PhD in Theology, Associate Professor

Researcher in Mission Studies (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond)

Assistant Professor in Mission Studies

Director of Studies, PhD level

Most of my research is carried out within the project ”Religion on the Border: Resistance, Adaptation and Dialogue in Colonial Mexico” (2006-2009), which is funded by Vetenskapsrådet (the Swedish Research Council). The aim of the project is to study the relations between parish priests and indigenous (predominantly Nahuatl speaking) parishioners in the archdiocese of Mexico and the diocese of Tlaxcala during the first half of the seventeenth century. The source material is found in the Archivo General de Indias in Seville, British Library in London, the Archivo General de la Nación in Mexico City and a number of Mexican church archives. Apart from a number of articles in English, Spanish and Swedish, the goal is to publish a monograph with the working title Church Life Between the Metropolitan and the Local: Parishes, Parishioners and Parish Priests in Seventeenth-Century Mexico.

Another part of my research is devoted to the activities of Mexican colonial bishops. In particular I am interested in sixteenth and seventeenth century pastoral visiation. Although some of these visitation records contain interesting data they have rarely been used by scholars. My aim is to publish a couple of articles in Spanish.

I am also working on a biograpical study on the Bishop of Guadalajara and Tlaxcala Alonso de la Mota y Escobar (1546-1625). The goal is to write a substantial article in Spanish.

Yet another research interest is seventeenth-century Nahuatl and Spanish petitions written by indigenous parishioners in order to present complaints against the parish clergy before the ecclesiastical court of law.

My doctoral dissertation (2002) also dealt with Mexican church history. It is a thematic biography of Alonso de Montúfar OP, Archbishop of Mexico 1554-1572, which analyses the discussions on how the church in Mexico should be organized. Should the church in sixteenth century Mexico be organized in exactly the same way as in Spain or did the so-called New World required new ways. The thesis Unification and Conflict: The Church Politics of Alonso de Montúfar, Archbishop of Mexico, 1554-1572 is available in full-text:
Dissertation

Current Research and Research insterests

Early modern church history

Latin American church and Mission history

Latin American theology

Processes of religious change in colonial Mexico

Nahuatl (the ”Aztec” language)

The formation of an indigenous clergy in Spanish America

The role of contemplative women in mission, seventeenth thorugh twentieth centuries

Mariology and Marian apparitions in Latin America and Europe

Catholic traditionalists and contemporary tradionalist dissent

Curriculum Vitae

Born June 6 1972 in Halmstad, Sweden

Bachelor of Arts, Lund University, 1996

Bachelor of Theology, Lund University, 1997

Studies in Archival Science, Stockholm University, 1999-2000

Licentiate of Theology in Mission Studies, Lund University 2000

Doctor of Theology in Mission Studies, Lund University, 2002

Diploma in classical and contemporary Nahuatl, Instituto de Docencia e Investigación Etnológica de Zacatecas, Mexico 2002.

Guest Researcher, Centro de Estudios de las Tradiciones, El Colegio de Michoacán, Zamora, Mexico, 2002-2003

Editor of Svensk Missionstidskrift/Swedish Missiological Themes, 2004-2008

Assistant Professor in Mission Studies, Uppsala University, 2004-2006, 2007-

Researcher (Vetenskapsrådet/ Swedish Research Council), Uppsala University, 2006-2009

Director of Studies, Euroculture Master Programme, Uppsala University, 2009-2010

Director of Studies, PhD level, Department of Theology, Uppsala University, 2010-

Researcher (Riksbankens jubileumsfond), Uppsala University, 2010-

Associate Professor in Mission Studies, Uppsala University, 2010-

Varia

Guest Professor at Centro de Investigaciones sobre América Latina y el Caribe, Universidad Autónoma de México, 2009.

Guest lectures and conferences in Spain, USA, the Netherlands, Italy, Great Britain, Austria, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Colombia.

Field Studies in Central America 1993, 1994, 1995, 2000-2001, 2005.

Archive and Library studies in Spain 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006; Mexico 2000-2001, 2002-2003, 2007, 2008, 2009; USA 2001; and Great Britain 2006-2007.

