Torsten Janson
Researcher
Torsten Janson (Ph.D. Islamic Studies)
His current research interests include:
Islam and Muslim identity in children’s literature (Middle East & diasporas)
Multiculturalism and Islamophobia
Palestinians and education in Lebanon
Visual politics in Turkish Islamism
Development of university autonomy (Kazakhstan)
Islam and Muslim minorities, Education, Children’s literature, Palestinians in Lebanon, Turkish Islamism
Publications
Displaying of publications. Sorted by year, then title.
‘Aisha’s hijab isn’t a whisper’: agency, visibility, and transformative otherwise in Muslim women’s picture books
Torsten Janson
(2026) Muslim Women's Popular Fiction
Book chapterSquaring the Israeli nation: politics, poetics and performances of dominance in Safra Square, Jerusalem
Torsten Janson, Mattias Kärrholm
(2026) City, Territory and Architecture, 13 p.1-19
ArticleScreening Heroic Cities: Istanbul, Çanakkale, and Izmir in Cine-Ottoman Projection
Torsten Janson
(2025) Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture
Book chapterSubcontractors of Guilt. Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany, by Esra Özyürek (Review article)
Torsten Janson
(2025) Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 102 p.415-416
Review (Book/Film/Exhibition/etc.)Stirring up the Ashes: Exhibiting the Great Fire of Smyrna in the Context of Turkish Politics of Memory
Torsten Janson, Biray Kollouğlu, Ege Mehmet Akman
(2025) From Smyrna to Izmir: Aspects of Transition from the 19th century to 1922. History, Culture and Memory , p.417-447
Book chapter”Vårt engagemang tystas systematiskt ned av företrädare för Lunds universitet.”
Dalia Abdelhady, Cansu Bostan, Kaan Bür, Lina Eklund, Maira Viana Einarsson, et al.
(2025) Sydsvenskan
Newspaper articlePaul Ricoeur: Empowering Education, Politics and Society, by Alison Scott-Baumann (Review article)
Torsten Janson
(2024) LSE Review of Books
Review (Book/Film/Exhibition/etc.)"A Halal Happy Ever After" : Envisioning Muslim Futures in Islamically Minded Children's Literature
Torsten Janson
(2024) Journal of Muslims in Europe, 13 p.301-321
Article‘Welcome to the Mayor’s Sukkah!’ : On the spatial, performative, and cultural politics of Safra Square, Jerusalem
Torsten Janson, Mattias Kärrholm
(2024)
AbstractProbing the Politics of Memory and Myth: Museums, Cultural Heritage, and Historical Narratives in the Middle East (Panel)
Torsten Janson, Elena Chiti
(2024)
OtherWhich fire? What victims? Contesting memories of trauma and triumph in contemporary Izmir
Torsten Janson
(2024)
OtherOccupying Urban Memory: The Construction of Jerusalem in the Tower of David Museum’
Torsten Janson
(2024)
AbstractTriumph and Trauma: Commemorating the Conquest of Izmir in State and (Trans)Local Narrative
Torsten Janson
(2023)
OtherLovers of the Rose : Islamic Affect and the Politics of Commemoration in Turkish Museal Display
Torsten Janson
(2023) Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe , p.57-98
Book chapterOverwriting Smyrna: Urban Imaginaries in Turkish-Nationalist Commemoration
Torsten Janson
(2023)
OtherSacred (re)collections : Culture, space and boundary negotiation in Turkish-Islamic memory politics
Torsten Janson, Neşe Kınıkoğlu
(2021) Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication
ArticleCompanion Essay : Cultural Context of the Midway Plaisance International Performances: Who Were Those Supernatural Beings Summoned by the Magicians?
Torsten Janson
(2019) Fair Tricks: The Magicians at the Columbian Exposition, Chicago 1893
Foreword/postscriptSacralizing the City: Religious Disciplining of Istanbul’s Publics through Memoralization and Display
Torsten Janson
(2019)
AbstractBoundaries of innovation: Turkish religious politics between pedagogic inventiveness and theological transgression
Torsten Janson
(2019)
AbstractIslamic Signage in Migrant Enterprise: Visual Negotiations of Swedish Space
Torsten Janson
(2018)
AbstractIslamic Children's Literature: Informal Religious Education in Diaspora
Torsten Janson
(2018) International Handbooks of Religion and Education , p.435 – 468
Book chapterIstanbul Contested: Redrawing Religious/Secular Boundaries in Turkish Visual Politics
Torsten Janson
(2018)
AbstractVisual staging of virtue in islamic children's literature : Discipline and pleasure
Torsten Janson
(2017) More Words about Pictures: Current Research on Picturebooks and Visual/Verbal Texts for Young People , p.127-154
Book chapterAllt tyder nu på att Saudiarabiens försök att så split och öka sitt inflytande i Libanon definitivt har slagit slint
Torsten Janson
(2017) Sydsvenska dagbladet
Newspaper articleIslamic Children's Literature: Informal Religious Education in Diaspora
Torsten Janson
(2017) International Handbook of Religion and Education, 7
Book chapterLearning, Belonging, Resisting: Young Palestinians in Higher Education. Paper at Refugee Studies Center Conference 2017: Beyond Crisis: Rethinking Refugee Studies. Oxford University, UK
Torsten Janson
(2017)
Paper, not in proceedingDiscipline and Pleasure: Visual Staging of Virture in Islamic Children's Literature
Torsten Janson
(2017) Children's Literature and Culture , p.127-155
Book chapter”I don’t want to be paid for being a refugee!” A CMES seminar on Syrians in the Öresund Region
Torsten Janson
(2016)
Web publication/Blog postDepicting God’s Creation: Islamized images for a New Religious Pedagogy.
Torsten Janson
(2016) Images and Visual Representations in Muslim Popular Culture
Book chapterInventing Sacred Spaces: Islamic Symbolism in Turkish Visual Politics. Paper at Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA) Annual Meeting, Boston, US
Torsten Janson
(2016)
Paper, not in proceedingInventing Sacred spaces: Islamic symbolism in Turkish Visual Politics. Paper accepted for 10th Nordic Conference on Middle Eastern Studies: Middle Eastern Connectivities. Odense, Denmark
Torsten Janson
(2016)
Paper, not in proceedingFrom Camp to Campus: Palestinian Identity at Lebanese Universities. Paper at Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Annual Meeting, Washington DC, US
Torsten Janson
(2014)
Paper, not in proceedingIslamiska bilder
Jonas Otterbeck, Torsten Janson
(2014) Bildens kraft : religion och samtida utmaningar , p.61-94
Book chapterThe Politics of Picturing: Representational Restraint and Renewal in English-Islamic Picturebooks : Paper presented at the Visual/Verbal Texts Symposium, Winnipeg, Canada
Torsten Janson
(2014)
Paper, not in proceedingPutting Visual Multimodality into its Theoretical Context: Paper presented at Fourth World Congress of Middle Eastern studies (WOCMES), Ankara, Turkey
Torsten Janson
(2014)
Paper, not in proceedingBridging Difference, Breaking Boundaries: Innovative Educational Approaches in Beirut. Roundtable Presentation at Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Annual Meeting, New Orleans, US
Torsten Janson
(2013)
Paper, not in proceedingDepicting God’s Creation : Islamized images for a New Religious Pedagogy
Torsten Janson
(2012) Images and Visual Representations in Muslim Popular Culture
Book chapterBranding Islamic Childhood: Children’s Literature and Euro-Muslim Entrepreneurship
Torsten Janson
(2012) Science, Technology and Entrepreneurship in the Muslim World
Book chapterImaging Islamic Identity: Negotiated Norms of Representation in Euro-Muslim Picture Books
Torsten Janson
(2012) Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 32 p.323-338
ArticleGeert Wilders besök i Malmö
Torsten Janson
(2012) Religionsvetenskapliga kommentarer
Debate/Note/EditorialDen beslöjade barnboken. Kultur- och genusförhandling i brittisk-muslimsk barnlitteratur
Torsten Janson
(2012) Islamologi. Studiet av en religion , p.224-243
Book chapterVetenskaplig granskning av "Sjia-muslimske ritualer: arena för fromhet, politikk och sosialt engasjement"
Torsten Janson
(2011)
MiscellaneousThe Islamization of Images for Religious Socialization. Paper presented at Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA) Annual Meeting, Washington DC, US
Torsten Janson
(2011)
Paper, not in proceedingSpretigt men viktigt om islamofobi : Recension av Andreas Malms Hatet mot muslimer (Atlas, 2009)
Torsten Janson
(2009) Kyrkans tidning
Newspaper articleAndlighet, mångfald, skola. Föreläsning vid seminariet Barnens Rätt till Andlighet, Barnrättsakademin, Örebro universitet (fullängdstext)
Torsten Janson
(2008)
Paper, not in proceedingImages of an Islamic Market: Children’s Literature and Euro-Muslim Entrepreneurship. Paper at Science, Technology and Entrepreneurship in the Muslim World, CTR, Lund University
Torsten Janson
(2007)
Paper, not in proceedingFrågor och svar om moskéattentatet : Torsten Janson, islamolog vid Malmö högskola, ger svar om Samarras betydelse
Torsten Janson
(2007) Svenska Dagbladet
Newspaper articleDet kulturella mötets villkor - en islamologisk kommentar till Integrationsbarometer 2005
Torsten Janson
(2006) Integrationsverkets rapportserie, 2006
ReportBildförbudet saknar stöd i Koranen
Torsten Janson, Leif Stenberg
(2006) Svenska Dagbladet, - Under strecket
Newspaper articleOm islamofobi, homofobi och ifrågasättandets villkor. Ett samtal mellan Torsten Janson och Ann Heberlein vid CTR-dagarna 2005, Lunds Universitet, Sverige.
Torsten Janson, Ann Heberlein
(2005)
Paper, not in proceedingDiasporans nya kläder: islamistisk barnlitteratur som uttryck för identitetsförhandling
Torsten Janson
(2005) ACSIS nationella forskarkonferens för kulturstudier, Linköpings universitet
Paper in conference proceedingDen beslöjade barnboken - kultur och genusförhandling i muslimsk barnlitteratur
Torsten Janson
(2005) Locus, 05 p.70-85
ArticleBilden av "juden" i muslimsk barnlitteratur. Paper vid CTR-dagarna 2004, Lunds Universitet.
Torsten Janson
(2004)
Paper, not in proceedingBehöver vi mer religionsvetenskap - eller mindre?
Torsten Janson
(2004) Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 80
Debate/Note/EditorialMission och motmakt: islamisk da'wa i en global kontext
Torsten Janson
(2003) Svensk religionshistorisk årsskrift, 12, 2003 p.28-58
ArticleYour Cradle Is Green : The Islamic Foundation and the Call to Islam in Children's Literature
Torsten Janson
(2003) Lund Studies of History of Religions
Doctoral Thesis (monograph)Invitation to Islam: A History of Da'wa
Torsten Janson
(2002) Studies on Inter-Religious Relations
BookDen oönskade missionen : Proselytismen i Ryssland och den ortodoxa kyrkans reaktioner
Thomas Stoor
(2001)
BookÖppna dörrar och slutna rum: proselytism och identitet på globaliseringens skuggsida
Torsten Janson, Thomas Stoor
(2001) Den oönskade missionen: Proselytismen i Ryssland och den ortodoxa kyrkans reaktioner , p.205-244
Book chapterDa'wa: Islamic Missiology in Discourse and History
Torsten Janson
(2001) Swedish Missiological Themes, 89 p.359-415
ArticleOm lejon kunde tala. Religions- och kulturbegrepp i globaliseringens kölvatten. Paper vid Humanistdagarna 2000, Lunds universitet
Torsten Janson
(2000)
Paper, not in proceedingProblematizations of Islamic Value Reconstruction in a Globalized Setting. Paper at 4th Nordic Conference in Middle Eastern Studies: The Middle East in a Globalized World. Oslo, Norway
Torsten Janson
(1998)
Paper, not in proceeding
Research Project
Current Project at CMES
Beyond Sacred/Secular Cities - Exploring Politics of Memory, Space, and Religion in Middle Eastern Nationalisms (2022-2025), funded by the MECW Research Program