Magnus Lundberg
Professor at Department of Theology; Church History and Mission History
- E-mail:
- Magnus.Lundberg@teol.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3 B
- Postal address:
- Box 511
751 20 UPPSALA - Available:
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Short presentation
I am Professor of Church and Mission Studies, specializing in Mission History and non-European Church History. Earlier, my research focus was Colonial Spanish America from the sixteenth through the early nineteenth century. In recent years, I have devoted more time to contemporary Catholic traditionalism and independent Catholicism. Another research interest is nineteenth and early twentieth-century Catholic missions in the Dutch colonies in South America and the Caribbean.
Biography
Academic Degrees
Doctor of Theology, Missiology with Ecumenics, Lund University, June 2002.
Licentiate of Theology, Missiology with Ecumenics, Lund University, April 2000.
Bachelor of Theology, Lund University, January 1997.
Bachelor of Philosophy, Lund University, November 1996.
Academic Positions
Professor of Mission History, Department of Theology, Uppsala university, Jan 2020–.
Professor of Church and Mission Studies, Department of Theology, Uppsala university Jan 2016–.
Acting Professor/Chair (tf. ämnesföreträdare) of Church History, Department of Theology, Uppsala university, Jan 2016–July 2020.
Associate Professor (Universitetslektor/Docent), Church and Mission Studies, Department of Theology, Uppsala University, April 2010–Jan 2016.
Researcher (Bank of Sweden Tercentary Foundation), Department of Theology, Uppsala University, July 2010–April 2014.
Researcher (Swedish Research Council), Department of Theology, Uppsala University, July 2006–December 2008-December 2009.
Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Mission Studies/Church and Mission Studies, Department of Theology, Uppsala University, February 2004 -April 2010.
Guest Professor, Centro de Estudios de las Tradiciones, Colegio de Michoacán, Zamora, Mexico, November 2002–April 2003.
Research

Publications
Selection of publications
Är påven katolik?: Traditionalistiska varianter på ett tema
Uppsala universitet, 2024
The Decrees of the First Mexican Council (1555): Confiscations, Collectors, and Literary Migration
Part of The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, p. 143-171, 2023
A Pope of Their Own: El Palmar de Troya and the Palmarian Church
Uppsala University, Department of Theology, 2020
Giuseppe Maria Abbate: The Italian American Celestial Messenger
Uppsala University, Department of Theology, 2018
Tomás Ruiz: utbildning, karriär och konflikter i den sena kolonialtidens Centralamerika
Teologiska institutionen, Uppsala universitetet, 2017
Swedish Instititute of Mission Research, 2015
Recent publications
Religion i gränslandet: Perspektiv på global kristendom. Festskrift till Kajsa Ahlstrand
Uppsala universitet, 2026
[Review of:] Damian Cyrocki, The Mariavites: Heresy, The Apocalypse, and Poland’s Female Savior
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, 2026
Religiös auktoritet i det mexikanska Nya Jerusalem
Part of Religion i gränslandet: Perspektiv på global kristendom, p. 187-200, Uppsala universitet, 2026
Part of Religion i gränslandet: Perspektiv på Global kristendom, p. 11-18, Uppsala universitet, 2026
Is the Pope Catholic: Traditionalist Variations on a Theme
Uppsala universitet, 2026
All publications
Articles in journal
Från Antwerpen till Axbergshammar: Hovmålaren och bruksarrendatorn Laurens van der Plas
Part of Personhistorisk Tidskrift, p. 1-20, 2024
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, p. 154-160, 2024
The Decrees of the First Mexican Council (1555): Confiscations, Collectors, and Literary Migration
Part of The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, p. 143-171, 2023
Högt ovanför klausuren: Spansk-amerikanska kontemplativa kvinnors andliga flygfärder
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, p. 57-76, 2016
Fighting the Modern with the Virgin Mary The Palmarian Church
Part of Nova Religio, p. 40-60, 2013
Part of Hispanic American Historical Review, p. 742-744, 2012
Mission studies as academic discipline and popular science: Gustaf Lindeberg (1878-1961)
Part of Svensk Missionstidsskrift, p. 197-209, 2011
Part of Signum, p. 41-47, 2010
En kvinnlig missionär tog sig an England
Part of Svenska Dagbladet, 2010
Luther en orm i Mexikos paradis
Part of Svenska Dagbladet, 2009
Ett skepp kommer lastat med laster
