Doctoral Theses
Chronological overview of doctoral theses in the Study of Religions
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2014
Christian Hervik Bull
The tradition of Hermes. The Egyptian priestly figure as a teacher of Hellenized wisdom.
Supervisor: Einar Thomassen
2013
Birte Brekketo
Taswir i norsk kontekst. En undersøkelse av hvordan unge norskpakistanske muslimer forholder seg til visuell kommunikasjon med figurative uttrykk.
(Taswir in a Norwegian context. A study of how young Norwegian-Pakistani Muslims relate to visual communication with figurative expressions.)
Supervisor: Richard Natvig
2012
Marianne Bøe
Debating family law in contemporary Iran. Continuity and change in women’s rights activists’ conceptions of Shari‘a and women’s rights.
Supervisor: Richard Natvig
Mona Helen Farstad
Chaste, chosen and purified. An analysis of the Qur’anic narratives about Maryam.
Supervisor: Håkan Rydving
2011
Anne Kalvig
Åndeleg helse. Ein kulturanalytisk studie av menneske- og livssyn hos alternative terapeutar.
(Spiritual health. A cultural analysis of views of life and humanity among alternative therapists.)
Supervisors: Lisbeth Mikaelsson & Ingvild Sælid Gilhus
Sissel Undheim
Sanctae Virginitates. Sacred and consecrated virginities in late Roman Antiquity.
Supervisor: Ingvild Sælid Gilhus
2009
Ida Marie Høeg
«Velkommen til oss». Ritualisering av livets begynnelse. («Welcome to us». Ritualising of life’s beginning.)
Supervisors: Ingvild Sælid Gilhus & Pål Repstad
2008
Ingvild Flaskerud
Visualising belief and piety. Representation, reception, and function of imagery in Iranian Shiism.
Supervisor: Richard Natvig
2007
Jonas Bjørnebye
«Hic locus est felix, sanctus, piusque benignus». The cult of Mithras in fourth century Rome.
Supervisor: Einar Thomassen
Gina Dahl
Questioning religious influence. Private libraries of clerics and physicians in Norway 1650–1750.
Supervisors: Karstein Hopland & Lisbeth Mikaelsson
Liv Ingeborg Lied
The other lands of Israel. A study of the land theme in 2 Baruch.
Supervisor: Einar Thomassen
Hugo Lundhaug
«There is a rebirth and an image of rebirth». A cognitive poetic analysis of conceptual and intertextual blending in the Exegesis on the Soul (NHC II,6) and the Gospel of Philip (NHC II,3).
Supervisor: Ingvild Sælid Gilhus
Gerd Marie Ådna
O son of the two sacrifices. Muhammad and the formation of sacrifice in early Islam.
Supervisors: Håkan Rydving & Einar Thomassen
2005
Roar G. Fotland
Ancestor Christology in context. Theological perspectives of Kwame Bediako.
Supervisor: Håkan Rydving
Jan Bertil Heilund
Spenninger, syntese og spiritualitet i norsk UFO-bevegelse, særlig eksemplifisert i organisasjonen NETIs forestillingsunivers.
(Tensions, synthesis and spirituality within Norwegian UFO movements, particularly exemplified in the worldview of the organisation NETI.)
Supervisor: Lisbeth Mikaelsson
2004
Bjørn Ola Tafjord
Ritualiserte forståingar. Bribriar og bahá'í-trua. (Ritualised perceptions. Bribri and Bahá’i faith.)
Supervisor: Håkan Rydving
2001
Lisbeth Mikaelsson
Kallets ekko. Studier i misjon og selvbiografi. (Echos of the call. Studies in mission and autobiography.)
dr.philos.
Mette Ramstad
Conversion in the Pacific. Eastern Polynesian Latter-Day Saints’ conversion accounts and their development of a LDS identity.
Supervisor: Håkan Rydving
1999
Siv-Ellen Kraft
The sex problem. Political aspects of gender discourse in the Theosophical Society, 1875–1930.
Supervisors: Lisbeth Mikaelsson & Ingvild Sælid Gilhus
1997
Henny Fiskå Hägg
Knowing the unknowable. Clement of Alexandria and the origins of Christian apophaticism.
Supervisors: Ingvild Sælid Gilhus & Einar Thomassen
1992
Anne Stensvold
Religion in television. A view on NRK television from 4th to 10th March 1989.
Supervisor: Ingvild Sælid Gilhus
1989
Saphinaz-Amal Naguib
Le clergé féminin d'Amon Thébain à la 21ème dynastie. (Female clergy of the Theban Amun in the 21st Dynasty.)
dr.philos.
1983
Ragnhild Bjerre Finnestad
Image of the world and symbol of the creator. On the cosmological and iconological values of the temple of Edfu.
dr.philos.
1982
Ingvild Sælid Gilhus
The nature of the archons. A study in the soteriology of a gnostic treatise from Nag Hammadi (CG II,4).
dr.philos.
Karstein Hopland
Virkelighet og bevissthet. En studie i Søren Kierkegaards antropologi. (Reality and consciousness. A study of the anthropology of Søren Kierkegaard.)
dr.philos.