Yvonne Maria Karin Margareta Werner ( Brorsson; born February 28, 1954) is a

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and

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. She currently works at

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Biography

Brorsson was born in the town of Båstad in

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. In 1989 she doctored at

in Swedish-German relations around year 1900. She became a research assistant there in 1992,

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in 1999 and

in 2008 at Lund University. Werner converted to

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in 1987, and has especially researched the history of Catholicism in the Nordic countries during the 19th and 20th centuries. She has written numerous works in this area. In her research, she has investigated how moral values change over time and how they look in different societies, as well as how the moral values are conveyed to citizens and how the society reacts to ideological deviants. Werner has participated in and facilitated several research projects, including the Nordic project ''The Women's Monastery Movement in the Nordic Region. A feminine counterculture in modern society'', which ended in 2004, and ''Christian masculinity - a paradox of modernity: Men and religion in a Northern European context 1840-1940,'' which lasted until 2010. During the period 2005–2013, Werner was chairwoman of the Historical Society (

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) at Lund. She has participated in the

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's Preparatory Group for Historical Sciences, Postdoctoral and Reorganization Panel in several rounds, and has also participated as a reviewer for other scientific councils and foundations in Sweden and in the Nordic region. In addition to her work, Werner was employed as a tour leader for Catholic places in Italy, such as Assisi and Rome.

Awards and honours

* 1997 – The New Society of Letters at Lund member (Ledamot av Vetenskapssocieteten i Lund, LVSL) *2002 - Royal Swedish History and Antiquity Academy: Uno Lindgren 's award for "outstanding and attentive insight into Catholic missionary history in Sweden".

Bibliography (not complete)

* 1996 - ''Världsvid men främmande. Den katolska kyrkan i Sverige 1873–1929'', Katolska bokförlaget * 1998 - ''Den frivilliga döden. Samhällets hantering av självmord i historiskt perspektiv'', red.

Birgitta Odén Agnes Birgitta Odén-Dunér (11 August 1921 – 5 May 2016) was a Swedes, Swedish historian. She was the first woman to hold a professorship at Lund University, and was also the first female history professor in Sweden. Life Birgitta Oden was ...

, Bodil E. B. Persson, Yvonne Maria Werner, Cura förlag * 2002 - ''Katolsk mission och kvinnlig motkultur: Sankt Josefsystrarna i Danmark och Sverige 1856–1936'', Veritas förlag * 2004 - ''Nuns and Sisters in the Nordic Countries after the Reformation. A Female Counter-Culture in Modern Society'', ed. Yvonne Maria Werner, Studia Missionalia Svecana LXXXIX * 2004 - ''Döden som katharsis. Nordiska perspektiv på dödens kultur och mentalitetshistoria'', red. Yvonne Maria Werner, Almqvist & Wiksell * 2005 - ''Kvinnligt klosterliv i Sverige och Norden: En motkultur i det moderna samhället,'' red. Yvonne Maria Werner, Catholica * 2005 - ''Nordisk katolicism Katolsk mission och konversion i Danmark i ett nordiskt perspektiv'', Makadam förlag * 2008 - ''Kristen manlighet. Ideal och verklighet 1830–1940'', red. Yvonne Maria Werner, Nordic Academic Press * 2011 - ''Christian masculinity. Men and religion in northern Europe in the 19th and 20th century'', ed. Yvonne Maria Werner, Leuven University Press * 2013 - ''European Anti-Catholicism in a Comparative and Transnational Perspective'', eds. Yvonne Maria Werner and Jonas Harvard, Brill * 2014 - ''Katolsk manlighet. Det antimoderna alternativet. Katolska missionärer och lekmän i Skandinavien'', Makadam förlag * 2015 - "Den katolska faran': Antikatolicismen och den svenska nationella identiteten i ett nordiskt perspektiv": Scandia 81:1 * 2016 - "Katholische Männlichkeit in Skandinavien": Hg. Michaela Sohn-Kronthaler, ''Feminisierung oder (Re-)Maskulinisierung der Religion im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert?'', Böhlau Verlag * 2016 - "Liturgie und Männlichkeit in der katholischen Mission in Skandinavien": Hg. F. Franziska Metzger & E. Pahud de Mortanges, ''Orte und Räume des Religiösen im 19.–21. Jahrhundert'', Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag * 2017 - "Historiska perspektiv på den katolska kyrkan och demokratin." Signum: Katolsk orientering om kyrka, kultur, samhälle nr 4

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Werner, Yvonne Maria 1954 births Living people Swedish women academics Swedish women historians 20th-century Swedish historians 21st-century Swedish historians Academic staff of Lund University Converts to Roman Catholicism Lund University alumni People from Båstad Municipality Swedish Roman Catholics