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Anne Ingvild Sælid Gilhus

Emeritus, Study of Religion
  • E-mailingvild.gilhus@uib.no
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    Øysteins gate 3
    5007 Bergen
  • Postal Address
    Postboks 7805
    5020 Bergen
Textbook
  • Show author(s) (2023). KRLE 10 fra Cappelen Damm Grunnbok. Cappelen Damm AS.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Nya perspektiv på religion. Natur och kultur.
Academic article
  • Show author(s) (2023). A Normative Turn in the Study of Religions?: Reflections on Richard Miller's Why Study Religion? Method & Theory in the Study of Religion. 15 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2022). ‘Tears flowed from his eyes unceasingly’: weeping and total devotion in Egypt in late antiquity. Religion. 19 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2022). The Study of the Past and its Present Challenges in the Study of Religions. Journal of Religious History. 642-652.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Learning from the Past. Method & Theory in the Study of Religion. 1-13.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Crossing Rivers, Confronting Crocodiles: Aquatic Space, Ambiguous Creatures, and Ascetic Life in Late Antiquity. Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses. Louvain Journal of Theology and Canon Law. 411-426.
  • Show author(s) (2020). The Cosmology of Lists in Ancient and Contemporary Societies. Marburg Journal of Religion. 19 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Alive and on the move: the future study of religion. Religion. 60-64.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Den ahistoriske Jesus: Autoritet og viten i en brytningstid. Chaos - Skandinavisk tidsskrift for religionshistoriske studier. 123-136.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Sheepskins, hair shirts and tunics of palm leaves: Charismatic authority and monastic clothing in Egypt in Late Antiquity. Temenos. 79-102.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Klærs formende kraft i egyptisk munkelitteratur . Chaos - Skandinavisk tidsskrift for religionshistoriske studier. 29-44.
  • Show author(s) (2018). I spenn mellom åndelig dybde og religion smurt tynt utover. Chaos - Skandinavisk tidsskrift for religionshistoriske studier. 47-64.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Historiography as Anti-History: Reading Nag Hammadi Codex II. Archiv für Religionsgeschichte. 77-90.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Ordenen Stjernen i Øst og julens budskap: En analyse av Stjernebladets julenumre. Tidsskrift for kulturforskning. 41-54.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Munker, minner og tekster i Egypt i senantikken. DIN - Tidsskrift for religion og kultur. 10-26.
  • Show author(s) (2015). The construction of heresy and the creation of identity: Epiphanius of salamis and his medicine-chest against heretics. Numen. 152-168.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Medialisering og refortrylling: Religiøs endring i Norge. DIN - Tidsskrift for religion og kultur. 9-26.
  • Show author(s) (2014). From the History of Religions to the Science of Religion in Norway. Temenos. 63-78.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Founding Fathers, Turtles and the Elephant in the Room: The Quest for Origins in the Scientific Study of Religion. Temenos. 193-214.
  • Show author(s) (2014). "…så dere ikke blir et kadaver og blir spist." Tidens tann og oppfatninger av tid i Nag Hammadi kodeks II. Chaos - Skandinavisk tidsskrift for religionshistoriske studier. 13-28.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Religionsvitenskapens rolle i akademi og samfunn. Chaos - Skandinavisk tidsskrift for religionshistoriske studier. 9-19.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Bibliografisk oversikt over nyreligiøsitetsforskningen i Norge. AURA. 21-45.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Nyreligiøsitet i Norge - en bibliografisk oversikt. DIN - Tidsskrift for religion og kultur. 125-148.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Magi og religion i antikken. Arr - Idéhistorisk tidsskrift. 15-25.
  • Show author(s) (2010). The history of religions in Europe. Numen. 103-113.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Pilgrimme og pilgrimsrejser. Sfinx. 108-112.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Forsvar for et guddommelig bøllefrø. Arr - Idéhistorisk tidsskrift. 119-124.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Engler i Norge og kampen om dem. Chaos - Skandinavisk tidsskrift for religionshistoriske studier. 67-88.