Part of Svenska Dagbladet, 2009
David Kerr: A selected bibliography
Part of Svensk Missionstidsskrift, 2008
Relación de la visita pastoral del arzobispado de México de Juan de Mañozca y Zamora, 1646
Part of Historia Mexicana, p. 861-890, 2008
Conversación con Magnus Mörner
Part of Historica, p. 195-205, 2008
El clero indígena en Hispanoamérica: De la legislación a la implementación y práctica eclesiástica
Part of Estudios de Historia Novohispana, p. 39-62, 2008
Roman Catholic Archives in Latin America: Status Quaestionis
Part of Svensk Missionstidsskrift, p. 71-83, 2007
Archives, Societal Amnesia, and Survival
Part of Svensk missionstidskrift, p. 5-7, 2007
Den hårda striden om Guds stad
Part of Svenska Dagbladet, 2007
Mission Studies at Uppsala University
Part of Svensk Missiontidskrift, p. 503-509, 2006
Part of Kyrkohistorisk Årsskrift, 2006
Mayafolkets röster ekar i ny forskning
Part of Svenska Dagbladet, 2006
Part of Svensk Missionstidskrift/Swedish Missiological Themes, 2006
Las actas de los tres primeros concilios mexicanos: Historia diplomática y estudio de su itinerario
Part of Anuario de Historia de la Iglesia, 2006
Part of Dagens Nyheter, 2005
Den heliga jungfrun en krigisk general
Part of Svenska Dagbladet, 2005
Catarina de San Juans andliga flygfärder
Part of Signum, 2005
Part of Svensk Missionstidsskrift, p. 313-318, 2004
Gustaf Knös och resan till kontinenten
Part of Personhistorisk Tidskrift, 2004
Part of Svensk Missionstidsskrift, p. 297-322, 2003
Nahua reactions to the conflicts between Bishops and Friars in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
Part of Acta Americana, 2003
The Church in Colonial Latin America
Part of Svensk Missionstidskrift/Swedish Missiological Themes, 2003
The Concept of Mission During Ninety Years of SMT
Part of Svensk Missionstidsskrift, p. 285-293, 2002
Gustaf Lindeberg och missionstudiet vid Lunds universitet
Part of Svensk Missionstidsskrift, p. 357-371, 1998
Articles, review/survey
Aasulv Lande: A Bibliography 1971-2003
Part of Svensk Missionstidsskrift, 2004
Books
Is the Pope Catholic: Traditionalist Variations on a Theme
Uppsala universitet, 2026
A Polish-American Pope: Adam Oraczewski-Adam II
Uppsala University, 2025
Är påven katolik?: Traditionalistiska varianter på ett tema
Uppsala universitet, 2024
Pope Pius XIII: Encyclicals, General Documents and Caritas Newsletters, 1998–2005
Uppsala universitet, 2023
A Pope of Their Own: El Palmar de Troya and the Palmarian Church
Uppsala University, Department of Theology, 2020
Giuseppe Maria Abbate: The Italian American Celestial Messenger
Uppsala University, Department of Theology, 2018
Tomás Ruiz: utbildning, karriär och konflikter i den sena kolonialtidens Centralamerika
Teologiska institutionen, Uppsala universitetet, 2017
A Pope of their Own: El Palmar de Troya and the Palmarian Church
Uppsala University, Department of Theology, 2017
Swedish Instititute of Mission Research, 2015
Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2011
El Colegio de Michoacán, 2009
Chapters in book
Religiös auktoritet i det mexikanska Nya Jerusalem
Part of Religion i gränslandet: Perspektiv på global kristendom, p. 187-200, Uppsala universitet, 2026
Part of Religion i gränslandet: Perspektiv på Global kristendom, p. 11-18, Uppsala universitet, 2026
Pope Michael Research Bibliography
Part of World Religions and Spirituality Project, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2023
Part of World Religions and Spirituality Project, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2023
Part of World Religions and Spirituality Project, Virgina Commonwealth University, 2020
Abela Gullbranssons själavårdsbrev
Part of Kvinnligt religiöst ledarskap, p. 49-60, Södertörns högskola, 2020
New Jerusalem Church of the Celestial Messenger
Part of World Religions and Spirituality Project, Virgina Commonwealth University, 2020
The Holy Apostolic Catholic Palmarian Church
Part of World Religions and Spirituality Project, Virgina Commonwealth University, 2015
Gustaf Lindeberg and the Place of Academic Mission Studies in Sweden, 1910s-1930s
Part of Mission & Science, p. 65-75, Leuven University Press, 2015
Guds sargade atlet: Isabel de la Encarnación och demonerna
Part of Zlatan Frälsaren och andra texter om religion och idrott, p. 218-232, Molin & Sorgenfrei, 2014
Part of Världen på Kulturen. Kulturens årsbok 2014, p. 101-111, Kulturen i Lund, 2014
Alonso de la Mota y Escobar: Ambición y santidad en la Nueva España, siglos XVI y XVII.
