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Professor Dr Erik Sidenvall

Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University, Sweden

I have been Professor of Practical Theology at Lund University since September 2024. My research interests include cemetery material culture and cemeteries as places of social cohesion. I am PI for the research project Cemeteries of the Future.

Sidenvall, E. (2024) ‘Missionary enthusiasm and human rights activism: a study of the religiopolitical world of the Swedish Slavic Mission, c. 1965-1985’, Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Religions- und Kulturgeschichte (SZRKG), 118.

Sidenvall, E. (2024) ‘Transforming church strategies in a changing social landscape: Sunday school statistics from a Swedish diocese, 1920–1990’, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History,  75:1, 116-134.

Ljungberg, J. & Sidenvall, E. (eds) (2023) Religious Enlightenment in the Eighteenth-century Nordic countries: Reason and Orthodoxy. Lund University Press, Manchester.

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