2018

The conference will investigate whether and to what extent religious knowledge in the form of textual traditions and rituals was accessible to and known by ordinary people beyond religious functionaries.

Professor Mary Evelyn Tucker is a pioneer in the field of religion and ecology, and this years Arne Næss Chair. 

A workshop with the lecturers of the 2018 Aasta Hansteen Lecture on Gender and Religion. 

The workshop will be followed by a social gathering and informal dinner.

Professors Janet R. Walton and Claudio Carvalhaes, Union Theological Seminary, New York, give the 7th Aasta Hansteen Lecture on Gender and Religion: "Queering Christian Worship Services"

The Middle Commentary on Aristotleʼs Nicomachean Ethics was written by the Muslim philosopher Ibn Rushd, in the west known as Averroes, in 1177. The original Arabic text is lost, but Frédérique Woerther has studied the extant Hebrew and Latin translations and will give a lecture on Averroes' modification of Aristotleʼs text, his motives and whom he addresses in this text.

How have theologians and grassroots individuals influenced the interpretations of Shi’a Islam in Iranian after the Revolution in 1979?

The purpose of this two-day workshop is to explore the relevance of the Jewish tradition (Torah, rabbinic tradition, rituals) as it developed from ancient times until today, for both Jews and non-Jews in Norway and other Scandinavian countries.

Dr. Jerusha Tanner Lamptey from Union Theological Seminary, New York, will explore the challenges and possibilities of the method of comparative feminist theology in Muslim-Christian interreligious engagement.