Staff

Subject coordinator: Göran Ståhle

Head of Department: Ann af Burén

Administration: Mattias Engzell

Researchers, techers and other staff:

Sepideh Atter Motlagh

Sepideh Atter Motlagh

Doctoral Student

I am researching young, female Shi'a Muslims' perceptions and practices of Islam in relation to community in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1004

Vera Ericson von Bahr

Vera Ericson von Bahr

Doctoral Student

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1004

Per Faxneld

Per Faxneld

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

Teaches at all levels. Research interests include secularisation, new religions, "alternative spirituality", and esotericism (the latter also in relation to art/literature).

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1029

Henrik Johnsén

Henrik Johnsén

Senior Lecturer

Associate professor in History of religions. My research is focused on Christianity, especially late antique monasticism, and Syriac Orthodox Christianity in Sweden and migration.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1034

Anne Kubai

Anne Kubai

Researcher

I am associate professor of World Christianity and Interreligious Studies. My research includes: religion, mass atrocities, peace, conflict, migration, gender, human trafficking.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1030

Douglas Mattsson

Douglas Mattsson

Doctoral Student

My main research interests deal with subcultures and religion in contemporary Muslim majority societies. I am currently resaerching the black metal music scene in Turkey.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1001

Staffan Nilsson

Staffan Nilsson

ThD

Senior Lecturer

I am lecturer and researcher in religious education and ethics. My man intressed is in virtue ethics.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1002

Malin Norrby

Malin Norrby

Doctoral Student

I'm writing my Doctoral Thesis as part of the project "Experimenting with Traditions: The Life and Afterlife of 20th Century Jewish Intellectual Culture in the Baltic Sea Region."

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1032

Lena Roos

Lena Roos

Professor

Jewish studies, teaching religion, Yiddish literature, interreligious encounters (esp. the Middle Ages), religion and gardening, religion and sexuality, religion and food

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1035

Regina Skarp

Regina Skarp

Academic Secretary

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1012

Simon Sorgenfrei

Simon Sorgenfrei

Professor

My research has mainly been devoted to Islam and Sufism, historical and recent, in Sweden and globally. Several of my projects also concerns religion and migration.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

Göran Ståhle

Göran Ståhle

ThD

Subject Coordinator

Senior Lecturer

I am associate professor in the Study of Religions, specialized in the Psychology of Religion, Indic religions, and Religion and health

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1027

David Thurfjell

David Thurfjell

Professor

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1033

Linda Vikdahl Gunséus

Linda Vikdahl Gunséus

Associate Professor

Head of School

Senior Lecturer

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F935

Ann af Burén

Ann af Burén

PhD

Head of Department

Senior Lecturer

Head of the study of religion and archeology. Assistant professor in the study of religion. Researcher.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

F1031