26 Sessions to be included in the NCSR 2026

The NCSR 2026 has accepted 23 open sessions and 3 closed sessions. In addition, a Miscellaneous Session will be included, allowing papers relevant to the conference theme but not fitting any of the pre-organized sessions.

Open Sessions:
  1. Nordic Nonreligion 
  2. Expertise on Religion not Expert Religion: Navigating Knowledge Production Between Participation and Governance in Religiously Diverse Societies 
  3. Constructions of Religion, Cultural Heritage, and National Identity 
  4. Art-Related Methodologies in the Study of Religion: Intersections and Collaborations 
  5. Concepts of Academic Freedom and the Sociology of Religion 
  6. Religion and Gender: Masculine, Feminine, and Non-Binary Perspectives 
  7. Pastors and Power: Religious Leadership in Times of Uncertainty 
  8. Religious Minorities, Migration and Gender in the Nordics 
  9. Religion and Right-wing Populism 
  10. Political Culture, Religion, and Legitimation 
  11. Joy at the Margins: Approaching Marginalized Religious Communities as Spaces of Hope, Creativity, and Resilience 
  12. Varieties of Mystical Experience 
  13. New Methods and Perspectives for Researching Under-researched Groups in Religious Majority Populations 
  14. Negotiating Christianity within Alternative Spiritual Healing and Meditation Practices 
  15. Religion and Migration 
  16. Necropolitics in the Nordic Countries 
  17. Researching Minority (Non) Religions in the Baltic States: Approaches and Challenges 
  18. The Language of (Non)Religious Complexity 
  19. When Rituals Guide the Field: Immersion and the Study of Lived Religion 
  20. Indigenous Perspectives and the Sociology of Religion 
  21. Addressing Challenges and Epistemic Dissonance in Research with Vulnerable and Hard-to-Reach WEIRD Populations 
  22. Exploring the Contested Constructions of Sense of Safety in Religious Spaces 
  23. Miscellaneous Session
Closed Sessions:
  1. Sacred Voices and Popular Sounds: Exploring the Interplay of Religion and Popular Music Across Genres and Regions
  2. Banal (Non)Religion: Secular Imaginaries in Nordic Pop Culture
  3. Elderly Women’s Voluntary Work: A Mixed-Method Study of a Marginalized Majority

More details about the sessions and chairs’ contact information can be found in the Sessions section on the website or by clicking this link.