With the rise in both immigration and alternative beliefs, the tradition of confirmation took a new form with the first explicitly non-religious civil confirmation ceremony held in Oslo in 1951. Denmark had set the precedent for this in 1915, under the sponsorship of the "Association Against Church Confirmation." This organization later adopted the name "Association for Civil Confirmation" and it was through the efforts of this same organization that confirmation in Norway began its secular life. Over 8,700 fourteen and fifteen year olds participated in the civil ceremony in the spring of 2001, accounting for approximately 16% of Norway's confirmation pool.
References
Borey, V. (2001). unpublished interviews
Civil Confirmation in Norway
http://www.human.no/engelsk/confirmation...
Confirmation Class at Mindekirken
http://www.mindekirken.irg/Pastors%20Art...
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