To many visitors, Danish churchyards appear highly secularized, but in this article I will argue that they in fact materialize religious Protestant norms, especially norms about how to find consolation in the face of death. Due to the character of Protestant material culture, however, we tend to overlook the Protestant norms of consolation that these graveyards embody. The appearance of the churchyards thus does not result from a lack of religion, but rather from a particular form of religion with a particular understanding of material culture and consolation. In this article, I will describe how this understanding came about at
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