity in India and in Europe. He has recently chaired a survey on Covid-19 in Denmark.

Peter Gundelach mag. scient. soc. (1972) is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen. He has published monographs, edited volumes and many articles on social movements, national identity, religon and values including a series of edited volumes on the European Values study in Denmark