Organising committee
David Thurfjell, Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow, Department for the Study of Religion, School of History and Gender Studies, Södertörn University College

Lena Roos, Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow, Religious studies, Department of Humanities and Social Studies, University of Gävle

Peter Jackson, Associate Professor, Department for Religious Studies,
University of Tromsø, Norway.

Marja-Liisa Keinänen, Research Fellow, History of Religions, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Stockholm University.

Jenny Berglund, Doctoral Candidate in Didactics of Religions
Educational Sciences, Uppsala University.


Advisory committee
Professor Veikko Anttonen, Comparative Religion, School of Cultural
Research, Turku/Åbo University.

Professor Mattias Gardell, History of Religions, Department of Ethnology,
History of Religions and Gender Studies, Stockholm University.

Professor Rosalind Hackett, President of International Association for the
History of Religions (IAHR), Department of Religious Studies, University of
Tennessee.

Professor Tim Jensen, General Secretary of IAHR, Department of the Study
of Religions, University of Southern Denmark.

Professor Michael Pye, Institute for Comparative Cultural Studies,
University of Marburg.

Professor Catharina Raudvere, Religious Studies, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen.

Associate Professor Eva Evers Rosander, Sociology of Religions,
Faculty of Theology, Uppsala University.

Professor Michael Stausberg, Institute for Classical Philology, Russian and
Religious Studies: Religious Studies Section, University of Bergen.

Professor David Westerlund, Department for the Study of Religion,
School of History and Gender Studies, Södertörn University College.


The conference is organized in cooperation with
Södertörn University College


Financial Support 
Riksbankens jubileumsfond
Östersjöstiftelsen
Sigtunastiftelsen