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The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark and the Multicultural Challenges

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 September 2011

Hans Morten Haugen
Hans Morten Haugen*
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Diakonhjemmet University College
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Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Hans Morten Haugen, Diakonhjemmet University College, Diakonveien 14, P.O. Box 184, Vinderen, 0319 Oslo, Norway. E-mail: haugen@diakonhjemmet.no
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Abstract

Christianity and Danishness are mutually reinforcing phenomena in Denmark. Three factors applying specifically to Denmark explain this: first, the lack of national representative bodies of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark; second, the journal Tidehverv (“New Era”) has nurtured a conservative and nationalistic Christian ethics among parts of the Danish clergy; and third, Danish politicians' abuse of the links between Christianity and Danishness as a tool in their anti-immigration strategies.

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Politics and Religion , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , December 2011 , pp. 476 - 502
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Copyright © Religion and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association 2011

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