The aim of this paper is to present how religion and religious dimensions are viewed, understood and discursively negotiated in the classroom for civic orientation for adult migrants in Sweden. Civic orientation courses are organized by the state/municipality for adult migrants who have recently been granted a residence permit in Sweden (cf. Bauer et al.; von Brömssen et al., 2022). The aim of the courses is to inform about Swedish society, with the intention of furthering migrants’ “integration” into the new country (informationsverige). For this paper we use ethnographic data from civic orientation courses and explore how religion and religious dimensions are located, presented and discursively negotiated in the classroom.  Theoretically we draw on a Foucauldian framework and the concept of governmentality (Dean, 2010) complemented with theories on religious pluralization and secularization in contemporary Western societies (Davie, 2001, 2023; Nordin, 2023). Our analysis shows that in the civic orientation courses, religion and religious phenomena are generally avoided or silenced. Instead, there is a strong discourse, emphasizing the separation between religion and state in Sweden. Also, the recognition of non-Christian holidays such as Walpurgis Eve and Midsummer Eve are articulated as Swedish, and interesting and fun to take part in. This can be understood as a transmission of “civil religion”; the implicit religious values of a nation, as expressed through public rituals, symbols, and ceremonies on sacred days and at sacred places (Davie, 2001). We show how Sweden throughout the courses and through the communicators’ articulations, positions itself as a highly secular country vis-à-vis assumed religious migrants. This paper adds to previous research exploring the “civic turn” in migration studies (Bech et al., 2017) and raise critical questions concerning religion, the state, integration, and education for adult migrants in Sweden, as well as in all Nordic welfare states.