Abstract
Julie K. Allen: Danish but Not Lutheran: The Impact of Mormonism on Danish Cultural Identity, 1850–1920.
Highlights
Scandinavians are still overwhelmingly Lutheran, though religiosity has tended to give way to ‘believing in belonging’ over the centuries. Their national churches are still seen as custodians of culturally significant rites of passage bringing people together at life’s critical junctures
Danish cultural identity rested on shared elements such as language, customs, history, and, not least, religion, causing the advent of new Anglo-American religious movements to be perceived as a threat to national integrity and social order
To a non-American scholar Allen’s work is especially welcome, because it does not focus on the well-rehearsed narrative of Mormon emigration and the converts’ new lives in Utah, as many studies of early Mormonism in non-American locales tend to
Summary
Scandinavians are still overwhelmingly Lutheran, though religiosity has tended to give way to ‘believing in belonging’ over the centuries. Allen: Danish but Not Lutheran: The Impact of Mormonism on Danish Cultural Identity, 1850–1920. As Professor Julie Allen explains in her study of Mormonism’s impact on Danish culture and identity, Denmark was the first Nordic nation to officially decouple citizenship from Lutheranism.
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