Research news
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Growing number of Muslim pilgrims in Europe
June 15, 2018 4:21 PM
Pilgrimages have become more popular all over the world in recent years. New pilgrimage sites are emerging and in Europe Muslims and Christians are visiting each other’s pilgrimage sites.
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Small coin, big politics
Dec. 21, 2016 2:59 PM
Situated on the coast of present-day Lebanon, the ancient Phoenician city-state of Sidon was in the middle of the crossfire between the Persians, Greeks and Egyptians. A small lump of metal became an important part of their political and economic balancing act.
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The Nag Hammadi Codices were made by monks
Jan. 12, 2016 12:37 PM
The provenance of the Nag Hammadi Codices has been a point of contention among scholars ever since they were discovered in Upper Egypt in 1945. A new book strongly supports the hypothesis that they were manufactured and read by Christian monks in the fourth and fifth centuries.
Research events
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The University of Oslo's Human Rights Award 2019
Dec. 5, 2019 6:00 PM
The winner of the Human Rights Awards for 2019 is Seyran Ates.
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Trial lecture Rosemarie van den Breemer
Dec. 6, 2019 10:15 AM
Title to be announced.
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Public defence: Rosemarie van den Breemer
Dec. 6, 2019 12:00 PM
Rosemarie van den Breemer will defend her doctoral dissertation: "Governing Cemeteries: State Responses to the New Diversity in The Netherlands, Norway and France" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD) at the Faculty of Theology.