The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark and the Multicultural Challenges

In: Politics and religion: official journal of the APSA Organized Section on Religion and Politics, Band 4, Heft 3, S. 476-502

Abstract

AbstractChristianity 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 journalTidehverv("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.