Position and research interests
Professor of Church History – Especially Late Medieval and Early Modern after doing research in Germany as Wissenschaftlicher Assistent in Berlin and as Humboldt-Stipendiat at the Institut für Spätmittealter und Reformation in Tübingen. Research Leader at the Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo 2007–2014.
Projects and Networks
- Leader of Research Council of Norway funded project The ambiguous memory of Nordic Protestantism (MEMORY) (running to 2019) http://www.tf.uio.no/english/research/projects/memory/
- Norwegian PI of the HERA-funded “Uses of the Past”-project Protestant Legacies in Nordic Law: Uses of the Past in the Construction of Secularity of Law (PRONOLA, running to 2019)
- Leader of Research Council of Norway funded project “Good Protestant, Bad Religion? Formatting Religion in Modern Society” (GOBA) (running to 2018) http://www.tf.uio.no/english/research/projects/goba/index.html
- Chief-editor of the new international Journal of Early Modern Christianity, published by de Gruyter since 2014. https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jemc
- Leader of the externally funded interdisciplinary research project Death in early Protestant Culture (2010-2014) http://www.tf.uio.no/english/research/projects/dp/index.html
- Until 2014, editor of the national Norwegian theological Journal Teologisk Tidsskrift
- Member of the scientific Board of Refo500 Research Consortium
- Member of the editorial board of the Refo500 Monograph series at Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen.
Invited lectures & papers international conferences since 2014
* Nye paradigmer i reformasjonsforskningen – med særlig henblikk på Norden og Danmark. Seminar: ”Reformationen som kirkeligt og kulturelt program”. Invited lecture Copenhagen 2014.
* The holy city of Copenhagen, Part of MEMORY Panel "Religious Topography in the North: Strängnäs, Copenhagen, Amsterdam". Sixteenth Century Society Conference, New Orleans, oktober 2014.
* Contesting Memories of Nordic Protestantism. International seminar: ”Unpacking the Nordic Model” Invited lecture, Oslo, October 2014.
* Luther in Skandinavien. Invited speaker to conference in Fribourg (Switzerland) May 2015
* Niels Hemmingsen: A 16th Century Intellectual between Danish Confessionalism and European Trans-Confessionalism. RefoRC Conference, Leuven 2015. (Part of MEMORY Panel)
* Uppsala and Stockholm in the topography of the Swedish Reformation. Sixteenth Century Society Conference, Vancouver, October 2015. (Part of MEMORY Panel)
* Protestantism and Protestantization. Paper at GOBA panel, American Academy of Religion Conference, Atlanta, November 2015.
* “Sister Reformations” in the North: Sweden & Denmark in comparative Perspective. Invited keynote speaker, international conference Århus February 2016.
* The Danish Reformation kings: A comparative European approach. Paper Sixteenth Century Conference, August 2016, Bruges (Part of MEMORY Panel).
* Nach Wittenberger Vorbild: Christian III und die dänische Fürstenreformation. Invited Lecture, Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Leipzig, November 2016
Recent & upcoming popular contributions in Norwegian:
Books:
* Tarald Rasmussen og Ola Tjørhom (red.): Reformasjonen i nytt lys, Cappelen Damm 2017 (in print)
* Tarald Rasmussen: Hva er protestantisme? Universitetsforlaget 2017 (in print)
* Per Kristian Aschim and Tarald Rasmussen: Reformasjon nå. Martin Luther som ressurs og utfordring for Den norske kirke, Oslo: Eide 2016
Articles Web + print, Radio:
* Karikaturstrid på 1500-tallet : tidlig protestantisk religionskritikk. i: ”Kirke og kultur” 2015 (4) s. 374-386
* New articles 2016 on Reformasjonen and on Martin Luther in ”Store Norske Leksikon” (internet).
* Radio Norwegian NRK P2: Martin Luther på 95 minutter, ”Verdibørsen”, Oktober–November 2016
* Radio Norwegian NRK P2, ”Kulturhuset Kunst”: On Hieronymus Bosch (April 2016) and on Lucas Cranach (January 2017)
* Blog contribution Luther og jødene, Faculty of theology ”reformasjonsblogg”, 2016
* Luthers antijødiske skrifter fra 1543, lecture at the HL-center 16.09.2016