Keynote Speakers

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Dr. Tore Johnsen

"Decolonizing Theology in Times of Ecological and Indigenous Uncertainties: A Sámi/Nordic example"

Dr. is an associate professor at VID Specialized University in Tromsø, Norway. His research interests encompass Sámi Christianity, religiosity, and worldview; lived theology, indigenous theologies, and contextual theologies; public theology and ecotheology; the Norwegianization policy and truth and reconciliation processes in Sápmi and Norway; and decolonization of Scandinavian Lutheran majority theologies, particularly in the context of Norwegian and Nordic 19th-century nationalism.

Prof. Dr. Kristina Stoeckl

"(Un)Democratic Religious Actors: How Far-Right Claims to Christianity Challenge Liberal Democracy and Churches in Europe"

Dr. Prof. is a professor of sociology at the LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome. Her main areas of research are sociology of religion, political sociology, and social and political theory. She is a leading specialist on the global connections and dynamics of far-right Christianity, Russian Orthodoxy, and religion-state relations in Russia.

Prof. Dr. Elisa Uusimäki

"Travelling as a Space of Otherness and Accompanying Deities"

Prof. Dr. is professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism at the School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University. She is an expert on the literary and cultural history of Judaism in antiquity, and she serves as the PI of the ERC project "An Intersectional Analysis of Ancient Jewish Travel Narratives."