Secular and Sacred?

The Scandinavian Case of Religion in Human Rights, Law and Public Space. Edited by Rosemarie van den Breemer, José Casanova and Trygve Wyller.

13 essays, accompanied by a detailed introduction and conclusion, address the intertwinings of secular and sacred in Scandinavia. - Shaped by 500 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 position of Human Rights and of the Scandinavian welfare state might be interpreted in continuity with the historical influence of Protestant traditions. Is there something like a hidden sacrality implicit in the Scandinavian secular? - From the Table of Contents: 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 Diversity. - Lisbet Christoffersen: Sacred Spaces i n 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 Intertwine. - Pål 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. 328 Seiten mit 7 Abb., gebunden (Research in Contemporary Religion; Vol. 15/Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2014) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear