Religion in Scandinavia

Education facts

Code: RT1111

<p>This course provides an orientation about how religious beliefs and practices in Scandinavia, with a focus on Western Sweden, have influenced and been influenced by cultural and societal conditions and processes of change. Special attention is payed to how, what we today call “Religion”, historically has been intertwined with and part of everyday life, culture and politics. In this course, a few more important historical events and time periods such as Christianization process, the Reformation, the emergence of reviewal movements and the contemporary religiously pluralistic Sweden are emphasized. By studying these, Religion in Western Sweden is situated in its national, Scandinavian and global contexts.  </p>

Entry requirements

General entrance requirements

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Religion in Scandinavia

  University of Gothenburg

  Start date: 27 March 2025

  End date: 8 June 2025

  Pace of study: 50 %