The Paradox of Secularism in Denmark: From Emancipation to Ethnocentrism?

by Lars Dencik, Professor of social psychology at Roskilde University, Denmark, and director of the Social and Cultural Psychology Program at the Danish Graduate School of Psychology

Denmark, like Sweden and the other Scandinavian countries, is today a highly developed society, fully committed to progress and modernization. Individuals, as in the other Scandinavian countries, are granted extensive social rights. Denmark is also characterized by being a stable democracy organized as a comprehensive and well-functioning welfare state.

The Paradox of Secularism in Denmark: From Emancipation to Ethnocentrism?