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Stefan Schwarzkopf is Associate Professor at Copenhagen Business School. His research specialism is to study the interactions between religious and economic phenomena, a field that is now emerging under the umbrella term of economic theology. This project is part of Schwarzkopf’s ongoing research on how corporations, both past and present, shape public religion and how specific religious themes continue to shape corporate capitalism. Related publication and research projects include a study of recent marketing trends in society that lead to the formation of sacralised sectarian communities, a study of the role that quasi-monastic asceticism plays in the emergence of new professions and industries, and a study of secret hiding spaces for tax-free capital assets. Stefan is active in the European Group of Organization Studies (EGOS) and the American Sociological Association (ASA).

Stefan’s profile: https://www.cbs.dk/en/research/departments-and-centres/department-of-management-politics-and-philosophy/staff/sscmpp

Sine Nørholm Just is a professor of strategic communication at the Department of Communication and Arts, Roskilde University. In the project on Pride as public ritual, she is particularly interested in the communicative dynamics that bring members of the LGBTQIA+ movement together – and those that tear them apart. Further, she relates those dynamics to the broader processes of in- and exclusion through which Pride Parades come to celebrate a civil religion. Thus, Sine’s engagement with the project supplements her work with strategizing communication, broadly speaking. Theoretically, she is concerned with the relationship between intended and realized strategy, including the enactment of individual and collective agency via mediated affordances so as to constitute organizational assemblages. She also studies how such processes of meaning formation interact with legitimacy and identity to (re)shape social formations. Besides the specific focus on Pride Parades, her empirical attention spans such issues as public debate about the EU, the communicative dimensions of the financial crisis, and organizational negotiations of diversity and difference.

Sine’s profile: https://forskning.ruc.dk/en/persons/sinenjust

Jannick Friis Christensen is a post-doctoral researcher at Copenhagen Business School and Theme Lead for Gender and Sexuality in the CBS Diversity and Difference Business in Society Platform. Focusing on norm-critical approaches to organising and researching diversity, Jannick has in recent years studied conventional work organisations from queer perspectives in collaboration with Danish labour unions. He also engages with alternative organisations, for example Roskilde Festival, where he explores the phenomenon of transgressive behaviour, as well as practices for creating diverse and inclusive volunteer communities.

Jannick’s profile: https://www.cbs.dk/en/research/departments-and-centres/department-of-management-politics-and-philosophy/staff/jfcmpp