TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bjelland Kartzow,Marianne
AU  - Bro Larsen,Kasper
AU  - Crossley,James
AU  - Elstad,Hallgeir
AU  - Heldgaard Bylund,Louise
AU  - Huttunen,Niko
AU  - Larsen,Kasper Bro
AU  - Larsson,Mikael
AU  - Lehtipuu,Outi
AU  - Lorenzen,Søren
AU  - Løland,Ole Jakob
AU  - Neutel,Karin
AU  - Stenström,Hanna
AU  - Stewart,Timo R.
AU  - Strømmen,Hannah M.
AU  - Tuori,Riikka
TI  - The Nordic Bible: Bible Reception in Contemporary Nordic Societies 
T2  - Studies of the Bible and Its Reception (SBR) ,
SN  - 9783110685947
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter, 
KW  - National characteristics, Scandinavian
KW  - Bibel
KW  - Lutheranismus
KW  - Nordische Länder
KW  - Religionssoziologie
KW  - Bible
KW  - Lutheranism
KW  - Nordic countries
KW  - sociology of religion
N1  - Frontmatter --; Preface --; Table of Contents --; Abbreviations --; I Introduction --; Bible Reception in a Nordic Context --; The Bible in the Nordic Welfare States --; II The Bible as Rhetorical and Political Weapon --; A Nordic Far-Right Bible? Biblical Assemblages and the Role of Reception History --; The Bible as Hate Speech? Homosexuality and Romans 1 in a Contemporary Finnish Debate --; “Render unto Caesar”: Jesus and the Lutheran Liberal Bible in Debates on Religion and Politics in Denmark since 2000 --; Resisting the Rule of Mammon and Fighting with Jesus against Neoliberalism: Unexpected Uses of the Bible in Contemporary Political Debate in Sweden --; The Bible in Norwegian Politics: Scripture in the Parliamentarians’ Discourse --; III The Bible in New Nordic Translations and Versions --; To Honor or Respect Your Parents? The Reception of an Ancient Commandment in Contemporary Danish Media and Nordic Bible Translations --; “God Speaks Our Language”: Recent Scandinavian Bible Translations and the Heritagization of Christianity --; The Bibleness of Children’s Bibles: Paratextual and Material Aspects of Nordic Children’s Bibles --; IV The Bible in Multicultural and Secular Nordic Societies --; Jewish Reception of the Finnish Bible: Negotiating Jewish Identity in Contemporary Finland --; Using the Bible to Interpret the Qur’an: Finnish Christian Revivalist Narratives on Islam --; Confession, Masculinity and Biblical Reception in Lars von Trier’s The House that Jack Built --; V The Nordic Bible from the Outside --; Contextualising the Nordic Bible(s): A Response --; List of Contributors --; Bibliography --; Index of Names --; Index of Biblical References; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - The volume offers a new critical reflection on the use of the Bible in contemporary cultural and political debates in the Nordic countries. In Nordic Lutheran societies, the Bible has been perceived as a basis of religion and social cohesion. Whereas such religious and confessional factors are well-researched vis-à-vis the historical genesis of the Nordic welfare states, the focus here is on public use of the Bible in debates of today
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110686005
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110686005
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110686005/original
ER  -