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Trym Sundby

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Trym Sundby

PhD Candidate
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies

trym.sundby@ntnu.no
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About me:

I hold an MA-thesis in European Culture. (EKUL). I specialized in 19th century radical tropological pietism in Norway. My thesis examined the ways in which the biblical narrative manifested itself through specific religious practices and the meaning of conversion as personal and communal experience. I am interested in the historicity of biblical hermeneutics, historical-temporal perception and Christianity as a reality-structuring narrative culture.

 

Current project:

I am a Ph.D applicant working under the project “Religious and Secular World-Making: Narrative Cultures of Utopian Emigration and the Formation of Modern Regimes of Attention” (NC-RoA). My Ph.D combines perspectives from cognitive science with historical-temporal analysis to examine changes in perception and experience on the part of Scandinavian emigrants to America in the 19th Century.

Competencies

  • Cultural History
  • History of Ideas
  • Pietism
  • Religious History
  • Science of Religion
  • Tropology
  • emigration history

Research

  • Religious and Secular Worldmaking: Narrative Cultures of Utopian Emigration and the Formation of Modern Regimes of Attention

Religious and Secular Worldmaking: Narrative Cultures of Utopian Emigration and the Formation of Modern Regimes of Attention

NC-RoA investigates utopian narrative cultures in a historical setting to study the cognitive dynamics that lead to drifting perceptions of the world.

Publications

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2025

  • Sundby, Trym. (2025) Emigrerende endetidslogikker: Sakralhistorie mellom Skandinavia og Jerusalem. Tidsskrift for kulturforskning
    Academic article

Journal publications

  • Sundby, Trym. (2025) Emigrerende endetidslogikker: Sakralhistorie mellom Skandinavia og Jerusalem. Tidsskrift for kulturforskning
    Academic article

Outreach

2025

  • Academic lecture
    Sundby, Trym. (2025) Inference and Expectation: Eschatology and its Alternatives. the XXIII International Association for the History of Religions World Congress , Jagiellonian University, Krakow 2025-08-24 - 2025-08-29
  • Academic lecture
    Sundby, Trym. (2025) Unbounded Horizons: Eschatology and its Alternatives in 19th Century Scandinavian Utopian Emigration. Transatlantiske kulturmøter. Utvandring, offentlighet og identitet 1825 – 1945 , Nasjonalbiblioteket, Oslo 2025-05-12 - 2025-05-13

2024

  • Academic lecture
    Sundby, Trym. (2024) Presentasjon av prosjekt. Seminar arrangert av forskningsgruppen Experiencing American Democracy (ExAm). Seminarpresentasjon av Ph.D-prosjekt , Universitetet i Oslo 2024-09-18 - 2024-09-18
  • Academic lecture
    Sundby, Trym. (2024) AAE Workshop on 4E Approaches to Religion. AAE Workshop on 4E Approaches to Religion , NTNU, Trondheim 2024-06-26 - 2024-06-26

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