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Evangelical Supremacy: Political Thought in a Swedish Revivalist Newspaper
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Theology, Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9500-6274
2023 (English)In: Nordic Journal of Religion and Society, ISSN 0809-7291, E-ISSN 1890-7008, Vol. 36, no 2, p. 81-94Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Evangelicalism’s role in shaping democracy and the modern welfare state of Sweden has been emphasized in scholarly literature, but few studies have analyzed ongoing developments within this movement. This article explores intersections of political thought and Evangelical Christianity in Sweden, focusing on the revivalist newspaper Världen idag. Through a thematic analysis of 379 editorials from 2022, the study introduces the concept of Evangelical Supremacy, a political-ideological development of Evangelicalism that emphasizes a) Christian unity in political outlook, b) a revivalism that extends from the individual to the nation, and c) an alternative elitism that calls for the replacement of the elites of society with persons of Christian values. By combining qualitative thematic analysis with corpus linguistic techniques, this research discloses how a prominent Swedish Christian revivalist actor frequently employs concepts associated with the political ideology of radical nationalism.

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Scandinavian Academic Press, 2023. Vol. 36, no 2, p. 81-94
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Evangelicalism, Christian Supremacy, Christian Nationalism, Populism, Radical Right
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Religious Studies Sociology
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Sociology of Religion
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-518543DOI: 10.18261/njrs.36.2.3ISI: 001167363300003OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-518543DiVA, id: diva2:1821380
Available from: 2023-12-20 Created: 2023-12-20 Last updated: 2024-03-21Bibliographically approved

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