The lagom-tendency: A Swedish approach to ultra-conservative religious beliefs

In a world where everything is at your fingertips, where doubts and concerns can be solved by looking on the Internet and its scientific purposes, the need to believe in something difficult to see and explain seems no more necessary. However, despite the postulated irreversible secularization of our modern societies, there are people who find the need of believing in something and are still devoted to those practices and beliefs that are fading away. What if these "survivors" lived in a country such as Sweden, considered one of the most secularized nation in the world? I have focused my attention to the most spread religion in the county, Protestantism, and to a particular Swedish tendency towards calm and moderation that I have decided to summarized with the Swedish word lagom (that we can try to translate with "the half way", "the right proportion"). Given the apparent religious stillness in Sweden and the absence of fundamentalist attitudes, I have tried to track down some immoderate behaviours within an Evangelical Lutheran group throughout a set of semi-structured interviews and almost ten months spent with its followers. The final goal is to postulate a possible "Swedish way" towards strong beliefs and a lagom-tendency able to explain it.