%0 Journal Article
%T Routes and relations in Scandinavian interfaith forums: Governance of religious diversity by states and majority churches
%A Lise Paulsen Galal
%A Louise Lund Liebmann
%A Magdalena Nordin
%J Social Compass
%@ 1461-7404
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0037768618787239
%X In the Scandinavian countries of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, as elsewhere in Europe, governance of religious diversity has become a matter of renewed concern. A unique aspect of the Scandinavian situation is the hegemonic status of the respective Lutheran Protestant majority churches, usually referred to as ¡®folk churches¡¯, with which the majority of the population associates, alongside a prevalence of high degrees of regional secularism. As such, the majority churches have played a key role as both instigators and organisers of several interfaith initiatives, and have thereby come to interact with the public sphere as providers of diversity governance. Based on country-level studies of policy documents on majority-church/interreligious relations and field studies, this article sets out to explore the prompting and configuration of majority-church-related interfaith initiatives concerning church¨Cstate relations and the governance of religious diversity
%K interfaith
%K interreligious dialogue
%K majority churches
%K religious diversity
%K Scandinavia
%K dialogue interreligieux
%K diversit¨¦ religieuse
%K ¨¦glises majoritaires
%K interconfessionnalisme
%K Scandinavie
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0037768618787239