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We are pleased to announce the forthcoming publication the book, Swedish Protestant Missionaries and Social Reordering in King Leopold’s Congo, published by Routledge within our ongoing research project. The book is a historical-anthropological study of Swedish Protestant missionaries in the Congo Free State during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It examines how a Swedish mission society, working under the brutal regime of King Leopold II, attempted to resh

A new article by Matilda Arvidsson and Simon Larsson examines how Swedish missionaries became legal actors in Lower Congo between 1881 and 1908. Published in Studia Theologica – Nordic Journal of Theology, the article focuses on the Mission Covenant Church of Sweden (Svenska Missionsförbundet) and its activities during a period that stretched from pre-colonial Bakongo societies into King Leopold II’s Congo Free State. The article asks how Swedish missionaries understood and p

During her research visit to Melbourne Law School, this research project's PI Matilda Arvidsson recorded a pod-cast episode that is now...

Together with Dr Love Rönnelid (Stockholm University, Sweden) Matilda Arvidson is convening the stream Critical Nordic Colonial Legal...

The study of Christian mission is a well-established field within theology commonly referred to as missiology, studying Christian...