Research
Growing number of Muslim pilgrims in Europe
Pilgrimages have become more popular all over the world in recent years. New pilgrimage sites are emerging and in Europe Muslims and Christians are visiting each other’s pilgrimage sites.
News
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Bernhard Waldenfels visiting Nordhost
NORDHOST is very honoured to welcome Professor em. Dr. Bernhard Waldenfels to Oslo as a visiting scholar this spring. His program will among other things include an open guest lecture on the 27 th of March, 10:15-11:00 AM in the Faculty Library, Domus Theologica. His topic will be Responsive Phenomenology: Thinking and Acting from Elsewhere.
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Thomas Arentzen writes from Dumbarton Oaks
Postdoctoral fellow Thomas Arentzen is spending the academic year of 2018/19 at the prestigious Dumbarton Oaks, a Harvard University research institute. The upcoming fall of 2019, he will move to Uppsala University after receiving a project grant by the Swedish Research Council for the next four years. Below, you can read his Letter from America.
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Faculty of Theology welcomes postcolonial religion scholar, Dr. Federico G. Settler, as visiting researcher
This fall, the Faculty has the honor of having Dr. Federico Settler as visiting researcher. Dr. Settler comes from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, and will stay for the whole semester.
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Werner G. Jeanrond new professor in systematic theology
With the appointment of Werner G. Jeanrond, the Faculty of Theology has one of the most influential theologians of the last 30 years under its roof. Although a seasoned researcher, his hunger for more theological explorations is still the same.
Events
Authoritative Texts and Their Reception (ATTR)
For PhD students within the fields of theology, the humanities and law.
This research school offers research seminars, student seminars, mobility grants, and interdisciplinary research networks.
UiO:Nordic
- New knowledge about the Nordic model
- Large interdisciplinary research effort
The Faculty of Theology hosts the research group NORDHOST (Nordic hospitalities in a context of migration and refugee crisis), and participates in The Public Sphere and Freedom of Expression in the Nordic Countries, 1815-1900