Anders Berg-Sørensen

Anders Berg-Sørensen is Associate Professor in Political Theory with an interest in intellectual history, ideology studies and the history of political thought.

He is doing research on the contestation of the religion-politics relationship in European public discourse and political thinking historically and actually. The focus has been on the political doctrine of secularism regulating the religion-politics relationship, the formation of secularism in early modern political thought and the transformation of secularism in contemporary political theory. He is claiming a shift from a critique of secularism to a critical secularism. 

Currently, he is carrying out research on the political role of Christianity in Europe and the invocation of Christianity as crucial for European civlization in general and more specifically for national identities and values considered threatened by globalization and immigration. This research on the transnational phenomenon of Christian nationalism engages literature on political theology, liberal nationalism, democratic theory and political myths in the history of political thought. 

Education: 
PhD, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, October 2004 
MSc, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, September 1996
BSc, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, July 1993

Previous positions:
Head of Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, February 2016-January 2022. 
Assistant Professor in Political Theory, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, February 2008-January 2009
Assistant Professor in Religion in the 21st Century, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, March 2005-January 2008
Post. Doc. in Democratic Governance, Department of Social Sciences, Roskilde University, September 2003-February 2005 (Paternal leave September 2004-January 2005)
Research Assistant, Department of Social Sciences, Roskilde University and Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, March 2003-August 2003
Head of Section, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, April 2002-February 2003
Research Fellow, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, October 1999-March 2002 (Visiting Fellow, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University, Spring 2001 and Visiting Scholar, Department of Philosophy, Johan Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt a.M., Winter 2001-2002)
Head of Section, Ministry of Education, May 1997-September 1999
Part-Time Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences, Roskilde University, September 1996-June 1999
Part-Time Lecturer, Department of Jurisprudence, Aarhus University, January 1997-April 1997

Current position:
Associate Professor in Political Theory, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, February 2009-