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Tomas Lindgren

Professor of Psychology of religion.

Research qualifications: Docent

Contact

E-mail
tomas.lindgren@umu.se
Phone
+46 90 786 95 64

Works as

Affiliation
Professor at Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies Section: Religious Studies and Theology
Location
A, Humanisthuset, HUM.H.133 Umeå Universitet, 901 87 Umeå

Proffessor of Psychology of religion.

Religion and nonviolent action: the moral dynamics of civil resistance in West Papua
The International Association for the Psychology of Religion conference 2025, Birmingham, UK, August 19-22, 2025
Lindgren, Tomas
Religious conflict and the moral mind
The XXIII IAHR World Congress, Kraków, Poland, August 24-30, 2025
Lindgren, Tomas
A model of transformative religious education: teaching and learning Islam in Pondok Modern Darussalam Gontor, Indonesia
Millah: Journal of Religious Studies, Universitas Islam Indonesia 2024, Vol. 23, (1) : 171-212
Jusubaidi, Jusubaidi; Lindgren, Tomas; Mujahidin, Anwar; et al.
Nonviolent action, religion, and (dis)obedience
European Association for the Study of Religions 2024
Lindgren, Tomas
Religious violence, identity dynamics, and intergroup emotions
2024 annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and the Religious Research Association, Pittsburgh, USA, October 18-20, 2024
Lindgren, Tomas
Nonviolent action and religion in West Papua
2024 annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and the Religious Research Association, Pittsburgh, USA, October 18-20, 2024
Lindgren, Tomas
Violence
The study of religion in Sweden: past, present and future, London: Bloomsbury Academic 2024 : 257-267
Lindgren, Tomas; Larsson, Göran; Svensson, Isak
Psychology of religion
The study of religion in Sweden: past, present, and future, London: Bloomsbury Academic 2024 : 143-158
Ståhle, Göran; Lindgren, Tomas
Apocalyptic propaganda: how the U.S. government manufactured consent on the war on terror
Al-Albab, Graduate Program of Pontianak Institute of Islamic Studies 2023, Vol. 12, (2) : 189-205
Blom, Carin; Lindgren, Tomas
Fundamentalism och helig terror: religionspsykologi för vår tid
Lund: Studentlitteratur AB 2023
Lindgren, Tomas
Moderate and radical Muslims, but for whom and for what purpose?
Lesser heard voices in studies of religion, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers 2022 : 78-100
Lindgren, Tomas; Sonnenschein, Hannes; Eriksson, Johan
Islam i Sydostasien
Islam: en religionsvetenskaplig introduktion, Stockholm: Liber 2021 : 229-238
Lindgren, Tomas
Bloody, Intense, and Durable: The Politics of 'Religious Conflict'
Temenos, Åbo akademi 2021, Vol. 57, (1) : 59-80
Lindgren, Tomas; Sonnenschein, Hannes
Mahatma Gandhi, neoliberalism, and the bourgeois study of spirituality
Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion: A Diversity of Paradigms, Brill Academic Publishers 2020 : 43-62
Lindgren, Tomas; Sonnenschein, Hannes
The Shapeshifting Self: Narrative Pathways into Political Violence
Religions, MDPI 2020, Vol. 11, (9)
Sonnenschein, Hannes; Lindgren, Tomas
The psychology of religious conflicts
XII Seminário Internacional de Psicologia & Senso Religioso, November 11 to November 14, 2019, Cuiaba, Brasilia
Lindgren, Tomas
Bloody, intense, and durable
17th Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR), Tartu, June 25-29, 2019
Lindgren, Tomas
What’s the problem?: A critical examination of contemporary research on religious conflicts
SSSR+RRA 2019 Annual Meeting, St. Louis, USA, October 25-27, 2019
Lindgren, Tomas; Sonnenschein, Hannes
An opiate for the bourgeoisie?: Mahatma Gandhi, psychology of religion, and the politics of spirituality
IAPR 2019 - Pshychology of Religion and Spirituality : New Trends and Neglected Themes. Gdańsk, Poland, August 30 - September 3, 2019
Lindgren, Tomas; Sonnenschein, Hannes
Religious conflicts: opportunity structures, group dynamics, and framing
Al Albab, Pontianak State Institute of Islamic Studies 2018, Vol. 7, (1) : 17-32
Lindgren, Tomas
A nonviolent identity: A psychobiographical study of an Islamic scholar
Research in the social scientific study of religion: Volume 29, Brill Academic Publishers 2018 : 96-122
Lindgren, Tomas
Evolutionspsykologi och religion
Den religiösa människan: en introduktion till religionspsykologin, Stockholm: Natur och kultur 2017 : 483-503
Lindgren, Tomas
Mechanisms of religious radicalization: Pathways toward violence
