IAHR-WSN

This network has been founded in 2006 by IAHR Past President Rosalind I. J. Hackett and former IAHR Executive Committee member Morny Joy to provide a forum for women in Religious Studies throughout the world to be in contact with one another.

Women Scholars Network

Steering Committee

Jenny Berglund

Jenny Berglund

Jenny Berglund, professor in Religious Education
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Education
Stockholm University
S-106 91 Stockholm
Sweden

E-mail: Jenny.berglund@hsd.su.se 
Website: https://www.su.se/english/profiles/jebe9474-1.367972

Areas of Specialization

  • Islamic education in Europe
  • Religious education in Europe
  • Islam in Sweden 

Areas of Interest

  • Islam in Europe
  • Minority religious education 

Major Relevant Publications

  • Berglund, Jenny (2017) Secular normativity and the religification of Muslims in Swedish public schooling2017In: Oxford Review of Education, , Vol. 43, no 5, p. 524-535.
  • Berglund, Jenny (2017) The Study of Islamic Education: A Litmus Test on State Relations to Muslim Minorities. In: Method and Theory in the Study of Religion: Working Papers from Hannover. Ed Steffen Führding, Brill Academic Publishers, p. 232-258.
  • Berglund, Jenny, Yafa Schanneik, Brian Bocking (2016) Religious Education in Global and Local World. Springer.
  • Berglund, Jenny (2016) ”Islamic Religious Education in Muslim Schools: A Translation of Islam to the Swedish School System” in Religious Education in Global and Local World, eds: Jenny Berglund, Yafa Schanneik, Brian Bocking. Springer
  • Berglund, Jenny (2016) “Continuity and Change: Experiences of Teaching Religious Education in the Light of a Life Trajectory of Hifz and Secular Education” in Religion & Education.
  • Berglund, Jenny (2016) ”Religious Education on the Borders” in Usuteaduslik Ajakiri, Akadeemilise Teoloogia Seltsi väljaanne, 7-24.
  • Berglund, Jenny, Thomas Lundén, Peter Strandbrink (2015) Crossings and Crosses: Borders, Educations, and Religions in Northern Europe. De Gruyter.
  • Berglund, Jenny (2015) Publicly funded Islamic Education in Europe and the United States. Washington: The Brookings Institution.
  • Berglund, Jenny (2014) ”Princely Companion or Object of Offense?: The Dog’s Ambigious Status in Islam” in Society and Animals. 22 (6), 545-559.
  • Berglund, Jenny (2014) "Teaching Orthodox Religious Education on the Border" in British Journal of Religious Education.
  • Berglund, Jenny (2014) "An Ethnographic Eye on religion in Everyday life" in British Journal of Religious Education, Vol 36 (1), 39-52.
  • Berglund, Jenny (2014) "Singing and Music A Multifaceted and Controversial Aspect of Islamic Religious Education in Sweden" in Reforms in Islamic Education: International Perspectives, ed. Charlene Tan. London: Bloomsbury.
  • Berglund, Jenny (2013/2014) "Islamic Religious Education in state funded Muslim schools in Sweden: A sign of secularization of not?" in Public Islam and the Nordic Welfare State: Changing Realities, Studies in Contemporary Islam, Vol 15-16 (1-2). Ulrika Mårtensson (ed.)
  • Berglund, Jenny (2013) "Swedish religion education - Objective but Marinated in Lutheran Protestantism?" in Temenos, 49:2, 165-184.
  • Berglund, Jenny (2013) "An Ethnographic Eye on religion in Everyday Life" in British Journal of Religious Education, 36:1, 39-52.
  • Berglund, Jenny (2013) "Islamic education in Sweden" in Islamic Education in Secular Societies, Aslan, Ednan & Rausch, Margaret, (eds.) Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
  • Berglund, Jenny (2013) "Islamic Identity and its Role in the Lives of Young Swedish Muslims" in Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim Life, 7:2, 207-227. Springer.
  • Berglund, Jenny (2012) "Young Muslims' Confidence in Teachers Suggests the Importance of Relational Skill" in Journal of Believes and Values, 33:3 Taylor & Francis.
  • Berglund, Jenny (2012) "Islamic Identity and its Role in the Lives of Young Swedish Muslims" in Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim Life, Springer. 7:2, 207-227.
  • Berglund, Jenny (2011) "Global questions in the classroom –The formulation of Islamic religious education at Muslim schools in Sweden" in Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. 32:4, 497-512.
  • Berglund, Jenny (2010) Teaching Islam, Islamic Religious Education in Sweden. Munster: Waxmann (published thesis). 

Other Information of Interest

  • Co-chair of American Academy of Religion's Religion and Public Education: International Perspectives Group.
  • Member of EASRs working group on teaching religion (European Association for the Study of Religions).