Hanna Liljefors
Biographic Data
| ID | 9634704 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hanna Liljefors |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Liljefors |
| SIGNATURE | LILJEFORS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lund University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0833-2857 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Scripture and Secularism in Modern Scandinavia and Beyond
The aim of this special issue is to advance research on biblical reception in Scandinavian contexts and to offer new insights into the intricate relationship between religiosity and secularity more broadly. This is done by engaging with theoretical questions concerning religion, secularity, and biblical reception in the modern world. In this introduction, we contextualize the special issue in relation to previous biblical scholarship on the relat…
Scriptures in Swedish Parliamentary Debates: A Banal Bible and a Hot Qur’an
This article examines the function of scriptures in the parliament of one of the world’s most secular countries, namely Sweden, with a particular focus on the Bible. By applying Michael Billig’s thesis on banal nationalism, the article argues that references to the Qur’an in parliamentary discourse express what Billig describes as “hot” nationalism, and the references to the Bible express “banal” nationalism. Both scriptures thus function as tool…
A Mediatized Bible: Discourses on the Hebrew Bible in Swedish Newspaper Debates
In this article, I explore interpretations and depictions of the Hebrew Bible in Swedish daily press between 1987 and 2017. As a point of departure, I examine three debates concerning three different aspects of the Hebrew Bible (in the debates understood as the “Old Testament”): its depictions of women, God, and homosexuality. The analysis shows that the Hebrew Bible tends to be portrayed as a problem, as the origin of patriarchy, as violent, and…
The Burning Qur’an and the Benign Bible: Representation of Scripture(s) in the Swedish Media Debate on the Qur’an Burnings
In this article, we examine the way the (Christian) Bible and the Qur’an are represented in Swedish press in the wake of the Qur’an burnings that took place in Sweden 2020–23. Through critical discourse analysis we investigate debate articles and identify prominent discourses that stress the Bible as benign and the Qur’an as malign for Swedish society. The Bible is framed as harmonizing with Swedish values, including freedom of speech, while the …
Bjelland Kartzow, Marianne, Kasper Bro Larsen och Outi Lehtipuu (red.), The Nordic Bible: Bible Reception in Contemporary Nordic Societies
‘Old Testament’ as the origin of the patriarchy: A comparison of the German and Swedish debate
This article explores and compares two similar debates in Germany and Sweden during the 1980s, in which feminists blamed the Hebrew Bible, or ‘Old Testament’, for being the origin of the patriarchy. In Germany, the psychologist and pedagogue Gerda Weiler articulated the discourse in several writings, which led to a scholarly debate on anti-Jewish tendencies within Christian feminist theology. In Sweden, the debate mainly became a media event, in…
Graybill, Rhiannon, Texts after Terror: Rape, Sexual Violence, and the Hebrew Bible
Att undervisa om "Bibeln i politiken": Fallgropar och möjligheter
Att vara "gammaltestamentlig": Tillskrivna betydelser till ordet "gammaltestamentlig" i svenska dagstidningar 1987–2017
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Att undervisa om "Bibeln i politiken": Fallgropar och möjligheter
Att vara "gammaltestamentlig": Tillskrivna betydelser till ordet "gammaltestamentlig" i svenska dagstidningar 1987–2017
‘Old Testament’ as the origin of the patriarchy: A comparison of the German and Swedish debate
This article explores and compares two similar debates in Germany and Sweden during the 1980s, in which feminists blamed the Hebrew Bible, or ‘Old Testament’, for being the origin of the patriarchy. In Germany, the psychologist and pedagogue Gerda Weiler articulated the discourse in several writings, which led to a scholarly debate on anti-Jewish tendencies within Christian feminist theology. In Sweden, the debate mainly became a media event, in…
Graybill, Rhiannon, Texts after Terror: Rape, Sexual Violence, and the Hebrew Bible
Bjelland Kartzow, Marianne, Kasper Bro Larsen och Outi Lehtipuu (red.), The Nordic Bible: Bible Reception in Contemporary Nordic Societies
A Mediatized Bible: Discourses on the Hebrew Bible in Swedish Newspaper Debates
In this article, I explore interpretations and depictions of the Hebrew Bible in Swedish daily press between 1987 and 2017. As a point of departure, I examine three debates concerning three different aspects of the Hebrew Bible (in the debates understood as the “Old Testament”): its depictions of women, God, and homosexuality. The analysis shows that the Hebrew Bible tends to be portrayed as a problem, as the origin of patriarchy, as violent, and…
The Burning Qur’an and the Benign Bible: Representation of Scripture(s) in the Swedish Media Debate on the Qur’an Burnings
In this article, we examine the way the (Christian) Bible and the Qur’an are represented in Swedish press in the wake of the Qur’an burnings that took place in Sweden 2020–23. Through critical discourse analysis we investigate debate articles and identify prominent discourses that stress the Bible as benign and the Qur’an as malign for Swedish society. The Bible is framed as harmonizing with Swedish values, including freedom of speech, while the …
Scripture and Secularism in Modern Scandinavia and Beyond
The aim of this special issue is to advance research on biblical reception in Scandinavian contexts and to offer new insights into the intricate relationship between religiosity and secularity more broadly. This is done by engaging with theoretical questions concerning religion, secularity, and biblical reception in the modern world. In this introduction, we contextualize the special issue in relation to previous biblical scholarship on the relat…
Scriptures in Swedish Parliamentary Debates: A Banal Bible and a Hot Qur’an
This article examines the function of scriptures in the parliament of one of the world’s most secular countries, namely Sweden, with a particular focus on the Bible. By applying Michael Billig’s thesis on banal nationalism, the article argues that references to the Qur’an in parliamentary discourse express what Billig describes as “hot” nationalism, and the references to the Bible express “banal” nationalism. Both scriptures thus function as tool…
Art (5 works) · Biblical studies (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (3 works) · Hebrew Bible (3 works) · History (3 works) · Media, Religion, Digital Communication (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Religious studies (3 works)