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Religion Members % Church of Iceland [a] (Þjóðkirkjan) Christianity 227,259 58.61 Other religions and unspecified [b] Various: 72,631 18.73 Unaffiliated [c] Unknown: 29,883 7.71 Catholic Church (Kaþólska kirkjan) Christianity 14,869 3.83 Free Church in Reykjavík (Fríkirkjan í Reykjavík) Christianity 9,953 2.57 Free Church in ...
Modern social upheavals have brought with them problems for the church in Iceland. Iceland is a modern and highly urbanized society, highly secularized with increasing pluralism of belief. About 62% of the population belong to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland [5] and over 90% of the populace belong to Christian churches. Nine out of ...
The degree to which an official national religion is imposed upon citizens by the state in contemporary society varies considerably; from high as in Saudi Arabia and Iran, to none at all as in Greenland, Denmark, England, Iceland, and Greece (in Europe, the state religion might be called in English, the established church).
Iceland was Christianized in the year 1000 AD, when Christianity became the religion by law. In Icelandic , this event is known as the kristnitaka (literally, "the taking of Christianity"). The vast majority of the initial settlers of Iceland during the settlement of Iceland in the 9th and 10th centuries AD were pagan , worshipping the Æsir ...
In 2016, 71.6% of the population belonged to the state church (the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland), approximately 5% in free churches, 3.7% to the Roman Catholic Church, approximately 1% to the Ásatrúarfélagið (a legally recognized revival of the pre-Christian religion of Iceland), approximately 1% to Zuism, 8% in unrecognized or ...
This is an overview of religion by country or territory in 2010 according to a 2012 Pew Research ... Iceland: 364,134 274,321 75.06 1,281 0.35 29,621 8.13 N/A N/A ...
Ásatrúarfélagið (Esetroth Fellowship) was recognized as an official religion by the Icelandic government in 1973. For its first 20 years it was led by farmer and poet Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson. By 2003, it had 777 members, [98] and by 2014, it had 2,382 members, corresponding to 0.8% of Iceland's population. [99]
Freedom of religion in Iceland is guaranteed by the 64th article of the Constitution of Iceland.However at the same time the 62nd article states that the Evangelical Lutheran Church shall be the national church (þjóðkirkja) [1] and the national curriculum places emphasis on Christian studies.