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Anne Hege Grung

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Visiting address Blindernveien 9 Domus Theologica 0371 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1023 Blindern 0315 Oslo

Academic Interests

Plural spiritual care and chaplaincy, critical studies of interreligious encounters and interreligious dialogues, Muslim-Christian relations, gender and interreligious hermeneutics

Tags: Hermeneutics, Chaplaincy, Interreligious Studies, Interreligious Dialogue, Politics and Religion, Practical Theology

Publications

  • Grung, Anne Hege & Aliknaite, Egle (2025). Religious Gender Politics in Lithuania and Norway: Interdenominational and Interreligious Alliances and Their Positionings. In Kartzow, Marianne Bjelland; Ališauskienė, Milda & Aleknaitė, Eglė (Ed.), Religion and Gender Equality around the Baltic Sea: Ideologies, Policies, and Private Life. Routledge. ISSN 9781032678115. Full text in Research Archive
  • Vidunaite, Morta; Grung, Anne Hege & Babash, Anastasiia (2025). Between Gender Equality and Religion: Pious Baltic Muslim Women's Quest for 'True' Islam. In Kartzow, Marianne Bjelland; Ališauskienė, Milda & Aleknaitė, Eglė (Ed.), Religion and Gender Equality around the Baltic Sea: Ideologies, Policies, and Private Life. Routledge. ISSN 9781032678115. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege & Lillebø, Anne Anita (2023). Samtalekompetanse i et tros- og livssynspluralt samfunn: Hvordan bygge kompleks kompetanse? In Aschim, Per Kristian & Johannessen, Halvard (Ed.), Spesialprest i livssynsåpent samfunn. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISSN 9788202831639. doi: 10.23865/noasp.207. Full text in Research Archive
  • Austad, Anne; Danbolt, Lars Johan; Grung, Anne Hege & Stifoss-Hanssen, Hans (2023). Porous Pastoral Care. Priests' and Deacons' Pastoral Care Conversations in Local Communities in Norway. Diaconia. Journal for the Study of Christian Social Practice. ISSN 1869-3261. 13(1), p. 35–59. doi: 10.13109/diac.2023.14.1.35. Full text in Research Archive
  • Babash, Anastasiia & Grung, Anne Hege (2023). Conceptualisations of Gender Equality and Gender Justice in the Baltic and the Nordic Regions: Estonia and Norway Compared. RELIGION AND SOCIETY IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE. 16(1), p. 25–38. doi: 10.20413/rascee.2023.16.1.25-38. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2022). Complexities of Spiritual Care in Plural Societies - An Introduction. In Grung, Anne Hege (Eds.), Complexities of Spiritual Care in Plural Societies Education, Praxis and Concepts. De Gruyter Open. ISSN 9783110717365. p. 1–13. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2022). Interreligious Studies and Gender: Critical Intersectional Feminist Perspectives. In Mosher, Lucinda (Eds.), The Georgetown Companion to Interreligious Studies. Georgetown University Press. ISSN 9781647121631. p. 168–175. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2021). Narratives of the suburb as religious neighbourhood: How a local church and mosque in an Oslo suburb negotiate Muslim-Christian neighbourly relations. In Kartzow, Marianne Bjelland (Eds.), The Ambiguous Figure of the Neighbour in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Texts and Perceptions. Routledge. ISSN 9780367637835. p. 213–220. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2021). Pluralisering av åndelig og eksistensiell omsorg i norske institusjoner. Utfordringer, muligheter og spørsmål. Kirke og kultur. ISSN 0023-186X. p. 366–379. doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-3002-2021-04-07. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2021). The complexities of practices: a reality check. Exploring the learning possibilities in a plural practice module of chaplaincy and religious leadership in 2020 while practicing social distancing. Studia Theologica - Nordic Journal of Theology. ISSN 0039-338X. 75(1), p. 67–78. doi: 10.1080/0039338X.2021.1914896. Full text in Research Archive
  • Danbolt, Lars Johan; Zock, Hetty; Austad, Anne; Grung, Anne Hege & Stifoss-Hanssen, Hans (2021). Existential care in a modern society: pastoral care consultations in local communities in Norway. International Journal of Practical Theology. ISSN 1430-6921. 25(1), p. 20–39. doi: 10.1515/ijpt-2020-0027. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2021). Norwegian Muslim and Christian Feminists Reading the Hagar Narratives. In Scholz, Susanne (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780190462673. p. 591–604. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2021). Complex interactions: Conversion and Interreligious Dialogue in the Norwegian Context, The Complexity of Conversion. Intersectional Perspectives on Religious Change in Antiquity and Beyond. Equinox Publishing. ISSN 9781781795729. