This study focuses on Serbian immigrants in Sweden and how they experience, express and practice religion in everyday life. In the immigration context, contact with religious institutions is limited, and how religion is practised is often adjusted. This, further, must be linked to Swedish society, which is led by secular principles. Therefore, the study helps to understand better how immigrants live and do their religion in everyday life and what kind of meaning religious practice has in their daily lives in secularised circumstances. The empirical material is based on eleven semi-structured interviews conducted from 2017 to 2019 with Serbian immigrants and their descendants in Malmö, Gothenburg, Linköping, and Stockholm.
The results are presented regarding lived religion in both the public and the private sphere. Church visits and pilgrimages are the most common practices connected with the public sphere. In private, home is perceived as an essential place of religiosity with home celebrations as the most prominent expression of religiosity. Another central practice of everyday religiosity is a regular confession to a priest, which sometimes develops into a deeper spiritual relationship that strongly influences their religiosity and spiritual experience. In addition, digitised access to different religious TV and YouTube programs significantly contributes to their everyday religiosity.