Linnea Lundgren
The Department of Civil Society and Religion
Phone: +46 701 493 475
Mail: linnea.lundgren@mchs.se
Field of work
Linnea Lundgren is Senior Lecturer and researcher at the Department of Civil Society and Religion. She defended her PhD in 2021 with a dissertation on state perspectives on and regulation of religious minorities. In 2025, she became Associate Professor (Docent) in Sociology of Religion at Uppsala University. She is also part of the scientific board at the Centre for Multidisciplinary Research on Religion and Society (CRS) where she leads the theme Democracy, Communication and Media.
Research
Linnea’s research addresses religious diversity and faith-based actors in Sweden. It focuses on religious actors’ roles and working conditions, how religious diversity is governed, and how processes of inclusion and exclusion affect religious minorities’ democratic participation. Since earning her PhD in 2021, she has secured funding for, and contributed to, several research projects on civil society actors’ responses to crises and disasters, the impacts of hate crimes and racism on religious individuals and groups and lived religion in contemporary societies. In 2025–2026, she is conducting research in a government-commissioned inquiry on anti-Muslim racism in Sweden. From 2026 to 2029, she will lead the project Faith Communities in Crisis Preparedness: Diversity and Challenges in Sweden’s Preparedness System, funded by the Swedish Research Council.
Teaching
Since 2017, Lundgren has taught courses in sociology of religion, religious studies, and research methods. Her teaching covers topics such religion and politics, religious dimensions of conflict and peacebuilding, ritual studies, and religion and welfare.
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- Last updated:
- 13 January 2026