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Hans Bertil Mattias Gardell (born 10 August 1959) is a Sweden historian and scholar of comparative religion. In March 2006 he was appointed of the Nathan Söderblom Chair of Comparative Religion at Uppsala University, Sweden. He received the Lenin Award in 2009.
From 2004 to 2006 he lived in Cairo, Egypt, studying the rise of political Islam. In March 2006, he returned to Sweden and was appointed the first holder (from 1 July 2006) of the Nathan Söderblom Chair of Comparative Religion at Uppsala University. He received the Lenin Award in 2009.
In 2010, Gardell was one of eleven Swedish activists from Ship to Gaza participating in the flotilla that tried to break the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip. Along with his wife, Edda Manga, Gardell was aboard MV Mavi Marmara during the Israeli armed forces' raid on the flotilla on the morning of 31 May 2010. He was deported from Israel and landed in Sweden on 3 June 2010 along with Manga and other Swedish participants. He told Swedish journalists "We were victims of a massive military assault ... It can not be described as anything but piracy." He also stated that the soldiers came on board with fully loaded weapons equipped with laser sights and at least four people were killed execution style.
In 2012, he testified as an expert witness on Islamophobia in the trial of Anders Behring Breivik In 2018, he co-authored the "Sweden"-section of the European Islamophobia Report 2017 published by the Erdogan controlled think-tank SETA. In a 2015 interview Gardell stated that individuals who commit acts of Islamic terrorism for Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State have "no previous contacts with Islam" and "have no connections to any mosque" but instead have radicalized online.
As of 2023, he is married to Edda Manga. Uppsala University website, Literature on the brain, article dated 2 October 2023
He has said that he feels an attachment to Asatru and has practiced it "in waves", but as of 2007 did not practice it actively. In 2007 he considered himself pagan and has called himself a " spiritual anarchist". Gardell is a libertarian socialist and a known human rights defender.
Personal life
As of 2006, Gardell had nine children, six of his own and three "bonus children".
Awards
Bibliography
(1995). 9789171533708, Stockholm University. ISBN 9789171533708 (dissertation)
(1998). 9789186474225, Federativ. ISBN 9789186474225
(2025). 9780822330592, Duke University Press. ISBN 9780822330592
(2025). 9789173430241, Leopard. ISBN 9789173430241
(2025). 9789173431712, Leopard. ISBN 9789173431712
(2025). 9789173432887, Leopard. ISBN 9789173432887
(2025). 9789173433815, Leopard förlag. ISBN 9789173433815
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Categories: 1959 Births, Living People, People From Solna Municipality, Stockholm University Alumni, Academic Staff Of Uppsala University, Swedish Historians Of Religion, Swedish Anarchists, Swedish Socialists, Researchers Of New Religious Movements And Cults, Pagan Studies Scholars, Scholars Of Islamophobia, Academics And Writers On Far-right Politics, People Deported From Israel, Swedish Modern Pagans, Modern Pagan Writers, Libertarian Socialists, Swedish Anti-fascists, Adherents Of Germanic Neopaganism, 21st-century Anarchists
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