Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
“Do you see the world as the world sees you?”
Before the year 2000, Sweden was a Lutheran state, with the Church of
Sweden as its official religion. Until 1996, Swedes automatically became
members of the Lutheran Church at birth if one parent was Lutheran. Now
you need to choose to join the church, and although the culture is nominally
Lutheran, few people attend services regularly. While church is handy for
Christmas, Easter, marriages, and burials, most Swedes are more likely to find
religion in nature, hiking in the vast forests or fishing in one of the thousands
of lakes or rivers.