Publications (a selection)

In press/Submitted 2010

Church Life Between the Metropolitan and the Local: Parishes, Parishioners, and Parish Priests in Seventeenth-Century Mexico. (monograph, ca. 280 pages)

”Alonso de la Mota y Escobar (1546-1625): Una vida eclesiástica por vía de Michoacán”. (article 30 pp. Mexico)

”Justicia eclesiástica en un escenario local novohispano: Peticiones indígenas de Ixcateopan en el siglo XVII” Ana de Zaballa Beascoechea (ed) Iglesia, Justicia y población indígena en la América virreinal. Frankfurt am Main-Madrid: Verveurt-Iberoamericana 2010

”Libros de Visita Eclesiástica: El desarrollo de un género documental en la Nueva España, siglos XVI-XVII” (article 30 pp. Mexico)

2009

Unificación y conflicto: La gestión episcopal de Alonso de Montúfar, Arzobispo de México, 1554-1572. Zamora: Colegio de Michoacán. (monograph, ca. 300 pages)

[with Carlos Contreras] ”Conversación con Prof. Magnus Mörner” (article 15 pp. Peru)

”Luther en orm i Mexikos paradis”, Svenska Dagbladet 2009-08-26

”Ett skepp kommer lastat med laster”, Svenska Dagbladet 2009-05-10

[Review of:] Asunción Lavrin, Brides of Christ: Conventual Life in Colonial Mexico. Stanford: Stanford University
Press, 2008.

[Review of:] Liam Matthew Brockey, Journey to the East: The Jesuit Mission to China. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press at Harvard University Press, 2007, i: Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift, vol. 109

[Review of:] John W. O’Malley: What Happened at Vatican II Cambridge, Mass & London: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2008. In Kyrkohistorisk Årsskrift vol. 109.

[Review of:] Brian P.Owensby, Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico. Stanford: Stanford University
Press, 2008

[Review of:] Stuart B Schwartz All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2008.

2008

Relación de la visita pastoral del arzobispado de México de Juan de Mañozca y Zamora, 1646", Historia Mexicana 230 (2008):851-878.

”El clero indígena en Hispanoamérica: De la legislación a la implementación y práctica eclesiástica”, Estudios de Historia Novohispana, 38 (2008), 39-62

[Review of] Josep-Ignasi Saranyana (dir.) and Carmen-José Alejos Grau (coord.) Teología en América Latina, vol. II/2. 2008. Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 2008.

[Review of] Anna Sofia Hedberg, Outside the World: Cohesion and Deviation Among Old Colony Mennonites in Boliva, 2008, Kyrkohistorisk Årsskrift, 2008.

[Review of:] Malgorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba, The Black Madonna in Latin America and Europe: Tradition and Transformation, 2007. Kyrkohistorisk Årsskrift 2008.

[Review of:] Margarita Menegus & Rodolfo Aguirre, Los indios, el sacerdocio y la universidad en Nueva España, siglo XVI-XVIII, 2006. The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Interamerican Cultural History, 64:3 (2008)

2007

”’Ordets frön och strålar av sanningen’: Det romersk-katolska läroämbetets tolkning av de icke-kristna religionerna sedan Andra Vatikankonciliet”, In: Aasulv Lande & Carl Sundberg (eds.), Religionsteologi och religionsmöten. Uppsala: SIM, 2007.

”Archives, Societal Amnesia and Survival”, Swedish Missiological Themes, 95:1 (2007)

”Roman Catholic Archives in Latin America: Status Quaestionis”, Swedish Missiological Themes, 95:1 (2007)

”Den hårda striden om Guds stad”, Svenska Dagbladet (2007)

[Review of] Josep-Ignasi Saranyana (dir.) & Carmen-José Alejos Grau (coord), Teología en América Latina, vol. II/2, 2005, Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 83:1 (2007)

[Review of] Allan Greer, Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits, 2006, Kyrkohistorisk Årsskrift, 2007.

[Review of] Charlene Villaseñor Black, Creating the Cult of St. Joseph: Art and Gender in the Spanish Empire, 2007. Kyrkohistorisk Årsskrift, 2007.

2006

”Las actas de los concilios mexicanos: Historia diplomática y estudio de su itenerario”, Anuario de Historia de la Iglesia, XV (2006)

”Robert Thomson och inkvisitionen: Bildkritik, protestantism och främlingsskap i det tidigmoderna Mexiko.”, Kyrkohistorisk Årsskrift, 2006

”Mayafolkets röster ekar i ny forskning”, Svenska Dagbladet, 2006-08-14

”Nordic Mission Studies”, Swedish Missiological Themes, 94:4 (2006)

”Mission Studies at Uppsala University”, Swedish Missiological Themes, 94:4 (2006)

[Review of] El saber de los jesuitas, historias naturales y el Nuevo Mundo. Eds. Luis Millones Figueroa and Domingo Ledezma. Frankfurt & Madrid: Iberoamericana & Verveurt, 2005, Hispanic American Historical Review 2006.

