The e-Yearbook Religion in Denmark 2010 is published by the Centre for Contemporary Religion at Aarhus University. Its predecessor, Religion in Denmark in 2009, launched a comprehensive survey of statistics, which are now expanded and updated in this 2010 volume. And in Religion in Denmark in 2010, we draw some perspectives from the contemporary religious context through a number of articles, as was the case with our first volume.

Background

Contemporary religion being the main concern of the Centre, it is natural for CCR to collect, perspectivise and disseminate factual information about the religious situation in Denmark just now. Featuring the city of Aarhus as a pilot project, the Danish Pluralism Project laid the foundation through a mapping of religious and spiritual groups in the following areas: Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, New Religious and Spiritual Groups and Alternative therapists and Spirituality.

Aim

Apart from updating this mapping, a central site with factual information about the religious and spiritual groups, their geographical distribution, organization, activities and actors is needed. The e-Yearbook therefore provides statistical data, and a series of articles providing analysis and interpretation of these data. A presentation in the form of an electronic yearbook ensures the best possible overview of the field of religion and spirituality in Denmark.

Religion in Denmark 2010: Links to English web pages

Religion i Denmark Today: Introduction Article by Marie Vejrup Nielsen and Lene Kühle

Under preparation: Conceptual Explanation, Article Abstracts

Please note that the complete table below (under 1. Statistics: Approved religious communities – complete table) to some extent will be versioned in English later, but many religious community names are already recognizable through their name in Danish. And please make use of the Google map below (under 0: Introduction) to locate the religious communities in question.

Religion in Denmark 2010: Links to Danish web pages

Religion in Denmark 2010: Yearbook Download in pdf (approx. 2 MB)
Incl. a comprehensive register of religious communities.

Yearbook Sections

The Yearbook is divided into the following subsections:

0. Introduction

• Religion i Danmark i dag: Introduktionsartikel (Religion in Denmark today:
  Introduction Article by Lene Kühle og Marie Vejrup Nielsen)
• Begrebsforklaringer (Conceptual Explanations)
• Det religiøse Danmarkskort - NU MED STREET VIEW (Religious map of Denmark - NOW WITH STREET VIEW)

1. Statistics

• Godkendte trossamfund – SAMLET TABEL (Approved religious communities – complete table)
• TABEL og TABELOVERSIGT over kirkelige og borgerlige vielser (se også Lene Kühles artikel) (Ecclesiastical and civil marriages - table and figure (see also Lene Kühle's article))
• TABEL over vielser inden for ikke-kristne menigheder (Marriages in non-Christian congregations - table)
• TABEL over kirkelige velsignelser (Church blessings - table)
• TABELOVERSIGT over Den Danske Folkekirkes medlemsudvikling (se også Steen Marqvard Rasmussens og Marie Ramsdal-Thomsens artikler) (The development of membership within The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark - table survey (see also Steen Marqvard Rasmussen's and Marie Ramsdal-Thomsen's articles)
  
  

STATISTICS GROUPED ACCORDING TO RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY (only available in Danish, see the Danish website for details):

• Christian and Christianity-inspired communities and congregations
• Islamic and Islam-inspired communities
• Buddhist communities
• Hindu and Hindu-inspired communities
• Jewish communities and congregations
• Other religious communities

2. Articles

Article abstracts will be available during May-June 2010.

• På rådhuset, i kirken - eller helt ude i skoven? Vielsesbemyndigelse i Danmark (At City Hall, the church - or deep in the heart of the forest? Marriage autorization in Denmark) by Lene Kühle
• Statslig godkendelse af (fra folkekirken) 'afvigende trossamfund’ (Central government approval of 'deviant faiths' (deviant from an Evangelical-Lutheran church perspective)) by Tim Jensen
• Den ny ateisme – medspiller og modspiller i religionsdebatten (The new atheism - fellow player or opponent in the religion debate) by Kirstine Helboe Johansen
• Hvordan er folkekirken rummelig? (How all-encompassing is the state church?) by Steen Marqvard Rasmussen
• Frie menigheder - Danske valg- og frimenigheder (Free churches - old and new elective congregations and their views on the state church) by Marie Ramsdal-Thomsen
• Evangelist - på mission i Danmark (Evangelist - on a mission in Denmark) by Rikke Gottfredsen
• Hvad betyder det egentlig at betegne sig selv som ’troende’? (What does it really mean to describe oneself as a 'believer'?) by Lars Ahlin
• Religion og spiritualitet i danske dameblade uge 7 (Religion and spirituality within Danish women's magazines in week 7, 2010) by Iben Krogsdal
• Genfødt og blå: Religiøsitet baseret på James Cameron’s Avatar (Reborn and blue: religiosity based on James Cameron's Avatar) by Markus Davidsen
• Religion, migration og integration (Religion, migration and integration) by Jørn Borup

RELIGION IN DENMARK 2010 was presented 23 March 2010 at the Faculty of Theology.

Centre for Contemporary Religion website