Cooperation and collaboration
Cooperation
Church of Sweden
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Tornedalingar, Kväner, and Lantalaiset
In 2021, Church History received research funding from the Church of Sweden to complete a church history research report on the Church of Sweden's role in abuse of minorities within the framework of the state Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Tornedalingar, Kväner, and Lantalaiset. The project has resulted in an article that is included in the commission's report (SOU 2023:68): Att genom Svenska kyrkan återerövra Sverige inom sina gränser – en studie av en svensk nationalism och dess kyrkliga härförare i Luleå stift (Reconquering Sweden within its borders through the Church of Sweden: a study of Swedish nationalism and its ecclesiastical leaders in Diocese of Luleå). The research results were presented at a symposium in Luleå in 2022. As a result of the Church of Sweden's apology to the Sami people, the department Church History has also been given research time to complete a research report on church and land ownership in Norrland. The report will be presented in 2026.
Time-limited collaborations
Teachers in the subject engage in recurring collaboration through time-limited tasks at different levels and with different actors in the Church of Sweden.
The Swedish Church History Association (Svenska Kyrkohistoriska Föreningen)
The Chair in Church History is ex officio chairperson of Svenska Kyrkohistoriska Föreningen (the Swedish Church History Association), and two of the other employees is also represented on the board's working committee. The association publishes Kyrkohistorisk Årsskrift (Church History Yearbook) and annually organizes the Church History Day in Uppsala, which constitutes an important contact point with the public interested in church history for the dissemination of current church history research results.
Collaboration
Folk Church in minority
The research project "Folkkyrka i minoritet" (Folk Church in Minority) explores the Church of Sweden's ongoing shift from being a universal church to a minority folk church. The research foundation Sverige och Kristen tro (Sweden and Christian Faith) initiated the project. The first research report in the project was published in 2020 with Sven Thidevall as the editor. Three reports have now been published.
Nordic pietism
Within the framework of Church History, there are ongoing ambitions to take particular responsibility for the revitalization of Swedish pietism research in collaboration with Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Pietismusforschung (IZP) at the Martin Luther University in Halle. An anthology on Nordic pietism was recently published in collaboration with Aarhus University and IZP. The research discipline participated in the 2022 International Pietism Congress on Pietism and travel and will be represented in the upcoming congress volume.
Network for church history analysis
Since 2012, the research discipline has been represented in a multi-university network for church historical analysis. In 2020, the network published the anthology Så är det inte hos er. Kyrkligt ledarskap i organisationsteoriernas värld (It's not like that with you. Church leadership in the world of organizational theories), edited by Sune Fahlgren, Joel Halldorf, Erik Sidenvall & Cecilia Wejryd. In 2023, the same editors published the anthology: Ostädade väckelser: modernitetens förtrupper (Untidy Revivals: vanguards of modernity).
Network for the Study of Independent Catholic Groups
A blog started in 2015 and functions as a node in the study of contemporary independent Catholic groups, including those that can be considered new religious movements with Catholic roots. Preliminary research reports on around thirty different groups have been published in the blog. Academics with expertise in the field and hundreds of other people have shared their knowledge experiences via the blog, corrected misunderstandings, and in many cases provided access to otherwise unavailable source material. As something of a research laboratory for religious studies, the blog has generated collaboration and collaboration that has enabled high-quality studies of contemporary groups.
Link 1: https://magnuslundberg.net/category/modern-alternative-popes/
Link 2: https://magnuslundberg.net/category/palmarian-catholic-church
Christianity and fascism
Together with representatives of several other subjects within the Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, researchers from church history and mission history participate in the SWEFAS network (the research network for the study of fascism, right-wing radicalism, extremism and populism), which operates with the support of the Centre for Integrated Research on Culture and Society (CIRCUS). The network is a meeting place for exchange between researchers from different disciplines with different theoretical and methodological starting points and who study different periods and countries and thus hope to generate new multidisciplinary and comparative research projects. In this way, the network hopes to contribute to the development of Swedish fascism research, but also to contribute to research internationally.
Link: https://www.uu.se/centrum/circus/forskning-med-stod-fran-circus/forskarnatverk-med-stod-fran-circus