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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The "Oslo School" in Africa
In May 2019 three of our African PhDs, Loreen Maseno (2008), Maseno University, Kenya, Elia Mligo (2009), Teofilo Kisanji University, Tanzania, and Zoro Dube (2012), University of Pretoria, organized an international confernce on “The Bible, Gender, and Household in Early Christian Texts and Contemporary Church.”
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Faculty of Theology welcomes Associate Professor Enrique Santos Marinas, as visiting researcher
This spring, the Faculty has the honor of having Associate Professor Enrique Santos Marinas as visiting researcher. Santos Marinas comes from the Complutense University of Madrid.
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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.
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