Anna Sjöberg

Anna Sjöberg received her doctorate in Theology from Lund University, Sweden, in 2020. Her dissertation En annan Abraham. Tre undersökningar av den kristna historiens kris (An other Abraham: Three Investigations of the Crisis of Christian History), examines the notion of modernity as synonymous with accelerating crisis, and the ways in which this crisis is conceptualized as connected to the process of secularization of the Christian heritage in the Western world. The interpretations focused on works by Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Barth and Franz Kafka, and drew on theories of crisis and secularization by among others Edmund Husserl and Giorgio Agamben. The dissertation was awarded by the Swedish Academy through ”Stina och Erik Lundblads stiftelse”. Among Sjöberg’s research interests are political theology, phenomenology, modern protestant theology and literature. She is currently working on a project on the 20th century Austrian philosopher and cultural critic Ivan Illich, and his theory of modernity as an extension of Church history and a perversion of the Christian gospel. The project is funded by the Swedish Research Council, and will be executed partly in Vienna at RaT and partly at the Theological faculty at Uppsala university.

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