Gustaf Forsell
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Theology; Church History and Mission History
- E-mail:
- gustaf.forsell@teol.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3 B
- Postal address:
- Box 511
751 20 UPPSALA
Short presentation
Gustaf Forsell is a Senior Lecturer in Church History and Mission History, and affiliated to the Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism (CEMFOR). He has an expertise in Scandinavian fascism, conspiracy theories, and the intersections of religion, politics, and racism. Forsell's research output includes studies on ideas of Christianity in Swedish national socialism, the 1920s Ku Klux Klan, postwar British fascism, and esoteric fascism.
Publications
Selection of publications
Part of Nova Religio, p. 5-25, 2025
Part of Journal of Church and State, 2025
- DOI for Deutsche Glaubensbewegung in Sweden?: Jakob Wilhelm Hauer’s Swedish Connections and the Evolution of "German Belief" During the Interwar Period
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Blodet och korset: Tankefigurer i kristen nationalsocialism i Sverige, 1925-1945
2024
Hidden Knowledge and Mythical Origins: Atlantis, Esoteric Fascism, and Nordic Racial Divinity
Part of Nordic Fascism, p. 114-137, Routledge, 2022
Blood, Cross and Flag: The Influence of Race on Ku Klux Klan Theology in the 1920s
Part of Politics, Religion & Ideology, p. 269-287, 2020
- DOI for Blood, Cross and Flag: The Influence of Race on Ku Klux Klan Theology in the 1920s
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Recent publications
Part of Nova Religio, p. 5-25, 2025
Part of Journal of Church and State, 2025
- DOI for Deutsche Glaubensbewegung in Sweden?: Jakob Wilhelm Hauer’s Swedish Connections and the Evolution of "German Belief" During the Interwar Period
- Download full text (pdf) of Deutsche Glaubensbewegung in Sweden?: Jakob Wilhelm Hauer’s Swedish Connections and the Evolution of "German Belief" During the Interwar Period
Approaching National Christianities in the Nordic Region
Part of Journal of Church and State, 2025
- DOI for Approaching National Christianities in the Nordic Region
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Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, p. 195-196, 2024
Blodet och korset: Tankefigurer i kristen nationalsocialism i Sverige, 1925-1945
2024
All publications
Articles in journal
Part of Nova Religio, p. 5-25, 2025
Part of Journal of Church and State, 2025
- DOI for Deutsche Glaubensbewegung in Sweden?: Jakob Wilhelm Hauer’s Swedish Connections and the Evolution of "German Belief" During the Interwar Period
- Download full text (pdf) of Deutsche Glaubensbewegung in Sweden?: Jakob Wilhelm Hauer’s Swedish Connections and the Evolution of "German Belief" During the Interwar Period
Approaching National Christianities in the Nordic Region
Part of Journal of Church and State, 2025
- DOI for Approaching National Christianities in the Nordic Region
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Part of Religiographies, p. 90-104, 2023
Blood, Cross and Flag: The Influence of Race on Ku Klux Klan Theology in the 1920s
Part of Politics, Religion & Ideology, p. 269-287, 2020
- DOI for Blood, Cross and Flag: The Influence of Race on Ku Klux Klan Theology in the 1920s
- Download full text (pdf) of Blood, Cross and Flag: The Influence of Race on Ku Klux Klan Theology in the 1920s
Den brittiska Hitlerkulten: Legion of Christian Reformers i efterkrigstidens Storbritannien
Part of Religion, p. 10-19, 2020
Part of Chaos: skandinavisk tidsskrift for religionshistoriske studier, p. 171-199, 2017
Books
Race and Liberal Theology: Sveriges Religiösa Reformförbund in Interwar Sweden
Uppsala University, Department of Theology, 2019
Chapters in book
Hidden Knowledge and Mythical Origins: Atlantis, Esoteric Fascism, and Nordic Racial Divinity
Part of Nordic Fascism, p. 114-137, Routledge, 2022
Monograph doctoral thesis
Other
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, p. 195-196, 2024
Part of Fascism, p. 155-157, 2022
- DOI for Nathaniël D.B. Kunkeler, Making Fascism in Sweden and the Netherlands: Myth-Creation and Respectability, 1931-40, by Nathaniël D.B. Kunkeler
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Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, p. 169-171, 2021
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, p. 167-169, 2021
Miguel Hernandez, The Ku Klux Klan and Freemasonry in 1920s America: Fighting Fraternities
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, p. 171-173, 2020