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  • Religious resistance to gender equality in the Baltics Feb. 16, 2024 5:35 PM

    Research shows that the struggle for gender equality is strongly influenced by religion and historical experiences, in the Baltic states as well as in Norway.

  • New ERC funded project on law and women’s rights in Gulf States Mar. 9, 2023 10:47 PM

    Next fall, Dr. Jihan Zakarriya will join the Faculty of Theology with her research project GulfFeminisms. The project is funded by an ERC Starting Grant, and will run for five years from October 1 st.

  • A thousand years of Egyptian Christianity under the magnifying glass Mar. 20, 2020 12:48 PM

    In the past, scholars have often considered apocryphal writings in Coptic as a relatively marginal phenomenon in Egyptian Christianity. However, there is much to suggest that these writings were of great importance to the Christian population of Egypt. A new research project will shed new light on nearly 1,000 years of dramatic changes in Egyptian religion and society.

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