TY - JOUR AU - Taira, Teemu PY - 2019/12/10 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Studying Religion in Nordic Newspapers: An Introduction JF - Temenos - Nordic Journal for the Study of Religion JA - Temenos VL - 55 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.33356/temenos.87824 UR - https://journal.fi/temenos/article/view/87824 SP - 175–99 AB - <p>This article introduces the topic of this special issue: religion in Nordic<br>newspapers. It provides a general framework for the following four<br>articles based on a longitudinal study of religion in Danish, Finnish,<br>Norwegian, and Swedish newspapers by clarifying what characterizes<br>selected ‘Nordic’ countries, their media spheres, and their religious<br>landscapes. Furthermore, this article suggests that despite significant<br>changes in the media sphere, including factual media production and<br>consumption, there are good reasons to study religion-related media<br>content produced by the dominant and conventional media outlets,<br>including newspapers. However, this should not be done by isolating<br>newspapers from society and the rest of the media. This introduction<br>and the following articles therefore propose that the selected key<br>concepts and debates among sociologists of religion are particularly<br>useful in thinking about religion-related newspaper content.</p> ER -