Participating scholars
Platform director:
Linnea Jensdotter is a postdoctoral researcher at the CTR. Her research focuses on religion in public and political discourse and how Christianity is used in populist and nationalist constructions of so-called Swedish values.
Affiliated scholars:
Jayne Svenungsson is Professor of Systematic Theology. Her research interests include apocalyptic and messianic motifs in modern Western philosophy and political thinking. She has published extensively on various aspects of political theology and philosophy of history.
Patrik Fridlund is Associate Professor (docent) in Philosophy of Religion. His research interests include plurality of religions, religion and politics, post-truth politics, and populism. Deputy director of Logoi.ph.
Aaron James Goldman is a postdoctoral researcher at the CTR. His research focuses on the intersection of ethics, theology, and conceptions of critique in Early Modern to Post-Enlightenment European philosophy and religious thought.
Johanna Gustafsson Lundberg is Associated Professor (docent) of Ethics. Her research interests include the church in late modern society, the concept of ‘religious literacy’ and the interrelation of religion, social practices and democracy.
Tornike Metreveli is a sociologist of religion focusing on Orthodox Christianity’s interaction with secular politics and nationalism. Before joining Lund, he had various research fellowships at the University of St. Gallen, Harvard, and London School of Economics.
Sinikka Neuhaus is Head of Teacher Education and Assistant Head of Department and Programmes Director at the Department of Educational Sciences. She has a PhD in Church History.
Mika Vähäkangas is Professor in Mission Studies and Ecumenics. His research interests include encounters between churches, cultures and religions as well as interaction between religion and politics. His area of concentration has been Africa.
Mårten Björk is a postdoctoral researcher at the CTR and at Campion Hall in Oxford. He defended his dissertation, Life Outside Life: The Politics of Immorality, 1914-1945, in 2018.
Aron Engberg is Lecturer in Religious Studies at Jönköping University, and in Mission Studies and Ecumenics at Lund University. His research interests include the faith and politics Evangelical Christianity, Religion and populism, Language Ideology, and the Anthropology of Christianity.
Valentin Jeutner is Associate Professor of Law at Lund University's Faculty of Law. His research focuses on foundational questions of (international) law.
Katharina Keim has a PhD in Jewish Studies from the University of Manchester and is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Jewish Studies at the CTR. Her area of expertise is in two key areas: (i) the reception of Biblical tradition in post-Biblical Jewish literature, and (ii) Jewish-Christian-Islamic interreligious relations from the birth of Christianity to the early Islamic centuries.
Ov Cristian Norocel is Associate Senior Lecturer in the Department of Gender Studies. His research applies an intersectional lens to issues of right-wing populist political communication during election periods; political discourses aimed at normalizing extreme right opinions; as well as the creation and maintenance of various power hierarchies within these discourses.
