Postsecularism in Scandinavian Crime Fiction

John A. McClure defines it as "a mode of being and seeing that is at once critical of secular constructions of reality and of dogmatic religiosity" (McClure 2007, ix). Since 2000, we have seen an intensive increase in the number of titles treating religion and/or spirituality in a way that differs from the genre's usual approach. [...]I will frame the traditional attitude toward religion in crime fiction by Scandinavian welfare modernity, outlining the conspicuous absence of religion in the genre.