Torsten Janson

Torsten received a Ph.D. in Islamic Studies from Lund University, Sweden, in 2003 with the publication of his dissertation Your Cradle Is Green: The Islamic Foundation and the Call to Islam in Children's Literature. He has been teaching Islamic and religious studies at Lund University and at the Malmö University Teacher's College. Since 2010, he is coordinating the CMES MA-program in Middle Eastern studies. Torsten lives in Lund with his wife Anna and their four children.

Research interest

• Muslim migration, diasporization and experiences of European multiculturalism
• Muslim religious pedagogics, transmission of tradition and mission (da'wa) to children
• Children's religious identity
• Religious commodification and entrepreneurship
• New trends in Islamic imagery and Muslim visual culture

Publications

Monographs
Invitation to Islam: A history of da‘wa. Uppsala: Swedish Science Press (2002).

Your cradle is green: The Islamic Foundation and the call to Islam in children’s literature. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International (2003).

Thomas Stoor & Torsten Janson: Den oönskade missionen. Proselytismen i Ryssland och den ortodoxa kyrkans reaktioner. Skellefteå: Artos (2002) [editor and co-author]

Selected articles
”Da‘wa: Islamic missiology in discourse and history”, Swedish Missiological Themes, vol. 89, nr. 3 (2001), 359–415.

”Mission och motmakt: islamisk da‘wa i en global kontext”, in Svensk religionshistorisk årsskrift, vol. 12 (2003), 28–58.

Torsten Janson, David Westerlund & Christer Hedin, “Da‘wa”, in Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World. New York: Macmillan Reference (2003), 170–174.

”Diasporans nya kläder: islamistisk barnlitteratur som utryck för identitetsförhandling”, in Kulturstudier i Sverige, Linköping University  Electronic Press (2005): www.ep.liu.se/ecp/015/

”Den beslöjade barnboken – kultur och genusförhandling i muslimsk barnlitteratur”, in Locus: Tidskrift för forskning om barn och ungdomar (2005), 70 – 85.

”Det kulturella mötets villkor – en islamologisk kommentar”, in Integrationsbarometer 2005: En rapport om allmänhetens attityder, erfarenheter och kunskaper inom områdena integration, mångfald och diskriminering. Norrköping: Integrationsverket (2006), 286 – 304.

“Koranöversättning: en  omöjlig nödvändighet”, in Svanberg & Westerlund red. Religion i Sverige. Stockholm: Dialogos (2008).

 “Da’wa: att bjuda in till islam”, in Svanberg & Westerlund red. Religion i Sverige. Stockholm: Dialogos (2008).

”Branding Islamic Childhood: Children’s Literature and Euro-Muslim Entrepreneurship”, in Leif Stenberg red. Science, Technology and Entrepreneurship in the Muslim World.

Recent Lectures

Istanbul Lectures 2013

• Dag_1_-_Paradisresor_Istanbul_2013.pdf
• Dag_2_-_Paradisresor_Istanbul_2013.pdf
• Dag_3_-_Paradisresor_Istanbul_2013__compressed_.pdf
• Dag_4_-_Paradisresor_Istanbul_2013.pdf
• Dag_5_-_Paradisresor_Istanbul_2013.pdf
• Dag_6_-_Paradisresor_Istanbul_2013.pdf