Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Religion in Iceland was initially the Norse paganism that was a common belief among mediaeval Scandinavians who started settling Iceland in the 9th century CE until Christian conversion traditionally around 1000CE though paganism did not vanish then. Originally Roman Catholic, Iceland, then under the Danish crown, formally became Lutheran starting in the 1530s and culminating in 1550 with the killing of the last Catholic bishop and the outlawing of Catholicism. Iceland still has a state church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland, though religious freedom is a legal right since 1874. The state church is supported by the government, but, all registered religions received support from a church tax paid by taxpayers over 16 according to the taxpayer's declared affiliation.At present, the population is overwhelmingly Lutheran. However, Baptist, Catholic, Jehovah's Witness and other Christian minorities exist. The second largest religion after Christianity is Germanic Heathenism. A Gallup poll conducted in 2012 found that 57% of Icelanders considered themselves "a religious person", 31% consider themselves "a non religious person", while 10% define themselves as "a convinced atheist", placing Iceland in top 10 atheist populations in the world.. }
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- Religion_in_Iceland abstract "Religion in Iceland was initially the Norse paganism that was a common belief among mediaeval Scandinavians who started settling Iceland in the 9th century CE until Christian conversion traditionally around 1000CE though paganism did not vanish then. Originally Roman Catholic, Iceland, then under the Danish crown, formally became Lutheran starting in the 1530s and culminating in 1550 with the killing of the last Catholic bishop and the outlawing of Catholicism. Iceland still has a state church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland, though religious freedom is a legal right since 1874. The state church is supported by the government, but, all registered religions received support from a church tax paid by taxpayers over 16 according to the taxpayer's declared affiliation.At present, the population is overwhelmingly Lutheran. However, Baptist, Catholic, Jehovah's Witness and other Christian minorities exist. The second largest religion after Christianity is Germanic Heathenism. A Gallup poll conducted in 2012 found that 57% of Icelanders considered themselves "a religious person", 31% consider themselves "a non religious person", while 10% define themselves as "a convinced atheist", placing Iceland in top 10 atheist populations in the world.".