Much Ado about a Christmas Tree: A Conflict Involving Danish Civil Religion
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Much Ado about a Christmas Tree : A Conflict Involving Danish Civil Religion. / Warburg, Margit.
In: Implicit Religion, Vol. 20, No. 2, 2017, p. 127–148.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Much Ado about a Christmas Tree
T2 - A Conflict Involving Danish Civil Religion
AU - Warburg, Margit
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Civil religion is not only a symbolic expression of national coherence;it is often also an arena of conflict, where different actors promote theirown ideological interpretation of the same events. This will be illustratedthrough an analysis of a conflict in Denmark in November 2012, where aMuslim majority of a housing association decided to abandon the traditionof having a Christmas tree. The events and the resulting public debatewere reported in more than 650 articles and commentaries in the printedpress alone, and the debate divided politicians and the public on issues ofnational traditions, integration, and religion. A Christmas tree is an importantcivil-religious symbol in Denmark, and this may explain why the affairbecame hotly debated. The different commentaries from the printed pressare classified and analysed from the perspective that civil religion has twocomplementary dimensions, that of religion and that of nation. The classificationis illustrated in a new graphical model of the civil-religious spacebetween religion and nation.
AB - Civil religion is not only a symbolic expression of national coherence;it is often also an arena of conflict, where different actors promote theirown ideological interpretation of the same events. This will be illustratedthrough an analysis of a conflict in Denmark in November 2012, where aMuslim majority of a housing association decided to abandon the traditionof having a Christmas tree. The events and the resulting public debatewere reported in more than 650 articles and commentaries in the printedpress alone, and the debate divided politicians and the public on issues ofnational traditions, integration, and religion. A Christmas tree is an importantcivil-religious symbol in Denmark, and this may explain why the affairbecame hotly debated. The different commentaries from the printed pressare classified and analysed from the perspective that civil religion has twocomplementary dimensions, that of religion and that of nation. The classificationis illustrated in a new graphical model of the civil-religious spacebetween religion and nation.
UR - https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/IR/article/view/32878
U2 - 10.1558/imre.32878
DO - 10.1558/imre.32878
M3 - Journal article
VL - 20
SP - 127
EP - 148
JO - Implicit Religion
JF - Implicit Religion
SN - 1463-9955
IS - 2
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