Strong Religion and Mainstream Culture: Youth, Education and Technology, Umeå, November 9-10, 2017
Lindgren, Tomas
The contribution of social psychological theory to understanding religious conflicts
17th Annual International Conference on Islamic Studies, November 21-24, 2017
Lindgren, Tomas
Religious radicalization in Indonesia and beyond: Mechanisms and processes
Risks, roots, and responses: Nordic conference on research on violent extremism, Gothenburg, Sweden, April 24-26, 2017
Lindgren, Tomas
Why do people kill in the name of religion?: Evolutionary psychology, political process theory and the causes of religious conflicts
IAPR Conference in, Hamar, Norway, August 21-24, 2017
Lindgren, Tomas; Sonnenschein, Hannes
The psychological study of religious violence: A theoretical and methodological discussion
Al-Albab, Pontianak: Pontianak Institute of Islamic Studies 2016, Vol. 5, (2) : 155-174
Lindgren, Tomas
Making Sense of Radicalization: A Social Psychological Perspective
8th International Graduate and Scholar’s Conference in Indonesia (IGSSCI), Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia, October 26-27, 2016
Lindgren, Tomas
A multivoiced nonviolent identity in a time of terror: A case study
Ninth International Conference on the Dialogical Self, Lublin, Poland, September 7-10, 2016
Lindgren, Tomas
Current challenges of Indonesian and Malay Islam in the modern world
The 16th Annual International Conference on Islamic Studies, Lampung, Indonesia, November 1-4, 2016
Lindgren, Tomas
Islam i Sydostasien
Islam: en religionsvetenskaplig introduktion, Stockholm: Liber 2015 : 245-256
Lindgren, Tomas
Recension av Jonas Svensson, Människans Muhammed
Chaos: skandinavisk tidsskrift for religionshistoriske studier, Vol. 64 : 111-112
Lindgren, Tomas
Wahiduddin Khan: A psychobiographical study of a Muslim pacifist
Congress of the International Association for the Psychology of Religion, Istanbul, Turkey, August 17-20, 2015
Lindgren, Tomas; Dahlkvist, Mattias
Religion och konflikt: Komplexa samband, komplexa orsaker
Skellefteå: Artos & Norma bokförlag 2014
Lindgren, Tomas
Hjalmar Sundén's Impact on the Study of Religion in the Nordic Countries
Temenos, Vol. 50, (1) : 39-61
Lindgren, Tomas
Kultur- och religionsmöten under fältstudier
Verktyg för ökad förståelse: Lärdomar från 10 år av fältstudier, Stockholm: Svenska Missionsrådet 2011 : 30-34
Lindgren, Tomas
Religion och våld: exempel från Indonesien
Inspiration till religionspsykologin: Kultur, hälsa och mening, Stockholm: Natur och kultur 2011 : 133-142
Lindgren, Tomas
Mobilization for Religious Conflict
International Association for thePsychology of Religion, Congress 2011: Programme & Book of Abstracts : 106-107
Lindgren, Tomas
Nära döden-upplevelser kan förklaras
Modern psykologi, (1) : 75-
Lindgren, Tomas
Religionspsykologi
Människor och makter 2.0: en introduktion till religionsvetenskap, Halmstad: Högskolan i Halmstad 2010 : 110-115
Lindgren, Tomas
Fundamentalism och helig terror: religionspsykologi för vår tid
Lund: Studentlitteratur 2009
Lindgren, Lindgren
Diakoners upplevelse av sitt arbete: En kvalitativ studie
Anpere : 1-21
Lindgren, Tomas
The Psychology of Religious Violence: A Methodological and Theoretical Discussion
The 2006 Conference of the International Association for Psychology of Religion
Lindgren, Tomas
Diakoners psykosociala arbetsmiljö
Svensk kyrkotidning, Svensk Kyrkotidning AB 2006, (37) : 463-x
Lindgren, Tomas
The Narrative Construction of Muslim Prayer Experiences
International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, Vol. 15, (2) : 159-174
Lindgren, Tomas
The narrative construction of Muslim identity: A single case study
Archive for the Psychology of Religion/ Archiv für Religionspsychologie : 51-73
Lindgren, Tomas
Muslim Identity in a Postmodern Society: A Single Case Study of the Particular in the Universal and Vice Versa
The Psychology of Religion Conference
Lindgren, Tomas
Bön som akt och erfarenhet: En religionspsykologisk studie av bönens uttryck, förutsättningar och funktioner i en muslimsk och kristen kontext
Uppsala: Uppsala universitet 2001
Lindgren, Tomas
The varieties of Prayer Experiences: An Interpretation from a Social Constructionist Point of View
The 8th Symposium for Psychologists of Religion (European Psychologists of Religion)
Lindgren, Tomas
Själen och jaget
Svensk kyrkotidning, Svensk Kyrkotidning AB 1998, (17)
Lindgren, Tomas
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