State Church and Religious Equality: A Comparative Study of Competing Logics during the Process of Changing Relations between State and Church in Sweden and Norway

IF 0.3 4区 哲学 0 RELIGION JOURNAL OF CHURCH AND STATE Pub Date : 2024-03-12 DOI:10.1093/jcs/csad098
Helge K Nylenna, Linnea Lundgren
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In recent decades, the religious landscape in the Nordic countries has changed. Transforming from traditional homogeneous Evangelical-Lutheran societies into more religiously and culturally diverse, there have been reforms creating new relationships between the states and the traditional state churches. Taking a comparative approach, this article analyzes how institutional logics guided the church and state reforms in Norway and Sweden. Analyzing governmental documents through the theoretical lens of institutional logics, the article makes a distinction between the logic of state church and the logic of religious equality. The article shows how the former acts as a foundational logic within policymaking even though there has been a movement towards more religious equality in legislation. Though there are differences in how Norway and Sweden facilitate their arrangements for support to faith communities, the ideas informing the arrangements are similar. We point towards an increased discrepancy behind the ideas informing policymaking and the practical implications of those policies.
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国家教会与宗教平等:瑞典和挪威国家与教会关系变化过程中的竞争逻辑比较研究
近几十年来,北欧国家的宗教格局发生了变化。从传统的福音派-路德派同质社会转变为宗教和文化更加多元化的社会,国家与传统国立教会之间的新关系也随之改革。本文采用比较的方法,分析了制度逻辑如何指导挪威和瑞典的政教改革。文章从制度逻辑的理论视角分析了政府文件,区分了国家教会逻辑和宗教平等逻辑。文章展示了前者是如何成为决策中的基础逻辑的,即使在立法中出现了更多的宗教平等运动。尽管挪威和瑞典在如何促进其支持信仰团体的安排上存在差异,但这些安排所依据的理念是相似的。我们指出,政策制定的指导思想与这些政策的实际影响之间的差异越来越大。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Church and State is concerned with what has been called the "greatest subject in the history of the West." It seeks to stimulate interest, dialogue, research, and publication in the broad area of religion and the state. JCS publishes constitutional, historical, philosophical, theological, and sociological studies on religion and the body politic in various countries and cultures of the world, including the United States. Each issue features, in addition to a timely editorial, five or more major articles, and thirty-five to forty reviews of significant books related to church and state. Periodically, important ecclesiastical documents and government texts of legislation and/or court decisions are also published."
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