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Over the past 20 years, the concept of secularisation has lost its plausibility for European self-interpretation. Literary studies provide a new perspective on this concept during its current crisis, examining secularisation not as a historical process, but as a narrative structure, that is, a culturally established interpretative framework into which individual and collective experiences can be poured and arranged into convincing narration. This book is the first to test this new perspective by examining concrete texts from Scandinavian literature around 1900: which rationales do literary texts strive for in the phase of establishing their narrative structure in order to make it convincing or to make alternatives plausible?