Staatskirchen und Volkskirchen. Umbrüche im Verhältnis von Staat und Kirche in Nordeuropa
State Churches and Peoples Churches. Fundamental Changes in the Relationship between State and Church in Northern Europe
Author(s): Robert Lucius vonSubject(s): History, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Governance, Politics and religion
Published by: Evropská společnost pro právní dějiny, z.s.
Keywords: Sweden; Norway; Finland; Denmark; Greenland; Faroe Islands; Iceland; Northern Europe; state church and people’s church; monarchy; theological faculties;
Summary/Abstract: The article outlines the legal relations between state and churches in the five nordic countries and the two associate territories, the heart countries of protestant lutheranism. Though closely connected through history, lutheran faith and partly through language, and at first sight fairly uniform, their solutions vary strongly from a strong identity of state and church in Denmark to a policy of separation in Sweden. The legal and practical situation has changed fundamentally in the last 25 years in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland.
Journal: Journal on European History of Law
- Issue Year: 15/2024
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 83-93
- Page Count: 11
- Language: German
