Area of work

Linnea Lundgren, PhD is employed as a lecturer at the Institution for Civil Society and Religion at Marie Cederschiöld University and as a researcher at University of Lund. She is also affiliated to the Centre for Multidisciplinary Research on Religion and Society, Uppsala University. Her research primarily focuses on issues concerning religion and civil society and more specifically on public policy and religious diversity, faith-based social action, as well as religious change in contemporary societies. Lundgren defended her PhD thesis in 2021 concerning the governance of religious diversity in Sweden and is the author of the book "The State and Religious Minorities in Sweden" (Springer Nature). She is currently participating in different research projects regarding the role of civil society actors in handling crises, religious responses to crises and the risk and impact of hate crime for faith communities.

She is the correspondent for Sweden at the EUREL database on legal and sociological data on religion in Europe and part of the Nordic network ”Leading Religion in Times of Institutional Change” (LERIC).