Sissel Undheim
- E-mailSissel.Undheim@uib.no
- Phone+47 55 58 23 24
- Visitor AddressØysteins gate 35007 Bergen
- Postal AddressPostboks 78055020 Bergen
Didactics of religion
· Textbook-religion
· Multimodality and teaching religion
· Images and art in religious education
· Children, popular culture and religion
Religions in antiquity
· Roman religion
· Church Fathers
· Sacred virgins, virgin martyrs, male virgins
· Gender, sexuality, asceticism and sanctity
Books
Borderline Virginities. Sacred and Secular Virgins in Late Antiquity. Routledge 2017
https://www.routledge.com/Borderline-Virginities-Sacred-and-Secular-Virg...
Religion i skolen. Didaktiske perspektiver på religions- og livssynsfaget. Marie von der Lippe og Sissel Undheim (red.), Universitetsforlaget 2017
https://www.universitetsforlaget.no/nettbutikk/religion-i-skolen-uf.html
Romersk religion. Verdens hellige skrifter. Sissel Undheim (red.) Bokklubben 2010
https://www.bokklubben.no/SamboWeb/produkt.do?produktId=4132346
- (2023). The Magic of the Multiverse: Easter Eggs, Superhuman Beings, and Metamodernism in Marvel’s Story Worlds. 18 pages.
- (2022). Vestal Virgins Revived. Some Reflections on Dead Religions, Reception and Afterlives. Religion and Theology: A Journal of Contemporary Religous Discourse. 120-140.
- (2022). Double Martyrdom, Double Crown: Virgin Martyrs and Fourth-Century Ascetic Hierarchies. 24 pages.
- (2022). Book review: Anne P. Alwis' Narrating Martyrdom. Rewriting Late-Antique Virgin Martyrs in Byzantium. Plekos: Elektronische Zeitschrift für Rezensionen und Berichte zur Erforschung der Spätantike.
- (2021). The Vestal Nun: The Afterlife and Reception of Vestal Virgins in Art and Literature in Late Antiquity and After. Journal of Early Christian History (JECH). 8-27.
- (2021). Balansekunst med Beyoncé. Å spille på fordommer for å bryte dem ned? 31 pages.
- (2020). Vårt Land overser kirkemødrene. Avisa Vårt land. 28-29.
- (2020). Helt seriøst!? Om populærkultur i KRLE og Religion og Etikk. Religion og livssyn : Tidsskrift for religionslærerforeningen i Norge. 20-29.
- (2019). Made Up Prophecies: Metamodern Play with Religion, Spirituality and Monomyth in the LEGO Universe. 25 pages.
- (2019). Consecrated Virgins as Living Reliquaries in Late Antiquity. RIHA Journal.
- (2019). Med tente lys inn i varmen. Lucia-tog i norske skoler og barnehager. DIN - Tidsskrift for religion og kultur. 166-197.
- (2018). Ungdom og religion : tradisjon, nyskaping og individuelle valg. 16 pages.
- (2018). Magical Bricks: Religion, Spirituality and Modern Magic in the Toy Box. ReligionGoingPublic.
- (2018). Lego religion in the classroom. The potential use of children’s popular culture in the teaching of religion in kindergarten and primary school . Zeitschrift für Religionskunde - Revue de didactique des sciences des religions. 52-66.
- (2017). The wise and the foolish virgins: Representations of Vestal virginity and pagan Chastity by Christian writers in late antiquity. Journal of Early Christian Studies. 383-409.
- (2017). Religion i skolen : didaktiske perspektiver på religions- og livssynsfaget. Universitetsforlaget.
- (2017). Kan populærkultur og døde religioner vekke liv i religionsfaget? 16 pages.
- (2017). Hva skal vi med et felles religionsfag i skolen? 14 pages.
- (2017). Hva skal vi med et felles religionsfag i skolen? 14 pages.
- (2017). Borderline Virginities. Sacred and Secular Virgins in Late Antiquity.
- (2017). Aniconism and images in Norwegian RE textbooks: Representations and historical change. 25 pages.
- (2016). The sacred power of Lego-Chi: mediatized spirituality in Lego, legends of Chima. Young - Nordic Journal of Youth Research. 66-86.
- (2016). Spiritual Lego. Temples, rituals and new age in Ninjago and Chima. IIPC: International Institute of Popular Culture Publication Series. 48-58.
- (2016). Jomfruhinnen finnes ikke. nrk.no/ytring.
- (2016). Anne Stensvold: A history of pregnancy in Christianity. From original sin to contemporary abortion debates. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning. 239-242.
- (2015). Veiled visibility: Morality, Movement and Sacred Virginity in Late Antiquity. 13 pages.
- (2015). Jörg Rüpke. Religion in Republican Rome: Rationalization and Ritual Change. (Empire and After). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. vi + 321 pp. ISBN 9780812243943 (hbk.). Numen. 481-483.
- (2015). Bilder og bildeforbud i skolens religionsfag. En analyse av lærebøker for KRL og RLE. 20 pages.
- (2013). Religionene i RLE - Multimodal religion (og ikke-religion) i RLE-læreverkene for småskoletrinnet. PluRel - en blogg om religion og samfunn (UiO).
- (2013). RLE-religion. Religionsbegrepet i RLE-læreverkene for småskoletrinnet. Prismet. 251-265.
- (2013). Approaches to the Visual in Religion. Edited by Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati and Christopher Rowland. Numen. 368-370.
- (2013). 2000 år på 300 sider. Bokomtale, Christine Amadou: Vestens idéhistorie, bind 1. Antikken og Middelalderen ca.750 f.kr.-1350. Cappelen Damm Akademisk, Oslo 2012. Salongen : Nettstedet for filosofi og idéhistorie.
- (2012). Christus Virgo: Representations of Christ as a Virgin in Early Christianity and Late Antiquity. Bulletin for the Study of Religion. 22-27.
- (2011). Randsonejomfruer. Jomfruer og hellighet i senantikken. Salongen : Nettstedet for filosofi og idéhistorie.
- (2010). Romersk Religion Verdens Hellige Skrifter. Bokklubben.
- (2004). "Crimen incesti - vestalinnene og Roma". Klassisk Forum. 38-50.
More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)
Processions of light. Celebrating Saint Lucy in Norwegian schools and society.
http://religionsoraklene.no/hvorfor-feirer-vi-lucia-13-desember/
Apocalypses and pixie dust. Religion and popular culture.
The Demigods Amongst Us: Rick Riordan’s Heroes of Olympus and Contemporary Religious Change. Theology and the Riordanverse, edited by Nathan E. Fleeson and Carolyn M. Jones Medine.
Forthcoming 2023, Lexington
The magic of the multiverse. Easter eggs, superhuman beings and metamodernism in Marvel’s story worlds. Comics and Religion, edited by Kees de Groot
Forthcoming 2023, Bloomsbury
See Comics, Culture, and Religion: Faith Imagined: Kees de Groot: Bloomsbury Academic