Mattias Sommer Bostrup is an associate professor of church history.
Primary research expertise:
- Religion in early modern Northern Europe, including
- The Reformation
- Religious and denominational diversity in the 17th-18th centuries
- Christian mission and globalization
- Danish colonies (Greenland, India)
- Church history in the 19th and 20th centuries
- Liberal theology and cultural Christianity
- Historiography
- Global church history
- Memorialisation and other uses of history
Current work, leading up to and during the jubilee year 2026, focuses on Ansgar and the ways in which later generations have constructed memories of him through their uses of history.