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2021). Tros- og livssynsplural sjelesorg : Noen grunnleggende spørsmål og refleksjoner. Tidsskrift for Sjelesorg. ISSN 0333-3388. 41(3-4), p. 339–351. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2020). Interreligious or Transreligious? In Gustafson, Hans (Eds.), Interreligious studies : Dispatches from an emerging field. Baylor University Press. ISSN 9781481312547. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2020). Religious and Worldview Diversity, Dialogue and Pedagogy. The Educational Promise of Complexity. In Leirvik, Oddbjørn Birger; Weisse, Wolfram; Ipgrave, Julia & Tatari, Muna (Ed.), Pluralisation of Theologies at European Universities. Waxmann Verlag. ISSN 9783830942016. p. 105–112. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2019). Doppelter Dialog. Wechselseitige Anerkennung von religiösen und säkularen AkteurInnen im interreligiösen Dialog. In Weisse, Wolfram & Steets, Silke (Ed.), Im Gespräch mit Peter L. Berger. Eine Gedenkschrift zu den Perspektiven und Grenzen religiöser Pluralität. Waxmann Verlag. ISSN 9783830940616. p. 121–124. Full text in Research Archive
  • Stifoss-Hanssen, Hans; Grung, Anne Hege; Austad, Anne & Danbolt, Lars Johan (2019). Sjelesorg i bevegelse : kerygmatisk, konfidentorientert, dialogisk sjelesorg - møte mellom teoretiske posisjoner og et empirisk materiale. Tidsskrift for Sjelesorg. ISSN 0333-3388. 39(1), p. 75–95. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege & Bråten, Beret (2019). Chaplaincy and religious plurality in the Norwegian context. Tidsskrift for Praktisk Teologi (TPT). ISSN 1893-4773. p. 71–80. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2018). Negotiating gender justice between state, religion, and NGOs: A Lebanese case. Religions. 9(6), p. 1–12. doi: 10.3390/rel9060175. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2017). Transformative Hermeneutics in the Making through the co-Reading of Biblical and Qur'anic texts by Muslim and Christian Women. In Sinn, Simone; Omari, Dina El & Grung, Anne Hege (Ed.), Transformative Readings of Sacred Scriptures. Christians and Muslims in Dialogue. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt - Wissenschaft. ISSN 9783374054305. p. 29–37. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2017). Die Zwei Pluralismen: Positionen und Diskussionen in Norwegen, Zwei Pluralismen. Positionen aus Sozialwissenschaft und Theologie zu Religiöser Vielfalt und Säkularität. Waxmann Verlag. ISSN 9783830935858. p. 91–106. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2017). Interreligious Dialogue in the Squeeze between Diplomacy and Contextual Practices. Journal of Interreligious Studies. ISSN 2380-8187. p. 37–44. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2017). The two pluralisms in Norway. Society (New Brunswick). ISSN 0147-2011. 54(5), p. 432–438. doi: 10.1007/s12115-017-0165-2. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2017). Transreligious Critical Hermeneutics and Gender Justice: Contested Gendered Spaces. In Leirvik, Oddbjørn Birger; Winkler, Ulrich & Fernandez, Lidia Rodriguez (Ed.), Contested Spaces, Common Ground. Space and Power Structure in Contemporary Multireligious Societies. De Gruyter Brill. ISSN 9789004325791. p. 162–175. doi: 10.1163/9789004325807_013. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2016). Dialog mellom kristne og muslimer: å skape en felles tid. Fortellinger om fellesskap, Dialogteologi på norsk. Verbum Akademisk. ISSN 9788254313169. p. 53–62. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2016). Dialog og feminisme, Dialogteologi på norsk. Verbum Akademisk. ISSN 9788254313169. p. 196–210. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2016). Witnessing to Christ in a Multicultural Context: The Concept of 'Lord' in a Norwegian Context. In Fagerli, Beate; Jørgensen, Knud & Thoresen, Frank-Ole (Ed.), Witnessing to Christ in a Multi-Religious Context. Regnum Books. ISSN 9781911372011. p. 85–89. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege; Danbolt, Lars Johan & Stifoss-Hanssen, Hans (2016). Sjelesorg på plass : på sporet av dagens sjelesorgpraksis i Den norske kirke. Tidsskrift for Praktisk Teologi (TPT). ISSN 1893-4773. 33(1), p. 28–43. doi: 10.48626/tpt.v33i1.5188. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2015). Gender and Christian-Muslim Dialogue. In Hedges, Paul (Eds.), Contemporary Muslim-Christian Encounters. Developments, Diversity and Dialogues. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9781472588555. p. 67–81. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2015). De kristne i Libanon: Et tegn på håp? In Thorbjørnsrud, Berit S (Eds.), De kristne i Midtøsten. Kampen for tilhørighet. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISSN 9788202488970. p. 157–171. