Roger Andersson, Karin Bosch Roxman etc

Svenskarna och det heliga landet

Svenskens relation till Det heliga landet är kulturhistoriskt unik. I denna rikt illustrerade antologi belyser korsfarare, pilgrimer, handelsresande, vetenskapsmän och författare med anknytning till landet hur denna fascinerande relation utvecklats, från vikingatiden till idag. Huvudredaktörer är Kurt Almqvist, Louise Belfrage och Nathan Shachar.

Svenskens relation till Det heliga landet är kulturhistoriskt unik. Ända sedan Bibeln började läsas på svenska för snart femhundra år sedan har landets geografi och skriftens legender flätats samman med vår identitet och historiesyn. Hur blev det så? I denna antologi belyser korsfarare, pilgrimer, handelsresande, vetenskapsmän och författare med anknytning till landet hur denna fascinerande relation utvecklats, från vikingatiden till idag. Vi får bland annat läsa om hur svenskens syn på sig själv som kristen har formats genom århundradena, hur det gick till när vi bytte religion och om vilka följdverkningar Heliga Birgittas uppenbarelser i Betlehem hade på svenskarnas religiositet. Likaså om effekterna av Fredrika Bremers och Selma Lagerlöfs böcker om Jerusalem. Är nutida svenskar verkligen så sekulära som vi brukar ta för givet? Essäerna i detta rikt illustrerade praktverk härrör från seminariet Svenskarna i Det heliga landet som hölls vid American Colony Hotel i Jerusalem 2020. Huvudredaktörer är Kurt Almqvist, Louise Belfrage och Nathan Shachar.

ISBN: 9789189069954
Published: 2021-04-07
Illustrated. 270x287x35 mm. 238 pages.

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Therese Melander

E-mail: therese@stolpepublishing.se
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Editors

Kurt Almqvist

Editor

Kurt Almqvist is CEO at the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit.

Louise Belfrage

Editor

Louise Belfrage is a project manager and international advisor at Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit and a member of Axess Magazine’s editorial board.

Nathan Shachar

Editor

Nathan Shachar studied Arabic, philosophy and Spanish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Authors

Anna Nordlund

Author

Anna Nordlund is an associate professor of literature studies at Uppsala University and a lecturer in didactics.

Arne Lapidus

Author

Arne Lapidus is a freelance journalist who has lived in Tel Aviv for forty years and reports from Israel and the Middle East for the newspaper Expressen.

Axel Odelberg

Author

Axel Odelberg is an author and journalist.

Carina Burman

Author

Carina Burman, an author and associate professor of literature studies, received a doctorate in 1988 for her thesis on the prose eloquence of the Swedish author Johan Henric Kellgren.

Dan Korn

Author

Dan Korn is a researcher on folklore, a writer and a rabbi.

David Dunér

Author

David Dunér is a professor of the history of science and ideas at Lund University.

David Thurfjell

Author

David Thurfjell received his doctorate in the history of religion in 2003 from Uppsala University for his thesis on Iranian Shiite Islamism.

Håkan Wahlquist

Author

Håkan Wahlquist is an anthropologist with a research background in Nepal and the Himalayas.

Jesper Svartvik

Author

Jesper Svartvik is a Church of Sweden minister and a member of the Church Assembly’s Standing Commission on Doctrine, of which he has been deputy chairman since 2014.

Karin Bosch Roxman

Author

Karin Bosch Roxman completed a master’s degree in political science at Stockholm University in 1967 and then worked as permanent secretary at the Swedish Ministry of Trade and Industry and with Swedish aid.

Kurt Villads Jensen

Author

Kurt Villads Jensen is a professor of medieval history at Stockholm University and director of the Centre for Medieval Studies.

Lars Wollin

Author

Lars Wollin is emeritus professor of Scandinavian Languages/Swedish and has worked at the universities in Lund, Gothenburg and Uppsala as well as Åbo Akademi University.

Louise Belfrage

Author

Louise Belfrage is a project manager and international advisor at Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit and a member of Axess Magazine’s editorial board.

Mia Gröndahl

Author

Mia Gröndahl is a journalist, photographer and writer.

Nathan Shachar

Author

Nathan Shachar studied Arabic, philosophy and Spanish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Nils Ekedahl

Author

Nils Ekedahl is a doctor of theology, associate professor of rhetoric and pro-vice chancellor at Södertörn University.

Rachel Lev

Author

Rachel Lev is curator of the collections in the American Colony’s archive in Jerusalem.

Roger Andersson

Author

Roger Andersson is a professor of Nordic languages at Stockholm University.

Thord Heinonen Silverbark

Author

Thord Heinonen Silverbark is an associate professor of the history of ideas at Stockholm University.

Åsa Karlsson

Author

Åsa Karlsson is a historian and chief editor of Svenskt biografiskt lexikon.

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