Riho Altnurme
is Professor of Church History at the School of Theology and Religious Studies and Vice Dean for Research of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Tartu. He defended his degree doctor theologiae in 2000, since 2005 he is a professor. 2011–2015 he managed the research group of religious studies at the Centre of Excellence of Cultural Theory, conducting the multidisciplinary research project. 2018–2022 he led a workpackage in the Horizon 2020 project “Religious Toleration and Peace (RETOPEA)”. He is a specialist on nineteenth- and twentieth-century church history, in the context of church-state-society relations. He is the editor of History of Estonian Ecumenism (University of Tartu, 2009), Old Religion, New Spirituality: Implications of Secularisation and Individualisation in Estonia (Brill, 2021), and co-editor (with Patrick Pasture and Elena Arigita) of Religious Diversity in Europe: Mediating the Past to the Young (Bloomsbury, 2022).
Lori G. Beaman
(Ph.D., F.R.S.C.) is the Canada Research Chair in Religious Diversity and Social Change at the University of Ottowa and Director of the ‘Nonreligion in a Complex Future’ project (nonreligionproject.ca). She previously directed the ‘Religion and Diversity Project’ (religionanddiversity.ca). Her publications include The Transition of Religion to Culture in Law and Public Discourse (Routledge, 2020) and Deep Equality in an Era of Religious Diversity (Oxford University Press, 2017). Her current and engaged areas of research include nonreligion, human/non-human relationships, equality, law, and religious diversity.
Karin Borevi
is senior lecturer in Political Science at Södertörn University, Sweden. She is also Associate Professor in Political Science and affiliated researcher at the Department of Government, Uppsala University affiliated researcher at Centre for multidisciplinary research on religion and society at Uppsala University. Her research interest revolves around issues of immigration, citizenship, multiculturalism and the welfare state within three thematic areas: historical analyses of the emergence and development of Swedish policies on immigrant integration; comparative analyses of contemporary European integration policies (in particular the current trend known as the civic turn in integration policies); political theoretical debates on multiculturalism, justice and equality.
is Extraordinary professor of Theology of Law and Church Polity, and Director of the Deddens Church Polity Centre at the Theologische Universiteit Kampen. He is also Associate professor Religion, Law and Society, leader of the research team ‘Religion for Sustainable Societies’ (Religion, Human Rights, Sustainable Development, Law and Society, and Education) and Chair of the Centre for Religion and Law at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Anders Bäckström
is Professor Emeritus of the Sociology of Religion at the Faculty of Theology, Uppsala University. His research has focused on questions of the ‘new’ visibility of religion in contemporary society and the role of religion in different welfare systems. He established the Linnaeus research programme at Uppsala University called ‘The Impact of Religion: Challenges for Society, Law and Democracy’. His latest publication concerns ‘Research on Religion and Society: Experiences from the Emergence of a Centre of Excellence at Uppsala University 1997–2019’, Studies in Religion & Society Vol. 18: 2020.
Valerie DeMarinis
is Professor Emeritus of the Psychology of Religion at Uppsala University and currently active as Senior Professor in Public Mental Health at the Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Sweden, and Professor of Public Mental Health Promotion at Innlandet Hospital Trust, Norway. DeMarinis has a background in cultural psychology, public mental health, and clinical work and research in mental health. She is an international member of the American Psychological Association.
Victoria Enkvist
is senior lecturer in Public Law, Uppsala University. She is a Doctor of Laws in Constitutional Law and became Associate Professor (Docent) in Constitutional Law in 2019. Her research focuses on freedoms and rights in different systems and how these rights are interpreted in different national situations. Enkvist is currently engaged in several multidisciplinary research projects which concern a number of different rights.
