Inger Furseth (red.): Religious Complexity in the Public Sphere – Comparing Nordic Countries

Iversen, Lars Laird

doi:10.18261/issn.2535-2512-2018-01-07

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“…This means that ceme teries serve important societal functions. In Sweden, cemeteries are mainly owned and operated by a Christian organization, the Church of Sweden (Pettersson 2011), which could be described as the 'majority church' (Furseth 2018). However, this does not mean that only Christian traditions and rituals are welcomed in cemeteries.…”

Section: The Swedish Contextmentioning

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‘It is the greenness, the nature, it looks as if someone has taken care of the place very well’

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Wingren

2023

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This article is about experiences of a cemetery landscape: a physical space that was chosen as a depository for human remains, and where different memorial and disposal practices have developed behavioural patterns that together form a cemetery culture. Through qualitative research at St Eskil’s, Eskilstuna, Sweden, encompassing field observations and interviews (N=14) with stakeholders and people from the general public, we aim to describe and discuss the cemetery as a place and environment experienced from a perspective of people of diverse backgrounds. The study reveals important characteristics that facilitate designing, caretaking, developing and using cemeteries more generally. Findings show that most interviewees, independent for example of cultural or religious adherence, describe the cemetery as a beautiful natural or garden-like place. The well-maintained landscape is emphasized as a self-evident or impressive quality. The cemetery is experienced as ‘typically Swedish’ and described in terms of order and sense of care. Diversity in both design and multi-cultural and individual expressions are observed, acknowledged and welcomed. We conclude that nature (including a garden approach), care and diversity are key concepts that should be considered in design and development of future cemeteries.

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Section: The Swedish Contextmentioning

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‘It is the greenness, the nature, it looks as if someone has taken care of the place very well’

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Wingren

2023

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“…Our findings about Australia concur with and also extend Fedele and Knibbe's (2020) arguments in several ways, discussed in detail below. We also stress the need for more research to better understand what we call -drawing on Inger Furseth's (2018) theory of religious complexity -a spiritual complexity within contemporary societies in and beyond Australia, which has personal, social, and planetary dimensions and is ambivalently associated with wellbeing and risks (Halafoff et al, 2022b). This research has both theoretical and applied dimensions, given it can contribute to informing policies, practices, and curricula pertaining to spirituality, and spiritual wellbeing, that are receiving increased attention yet have, up until now, been under-researched and undervalued in and beyond Australia.…”

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“…These studies query assertions that spirituality is purely individualised or that religion is simply 'giving way to spirituality' (Heelas and Woodhead, 2005). Contemporary sociological studies of religion are stressing the lived and embodied (McGuire, 2008), religious complexity (Furseth, 2018), and/or worldview complexity (Bouma et al, 2022) of societies, with spirituality being part of this landscape, alongside religion and non-religion. Interest in spirituality is booming globally, as are some forms of religion, while others are declining, and this complexity is perhaps best explained by examining diverse worldview's relationship to neoliberalism, the world's most-prevalent ideology (Gauthier, 2020).…”

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Spiritual complexity in Australia: Wellbeing and risks

2023

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The turn of the twenty-first century was characterised by ‘spiritual revolution’, with claims that interest in New Age spirituality was eclipsing religion and would continue to do so in the future. Since then, scholars of religion have been more focused on religious diversity and the rise of the non-religious. While interest in spirituality, uptake of spiritual practices, and identification as ‘spiritual but not religious’ have continued to grow, spirituality is typically not taken as seriously as religion, at least in political spheres or by academia. This article examines the history and contemporary dynamics of spiritual complexity in Australia, drawing on the findings of two Australian Research Council–funded studies ‘The Worldviews of Australia’s Generation Z’ and ‘Religious Diversity in Australia’ and on a recent project ‘(Con)spirituality, Science and COVID-19 in Australia’. It argues that it is certainly time for spirituality to be taken more seriously in this country and globally, given spirituality’s concern with personal and planetary wellbeing, and also the potential risks spirituality can pose due to its association with dis/misinformation, neoliberalism, and violence.

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“…Tällä hetkellä Suomi on Euroopan vauhdikkaimmin moninaistuvia maita (Sahlberg 2015;Furseth 2018). Suomessa pidettiin pitkään poliittisena ihanteena kansallista yhtenäisyyttä ja homogeenisyyttä, mikä tarkoitti sitä, että vähemmistöjen asemaa koskevaa keskustelua ei pidetty kovin tärkeänä (Paavola ja Talib 2010, 26; kielistä ks.…”

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Superdiversiteetti. Näkökulmia maahanmuuton monimuotoisuuteen

2023

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Superdiversity. Perspectives on the multiplicity of migration This book is the first Finnish-language collection of research on superdiversity. At the core of the book is the growing migration to Finland since the turn of the 1990s and its numerous effects on Finnish society. The interdisciplinary examination of superdiversity is important at the current moment: Finland as a society has reached the point where certain social categories, such as ethnic background, country of birth, mother tongue or gender, are not necessarily sufficient to understand the increased diversity and its consequences. The book consists of a comprehensive introduction to the topic and thirteen chapters. In Finland, research on superdiversity is carried out especially in critical sociolinguistics and applied language studies, education, cultural studies, social sciences, and urban studies. Therefore, these disciplines are strongly represented in the collection, and the chapters approach a variety of topics including refugees’ mental health, experiences of multilingual families, the diversity of education and working life, discursive practices in social media, issues of urban planning and pro-asylum activism.

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Inger Furseth (red.): Religious Complexity in the Public Sphere – Comparing Nordic Countries

Cited by 7 publications

References 1 publication

‘It is the greenness, the nature, it looks as if someone has taken care of the place very well’

‘It is the greenness, the nature, it looks as if someone has taken care of the place very well’

Spiritual complexity in Australia: Wellbeing and risks

Superdiversiteetti. Näkökulmia maahanmuuton monimuotoisuuteen

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