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2015). "Saved throught Childbirth? That's Not What the Koran Says". Muslim and Christian Women in Norway Making Meaning of 1 Tim 2:8-15. In Grung, Anne Hege; Kartzow, Marianne Bjelland & Solevåg, Anna Rebecca (Ed.), Bodies, Borders, Believers: Ancient Texts and Present Conversations. Pickwick Publications. ISSN 9781625644046. p. 433–446. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2014). Stålsett-utvalgets forhandlinger mellom religionsfrihet og kjønnslikestilling. En aktivt støttende likestillingspolitikk som en del av religionspolitikken? Teologisk tidsskrift. ISSN 1893-0263. 3(2), p. 202–216. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2013). Hagar as a Bad Mother, Hagar as an Icon of Faith: The Hagar Narratives from the Islamic and the Christian Traditions Discussed among Muslim and Christian Women in Norway. In Caspi, Mishael M. & Greene, John T. (Ed.), In the Arms of Biblical Women. Gorgias Press. ISSN 9781463202316. p. 65–78. doi: 10.31826/9781463235611-004. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2013). Kontaktgruppa i et kritisk kjønnsperspektiv: Mellom aktivisme og representativitet. Norsk tidsskrift for misjonsvitenskap. ISSN 1504-6605. p. 214–232. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege & Leirvik, Oddbjørn Birger (2012). Religionsdialog, identitetspolitikk og kompleksitet. Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7285. 23(1), p. 76–84. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2012). Drømmen om et dialogisk samfunn. Samtaler mellom muslimer og kristne. In Gilbert, Sidsel Kari; Stänicke, Erik & Engelstad, Fredrik (Ed.), Psyke, kultur og samfunn: Perspektiver på indre og ytre virkelighet. Abstrakt forlag. ISSN 9788279353324. p. 393–404. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2012). "Islam er en kvinneundertrykkende religion", Motgift: Akademisk respons på den nye høyreekstremismen. Flamme forlag. ISSN 9788202381707. p. 190–197. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2012). Fellesskap blant kristne og muslimer på Furuset. In Alghasi, Sharam; Eide, Elisabeth & Eriksen, Thomas Hylland (Ed.), Den globale drabantbyen. Groruddalen og det nye Norge. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISSN 9788202386559. p. 165–181. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2011). Dialog - målet er ikke enighet. Tidsskrift for Norsk psykologforening (Psykologtidsskriftet). ISSN 0332-6470. p. 561–562. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2011). Interreligious dialogue moving between compartmentalization and complexity. Approaching Religion. 1(1). doi: 10.30664/ar.67467. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2011). Makt og kontekst i Susanna-fortellingen :. Kirke og kultur. ISSN 0023-186X. 116(4), p. 288–304. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2011). Gender Justice in Muslim-Christian Readings: A Hermeneutical Case Study on Readings of Sura 4:34 and 1 Timothy 2:8-15 in a group of Muslim and Christian Women in Norway. Studies in Interreligious Dialogue. ISSN 0926-2326. 21(2). Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege & Kartzow, Marianne Bjelland (2011). Samtaler om Hagar. Tekster, fortellinger og religionsmøter. Kirke og kultur. ISSN 0023-186X. 116(3), p. 202–215. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2011). Profetier, projeksjoner og fakta på bakken. Produksjon av håp og håpløshet i religiøse diskurser om konflikten mellom Israel og palestinerne. Norsk Teologisk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0029-2176. p. 34–51. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2008). Religiøs diskrimineringsrett eller - vern: Hva bør ha forkjørsrett? Kirke og kultur. ISSN 0023-186X. p. 465–470. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2007). Hellige tekster i islamsk og kristen tradisjon. Et verktøy for undertrykkelse eller frigjøring? In Eriksen, Thomas Hylland & Vetlesen, Arne Johan (Ed.), Frihet. Universitetsforlaget. ISSN 9788215012025. p. 127–148. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2007). Gender Perspective in Muslim-Christian Dialogue: A Disturbance to Bridge-Building or a Contextual Necessity? In Engelsviken, Tromod (Eds.), Mission to the World: Communicating the Gospel in the 21st Century. Regnum Books. ISSN 9781870345644. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2006). Religionsdialog og kjønn: Kan interreligiøse dialoger føre til større kjønnsrettferdighet? Norsk Tidsskrift for Misjon. ISSN 0029-2214. p. 269–280. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2006). Troen, ordene og stillheten - om tro og meditasjon. In Henriksen, Jan-Olav (Eds.), Tro. 13 essays om tro. Kom forlag. ISSN 9788292496398. p. 191–202. Full text in Research Archive

