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Culture, health, and religion at the millennium : Sweden unparadised

Obrazy
Autor
edited by Marie Demker, Yvonne Leffler, and Ola Sigurdson
Place of publication
Basingstoke

Publisher

Publication date
2014
Table of Contents

Introduction: How Gloomy Is Sweden at the Millennium? . . 1

1. Hygiene as Metaphor: On Metaphorization, Racial Hygiene, and the Swedish Ideals of Modernity . . 19
2. From Shared Resources to Shared Values . . 51
3. "It's Not about Religion, but about Manipulation": Polemical Discourse against Sects and Cults in Sweden . . 77
4. Something Happened, but What?: On Roy Andersson's Cinematic Critique of the Development of the Welfare State . . 9
5. Sex and Sin in a Multicultural Sweden . . 133
6. Chick Lit as Healing and Self-Help Manual? . . 155

Bibliography . . 183
Notes on Contributors . . 195
Index of Names . . 197