Doctoral Projects

Rebecka Freeman

The doctoral project Religion, social welfare and politics in Lebanon will study the relationship between parties' religious affiliation and their political influence in Lebanon. The study focuses on the various welfare services that the parties offer their constituencies and the role that religious affiliation and religious values play in this process.

Caroline Hill

The doctoral project Russian Orthodox Arguments Regarding Abortion and Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the 21st Century examines arguments put forward by priests and other ministers of the Russian Orthodox Church via online media sources regarding abortion, in vitro fertilisation and surrogacy.

Anna Holmqvist

The doctoral project "We Are Here, We Are Queer" is an ethnographic study of how identity is constructed and changed in queer Muslim groups and networks in the United Kingdom. Based on an intersectional perspective, the project highlight how religiosity, gender identity, sexuality, ethnicity and political engagement interact in narratives and practices.

Zhivka Koleva

The aim of the research project Satanic Battle for Social Change is to critically examine how the boundaries of religious tolerance are negotiated in a liberal democracy by focusing on public interventions by The Satanic Temple in the United States. This empirical study thus contributes to a deeper understanding of the complexity of the relationship between religion and the public sphere in modern secular societies.

Charlotte Linzatti

Doctoral student in the research project Elderly women’s voluntary work, which studies volunteering among women born between 1940 and 1955 within religious and humanitarian organisations. The project is a mixed methods study based on a nationwide survey, participatory observations and interviews with women involved in voluntary work.

Hanna Nir

The doctoral project Young Jewish experiences in contemporary Sweden aims to understand experiences of being a young Jew in Sweden today. Through ethnographic studies, the focus is on how Jewishness is practised and experienced in everyday life and also outside Jewish institutions, which have often been the subject of previous studies of Jewish life.

Marie Vildhammar Okker

The doctoral project If crisis or hope comes: Young people's existential challenges and resources examines how young people, with varying backgrounds and attitudes to faith, spirituality and religion, experience existential threats and challenges, and what resources they use and need to deal with them. The study is being conducted in close connection with ongoing interventions aimed at strengthening young people's existential health.

Mattias Rosenfeldt

The doctoral project Progressive Islam: Theology and Practice in new European communities focuses on three progressive mosques in Europe. The project aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the theological themes and methods developed in these mosques by relating theological practices and theoretical conceptions of progressive Islam.

Mudar Shakra

The doctoral project The Acculturative Stress of Syrian Migrants in Sweden: Caught between Secular and Religious Parenting Systems examines risk and protective factors that may contribute to acculturative stress regarding parenting practices among Syrian newcomers in Sweden. These factors are related to the differences between a Swedish secular and a Syrian religion-based family system, as well as the effects of war conditions.