Research on lived religion has frequently turned its focus from institutions and organised religion to study the everyday life of laypeople. The purpose of the proposed study is to investigate everyday spiritual activities laypeople engage in within ecclesial institutions and how these practices are linked to notions about religion and health. Today eight of ten parishes in the diocese of Stockholm offer new spiritual practices like sacred dance, medical yoga, hatha yoga, meditative movement, and qigong. The proposed project combines competence from Religious Studies and Theology to investigate the growing presence of such practices within church institutions. It aims to answer the following: 1. Which strategies have Protestant churches in the Nordic countries developed to meet a growing quest for spirituality and new spiritual practices? 2. Which new spiritual practices are arranged under the auspices of the Church of Sweden? 3. How are such practices used and negotiated on an individual level, i.e. who practices what, when, how, and why? How are notions of religions and health linked? 4. How are they negotiated on an institutional level, i.e. who arranges these courses and new spiritual practices, how and by whom are they given theological legitimacy? How are the practices integrated in Lutheran theologies and to the idea of the folk church? Or – if they are not given theological legitimacy – what are the arguments against them? The project will use field methods to collect data.