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The culture of Denmark has a rich artistic and scientific heritage. The fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875), the philosophical essays of Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855), the short stories of Karen Blixen, penname Isak Dinesen, (1885–1962), the plays of Ludvig Holberg (1684–1754), modern authors such as Herman Bang and Nobel laureate Henrik Pontoppidan and the dense ...
"From Religious Movement to Economic Change: The Grundtvigian Case in Denmark," Journal of Social History, (1969) 2#4 pp: 283–301; Mordhorst, Mads. "Arla and Danish national identity–business history as cultural history." Business History (2014) 56#1 pp: 116–133. Rossel, Sven H. A History of Danish Literature (University of Nebraska Press ...
Denmark is a representative democracy with universal suffrage. [N 12] Membership of the Folketing is based on proportional representation of political parties, [92] with a 2% electoral threshold. Denmark elects 175 members to the Folketing, with Greenland and the Faroe Islands electing an additional two members each—179 members in total. [93]
Cultural history of Denmark (8 C, 2 P) L. Languages of Denmark (5 C, 14 P) ... Religion in Denmark; Risalamande; Royal Danish Theatre; S. Saint Lucy's Day; Danish ...
Christianity is the largest religion in Denmark. As of 2024, 71.2% of the population of Denmark were registered members of the Church of Denmark ( Den Danske Folkekirke ), [ 1 ] the officially established church , which is Protestant in classification and Lutheran in orientation.
1557; v (cultural) The area contains evidence of 4200 years of human history, connected to hunting of marine and land animals, such as the caribou. Archaeological sites can be dated to various periods, including Saqqaq (2500-700 BC), Dorset (800 BC-1 AD), Thule Inuit (from the 13th century) and colonial periods (from the 18th century). [15]
Denmark has been a constitutional monarchy since 1849 and is a parliamentary democracy. It became a member of the European Economic Community (now the European Union ) in 1973. The Kingdom of Denmark also encompasses two off-shore territories, Greenland and the Faroe Islands , both of which enjoy wide-ranging home rule .
The ideology of Danishness emphasizes the notion of historical connection between the population and the territory of Denmark and the relation between the thousand-year-old Danish monarchy and the modern Danish state, the 19th-century national romantic idea of "the people" (folk), a view of Danish society as homogeneous and socially egalitarian ...