Part of Virreinatos II, p. 78-90, Editorial Grupo Destiempos, 2013
Part of Religion i Latinamerika, Dialogos, 2012
Part of Religion i Latinamerika, Dialogos, 2012
Part of Religion i Latinamerika, Dialogos, 2012
Part of Los indios, el derecho canónico y la justicia eclesiástica en la América virreinal, p. 221-238, Vervuert / Iberoamericana, 2011
Part of Religionsteologi och religionsmöten, Svenska institutet för missionsforskning, 2007
Part of Religión, Poder y Autoridad en la Nueva España, p. 41-54, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, 2004
Avhandlingar vid teologiska institutionen i Lund 1900-1999
Part of Theologicum i Lund undervisning och forskning i tusen år, p. 213-233, Arcus, 2001
Lärare vid teologiska institutionen i Lund 1900-1999
Part of Theologicum i Lund undervisning och forskning i tusen år, p. 205-212, Teologiska institutionen, 2001
Missionsvetenskap med ekumenik
Part of Theologicum i Lund undervisning och forskning i tusen år, p. 150-155, Arcus, 2001
Collections (editor)
Religion i gränslandet: Perspektiv på global kristendom. Festskrift till Kajsa Ahlstrand
Uppsala universitet, 2026
Dialogos, 2012
SMT: Svensk Missionstidskrift/Swedish Missiological Themes, vol. 96
Svenska institutet för missionsforskning, 2008
Swedish Missiological Themes/ Svensk Missionstidskrift vol. 95
2007
Swedish Missiological Themes/Svensk Missionstidskrift, vol. 94
2006
Swedish Missiological Themes/ Svensk Missionstidskrift, vol. 93
2005
Swedish Missiological Themes/ Svensk Missionstidskrift, vol. 92
2004
The Church in Colonial Latin America
2003
Conference papers
2014
Mission and Ecstasy: Contemplative Women's Missionary Role in Colonial Latin America"
2011
Ecclesiastical Justice and Pastoral Visitations in Seventeenth-Century New Spain
Part of Jurisdiktionskultur in der geistlichen und weltlichen Gerichtsbarkeit in Spätmittelalter und früher Neuzeit, 2010
Justicia eclesiástica en un escenario local novohispano: Ixcateopan en el siglo XVII
2009
Visitas eclesiásticas como fuentes históricas: México central del siglo XVII
Part of XII Congreso Sobre REligión y Etnicidad, 2008
Nahua reactions to the conflicts between bishops and friars in sixteenth-century Mexico
2002
Monograph doctoral thesis
Monograph licentiate thesis
Reports
Franz Engelhardt: The Fourth Seer of Fatima and Future Pope Peter II
2025
Valdir Ros-Pedro II: The Pope of Nova Iguaçu, Brazil
2024
Francis Schuckardt, the Papacy, and the Apocalypse
2024
På väg mot ny kunskap: Att skriva uppsats med historisk inriktning (2:a upplagan)
2024
White Smoke over Montana: Pius XIII and the true Catholic Church
2023
The Invisible Pope: Linus II and the 1994 Assisi Conclave
2023
Maurice Archieri (1923-2016): The Vicar of Christ in Le Perreux-sur-Marne
2023
På väg mot ny kunskap: Att skriva uppsats med historisk inriktning
2021
The Slavic Pope?: Jan Maria Michał Kowalski and the Mariavites
2019
Dan Brown and the Palmarian Church, Or What is this Thing Called Research?
2018
På väg mot ny kunskap: Konsten att skriva uppsats i Kyrko- och missionsstudier (3 rev. uppl.)
