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Thomas Bossius is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg. His research bridges musicology, cultural studies, and sociology, focusing on the intersection of music, religion, and contemporary living conditions. He has led interdisciplinary projects exploring subcultures like Black Metal and Psychedelic Trance, while also examining Christian youth culture, country music symbolism, and electronic dance music's global trajectory.
His scholarly output includes co-edited anthologies such as Religion and Popular Music in Europe and Made in Sweden: Studies in Popular Music. Bossius investigates music's role in identity construction, secular-sacred identity dynamics, and the sociocultural implications of festivals and club culture. His work spans both historical and ethnographic methodologies, emphasizing music's function as a meaning-making practice in late modernity.
- 2003 Ph.D. dissertation on Black Metal/Trance subcultures
- 2004-2005 Mobilisation Against Narcotics project on festival drug use
- 2006-2011 Musik i Människors Liv study on daily music consumption
- 2011-2018 book compilation Religion and Popular Music with Andreas Häger
