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Religion and the Scandinavian Welfare State: Public Support for Socio-economic Rights in Times of Migration

Pål Ketil Botvar

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Middle EastProtestantismPolitical sciencemedia_common.quotation_subjectPolitical economyImmigrationSocial rightsContext (language use)Welfare stateRedistribution (cultural anthropology)Welfaremedia_common

description

The theme of this article is the legitimisation of social and economic rights within the context of the Scandinavian welfare state. This problem has become more prominent in the light of the recent influx of immigrants from countries in the Middle East and Africa dominated by other religious and cultural traditions than Lutheran Protestantism. Two questions are discussed in the article. First, what role has religion played vis-a-vis the development of the welfare states in Scandinavia? Second, in what ways have recent immigration trends influenced popular support for welfare provision and social rights?

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2020-01-01
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30934-3_10