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Linda Woodhead to receive an honorary doctorate

Linda Woodhead, a sociologist of religion, is to be awarded an honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Education and Society. The citation specifically highlights her contribution to the understanding of the role of religion in modern society.

When Lucifer Came to Sweden: Satanic Panic, Conspiracism and the Swedish Reception of Leo Taxil at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Proximal authority: towards a theory of how favoritism and gender shape authority

Teaching and Learning Religion: Educational Practices in Swedish Wicca

Occult female power highlighted in new book

Leah Hirsig was one of the “modern women” of the 20th century: independent, norm-breaking, and central to the controversial religion of Thelema. Now her complete diaries are being published for the first time, providing an insight into her life and her...

Halloween – not as death obsessed as you might think

Halloween is celebrated in many places, but the holiday has not always been about death. Manon Hedenborg White, associate professor of history of religions, explains how it came to be the trick-or-treating, pumpkin-carving holiday that it is today.