Annette Leis-Peters
is Professor at the Centre of Diaconia and Professional Practice at VID specialized university, Olso, Norway. She has a Doctor of Theology and is Associate Professor in sociology of religion from Uppsala University. Her research focuses in particular on Christian social practice and the intersections between welfare and religion.
is Professor of Public Law, Uppsala University. She is a Doctor of Laws in Constitutional Law (2009) and became Associate Professor (Docent) in Public Law in 2014. She is currently the scientific leader of the Centre for Multidisciplinary Research on Religion and Society. She is the PI of two major multidisciplinary projects; Contributivism (financed by the Swedish Research Council) and Artificial Intelligence, Democracy and Human Rights (financed by the Wallenberg foundations). Her research focuses on public law, fundamental rights and welfare law and the interactions with European law.
Johnny Långstedt
(PhD) is a researcher at Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland. Långstedt’s research is at the intersection between the humanities and business - where professional life meets worldviews. His current research centres around values and their role in working-life and involves topics such as intercultural encounters, cross-cultural and diversity management, change management, and the fourth industrial revolution.
Martha Middlemiss Lé Mon
has a PhD in sociology of religion. She is director of the Centre for multidisciplinary research on religion and society at Uppsala University and has been involved in multidisciplinary research both as researcher and in leadership and management roles throughout her career. Her research focuses on the intersection of religion and welfare including not least the role of faith-based organisations as well as faith, worldviews and values in relation to contemporary societal challenges.
Cecilia Nahnfeldt
Professor of practical theology at Åbo Academy University, Finland. She is also associate professor (docent) in Gender Studies, and previously held posts as scientific leader for the Centre for Multidisciplinary Research on Religion and Society , Uppsala University and Senior researcher at Church of Sweden. Her research interests are Christianity and society, migration, gender and social innovation. She has also worked with development of and support to innovations from research in humanities and social science at Karlstad University. Currently she is working in the project ‘Innovative inclusion in the civil society working life’. Recently she contributed to the book Contemporary Christian-Cultural Values Migration Encounters in the Nordic Region (Routledge 2021), which she also edited together with Kaia Rønsdal.
is associate professor in sociology of religion at Uppsala University and works as a researcher at the Swedish Defence Research Agency. He has worked with multidisciplinary research throughout his academic career, both as a practicing scholar and in terms of management and leadership. Nilsson has published extensively on the issues of secularism, politics, religion, and national identity.
Peter Nynäs
Professor of Study of Religions at Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland. Nynäs is Doctor of Theology, and currently Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Psychology and Theology at Åbo Akademi University. He was Director of the Åbo Akademi University Centre of Excellence in Research: Young Adults and Religion in a Global Perspective Project (2015–2018) and he previously led the Centre of Excellence in Research: Post-secular Culture and a Changing Religious Landscape in Finland Project (2010–2014). Among the books he has edited are On the Outskirts of “the Church”: Diversities, Fluidities, and New Spaces of Religion in Finland (with R. Illman and T. Martikainen, LIT-Verlag, 2015) and Religion, Gender, and Sexuality in Everyday Life (with A. Yip, Ashgate, 2012), and The Diversity of Worldviews among Young Adults: Contemporary (Non)Religiosity and Spirituality through the Lens of an International Mixed Method Study (with A. Keysar, J. Kontala, B.-W. Kwaku Golo, M. Lassander, M. Shterin, S. Sjö, and P. Stenner, Springer 2021).
Margit Warburg
Professor emerita of Sociology of Religion, University of Copenhagen. Warburg has published widely on the Baha’i religion; her dr. phil. was Citizens of the World. A History and Sociology of the Baha’is from a Globalisation Perspective (Brill, 2006). She has research leadership experience from several multidisciplinary research projects on religion in contemporary society. Her general research interests are religious minorities, recruitment and conversion, religion and demography, religion, migration and globalization, civil religion, religion and state in Denmark and religion among Danes abroad. Lately, she has worked with forest burials and non religion.
Anne-Laure Zwilling
Research fellow at the research center DRES-Droit, Religion, Entreprise, Société (UMR 7354, joint unit of the CNRS and the University of Strasbourg) Zwilling is the director of the international research network and information project Eurel - legal and sociological information concerning religion in Europe,