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Kristina Myrvold is an Associate Professor in Religious Studies at Linnaeus University, specializing in Indian religions and cultures with a focus on Sikhism. She works in the Department of Cultural Sciences under the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. Her research spans religious beliefs, ritual practices, historiography, and Sikh migration/integration dynamics in the Nordic diaspora.
- Education: Ph.D. in History of Religions, Lund University (2007)
Research Trends examine material culture of religious texts, colonial/postcolonial intersections, and wartime religious practices. She has extensively studied miniature scriptures for Indian soldiers in World War I and ritualized interactions with Guru Granth Sahib. Her work integrates fieldwork in India and Sweden with archival analysis.
Project Leadership includes: Religion in the Trenches (Swedish Research Council, 2015–2018) on wartime religious artifacts, and current Iconic Scriptures (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond) and Religion in Times of Crises (Swedish Research Council) projects.
Editorial Roles include co-editing Brill's Encyclopedia of Sikhism (2017–2025) and Miniature Books: The Format and Function of Tiny Religious Texts (2019). She has published 4 volumes of Sikh News in India, 1864–1924 (Brill, 2024) analyzing colonial-era Punjabi newspapers.
