Focusing on the relation between Jesus and the construction of identities in different contexts of cultural complexity.
Aiming to develop intersectionality, a perspective used in gender studies, as a new methodological approach.
Placed itself in a cross-disciplinary dialogue between Biblical studies and studies of cultural complexity.
The project was located at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oslo and was financially supported by the Norwegian Research Council.
Main publications
- Marianne Bjelland Kartzow, Destabilizing the Margins: An Intersectional Approach to Early Christian Memory, Wipf and Stock, 2012.
- Halvor Moxnes, Jesus and the Rise of Nationalism. A new quest for the nineteenth century historical Jesus. London, I.B. Tauris. 2012.
- Moxnes, Halvor; Blanton, Ward & Crossley, James C. (ed.). Jesus Beyond Nationalism: Constructing the Historical Jesus in a Period of Cultural Complexity. Sheffield: Equinox Publishing.