The Donner Institute
The Donner Institute for Research into Religion and Culture is a private research institute connected to the Åbo Akademi University Foundation. We gather researchers, students and cultural agents and provide a meeting point for research on religion and culture in Finland and in the Nordic countries. We work to strengthen the visibility of research and create spaces where new knowledge can be born.
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The Donner Institute Research Prize awarded to Andrea Franchetto and Bjarke Stanley Nielsen
The Donner Institute for Research into Religion and Culture has decided to award its 2025 Research Prize to Dr Andrea Franchetto and Dr Bjarke Stanley Nielsen. This marks the first time the prize has been awarded to two researchers. Both Franchetto’s and Nielsen’s dissertations offer important new research in areas closely aligned with the institute’s focus. Andrea Franchetto is recognized for the book Rituals of Perceptual Presence: Space, Material Culture, and Efficacy in Late-Medieval Learned Magic (Stockholm University, 2024), submitted as a doctoral dissertation at the Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies at Stockholm University. Bjarke Stanley...
