New Doctors

Per-Johan Norelius

Soul and Self in Vedic India

The project deals with soul concepts and their development in Vedic India. By subjecting the various Vedic concepts of the soul to a chronological analysis, a larger picture emerges. Here we can see how perceptions of people as persons and concepts such as life and consciousness develop during the studied period. (October 2021)

Anders Wejryd

Lutherhjälpen som försvann (The Disappearance of Church of Sweden Aid)

Lutherhjälpen was the Church of Sweden's widely known fundraising organization for international aid. While it was still large, the name was removed and changed to the Church of Sweden's international work and the work became a more internal affair. How did this happen and what consequences did it have? (January 2022)

Julia Kuhlin

Lived Pentecostalism in India: Middle Class Women and their Everyday Religion

The project is an ethnographic study of women in two middle-class Pentecostal churches in India. The study focuses on the women's everyday religiosity, their lived religion. Among other things, I investigate how the women relate to God as an actor and what role emotions have in the practice of religion. (February 2022)

Oulia Makkonen

They Will Call Me the Black God: Imaging Christianity and the Bible in African film

The project examines how Christianity and the Bible are expressed in films produced in sub-Saharan Africa. The project focuses on how films reflect historical, societal, cultural and religious lines of development on the African continent, such as colonialism, missions, African Christianity, politics and conflicts. (February 2022)

Tomas Poletti Lundström

Trons försvarare: Idéer om religion i svensk radikalnationalism 1988-1920. (Defenders of the Faith: Ideas about religion in Swedish radical nationalism 1988-2020)

The project highlights how the concept of religion was negotiated in Swedish radical nationalism during the period 1988–2020. In focus is the question of how the concept of religion produced, strengthened and changed ideas about protagonists and antagonists over time. (September 2022)