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# Scripture & Secularism

biblical influences in and on Modern Publics

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## Posts

- [ELY ORREGO TORRES' INTERVIEW for the ANSARI INSTITUTE](https://scriptureandsecularism.com/ely-orrego-torres-interview-for-the-ansari-institute/) - Ely Orrego Torres, a postdoc research in the project Scripture & Secularism, was recently interviewed for the Ansari Institute's website. She discusses her academic journey and current research. Read the full interview here.
- [Hanna liljefor's debate article featured in swedish newspaper](https://scriptureandsecularism.com/hanna-liljefors-debate-article-featured-in-swedish-newspaper/) - Hanna Liljefors, member of the project Scripture and Secularism, has together with Linnea Jensdotter, Reader in Sociology of Religion, written a debate article in the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter on the increasing presence of religion in the Swedish political debate. In one of the world’s most secularized societies, the Bible and so-called Christian values are
- [Hannah Strømmen Featured in Contending Modernities Interview](https://scriptureandsecularism.com/hannah-strommen-featured-in-contending-modernities-interview/) - Hannah Strømmen, director of Scripture & Secularism, was recently featured in a two-part interview with Elizabeth Shakman Hurd on the Contending Modernities blog. She discusses her new book, The Bibles of the Far Right, introducing its novel theoretical framework, reflecting on her scholarly influences, and exploring how biblical texts continue to shape politics today. Read
- [Joel Kuhlin's article featured in Christianity Today](https://scriptureandsecularism.com/joel-kuhlins-article-featured-in-christianity-today/) - Joel Kuhlin and Julia Kuhlin's recent article on religious deconstruction in Sweden has been referenced in Christianity Today, a widely read evangelical magazine on faith and culture. The study examines the role of podcasts like Exvangeliet in forming networks among those leaving conservative Christian communities in Scandinavia, where secularity often renders religious disaffiliation unremarkable. Here
- [The burning Quran and the cool Bible](https://scriptureandsecularism.com/the-burning-quran-and-the-cool-bible/) - On November 5, in the shadow of the presidential election in the United States, Rasmus Paludan, the Danish-Swedish lawyer and party leader, was convicted of agitation against ethnic group. Since the end of 2020, Paludan has toured Sweden and burnt several copies of the Qur’an with the purpose of criticizing Islam, with both peaceful counterdemonstrations,
- [New Podcast episode with Frida Mannerfelt](https://scriptureandsecularism.com/new-podcast-episode-with-frida-mannerfelt/) - Frida Mannerfelt has recently participated in the newly launched podcast "Digital Religion," hosted by Julia Kuhlin, scholar in digital humanities at Humlab, Umeå University. In this episode of the Podcast Digital Religion, Julia Kuhlin and Frida Mannerfelt explored how religious digital creatives challenge traditional religious authority. Here is a link to the episode (in Swedish):
- [Posters and Prejudices in the Public Square](https://scriptureandsecularism.com/posters-and-prejudices/) - This autumn, the streets of Stockholm are filled with posters for the main musical event in the coming spring: the concert version of Les Misérables. As a child (raised in a theater family and possibly a little pretentious), this was one of my absolute favorite musicals. It’s hard to summarize the story in just a
- [Book Review: The Godless Crusade](https://scriptureandsecularism.com/book-review-the-godless-crusade/) - “Let me say clearly now to Christians that they should not be associated with any far-right group – because those groups are unchristian. Let me say clearly now to other faiths, especially Muslims, that we denounce people misusing such imagery as fundamentally antichristian.” Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, in The Guardian 11th of August, 2024.
- [The Bible of Nicolás Maduro](https://scriptureandsecularism.com/the-bible-of-nicolas-maduro/) - As I write this, Venezuela is in political turmoil. The South American country, whose economy relies heavily on oil and gas exports, has faced a severe economic collapse from 2014 to 2020. This has triggered a mass exodus, with over six million Venezuelans fleeing in the past six years, most of them seeking refuge in

