Tomas Poletti Lundström

Research fellow

Designation

Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism (CEMFOR), Uppsala University, Sweden

Contact
tomas.lundstrom@teol.uu.se

Webpage
https://www.uu.se/en/contact-and-organisation/staff?query=N16-1238

Bio

Tomas Poletti Lundström, Associate Professor in Sociology of Religion and Ph.D. in the History of Religions, is a research fellow at the Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism (CEMFOR), Uppsala University. He is an expert on the religion-politics nexus regarding generic fascism and Christian nationalism. Poletti Lundström studies antisemitism within the Swedish Pentecostal movement – as part of The Free Church and the Holocaust, a three-year project funded by the Swedish Research Council. His published works include the monograph Nation, Race, Religion: A Story of Sweden’s Spiritual Vikings (Routledge 2025).

Research interests

Christian nationalism
Racism
Radical nationalism
Clerical fascism
Digital fascism

Featured publications

Poletti Lundström. T. 2025. Nation, Race, Religion: A Story of Sweden’s Spiritual Vikings. Abingdon: Routledge.

Poletti Lundström, T. 2025. ”The politics of power and persecution: evangelical nationalism in Sweden”, Religion, State and Society 53(5): 445–462.

Lundström, T. 2023. “Evangelical Supremacy: Political Thought in a Swedish Revivalist Newspaper”, Nordic Journal of Religion and Society 36(2): 81–94.

Lundström, M. & Poletti Lundström, T. 2023. “Radical nationalism”, Journal of Political Ideologies, online first, 1–14.

Poletti Lundström, T. 2022. Trons försvarare: Idéer om religion i svensk radikalnationalism 1988–2020. Uppsala: Uppsala universitet.