Conservative Religion and Mainstream Culture

Stefan Gelfgren is Associate Professor of Sociology of Religion at Umeå University, Sweden.  Daniel Lindmark is Professor of Church History at Umeå University, Sweden.

• 1. Introduction; Stefan Gelfgren & Daniel Lindmark.- Part 1. Conservative Religion Confronting the Culture.- 2. Mapping Conservative Religion: A Bible Belt in Northern Sweden; Stefan Gelfgren.- 3. Conservative Laestadianism the in Municipal Politics of in Northern Finland; Tapio Nykänen & Tiina Harjumaa.- 4. Pentecostalism and Secular Youth Culture: Translatability, Ambiguity and Instability; Ibrahim Abraham.- 5. Interpreting Popular Christian Music from Theological and Musicological Perspectives: The Example of Damaris Joy; Reinhard Kopanski, Veronika Albrecht-Birkner, Florian Heesch & Ruthild Stöhr.- Part 2. Conservative Religion, Schooling, and Public Life.- 6. Religious Pluralisation and Secularisation: Opposites or Two Sides of the Same Coin?; Wolfram Weisse. - 7. Education Hesitancy in the Ostrobothnian Bible Belt?; Jakob Dahlbacka & Gerd Snellman.- 8. Mainstream Israeli Teenagers Conceptions of Ultra-Orthodox Jews: Humanism, Criticism and Resentfulness; Ori Katzin.- Part 3. Conservative Religion and Media.- 9. Defending the Truth of the Bible: Two Apologetic Periodicals in Early Twentieth-Century Sweden; Daniel Lindmark & Erik J. Anderson.- 10. Combating Caustic Communication with Truth and Beauty: Christianity Today, Beautiful Orthodoxy, and US-Culture; Anja-Maria Bassimir.- 11. Laestadianism in the News: Media and Conservative Religion in a Finnish Case; Andreas Häger.