Scientific publications in Religion, Philosophy and History
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The Value of Forgeries for Historical Research
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2023)All objects provide us with insights into the historical contexts in which they appear. In this chapter, we argue that dichotomizing between the forgery on the one hand and the authentic on the other is troublesome. Putting ... -
Decolonizing imperial epistemologies in African environmental historiography : chemical violence, postcoloniality and new narratives of the toxic epidemic in Africa
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)African history and environmental history have had negligible impact on each other. The field of environmental history has had limited traction in influencing the writing of African history and generating critical discourses ... -
Moralsk ansvar for handlinger til autonome våpensystemer
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Spørsmålet om hvem som bør holdes ansvarlig for handlingene til autonom teknologi er blitt aktualisert de siste tiårene. Utvikling innenfor kunstig intelligens har ført til mer kapable roboter som kan utføre kompliserte ... -
Planetary Ethics: Rereading Seyla Benhabib in the Age of Climate Refugees
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)In the Anthropocene, humans are drastically impacting the Earth system. Though the numbers are disputed, millions of climate refugees might soon appear worldwide due to, for example, rising sea levels. To better tackle ... -
Modern religion as vestigial structure: An evolutionary account of secularisation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This article offers a new solution to a theoretical problem facing scholars attempting to interpret religion and secularisation in light of biological evolution. Some scholars argue that the diversity of religious beliefs ... -
Arendal 1650-1723 - en monopolby eller en konkurranseby?
(Chapter, 2022)The small town of Arendal, including the surrounding areas, became the second largest shipping region in Norway around 1700, due to the concentration of power and wealth in the hands of a few families and social networks, ... -
Seeing Red: Menstrual Art and Political Portraiture in the Trump Era
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)In the middle of the 2015 United States presidential election race, artist Sarah Levy made a portrait of candidate Donald Trump with her menstrual blood. The work referenced Trump’s comments about menstruation during a ... -
Rovdyr, gift, skudd og statistikk. En undersøkelse av lokale arkiver som kilde til problematisering av norsk skuddpremie- og rovdyrstatistikk
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Artikkelen diskuterer norsk historisk rovdyrfellingsstatistikk med utgangspunkt i en rekke nasjonale og lokale arkiver fra det sydlige Norge. Den nasjonale statistikken har bygget på utbetalte og innrapporterte skuddpremier ... -
Om forpleiningen av «sindssyge» på Agder før åpningen av Eg-asyl i 1882
(Book chapter, 2023)This study, based on financial records, investigates the care of the «destitute insane» in the Lister and Mandal region (now Agder) between 1860 and 1882. In 1848 Norway’s first mental health act was passed, initiated by ... -
Alt på stell. En studie i hvordan bruk av kunstig intelligens kan hemme eller fremme Sparebanken Sør sine verdier
(Doctoral dissertations at University of Agder;no. 437, Doctoral thesis, 2023)This study investigates the impact of AI-technology on the immaterial values of Sparebanken Sør, a Norwegian financial institution that prides itself on its long historical tradition, its customer-oriented approach, and ... -
For or Against Equal Pay? A Study of Common Perceptions
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The topic of equal pay usually sparks debates with diverse opinions ranging from those supporting equal pay to those that oppose equal pay. This study attempted to gather empirical data on how individuals perceive equal ... -
No Body, No Crime? Vicariously Imagining Africa’s Arsenic Century: Bovines, Arsenic Poisoning and Multi-Species Toxic Histories in Southern Rhodesia (Colonial Zimbabwe), 1900–1940s
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)During the first half of the twentieth century, white settler farmers in colonial Zimbabwe raised incessant complaints and alarm over ‘mysterious’ and inexplicably frequent incidences of cattle mortalities. These mortalities ... -
VR in RE and moral education: report from a conference symposium at the NCRE 2022
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This paper reports from a symposium exploring the application of Virtual Reality (VR) in RE. The contributors presented empirical casestudies of interventions and instructional designs that had been tested in classroom ... -
Forhandlinger Med Omkostninger. Muslimske Foregangskvinner i Den Norske Offentligheten.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The last few years an increasing number of Muslim women have found a clear voice in the public sphere in Norway. Research into Islam confirms that Muslims, especially Muslim women, are presented in media in a way ... -
"utilladelige Taler til Almuen" : en studie av forsvar og lovanvendelse i rettssaker mot haugianere i Råbyggelaget, Kristiansand stift.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Artikkelen bygger på en studie av fem rettssaker fra tidsrommet 1805–1807. Alle sakene har bakgrunn i miljøet rundt haugianernes papirmølle på Fennefoss i Setesdal, der to menn og to kvinner var tiltalt for brudd på ... -
Et oppkomme av glemt arbeiderradikalisme? Det Norske Arbeider-Blad i 1854
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)I studier av de norske arbeiderforeningene rundt 1850 har Arbeider-Foreningernes Blad tradisjonelt inntatt en sen-tral plass i historikernes kildelister. Annerledes forholder det seg med Det Norske Arbeider-Blad, som ved ... -
Har vi for stor tro på religiøse lederes mulighet til å bygge fred?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Mange av verdens voldelige konflikter har religiøse dimensjoner. Religiøse toppledere går ofte inn i disse konfliktsituasjonene for å forsøke å redusere volden mellom religiøse grupper, for å forebygge nye voldsutbrudd og ... -
Religious Education in Secularist Kindergartens? Pedagogical Leaders on Religion in Norwegian ECEC
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)According to the legal framework, religion forms a certain part of Norwegian early childhood education in publicly owned kindergartens. As the only Scandinavian country where this is the case, the object clause (statement ... -
Migrations of Decolonization, Welfare, and the Unevenness of Citizenship in the UK, France and Portugal
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Among its many global impacts, decolonization triggered the migration of several million ‘repatriates’ — white settlers or others associated with the imperial power — who left Asia and Africa and ‘returned’ to their European ... -
Studying close entity encounters of the psychedelic kind: Insights from the cognitive evolutionary science of religion
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This article calls for a more robust mutual engagement between the science of psychedelic experiences (SPE) and the cognitive evolutionary science of religion (CESR). Greater collaboration between researchers in these ...