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, Ph.D. in the History of Religions, is a research fellow at the Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism (CEMFOR) at 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. He is finishing a book entitled Spiritual Vikings: A Religious History of Radical Nationalism, which is forthcoming with Routledge (2025). His previous works include contributions to the contemporary history of radical nationalism – for example “Evangelical Supremacy” (2023) and “Radical nationalism” (2023). He has also authored the doctoral dissertation Trons försvarare: Idéer om religion i svensk radikalnationalism 1988–2020.

Research interests

Christian nationalism
Racism
Radical nationalism
Clerical fascism
Digital fascism

Featured publications

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.

Lundström, M. & Poletti Lundström, T. 2021. “Podcast ethnography”, International Journal of Social Research Methodology 24(3): 289–299.

Poletti Lundström, T. & Lundström, M. 2021. “Radical-Nationalist Podcasting under a Post-Fascist Condition: The Swedish Podcast Motgift”, Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies 10(1): 186–201.