ISBN:
9781137472229
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (207 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Culture, Health, and Religion at the Millennium : Sweden Unparadised
DDC:
303.409485
Keywords:
Social change -- Sweden
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Popular culture -- Sweden
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Political culture -- Sweden
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Sweden -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
The book presents interpretations of culture, health, politics, and religion in Sweden today, Sweden transforms from the well-functioning but existentially bland economic wonder to a more fragmented and gloomy society. Contributors include scholars from film studies, literary studies, political science, religious studies and theology Henrik Bogdan, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Daniel Brodén, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Andreas Johansson Heinö, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Abstract:
〈p 〉The book presents interpretations of culture, health, politics, and religion in Sweden today, Sweden transforms from the well-functioning but existentially bland economic wonder to a more fragmented and gloomy society. Contributors include scholars from film studies, literary studies, political science, religious studies and theology
Description / Table of Contents:
Culture, Health, and Religion at the Millennium: Sweden Unparadised; Contents; Introduction: How Gloomy Is Sweden at the Millennium?; The Swedish Model at the Millennium; Politics and Democracy since World War II; Welfare and Protestant Values; Sweden Unparadised?; Chapter 1: Hygiene as Metaphor: On Metaphorization, Racial Hygiene, and the Swedish Ideals of Modernity; Hygiene as Metaphor: The Sontag Question; The Swedish Model: Progress, Consensus, and Centralism; Dirt-Sweden; Crisis in the Population Question; Racial Hygiene as a Political Project; The Inevitability of Metaphor; Notes
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 2: From Shared Resources to Shared Values"Cozy" Little Folkhem?; More Concerned about Value Orientation than about Material Resources?; Shared Values as They Are Interpreted among Swedish Citizens; Not a Cozy Little Folkhem, but Becoming an Individual; Notes; Chapter 3: "It's Not about Religion, but about Manipulation": Polemical Discourse against Sects and Cults in Sweden; New Religious Movements on the Swedish Religious Landscape; The Church of Scientology in Sweden; Religion, Conflict, and Mental Health; Scientology and the Swedish Anticult Movement
Description / Table of Contents:
The Problem of "Cults" in a Welfare SocietyNotes; Chapter 4: Something Happened, but What?: On Roy Andersson's Cinematic Critique of the Development of the Welfare State; National Innocence Lost; A Swedish Love Story; Life in Limbo; Giliap; The Radical Turn; World of Glory; A Bleak Prophecy; Songs from the Second Floor; Conclusion: A Blast from the Past; Notes; Chapter 5: Sex and Sin in a Multicultural Sweden; Introduction; 1960s: The Beginnings; The 1970s: Multiculturalism and Sexual Radicalism; The 1980s: A Retreat from Radicalism; The 1990s: Feminism and Antiracism
Description / Table of Contents:
The 2000s: The Return of AssimilationConclusion; Notes; Chapter 6: Chick Lit as Healing and Self-Help Manual?; Chick Lit and Women's Fiction; From Innocent Brat to Responsible Woman; The Curing Crises; Chick Lit Novels as Self-Help Manuals; Women's Liberation and a Room of One's Own; Notes; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors
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