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Since the late 20th century there has been a rapid diversification of religious life in the country, with the most notable phenomenon being a decline of Christianity (from 97.8% in 1990 to 65.55% in 2023 [1] [4]) and a rise of other religions, notably Neopagan religions, especially Germanic Heathenry (Germanic Neopaganism), in Iceland also ...
Norse Paganism was the primary religion among the Norsemen who settled Iceland in the 9th century AD. Christianity later came to Iceland around 1000 AD. In the middle of the 16th century, the Danish crown formally declared Lutheranism the state religion under the Icelandic Reformation . [ 8 ]
During the 1980s, Iceland came under considerable pressure from other Nordic states to improve the living conditions of LGBT people and pass anti-discrimination legislation; in 1984, the Nordic Council urged its member states to end discrimination against gays and lesbians. [57]
In 2000, the Icelandic people celebrated the millennium of Christianity in Iceland. [6] In a 2004 Gallup poll of Icelanders, 51% of respondents described themselves as "religious". [ 7 ] Ordination of women and blessing of same-sex marriages are allowed [ 8 ] while allowing individual priests to not go against their conscience is discussed.
It has gender neutral parental leave, with a quota for each parent, and a transferable part. [8] Iceland is arguably one of the world's most feminist countries, having been awarded this status in 2011 for the second year in a row. [9] Iceland was the first country to have a female president, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, elected in 1980. [10]
In 2016, 71.6% of the population belonged to the state church (the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland), approximately 5% in free churches, 3.7% to the Roman Catholic Church, approximately 1% to the Ásatrúarfélagið (a legally recognized revival of the pre-Christian religion of Iceland), approximately 1% to Zuism, 8% in unrecognized or ...
Intersex people were historically termed hermaphrodites, "congenital eunuchs", [2] [3] or even congenitally "frigid". [4] Such terms have fallen out of favor, now considered to be misleading and stigmatizing. [5] Intersex people have been treated in different ways by different religions and cultures, and numerous historical accounts exist.
The IHRC does note that it has recently been made easier for transgender people to change their names and gender officially. The IHRC further notes that “adoption rights and a legal right to clinical fertilization of lesbians were established in 2006 and a new and Universal Act of Marriage, applying equally to hetero-and homosexual couples ...