Socioeconomic Advantage or Community Attachment? A Register-Based Study on the Difference in National Lutheran Church Affiliation Between Finnish and Swedish Speakers in Finland

Secularization theory has been challenged by research showing religious persistence and upswing in contexts across the world. In Europe, particularly in highly secular and historically religiously homogeneous Nordic settings, there has been little research, and representative data for minority group...

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Authors: Xia, Weiqian (Author) ; Kolk, Martin (Author) ; Saarela, Jan (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2024
In: Journal for the scientific study of religion
Year: 2024, Volume: 63, Issue: 3, Pages: 543-560
Further subjects:B Modernization
B Swedish-speaking Finns
B register-based research on religion
B community attachment
B divergence of secularization
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