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- [Members](https://scriptureandsecularism.com/members/) - Hannah M. Strømmen is Senior Lecturer in Bible, Politics, and Culture at Lund University, and leads the ‘Scripture and Secularism’ project.Hannah's research focuses on contemporary uses and interpretations of the Bible in philosophy, literature and politics. She is particularly interested in the way the Bible functions outside traditionally conceived religious spaces. In the ‘Scripture and
- [Featured Publications](https://scriptureandsecularism.com/publications/) - Here you can find a list of featured publications associated with the project: 2023 Strømmen, Hannah. (2023) “Crusades, Christ and Christmas: Islamophobia and the Bible in the European Far-Right after 9/11”, Zeitschrift für Religion, Gesellschaft und Politik, 7:2, 711-728. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41682-023-00148-1 2024 Strømmen, Hannah. (2024) “‘Say Bible!’: Teaching Biblical Reception”, Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 89: 83-99, https://publicera.kb.se/sea/article/view/23200?articlesBySimilarityPage=8 Strømmen,
- [About the project](https://scriptureandsecularism.com/about-the-project/) - ‘Scripture and Secularism: Biblical Influences in and on Modern Publics’ is a five-year multidisciplinary research project based at Lund University. The assumption that the Bible is increasingly irrelevant in the modern world is pervasive, particularly in the modern West, where the West is taken as the norm and as normative. Taking constructions of secularism, stories
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## Events

- [Bibles in Digital Culture: Methods, Approaches, Practices](https://scriptureandsecularism.com/events/?event=303) - As a part of the research project, Scripture & secularism: mapping the impact of the Bible on conceptualizations of Europe,, developments in religious studies and digital humanity have become a central element in ongoing investigations on uses of the Bible in contemporary society. In the workshop “Bibles in Digital Culture: Methods, Approaches, Practices”, we ask
- [International SBL Meeting](https://scriptureandsecularism.com/events/?event=301) - Scripture & Secularism members will be presenting at the Annual International SBL / EABS Meeting in Uppsala. Wednesday, June 25 Frida Mannerfelt: Biblical Assemblages in Public Debate: The Case of Same-sex Marriages in the Church of Sweden Politization of Bibles and Biblization of Politics in the Twenty-First Century (EABS) Hanna Liljefors: Scriptures in Swedish Parliamentary
- [Trees of Knowledge, Trees of Life](https://scriptureandsecularism.com/events/?event=306) - Seminar with Petter Hellström, Research Fellow at the Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University, Sweden The Seminar is organised by the Scripture & Secularism Project in collaboration with the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK). In this presentation, it will be argued that the evolutionary Tree of Life not only
- [Scriptures in Secular Scandinavia?](https://scriptureandsecularism.com/events/?event=284) - This workshop brings together scholars who are researching Scandinavian receptions of the Bible with scholars in political science, social science, religious studies, and history. The aim of the workshop is to engage with the ways that the biblical archive functions in a part of the world where this archive might be considered most defunct. Rather
- [What can biblical reception do? - Biblical Reception Workshop](https://scriptureandsecularism.com/events/?event=286) - Tuesday 9 May 9.45-10 Welcome 10-10.45 Erin Runions (Pomona College), Biblical Reception Criticism as Transformative Justice 10.45-11.30 Mikael Larsson (Uppsala University), Biblical Reception – from Rewritten Bible to Incel Propaganda 11.30-12 Break 12-12.45 Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer (Örebro School of Theology), Literary Fiction as Exegesis: How Literary Retellings can Shed New Light on a Biblical Text and
- [Freedom of religion lit up in the public square? The Qur’an Burnings in Swedish Press](https://scriptureandsecularism.com/events/?event=285) - Seminar w. Hanna Liljefors In recent years, several Qur’ans have been burned in Sweden. These Qur’an burnings have been part of demonstrations aimed at criticizing Islam and Muslims in Sweden but have simultaneously played directly into larger security policy developments such as Sweden’s NATO application. The reactions have been strong, both in Sweden - in
- [The Bibles of the Far-Right - Book Launch](https://scriptureandsecularism.com/events/?event=268) - The Bibles of the Far-Right (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024) Speakers James Crossley, Professor in Bible, Society and Politics (MF School of Theology, Oslo, Norway) Holly Morse, Senior Lecturer in Bible, Gender and Culture (University of Manchester, UK) Anders Berg-Sørensen, Associate Professor in Political Theory (Copenhagen University, Denmark)

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