Research

The research done at MF is diverse and covers areas such as theology and interdisciplinary studies of religion and society.

MF's fields of research

MF is a driving force in research and development in theology, religious studies, humanities and social sciences. At MF there is a close interaction between research and education.

MF has two research centres:

MF Centre for the Advanced Study of Religion, MF CASR, fronts research on religion at MF. The center is an arena for research and research dissemination. MF CASR facilitates cooperation between MF and other academic institutions.

MF KOM – Centre of competance for research on, development of and communication with church and congregation. The centre functions as a communication link between scholars at MF and church bodies and workers who wish to make use of MF's expertise in their own contexts.

Science news from MF

Research to gain knowledge about the situation of Roma LGBTQI people

Associate professor at MF, Solvor M. Lauritzen, will together with Arman Heljic at Södertörn University, lead a research project on antigypsyist homophobia and the rights of Roma and Traveller LGBTQI people in the Nordic countries.

ERC Starting Grant to Moumita Sen

Associate Professor Moumita Sen received a starting grant for her project POLDEI.

- The slavery is part of a national amnesia

This fall Maria Dumitru started her Ph.D. at MF. As an academic specialised in gender studies, herself a Roma from Romania, she will contribute with unique perspectives to the RCN-funded research project MEMOROBIA.

Woman with glasses standing in front of trees.

A theology for the climate emergency

Professor Moe-Lobeda of the Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Church Divinity School of the Pacific, and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, is an…