Protestant Legacies in Nordic Law: Uses of the Past in the Construction of Secularity of Law
This project researches the conscious and unconscious uses of the Lutheran and broader Protestant past for the construction and institutionally embedding of norms and values in Nordic secular law.
The overarching goal of ProNoLa is to examine relations between Lutheran majority traditions, broader Protestant theology and the development of secular law in the Nordic region over the last 500 years.
The project aims to provide a more complex, nuanced and critical genealogy of the negotiations of law and religion in the Nordic and German realms. It will do so by highlighting the numerous ruptures, twists and turns in the relationship between law and secularity.
The expected outcome of the research is a reformulated history about interlinkages between Lutheran and broader Protestant theology within majority and minority churches and the secularity of the law, not only in the historic period until the Enlightenment era, but during subsequent periods into the current reconfessionalisation and internationalisation of relations between religions, state and law.
The project’s research findings will be presented and spread to a wider academic and non-academic public audience through research symposia and publications.
Prof. Lisbet Birgitte Christofferson
Project Leader
University of Copenhagen
Denmark
Project Partners
Prof. Lisbet Birgitte Christofferson
Project Leader
University of Copenhagen
Denmark
Prof. Hans-Michael Heinig
University of Gottingen
Germany
Assoc Prof. Anna-Sara Lind
Uppsala University
Sweden
Prof. Tarald Rasmussen
University of Oslo
Norway
Assoc Prof. Pamela Slotte
University of Helsinki
Finland
Associate Partners
Anne Kristine Axelsson
The Danish Ministry of Ecclesiastical Affairs
Denmark
Nirger Nygaard
Council on International relations in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark
Denmark
Pirjo Pihlaja
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Finland
Finland
Kimmo Ketola
Church Research Institute, National Church Council, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
Finland
Ingrid vad Nielsen
Royal Norwegian Ministry of Culture, Department of Church Affairs
Norway
Jens-Petter Johnsen
Church of Norway
Norway
Ake Goransson
Namnden for Statlig Stod till Trossamfund, Sweden
Sweden
Cecilia Nahnfeldt
Church of Sweden
Sweden
Bundesministerium des Innern
Germany
Dr Hans Ulrich Anke
Evangelical Church of Germany
Germany