Svante Lundgren

Svante Lundgren is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies from Åbo Akademi University, Finland, and works as a researcher at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies and the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University, Sweden. His research interests include modern Jewish history and thought, antisemitism, and Jewish-Christian relations, but also Christian communities in the Middle East, especially Armenians and Assyrians. He has published extensively on the Armenian Genocide and on modern and contemporary Armenian issues. He acted as the narrator in the documentary movie Map of Salvation (1915), which tells the story of five women missionaries who were eyewitnesses to the Armenian Genocide. In 1998 he was awarded with the International Erich Fromm Prize for his book on the religious thought of Erich Fromm.