About Ninna Edgardh
I love words. It is a love I have always had. Words are for play and for deep conversations. I have use for this love of mine both in my work as a priest in the Church of Sweden and as a professor in ecclesiology at Uppsala University.
Sometimes though, I feel a need for refuge from words in bodily experiences. During the last years I have even attended a course in how to use the body and bodily movements in worship. We learn – and have to learn anew – how to say with our bodies what we say with words and to put words to what our bodies say to us.
Images are important for me too. During one period of my life, I painted a lot. Images from inside of me wanted to come out. That was a major reason behind my theological studies and my wish to be a priest. Through the images, God managed to make contact with me, in a way that words had never been able to do. Communication is what holds all of what I do together. Communication with words, images, movements and actions and with God and fellow human beings. This webpage is for you who want to share some of that with me.

• Download my resume and a book chapter, which explains the role that gender plays in my research.