Finalized research projects
Realizing Rights of Nature
The project examines issues raised in Agenda 2030, the UN's target document for economically, socially and environmentally sustainable development.
Artificial intelligence, democracy and human dignity
This research project aims to create a clearer idea of the possible effects of the development and spread of artificial intelligence. Particular focus is on rights, ethics, worldviews and social institutions on a global level.
Pentecostalism and social media in Brazil: Faith and the digital production of gendered, racialised and class-based Pentecostal bodies
This project aims to examine the intersection of gender, race, and class in online identity constructions among Pentecostal converts in Brazil, as well as the connections that exist between the construction of such identities online and their impact on Pentecostal men and women's experiences of agency and authenticity offline.
From Secular Institution to Religious Organization: Shrine Shinto in Postwar Japan
In the project Ernils Larsson explored how priests working within Shrine Shinto (jinja shinto) have related to the principle of secularism in the 1947 Constitution of Japan. The project consisted of both a textual study focusing on material produced by shrine actors in the period 1945 to 2024, as well as an ethnographic study based on interviews with priests working at shrines in the Tokyo and Osaka areas.
The Impact of Religion: Challenges for Society, Law and Democracy (IMPACT)
IMPACT was a multidisciplinary research programme at Uppsala University. IMPACT was running over a ten year period 2008-2018, and funded by the Swedish Research Council and Uppsala University.
Contributivism
Contributivism är tanken att ekonomiska bidrag lägger grunden för politiskt inflytande i form av franchise. Detta projekt undersöker institutionella aspekter av och politiska utsikter för denna idé i EU idag.
RESPOND - Multilevel governance of mass migration in Europe and beyond
RESPOND was a Horizon 2020 project, that studied the multilevel governance of migration in 11 countries. The consortium behind the project consisted of 14 partners from source, transit and destination countries and was coordinated by Uppsala University.
Pentecostal Migrants in Secular Sweden
Ett mångvetenskapligt projekt om tre pentakostala migrantförsamlingar i Stockholmsregionen. Influences and Challenges Migration utgör en av de främsta politiska och sociala konfliktfrågorna i Sverige idag. Med migrationen har också religion fått en allt mer synlig roll. Hur påverkar religiös migration det sekulära svenska samhället? Detta mångvetenskapliga projekt tog sig an denna fråga genom att specialstudera tre pentekostala migrantförsamlingar i Stockholmsregionen. Vilken roll spelar religionen för dessa migranter i Sverige och vilka utmaningar möter de i relation till det sekulära svenska samhället? Projektet hade medel från Vetenskapsrådet och pågick feb 2019 - mars 2022.
Other finalized research projects
- Voices of Muslim Feminists: Navigating Tradition, Authority and the Debate about Islam, Vanja Mosbach (2022)
- Med(ie)vetenhet, motstånd och engagemang. Gymnasieungdomars tal om och erfarenheter av religion, Anna Wrammert (2021)
- Religion och politik i hybrida mediemiljöer. En analys av kommentarer till nyheter om Miljöpartiet, Kristdemokraterna och Sverigedemokraterna på Facebook, Linnea Jensdotter (2021)
- 'Stay Awhile and Listen': Understanding the Dynamics of Mediatization, Authority, and Literacy in Swedish Religious Education, Maximilian Broberg (2019)
- Youth and Religion, Maria Klingenberg (2019)
- Young adults and religion in a global perspective (YARG), Maria Klingenberg och Mia Lövheim (2019)
- This is the Face of an Atheist: Performing Private Truths in Precarious Publics, Evelina Lundmark (2019)
- Engaging with Conflicts in Mediatized Religious Environments. A Comparative Scandinavian Study (CoMRel), Mia Lövheim, Linnea Jensdotter and Maximilian Broberg (2018)
- On Consumed Democracy: The Expansion of Consumer Choice, Its Causal Effects on Political Engagement, and its Implications for Democracy, Johan Wejryd (2018)
- "Godis för kropp och själ": Välbefinnande och vardagsandlighet i tre svenska kvinnotidningar, Anneli Winell (2016)
- The resurgence of religion? A study of religion and modernity in Sweden with the daily press as case study (2011-2015), Mia Lövhiem och Alf Linderman (2015)
- The role of religion in the public sphere: A comparative study of the five Nordic countries 1988-2008 (NOREL), Mia Lövheim, Anders Bäckström, Annette Leis Peters, Jonas Lindberg och Per Pettersson (2009-2015)
- Public Religions in Swedish Media: A Study of Religious Actors on Three Newspaper Debate Pages 2001-2011, Marta Axner (2013)
- Halal-tv: Negotiating the place of religion in Swedish public discourse, Mia Lövheim och Marta Axner (2011).
- Ordination of Deacons in the Churches of the Porvoo Communion: A Comparative Investigation in Ecclesiology, Tiit Pädam (2011)
- Individualism versus civic and religious citizenship, Gina Gustavsson (2011).
- Gudstjänst i tiden: Gudstjänstliv i Svenska kyrkan 1968-2008, Ninna Edgardh (2011)
- Welfare and Values (WaVE), Anders Bäckström, Ninna Edgardh, Annette Leis Peters, Martha Middlemiss Lé Mon, Per Pettersson (2006-2009)
- Barns och ungas röster, Mia Lövheim och Anders Sjöborg (2005-2006). Financed by Stockholms stift and Svenska kyrkans unga.
- Welfare and Religion in a European Perspective (WREP), Anders Bäckström, Ninna Edgardh, Annette Leis Peters, Martha Middlemiss Lé Mon, Per Pettersson (2003-2006)
- Ett avgörande beslut: Existentiella behov och uttryck i samband med tidig abort Maria Liljas Stålhandske (2004-2006). Financed by Forskningsrådet för arbetsliv och socialvetenskap (FAS).
- Rit och relevans, Ninna Edgardh, Unni Wiig Sandberg and Maria Liljas Stålhandske. (2001-2006). Financed by Kyrkliga arbetslivsfonden
- Perspectives on life and religion, Per Pettersson (2001-2005)
- From State Church to Free Folk Church, Anders Bäckström, Valerie DeMarinis, Ninna Edgardh, Thomas Ekstrand, Per Pettersson and Thorleif Pettersson (1997-2004)
- Liv i Guds tjänst (2002-2003). Financed by Linköpings stift.
- Bibeln i nya medier Livsåskådningsmiljö och bibeltolkning bland svenska ungdomar, Anders Sjöborg (2001-2002). Financed by Svenska Bibelsällskapet
- Nya förutsättningar för kyrkans diakoni och undervisning , Sven Thidevall (2001-2002). Financed by Kyrkliga arbetslivsfonden.