On August 1, Samantha Leanne Smith and Sarah Moran joined the Faculty of Theology as postdoctoral fellows. Together with project leader Ragnhild Marthine Bø, they will form the research team for the project “Dressing the Saints”.
Sileshie Semahagne Kumlachew started in his new position at the Faculty of Theology on February 2. “I am particularly interested in how faith communities contribute to ecological awareness, environmental ethics, and sustainable practices”, he says.
For one week, Circle U students from across Europe gathered in Oslo to study how the climate crisis impacts society, politics, and the human being.
Jens Köhrsen is set to bring his research project on the greening of religion from Basel to Oslo this August. He is joined by Maja Kofod Jensen and Nadine Brühwiler, who will both contribute as researchers to the project.
With a focus on Embodiment and Positionality, PhD candidates and scholars from nine countries and three continents gathered for a week of lectures and seminars in Oslo.
Ola Sigurdson recently assumed the position of Professor of Systematic Theology at the Faculty of Theology in Oslo.
Allison Murray recently started in the position as Associate Professor of Feminist Theology and Gender Studies.
Johanna Bokedal, Lea Matthaei, Ole Vinther, and Nina Gacic have recently joined the Faculty of Theology as new PhD fellows. Coming from varied academic backgrounds, they will each bring their own unique perspectives and research interests to our faculty.
The present volume focuses on the Coptic parabiblical texts – those texts that do not belong to the Bible but fall in its orbit – which include not only the Apocrypha but also the works of the Apostolic Fathers.
Nobel Prize winner Emmanuelle Charpentier as well as Dr. Sjur Bergan and Professor Trond Petersen are among UiO's honorary doctors 2024. They will be formally appointed at UiO's Annual Celebration on 2 September, where topics related to academic freedom and democracy will receive special attention.
Befriending the North Wind – Children, Moral Agency, and the Good Death is about the moral lives of children and their agency in decisions about death.
The University Board has decided to appoint Laura Nasrallah to honorary doctor at the University of Oslo (UiO) in 2024. Nasrallah is Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School, and she was suggested as new honorary doctor by the Faculty of Theology, UiO.
Since their discovery in 1945, the significance of the texts contained in the thirteen papyrus manuscripts now known as the Nag Hammadi Codices has been fiercely debated.
The volume offers a new critical reflection on the use of the Bible in contemporary cultural and political debates in the Nordic countries.
Religious Responses to Pandemics and Crises explores various dimensions of the interrelations between the individual, community, and religion.
Professor Emeritus Werner G. Jeanrond will receive an honorary doctorate from Regis College at the University of Toronto in November. "This came as a great surprise," Jeanrond says.
This volume explores how religious and spiritual actors engage for environmental protection and fight against climate change. Climate change and sustainability are increasingly prominent topics among religious and spiritual groups.
For the next academic year, Ivan Miroshnikov will be joining the Faculty as a visiting researcher on the APOCRYPHA-project. “Professor Hugo Lundhaug has gathered a wonderful team of young Coptologists, and I am very excited to work in such a pleasant and stimulating environment,” Miroshnikov says.
Earlier this month we welcomed Aleksandr Andreev to the Faculty of Theology. In his PhD project, Andreev will study the manuscripts of the Horologion – a book used for daily worship in the Orthodox Church.
The authors presented in this volume deal with important cases of Protestantization of religion or of debates on religion.
This volume presents a detailed introduction to the post-Reformation church topography of Norway. Around 140 epitaphs are preserved in all parts of Norway from the period 1550 to 1700, and are in this volume documented with illustrations, descriptions and short biographies.
For the first time, two UiO projects within the humanities have received financing via the ERC Proof of Concept Grant. The project “Tool for the Analysis of Information Transfer in Manuscript Cultures” will develop a new digital tool.
Did the Reformation introduce a new approach to philosophy? How did this historical caesura influence key thinkers in the history of modern philosophy up to the twenty-first century?
The contributions in the present volume explore in various ways potentialities and problems linked to imagination's role in the context of religion.
Earlier this month we welcomed Eduard Sablon Leiva to the Faculty of Theology. Leiva is here for a three-month research period, supported by the University of Oslo’s Scholars at Risk Committee due to the ongoing war in Ukraine.
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