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  • Ališauskienė, Milda & Grung, Anne Hege (2023). Where do the Religious and the Secular Meet in the Implementation of Gender Equality? Religion and Gender Equality in Post-Soviet Societies and Beyond. Introduction to the Special Issue of the RASCEE Journal. RELIGION AND SOCIETY IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE. 16(1), p. 1–4. doi: 10.20413/rascee.2023.16.1.1-4. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2019). Religionsmøte og kirkelige handlinger. St. Sunniva: Forum for Norsk Kvinnelig Teologforening. ISSN 0808-2901. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2019). Religionsdialog i et kjønnsperspektiv: Hvor står vi, og hvor går vi? Gud, gender och gemenskap. Texter från nio interreligiøse kvinnoseminarier.. Svenska Kyrkan. ISSN 9789151938172. p. 131–138. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2016). Å ta ansvar for tekstene. Tolkningsautoritet og tolkningsstrategier i møte med tekster fra bibelen, koranen og hadith. St. Sunniva: Forum for Norsk Kvinnelig Teologforening. ISSN 0808-2901. p. 35–42. Full text in Research Archive
  • Stifoss-Hanssen, Hans; Danbolt, Lars Johan; Grung, Anne Hege & Austad, Anne (2016). An empirical Research Project in theology: Pastoral care. Full text in Research Archive
  • Stifoss-Hanssen, Hans; Danbolt, Lars Johan & Grung, Anne Hege (2016). Sjelesorg på vei, rapport fra et empirisk forskningsprosjekt. Full text in Research Archive
  • Stifoss-Hanssen, Hans; Danbolt, Lars Johan & Grung, Anne Hege (2015). Sjelesorgsymposiet 2015: Sjelesorg på plass. Luthersk Kirketidende. ISSN 0332-5431. 150(6), p. 126–126. Full text in Research Archive
  • Solevåg, Anna Rebecca; Grung, Anne Hege & Kartzow, Marianne Bjelland (2015). Introduction. In Grung, Anne Hege; Kartzow, Marianne Bjelland & Solevåg, Anna Rebecca (Ed.), Bodies, Borders, Believers: Ancient Texts and Present Conversations. Pickwick Publications. ISSN 9781625644046. p. xiii–xvii. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2011). Terror i Guds navn. Luthersk Kirketidende. ISSN 0332-5431. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2011). Terror i Guds navn. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2011). Kjønnsrettferdighet og tolkning av tekster fra Bibelen, Koranen og Hadith blant norske kristne og muslimske kvinner. Religion og livssyn : Tidsskrift for religionslærerforeningen i Norge. ISSN 0802-8214. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege & Kartzow, Marianne Bjelland (2011). Heller Hagar enn Abraham? Full text in Research Archive
  • Leirvik, Oddbjørn Birger & Grung, Anne Hege (2009). Den liberale religionsdialogen. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. Full text in Research Archive
  • Leirvik, Oddbjørn Birger & Grung, Anne Hege (2009). Sensitiv religionsdialog. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2008). Godt nytt år, Gaza. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2008). På vei til en venn. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2007). Kjønn utfordrer religion. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2007). Omtale av Jeanette Sky: "Kjønn og religion". Norsk Teologisk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0029-2176. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2006). Å blande politikk og religion. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2006). Bokanmeldelse: Perceptions of Islam in the Christendoms, av Nasir Khan. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847. Full text in Research Archive
  • Joachimsen, Kristin; Lenz, Claudia; Grung, Anne Hege; Kloster, Sven Thore; Henriksen, Jan-Olav & Ådna, Jostein [Show all 10 contributors for this article] (2024). Den norske kirke i møte med jødedom og jøder. En kritisk gjennomgang med vekt på historiske, teologiske og menneskerettslige perspektiv. En utredning fra et utvalg oppnevnt av Bispemøtet og Mellomkirkelig råd for Den norske kirke. Open Access: https://www.kirken.no/contentassets/4b85c6be8fc945dbbde2e10d6c1e 5f6/den%20norske%20kirke%. Den norske kirke. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grung, Anne Hege (2011). Gender Justice in Muslim-Christian Readings : Christian and Muslim Women in Norway Making Meaning of Texts from the Bible, the Koran, and the Hadith. Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive

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