Person

Adjunct Professor
- Church and Mission Studies
- Centre for Theology and Religious Studies
Contact information
E-mail erik.sidenvallctr.luse
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30
Born in 1970, ThD, adjunct professor of Curch History.
My current research interests include the Church of Sweden as a civil society organisation as well as enlightenemnt and confessional culture in early-modern Sweden. As a researcher I have been involved in several major research projects. As one of the members of the research group "Christian manliness - a paradox of modernity?" (a project financed by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation) I studied the making of manhood among Swedish missionaries in late nineteenth-century China. Before that my main reserch focus was on issues of anti-Catholicism and tolerance in nineteenth-century England. I have also been involved in the EU-project "Churches and European Integration" (University of Helsinki) as well as "The Dynamics of Religious Reform in Northern Europe, 1780-1920" (Universities of Wales and Leuven).
My position as adjunct professor is the result of an agreement between CTR and the Diocese of Växjö, Church of Sweden.
Research
Books (6)
- Maurits, A., Sidenvall, E. & Ljungberg, J. (accepted/in press). Cultures in Conflict : Religion, History and Gender in Northern Europe c. 1800–2000. Peter Lang Publishing Group.
- Sidenvall, E. (2015). Som i en spegel : kyrka och teologi i möte med DDR. Publikationer från Växjö stift. Svenska kyrkan, Växjö stift.
- Sidenvall, E. (2009). The Making of Manhood among Swedish Missionaries in China and Mongolia, c. 1890 - 1914. Studies in Christian Missions, 36. Brill Academic Publishers.
- Werner, Y. M., Blaschke, O., Maurits, A., Jarlert, A., Prestjam, A., Tjeder, D., Malmer, E., Littberger, I. & Sidenvall, E. (2008). Kristen manlighet. Ideal och verklighet 1840-1940. Historiska Media.
- Sidenvall, E. (2005). After anti-Catholicism? John Henry Newman and Protestant Britain, 1845-c.1890. T&T Clark.
- Sidenvall, E. (2002). Change and Identity : Protestant English Interpretations of John Henry Newman's Secession, 1845–1864. Bibliotheca Historico-Ecclesiastica Lundensis, 44. Lunds universitets kyrkohistoriska arkiv. Dissertation.
Editorships (1)
Articles (11)
- Sidenvall, E. (2019). Förnuftskritik och teologiskt motiverad sakkritik : Ett bidrag till förståelsen av frihetstidens historieskrivning. Historisk Tidskrift, 139, 223-250. Svenska historiska föreningen.
- Sidenvall, E. (2018). Frihetens följder : Om tolkningen av Sveriges kristnande i 1700-talets historieskrivning. Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, 118, 15-22. Svenska kyrkohistoriska föreningen.
- Sidenvall, E. (2017). Biskopskrönika, handbok och nationell historik : Kyrkohistoriska textformer i omvandling i 1700-talets Sverige. Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, 117, 91-106. Svenska kyrkohistoriska föreningen.
- Sidenvall, E. (2012). Church and State in Sweden : A Contemporary Report. Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte, 25, 311-319. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
- Malmer, E. & Sidenvall, E. (2009). Christian Manliness For Women? Contradictions of Christian youth organization in early 20th-century Sweden. Scandinavian Journal of History, 34, 394-413. Routledge.
- Sidenvall, E. (2007). Association i bondesamhället : En mikrohistorisk studie av missionsintresset i Tygelsjö, c:a 1835-1855. Historisk Tidskrift, 127, 25-44. Svenska historiska föreningen.
- Sidenvall, E. (2007). The elusiveness of Protestantism: The last expatriations for "apostasy" from the Church of Sweden (1858) in a European perspective. Journal of Religious History, 31, 253-268. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Sidenvall, E. (2006). Local Churches and European Integration : Jönköping, 1965-85. Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte, 19, 48-64. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
- Winterling, J., Wasteson, E., Sidenvall, B., Sidenvall, E., Glimelius, B., Sjoden, P. & Nordin, K. (2006). Relevance of philosophy of life and optimism for psychological distress among individuals in a stage where death is approaching. Supportive Care in Cancer, 14, 310-319. Springer.
- Sidenvall, E. (2003). Manlighet och mission : en case study av den brittiska evangelikalismens manskonstruktion under 1880-talet. Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, 103, 131-138. Svenska kyrkohistoriska föreningen.
- Sidenvall, E. (2002). Tolkningen av "katolikmålet" 1858 i ett internationellt perspektiv. Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, 102, 97-102. Svenska kyrkohistoriska föreningen.
