Research Team

Prof Henrik Reintoft Christensen is Associate Professor in Sociology of Religion at the Department for the Study of Religion at Aarhus University, Denmark, where he is also the Director of the Center for Contemporary Religion. Prof Christensen has worked extensively on the role of the majority churches in the Scandinavian societies in relation to religion in the public sphere, religion in secular institutions, and religion and funerals. Recently he has worked on the relationship between religion, existential issues and the pandemic which he will continue to develop in the Recovira project.