Living Simultaneity : on religion among semi-secular Swedes

Semi-secular individuals, those who are neither religious nor unreligious, seldom get the attention of scholars of religion. Here, however, they stand at the center. Th e interviewees live in the same Stockholm neighborhood and it is their ways of talking about and relating to religion that is analyzed and described. Simultaneity is one particular feature in the material. This concept emphazises a ‘both and’ approach in: the way the respondents ascribe meaning to the term religion; how they tal