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Religion in Norway is mostly Evangelical Lutheran, with 76.1% of the population officially belonging to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Norway in 2013.〔 The Roman Catholic Church is the next largest Christian denomination at 2.4% (however there has been a charge of massive fraud in the Catholic numbers〔In 2015 the bishop of the Diocese of Oslo, Bernt Ivar Eidsvig, and his financial manager were charged with fraud for adding up to 65,000 extra names to the Catholic membership list over the previous several years. 〕) and a total of 82% belong to all Christian denominations. The officially unaffiliated make up 13.0% of the population.〔 Islam is claimed by 2.4% of the population according to government records, making it the largest non-Christian religion.〔 However, the state provides funds to recognized denominations according to the number of registered members and the Evangelical Lutheran Church has a privileged place in society, though less so since a constitutional change in May 2012, which means the official figures do not necessarily reflect actual religious belief. Early Norwegians, like all of the people of Scandinavia, were adherents of Norse paganism; the Sámi having a shamanistic religion.〔http://english.karasjok.kommune.no/document.aspx?uid=49&title=Pre-Christian+Religion〕 Due to the efforts of Christian missionaries, Norway was gradually Christianized in a process starting in approximately 1000 and substantially finished by 1150. Prior to the Reformation, Norwegians were part of the Catholic Church, with the change to Protestantism commencing in 1536. In modern times, Norway – like many European countries – has seen a great decline in religiosity, at least among non-immigrant Norwegian endemics, and most Norwegians are irreligious: atheism and agnosticism are the most common metaphysical views according to Zuckerman. According to the most recent Eurobarometer Poll of 2010,〔''(Biotechnology report 2010 )'' p.383〕 * 22% of Norwegian citizens responded that ''"they believe there is a God"''. * 44% answered that ''"they believe there is some sort of spirit or life force"''. * 29% answered that ''"they do not believe there is any sort of spirit, God, or life force"''. * 5% answered that they ''"do not know"''. (Phil Zuckerman ), an Associate Professor of Sociology at Pitzer College, estimates atheism rates in Norway as ranging from 31 to 72%, based on various studies.〔〕 ==Norse religion== (詳細はOdin in Norway probably spread from Western Germany not long before they were written down. Gods shown as minor gods such as Ullr, the fertility god Njord and Heimdall are likely to be older gods in Norway who lost popularity. Other gods (or aesir, as they were called) worth mentioning are the thunder-god Thor and the love-goddess Freya. Most information about Scandinavian mythology is contained in the old Norse literature including Norwegian literature, the Eddas and later sagas. Other information comes from the Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus with fragments of legends preserved in old inscriptions. Unfortunately, we know relatively little about old religious practices in Norway or elsewhere as most of the knowledge was lost in the gradual Christianisation. Due to nationalistic movements in the late 18th century, Norwegian scholars found renewed interest for Norse religion, translating many of the myths to Danish (the written language in Norway at the time) and tried to use it to create a common Norwegian culture. But Christianity was too deeply rooted in the society to accept such Paganism, and it only resulted in popularized legends. Nowadays, a revival of the Old Norse religion, called Åsatru ("Faith of the Aesir") seeks to reconstruct the pre-Christian faith practiced in the Viking Age. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Religion in Norway」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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