Symposium: Non-Religion in the Nordic Countries

The Centre for Multidisciplinary Research on Religion and Society at Uppsala University in collaboration with Nonreligion in a Complex Future (https://nonreligionproject.ca/) led by Professor Lori Beaman (Ottawa University) is arranging a symposium in Uppsala: Non-Religion in the Nordic Countries.

Non-religion is a growing area within the Sociology of religion, and we at CRS hope to contribute to the visibility of Nordic perspectives, as well as provide the opportunity for networking for Nordic researchers within the field, and others who might be interested. The symposium focuses on non-religion in relation to the themes of environment and nature, migration, media and popular culture, nationalism, citizenship and the law, as well as death and funerary rites.

Venue: Engelska parken, 22-1017

Contect: evelina.lundmark@teol.uu.se

Wednesday (April 2nd)

16:30-17 Welcome

17-18 Presentation of NCF – Lori & Inger

18 Mingle

Thursday (April 3rd)

9:30-10:30 Presentation of NCF – Ryan Cragun

10:30-11 Fika/Coffee

11-12:30 Paper session 1 Non-Religion and Nature: Tamed and Untamed

Anna Salonen - Cultivating the Self, Tending Others: Wellbeing, Relationality, and Transformation in Community Gardens
Kati Tervo-Niemelä - Religion, Non-Religion and the Awe in Nature
Netta Marie Rønningen - Nature and Nonreligious Morality

Comments: Linnea Lundgren

12:30-14 Lunch (Segerstedtshuset)

14-15 Paper session 2 Death and Relationality in Nordic Non-Religion

Sofia Sjö & Evelina Lundmark - Death in Immanent Frames: Explorations of Loss, Grief and Transcendence in Nordic Films
Patrycja Pankau & David Herbert - Dancing with Death in Post-Christian Societies: Satire, Social Order and the Secular Imagination in the ‘Takk for Alt’ Trilogy

Comments: Magdalena Nordin

15-15:30 Fika/Coffee

15:30-16:30 Roundtable discussion

18:30-21:00 Dinner (Domtrappskällaren)

Friday (April 4th)

9-10 Session: What Distinguishes the Nordic Countries?

10-10:30 Fika/Coffee

10:30-11:30 Summary: Lori Beaman

11:30 Lunch/End