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Muslims by Ascription: On Post-Lutheran Secularity and Muslim Immigrants
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Abstract This article empirically explores the interplay between the secular, post-Lutheran majority culture and Muslim immigrants in Sweden. It presents the ambiguous role of religion in the country's mainstream discourse, the othering of religion that is characteristic to this, and the expectations of Musl... view more
This article empirically explores the interplay between the secular, post-Lutheran majority culture and Muslim immigrants in Sweden. It presents the ambiguous role of religion in the country's mainstream discourse, the othering of religion that is characteristic to this, and the expectations of Muslims to be strongly religious that follows as its consequence. Four results of a web-panel survey with Swedes of Muslim and Christian family background are then presented: (1) Both groups largely distance themselves from their own religious heritage - the Muslims do this in a more definite way; (2) the Muslim respondents have more secular values and identities than the Christians; (3) contrary expectations, Christian respondents show more affinity to their religious heritage than the Muslims do to theirs; and (4) the fusion between the groups is prominent. The article concludes that equating religious family heritage with religious identity is precipitous in the case of Swedish Muslims.... view less
Keywords
history of religion; religious science; Muslim; Islam; Sweden; religiousness; secularization; migrant
Classification
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Sociology of Religion
Free Keywords
European Values Study 2017: Integrated Dataset (EVS 2017) (ZA7500 v2.0.0); vergleichende Religionswissenschaft; secular Muslims; cultural Christians; religious family background; Sweden; state-church Lutheranism
Document language
English
Publication Year
2021
Page/Pages
p. 307-335
Journal
Numen : International Review for the History of Religions, 68 (2021) 4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1163/15685276-12341626
ISSN
1568-5276
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed