Born 1952, professor in Church history since 1999. His research is both institutional history and history of spirituality. The human being in the history of the Christian church - single or in group - has a central position. Church history is an encounter - between theological ideas, Church and society (f.e. Churches and National Socialism or Religious freedom), between structures and actors, between concrete humans and Christianity/Church in different shapes. Cross-scientific interests are "Law and Religion", theology and literature (Lidner, Tegnér, Strindberg), and music and history (Bach, Wagner). As director of the Lund University Ecclesiastical History Archives (LUKA) responsible for the questionnaires, both general, to all parishes in the Church of Sweden, concerning changes in Church life, and special (Christmas craddles, services at Court sessions). Since 2001 editor of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift (KÅ). Also editorial member of Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte.
