Doctoral Projects

Rebecka Freeman

The doctoral project titled Religion, social welfare and politics in Lebanon will study the relationship between political parties’ religious affiliation and their political influence in Lebanon. The study focuses on the various welfare services the parties offer to their constituency, and the role that religious affiliation and values are ascribed in this process.

Caroline Hill

The doctoral project, Russian Orthodox Arguments Regarding Abortion and Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the 21st Century explores arguments on abortion, assisted reproduction and surrogacy put forward by priests and other clergy in the Russian Orthodox Church via online media.

Anna Holmqvist

The project "We're Here, We're Queer" is an ethnographic study of a British queer Muslim group. As a case regarding the renegotiation of religious authority occurring in several Muslim contexts, the project aims to examine how the group and its members construct and claim legitimacy for a queer Islam as multiple minorities.

Zhivka Koleva

The purpose of the Satanic Battle for Social Change research project is to critically explore how the limits of religious tolerance are negotiated in a liberal democracy, by focus on public interventions by the Satanic Temple in the USA. This empirical study will therefore contribute to a deepened understanding of the complexity in the relationship between religion and the public in modern secular societies.

Melissa Maples Yap

“Chiseling the Golden Plates: Mediatization and the Hidden Power of Discourse” takes shape as a genealogical case study that aims to trace negotiations of religious authority connected to mediatization through analysis of discursive media episodes in the historical timeline of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints."

Mattias Rosenfeldt

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

Mudar Shakra

The doctoral project, The Acculturative Stress of Syrian Migrants in Sweden: Caught between Secular and Religious Parenting Systems explores both risk and protection factors that can contribute to acculturative stress in parenting amongst Syrians who have recently arrived in Sweden. These factors relate to the differences between a secular Swedish family system, and the Syrian religion-based family system, as well as the impact of war.

Hanna Nir

The doctoral project Young Jewish experiences in contemporary Sweden intends to seek an understanding of what it means to be a young Jew in Sweden today. Through ethnographic studies, the focus is placed on how Jewishness is practiced and experienced in everyday life and also outside the Jewish institutions, which have often been the subject of previous studies of Jewish life.

Cristoffer Tidelius

The Paranormal Sweden project aims to study the occurrence of paranormal beliefs, practices and experiences in contemporary Sweden, by using both qualitative and quantitative methods. The study encompasses the population as a whole and subcultures with active interests in paranormal phenomena.