Peter B. Andersen
is an associate professor in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen. He has published monographs, edited volumes and articles on religion and modernity in India and in Europe. He recently chaired a survey on Covid-19 in Denmark.
Pål Ketil Botvar
is Professor in Sociology of Religion at University of Agder. He has published numerous articles and chapters about religion and society in Scandinavia, including Religion and humour – will the two sides ever meet? (2019).
Sille Fusager
has been an analysis consultant at Kirkefondet since 2008, performs demographic population analyses and facilitates workshops for parishes and deaneries in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark.
Peter Gundelach
is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen. He has published monographs, edited volumes and many articles on social movements, national identity, religon and values including a series of edited volumes on the European Values study in Denmark
Hans Morten Haugen
holds dr. juris and dr. philos. degrees from the University of Oslo. He is Professor of International Diakonia at VID Specialized University, Oslo, Norway. He writes on inclusive development and inclusive societies, including how human rights can guide decision-making, and churches’ social-ethical efforts.
Heikki Hiilamo
works as as a professor of social policy at University of Helsinki and as a research professor at Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare. He also works as Kjell Nordstokke professor at VID Specialized University. Hiilamo’s research interests include diaconia and Christian social practice, comparative welfare state research and tobacco control.
is Professor of Sociology of Religion at the University of Agder, Norway. Her research focuses on religious changes in Norway, particularly in how gender, ethnicity and religious/worldview identity are negotiated and constructed in space and ritual actions. Her studies about religious transmission, religious changes in life courses, religion and death and commemorations are published in several international books and journals.
Karin Jarnkvist
is Associate Professor of Sociology at Mid Sweden University. Her academic work spans several disciplines, including ritual studies and gender studies. Often intersecting with critical feminist theory, Jarnkvist’s work offers nuanced insights into the interplay of gender and power within various societal contexts. In ritual studies, Jarnkvist has examined the cultural and social implications of life-cycle events, such as funerals and marriages, providing perspectives on how these rituals are shaped by and, in turn, shape societal values. Her work during the Covid-19 pandemic sheds light on how religion and funerals were articulated in Swedish news media during that period and how different dimensions of power were at play.
Kimmo Ketola
has earned a PhD and is a docent. He serves as a researcher in the Church Institute for Research and Advanced Training of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. He has published extensively on religious change and religious groups in Finland.
Maria Klingenberg
has earned a PhD and is a docent. She serves as associate professor in Social Sciences of Religion and Didactics at the Department of Theology, Uppsala University. Her main research interests are youth and religion, majority religion, and religion and gender.
Karen Marie Leth-Nissen
is a researcher at the Centre for Pastoral Education and Research of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark. She holds a Ph.D. in church sociology and conducts research in the changing relationship between church and people. Her recent works focus on the cross pressure of being a national church in a demographically changing society, as the church was bound to a path of dependency by the Danish Constitution of 1849.
is Vice Dean, leader of the Centre of Church Research and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen. Her recent research has focused on refugees’ encounters with church and Christianity in Denmark as well as the role of preaching in the face of the climate and biodiversity crises.
Evelina Lundmark
is currently working on a Nordforsk-funded project at the Centre for Multidisciplinary Research on Religion and Society at Uppsala University. She studies the presence and shape of unorganized atheism on different social media platforms; the intersection between secularism, culturalized religion and nationalism; and fuzzy religion in the Nordic countries.
Kati Tervo-Niemelä
is a professor in practical theology at the University of Eastern Finland. Her main research interests are the clergy career and ministry formation; the work orientation and well-being; religion and the lifespan; religious affiliation and disaffiliation, the youth and religion, religious rituals and religion and the media. She has published actively in national and international settings, including seven monograph, six co-authored monographs (including Questioning Mind and Religion in Finland), and six edited or co-edited volumes.
Pamela Slotte Russo
is Professor of Religion and Law, Åbo Akademi University, McDonald Distinguished Senior Fellow of Law and Religion, Emory University, and Vice-director of the Centre of Excellence of Law, Identity and the European Narratives, University of Helsinki.
Anders Sjöborg
is professor and head of Uppsala University’s Theological Institute. His research uses quantitative and qualitative methods to explore how young people come into contact with and change attitudes toward religion, including ‘Religious Education in Late Modern Sweden’ (VR 2014–19) and ‘The Impact of Religion’ (VR 2008–19).
Astrid Krabbe Trolle
is an assistant professor in the religious studies section at University of Copenhagen. She is trained as a sociologist of religion with a special emphasis on contemporary Christianity and migration.
is an associate professor in Copenhagen University’s Theological Faculty. Since 2021, he has been research leader of the Sapere Aude grant-funded project, ‘Producing Sharia in Context’. This furthers his overall research interest on Islam and Muslims in Denmark and Europe.