2018
Laurens van der Plas: En nederländsk konstnär vid Gustav II Adolf hov
2017
2017
Chriszekal Elias a.k.a Peter II: The Pope of Eddystone, Pennsylvania
2017
Papal Management by Fear: The Palmarian Pontificate of Gregory XVIII (2011-2016)
2016
På väg mot ny kunskap: Konsten att skriva uppsats i Kyrko- och missionsstudier: 2:a upplagan
2016
Palmar de Troya - Holy Catholic Apostolic Palmarian Church
2015
2015
The Archbishop and the Virgin: Alonso de Montúfar and the Early Cult of Our Lady of Guadalupe
2015
2015
På väg mot ny kunskap: Konsten att skriva uppsats i Kyrko- och missionsstudier
2015
Other
[Review of:] Damian Cyrocki, The Mariavites: Heresy, The Apocalypse, and Poland’s Female Savior
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, 2026
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, 2025
[Review of:] Asunción Lavrin, Men of God: Mendicant Orders in Colonial Mexico
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, 2025
[Review of:] Carlos Eire, They Flew:A History of the Impossible
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, p. 179-182, 2024
[Review of:] Jeroen Dewulf, Afro-Atlantic Catholics: America’s First Black Christians
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, p. 176-179, 2024
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, p. 168-170, 2024
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, 2023
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, p. 134-136, 2022
Chester Olszewski – Chriszekiel Elias – Peter II: The Pope of Eddystone, Pennsylvania
2022
Reservoarpennor: Design, teknik och historia
2021
[review of:] Peter Jan Margry (ed.), Cold War Mary: Ideologies, Politics, Devotional Culture, 2021
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, p. 173-176, 2021
Eduardo Dávila – Eduardo I: Pope and Supreme Pontiff of Mexico and the Americas
2021
Part of Signum, 2021
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, p. 178-181, 2020
Baby Jesus and the Universal Christian Church of the New Jerusalem in Gallinaro, Italy
2020
Pope Christophe XVIII and La Très Sainte Église de Jésus-Christ, Mission de Banamè in Benin
2020
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, 2020
[Recension av:] Nadine Amsler, Jesuits & Matriarchs: Domestic Worship in Early Modern China.
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, p. 207-210, 2019
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, p. 205-207, 2019
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, p. 222-224, 2019
[Review of:] Moshe Sluhovsky, Becoming a New Self: Practices of Belief in Early Modern Catholicism
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, p. 122-124, 2018
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, p. 150-152, 2018
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, p. 130-133, 2018
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, p. 128-130, 2018
The Faithful Remnant and the Canadian Last Pope
2018
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, p. 173-175, 2017
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, p. 166-168, 2017
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, p. 158-161, 2017
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, p. 161-164, 2017
[Review of:] Julie Byrne, The Other Catholics: Remaking America’s Largest Religion, 2016.
Part of Nova Religio, p. 147-148, 2017
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, p. 147-149, 2016
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, p. 163-166, 2016
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, p. 166-168, 2016
[Review of:] Gustavo Morello, SJ The Catholic Church and Argentina's Dirty War, 2015
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, p. 179-181, 2016
Part of Signum, p. 55-58, 2015
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, p. 231-233, 2015
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, p. 237-238, 2015
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, p. 228-231, 2015
Part of Kyrkohistorisk tidskrift, p. 239-241, 2015
[Review of] Steven E. Turley, Franciscan Spirituality and Mission in New Spain, 1524-1599.
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, 2014
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, 2014
[Review of] Franklin Steven Jabini, Christianity in Suriname
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, 2014
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, p. 222-224, 2012
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, p. 220-222, 2012
Part of Historisk Tidskrift, p. 657-663, 2011
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, 2011
Religion and Society in Latin America: Interpretative Essays from Conquest to Present
Part of Hispanic American Historical Review, p. 345-346, 2011
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, p. 220-221, 2010
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, p. 248-249, 2010
Part of Svensk Missionstidsskrift, 2010
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, p. 221-223, 2010
Part of Lychnos, p. 314-315, 2010
[Recension av:] John W. O'Malley, What Happened at Vatican II. Harvard 2008.
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, p. 189-191, 2009
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, p. 172-173, 2009
Part of Lychnos, p. 366-367, 2009
Part of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, p. 170-172, 2009
Part of Svensk Missionstidsskrift, p. 273-276, 2009
Part of Svensk teologisk kvartalskrift, p. 134-135, 2008
Part of Kyrkohistorisk Tidskrift, p. 183-184, 2008
Part of Kyrkohistorisk Årsskrift, p. 233-234, 2008
Part of Swedish Missiological Themes, p. 185-188, 2008
Part of The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Interamerican Cultural History, p. 464-465, 2008
Part of Svensk Teologisk Kvartaltidskrift, 2007
[Recension av:] Alan Greer, Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits (2006)
Part of Kyrkohistorisk Årsskrift, p. 246-248, 2007
Part of Kyrkohistorisk Årsskrift, p. 236-237, 2007
Part of Svensk Missionstidsskrift, p. 107-110, 2006
[Recension av:] Adriaan C van Oss, Church and Society in Spanish America, Amsterdam 2003.
Part of Svensk Missionstidsskrift, p. 245-246, 2006
[Recension av:] Kyrkan och religionerna: Katolska grunddokument. Ed. Kaj Engelhart
Part of Hela Jorden, 2006
Part of Hispanic American Historical Review, 2006
Part of Swedish Missiological Themes/Svensk Missionstidskrift, p. 131-133, 2005
[Recension av:] El mundo de las catedrales novohispanas.: Ed. Montserrat Galí Boadella. Puebla, 2002
Part of The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History, 2004
Part of Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 2004
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