Book chapters (10)
- Sidenvall, E. (2020). Färder i ett eskatologiskt rum. Naturen som analogi i två missionärers resedagböcker från 1895. In Bugge Amundsen, A. (Ed.) Bibliotheca historico-ecclesiastica Lundensis, Vekkelsens rom (pp. 207-216), 66. Lunds universitets kyrkohistoriska arkiv.
- Sidenvall, E. (2020). Präst eller personal?. In Sidenvall, E., Wejryd, C., Halldorf, J. & Fahlgren, S. (Eds.) Svenska kyrkans forskningsserie, Så är det inte hos er : Kyrkligt ledarskap i organisationsteoriernas värld (pp. 103-126), 42. Verbum.
- Sidenvall, E. (2017). En bärande struktur i det kyrkliga livet - samfälligheten en del av kyrkans historia. In Rikner, A. (Ed.) Dags att ta farväl : Göteborgs kyrkliga samfällighet 1984-2017 (pp. 109-137). Svenska kyrkan i Göteborg.
- Sidenvall, E. (2017). John Henry Newman's Apologia Pro Vita Sua : The Making of a Christian Classic. In Gudmundsson, D., Maurits, A. & Nykvist, M. (Eds.) Classics in Northern European Church History Over 500 Years : Essays in Honour of Anders Jarlert (pp. 85-98). Peter Lang Publishing Group.
- Sidenvall, E. (2012). Frikyrkligheten i Sverige, 1920-1965. In Hirdman, Y., Lundberg, U. & Björkman, J. (Eds.) Sveriges historia 1920-1965 : [rösträtt och demokrati, fackföreningar, förbudsomröstning, depression, Ådalskravaller, Kreugerkrasch, kohandel, Saltsjöbadsavtal, folkhem, krispolitik, urbanisering, neutralitet, samlingsregering, beredskapstid, ATP-reform, radio och teve, bilism, rekordår] 1920-1965 (pp. 83-88). Norstedts Förlag.
- Sidenvall, E. (2011). Protestant Mission in China : A Proletarian Perspective. In Werner, Y. M. (Ed.) Christian Masculinity : Men and religion in Northern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries (pp. 149-164). Leuven University Press.
- Sidenvall, E. (2010). A Classic Case of De-Christianization? : Religion and Society in the Nordic Countries, 1750-2000. In Brown, C. G. & Snape, M. F. (Eds.) Secularisation in the Christian World : Essays in honour of Hugh McLeod (pp. 119-134). Ashgate.
- Sidenvall, E. (2010). Self-Reform of Swedish Christianity. In van Eijnatten, J. & Yates, P. (Eds.) The Dynamics of Religious Reform in Northern Europe, 1780-1920, The Churches (pp. 247-262), 2. Leuven University Press.
- Sidenvall, E. (2008). Gap men : Manlighet och mission i 1800-talets Kina. In Werner, Y. M. (Ed.) Kristen manlighet : ideal och verklighet 1830-1940 (pp. 75-91). Nordic Academic Press.
- Sidenvall, E. (1999). Crisis and Catharsis: Reactions to John Henry Newman's Conversion in Protestant English Society 1845-1846 : with a comparison considering Swedish conditions. In Görman, U. (Eds.) Religio : skrifter / utgivna av Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap i Lund, Towards a New Understanding of Conversion (pp. 105-115), 50. Teologiska institutionen, Lunds universitet.
Prefaces (1)
Conference contributions (2)
- Sidenvall, E. (2011). Inledning: 2000-talets prästmöte i historiskt perspektiv.
- Sidenvall, E. (2004). Dealing with Development : The Protestant Reviewers of John Henry Newman's An Essay on the Development of Cristian Doctrine. In Swanson, R. N. (Ed.) Studies in Church History, The Church and the Book : Papers read at the 2000 Summer Meeting and the 2001 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society (pp. 357-364), 38. Boydell & Brewer.
Reviews (3)
- Sidenvall, E. (2020). Missionen visar kyrkans väsen : Recension av Jonas Johnsson: Missionärerna: En biografisk berättelse om Svenska kyrkans mission 1874-1974. Signum: Katolsk orientering om kyrka, kultur, samhälle, 46, 62-64. Newmaninstitutet, Signum.
- Sidenvall, E. (2020). Recension av Martin Nykvist, Alla mäns prästadöme. Homosocialitet, maskulinitet och religion hos Kyrkobröderna, Svenska kyrkans lekmannaförbund 1918-1978. Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, 120, 234-240. Svenska kyrkohistoriska föreningen.
- Sidenvall, E. (2010). German Orientalism in the Age of Empire. Church History, 79, 950-952. American Society of Church History.
Supervision at Lund University (1)
Teaching

Adjunct Professor
- Church and Mission Studies
- Centre for Theology and Religious Studies
Contact information
E-mail erik.sidenvallctr.luse
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30