Francis Jonbäck
Universitetslektor
About the researcher
I am an Associate Professor (Docent) in Philosophy of Religion and work at the university as a Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies and Religious Education. I am also the editor of Agatheos: European Journal for Philosophy of Religion and one of the editors of the book series Livsåskådningsfilosofi published by Dialogos Publishing.
Current research
I am currently working on the start-up of a religious education project called "Worldview Didactics: Inclusive Worldview Education for the Semi secular Mainstream". A first pilot study for the project is entitled "Between belief and disbelief, between religion and secularity: introducing non-doxasticism and semi-secularity in worldview education" External link. and is published open access:
I work mainly with the concept of worldviews, as well as secular and semi-secular worldviews in religious education. Some of this research will soon be published as a short book entitled Semi-secular Worldviews and the Belief in Something Beyond, Cambridge University press. I have also long been interested in secular and religious agnosticism and questions of atheism and naturalism.
I received my PhD in 2016 with the thesis The God who Seeks but Seems to Hide. It was published in 2017 by Peeters Publishing.
Prizes and scholarships
2019 Zetterlings Premium. Awarded "to a student or teacher at Uppsala University for a publication of philosophical content, preferably in the philosophy of religion, published during the previous six years, or, if no philosophical publication is considered worthy of a prize, also for other publications".
2021 Carnegie Scholarship for Doctor of Theology.
2019 Research grant for the project "Making Space for Secular and Religious Agnosticism": Swedish Research Council.
2016 Carnegie scholarship for doctoral student in faith and philosophy of life.
2013 Carnegie Scholarship for PhD students in Religious Studies.
2011 K.G. Westman scholarship.
2010 Carnegie scholarship for doctoral students in religious and philosophical studies.
2009 J o H Carlssons scholarship.
I currently giving the following courses "An introduction to religious studies and perspectives on lived religion" and "Religion and science". I supervise at undergraduate and graduate level.
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