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Chapter 5 showed that the initial teaching of religion in compulsory schools in 1721 served the vital interests of the Danish state (confer Reeh 2006, 2009 and 2013). The first compulsory schools and their teaching of religion did not spring from a school or church commission but rather from a military commission devoted to the improvement of Danish defence against Sweden, which was at that point a threat to the existence of the Danish state. Furthermore, of this research revealed a new discovery, namely, that the 1736 statute on confirmation was proposed by a military commission. This circumstance has not hitherto been recognized by church historians, school historians, or sociologists of religion. The vital interests of the Danish state were also important in this situation and went hand in hand with the religious interests of the Pietistic members of government administration.
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Reeh, N. (2016). Overview of the State Religious Politics in the Danish Elementary Schools from 1721 to 2005. In: Secularization Revisited - Teaching of Religion and the State of Denmark. Boundaries of Religious Freedom: Regulating Religion in Diverse Societies, vol 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39608-8_11
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