Anton Jansson
Biography
Anton Jansson is a researcher and associate professor (Docent), at the University of Gothenburg Sweden. He obtained his PhD in History of Ideas and Science at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2017. His dissertation dealt with Christianity and political thought in the German Vormärz era. His postdoctoral studies have followed two main paths. Firstly, dr. Jansson held a postdoctoral position at Lund University, where he studied the history of humanities in post-war Sweden, resulting, among other things, in a co-written monograph on the public circulation of the humanities (with Johan Östling and Ragni Svensson). Secondly, and most importantly, he has devoted his energy to the intellectual history of atheism, and secular studies more generally, with a focus om modern Swedish history. At the moment, he is working on a research project financed by the Swedish Research Council, with the title “Visions of a Society without God: The History of Atheism in Sweden 1879-1968”. Dr. Jansson is co-director of the International Society for Historians on Atheism, Secularism and Humanism.
During 2023, Jansson is a guest researcher at SSAB, within the framework of the EUTOPIA university alliance.
Publications:
- Taira, Teemu, Atko Remmel & Anton Jansson, ”The Nordic and Baltic Countries”, in Michael Ruse & Stephen Bullivant (eds.), The Cambridge History of Atheism (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
- Jansson, Anton, ”Friends and Foes: Two Secularisms in late Nineteenth-century Sweden”, in Carolin Kosuch (red.), Freethinkers in Europe: National and Transnational Secularities, 1789−1920s (De Gruyter, 2020).
- Jansson, Anton, ”The City, the Church, and the 1960s: On Secularization Theory and the Swedish translation of Harvey Cox’s The Secular City”, in Johan Östling, Niklas Olsen & David Larsson Heidenblad (eds.), Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia: Actors, Arenas, and Aspirations (Routledge, 2020).
- Jansson, Anton, ”Om ateismens rörelse genom lokal organisering: Fallet Göteborg”, Lychnos, 2019.
- Jansson, Anton, ”’A Swedish Voltaire’: The Life and Afterlife of Ingemar Hedenius, 20th Century Atheist”, Secularism and Nonreligion, 7:1, 2018.
Location
Pleinlaan 2
1050 Elsene
Belgium