[Review of] Adriaan C. Van Oss. Church and Society in Spanish America. Amsterdam: Aksant Academic Publishers, 2003, Swedish Missiological Themes, 94:2 (2006).

[Review of] Arturo Piedra, Evangelización Protestante en América Latina. Análisis de las razones que justificaron y promovieron la expansion protestante 1830-1960. San José & Quito, 2002-2005. Swedish Missiological Themes, 94:1 (2006).

2005

”Catarina de San Juans andliga flygfärder”, Signum 31:9 (2005).

”Den heliga jungfrun en krigisk general”, Svenska Dagbladet, 2005-11-03

”Kan den rätte påven resa sig?”, Dagens Nyheter, 26 juli, 2005.

[Review of] Colonial Saints: Discovering the Holy in the Americas, 1500-1800. Eds. Allan Greer and Jodi Bilinkoff. Routledge: New York & London, 2003, Swedish Missiological Themes, 93:1 (2005).

[Review of] El mundo de las catedrales novohispanas. Ed. Montserrat Galí Boadella. Puebla, 2002, The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History, 61:3 (2005).

[Translation from Spanish]: Gustavo Gutiérrez ”Faith and Politics in the Popular Movements: Christian Commitment Today”, Swedish Missiological Themes, 93:2 (2005).

2004

”’Un Capitán en la lucha contra Satanás’: Cristianización y autoridad en los escritos de Alonso de Montúfar”, Alicia Mayer & Ernesto de la Torre Villar (eds.) Religión, Poder y Autoridad en la Nueva España. (Serie Historia Novohispana, 72). UNAM-Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Mexico City, 2004.

”Gustaf Knös och resan till kontinenten”, Personhistorisk Tidskrift 100:1 (2004).

”Aasulv Lande and Missiology”, Swedish Missiological Themes 92:3 (2004)

”Aasulv Lande: A Bibliography 1971-2003”, Swedish Missiological Themes 92:3 (2004)

[Review of] Josep-Ignasi Saranyana and Carmen-José Alejos Grau. (eds.) Teología en América Latina. Vol III, El siglo de las teologías latinoamericanistas 1899-2001. Madrid &, Frankfurt am Main, 2002, Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift 80:2 (2004)

2003

”Nahua reactions to the conflicts between Bishops and Friars in Sixteenth-Century Mexico”, Acta Americana 11:2 (2003).

”The Church in Colonial Latin America”, Swedish Missiological Themes 91:2 (2003).

”The Ordination of Indians in Spanish America: Law, Prejudice, and Practice during Three Centuries”, Swedish Missiological Themes 91:2 (2003).

2002

Unification and Conflict: The Church Politics of Alonso de Montúfar OP, Archbishop of Mexico, 1554-1572 (Studia Missionalia Svecana vol. LXXXVI). Uppsala: Swedish Institute for Mission Research 2002, 268 pp. PDF

”The Concept of Mission During Ninety Years of SMT”, Swedish Missiological Themes, 92:3 (2002).

2001

[With Aasulv Lande] ”Missionsvetenskap med ekumenik”, Birger Olsson, Göran Bexell & Göran Gustafsson (red.) Theologicum i Lund undervisning och forskning i tusen år, Lund: Teologiska Institutionen, 2001.

[With Leif Lindin] ”Lärare vid teologiska institutionen i Lund 1900-1999”, Birger Olsson, Göran Bexell & Göran Gustafsson (red.) Theologicum i Lund undervisning och forskning i tusen år, Teologiska Institutionen, Lund 2001.

[With Leif Lindin] ”Avhandlingar vid teologiska institutionen i Lund 1900-1999”. Birger Olsson, Göran Bexell & Göran Gustafsson (red.) Theologicum i Lund undervisning och forskning i tusen år, Lund: Teologiska Institutionen, 2001.

2000

”Parallel Churches: The Relations Between Archbishop Alonso de Montúfar and the Religious Orders in Mid-sixteenth-century Mexico”, Unpublished Licentiate thesis, Lund: Teologiska Institutionen, 2000.

1998

”Gustaf Lindeberg och missionstudiet vid Lunds universitet”, Swedish Missiological Themes, 86:3 (1998).

[Translation from Spanish]: Kristendomen och religionerna, Uppsala: Katolska Bokförlaget, 1998. (Katolsk dokumentation, vol. 25)