  • Show author(s) (2010). "Fra jorden blomstret den første vellyst": Natur og religiøs transformasjon i Det tittelløse skriftet fra Nag Hammadi (NHC II,5). DIN - Tidsskrift for religion og kultur. 61-73.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Hva er kaos? Om verdens opprinnelse i kodeks II fra Nag Hammadi. Chaos - Skandinavisk tidsskrift for religionshistoriske studier. 43-54.
  • Show author(s) (2008). "Jeg besverger deg, livmor..." Reproduksjonsmagi i antikken. Chaos - Skandinavisk tidsskrift for religionshistoriske studier. 27-43.
  • Show author(s) (2004). What is Gnosticism? Numen. 211-213.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Phenomenology of Religion critically observed. Temenos. 1-13.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Dyr i antikken: Spiselige essenser og kulturelle konstruksjoner. Norsk Teologisk Tidsskrift. 15-20.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Book review: Per Bilde: En religion bliver til: En undersøgelse af kristendommens forudsætninger og tilblivelse indtil år 110, København, Anis, 2001. Review of Biblical Literature, Society of Biblical Literature http://www.bookreviews.org/subscribe.asp.
  • Show author(s) (2001). Reincarnation and Western Values. Tradisjon. 93-99.
  • Show author(s) (2000). Spottekrusifikset på Palatin. DIN - Tidsskrift for religion og kultur. 4-10.
  • Show author(s) (2000). Multireligiøse aktører og kulturens refortrylling. Sosiologi i dag. 5-22.
  • Show author(s) (1997). Magi: Tradisjonelle teknikker og moderne virkemidler. Chaos - Skandinavisk tidsskrift for religionshistoriske studier. 9-20.
Popular scientific lecture
  • Show author(s) (2020). What makes a successful dissertation (both monographs and article-based)? Experiences from previous evaluation committee members.
  • Show author(s) (2013). ”Nyreligiøsitet i populærkulturen”.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Gnostisisme.
Academic lecture
  • Show author(s) (2002). The animal sacrifice and its critics.
  • Show author(s) (2002). The animal sacrifice and its critics.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Orbis terrarum Romanorum est: Globalization processes in the Roman empire.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Ofring av dyr i antikken.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Kristne martyrer, dyr og offersymbolikk.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Gnostic texts/gnostic bodies.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Dreping av dyr i antikken.
  • Show author(s) (2001). Teologisk modernisering i 100 år.
  • Show author(s) (2000). Valg eller skjebne? Kropp og nyreligiøsitet.
  • Show author(s) (2000). The Gnostic Myth and the Goddess Myth: Two Contemporary Responses to Questions about Human Identity.
  • Show author(s) (2000). Myte, magi og mirakel i møte med det moderne.
  • Show author(s) (2000). Laughter as symbol in gnostic texts.
  • Show author(s) (2000). Jesus i Apokryfon Johannis.
  • Show author(s) (2000). Dønnastenen og mannlighetens fall.
Editorial
  • Show author(s) (2019). A Call for a New Synthesis. Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion. 1-11.
Book review
  • Show author(s) (2021). Anmeldelse: Lars Albinus, Livsvæsen: Om forholdet mellem dyret, mennesket og det guddommelige, Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag 2021, 478 sider. Religionsvidenskapeligt Tidsskrift. 3 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2020). "Ingen spøk: En studie av religion og humor," Ann Kristin Gresaker, Pål Ketil Botvar og Olav Hovdelien (red.). Cappelen Damm Akademisk 2019. DIN - Tidsskrift for religion og kultur. 155-157.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Tommy Ramstedt: Knowledge and Identity within the Finnish Fringe-Knowledge Scene. Temenos, Studies in Comparative Religion. 296-298.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Review of Philosophy and the End of Sacrifice: Disengaging Ritual in Ancient India, Greece and Beyond, edited by Peter Jackson and Anna-Pya Sjödin. Numen. 319-321.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Review of Late Antiquity in Contemporary Debate, edited by Rita Lizzi Testa. Studies in Late Antiquity. 126-128.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Man and Animal in Severan Rome: The Literary Imagination of Claudius Aelianus by Steven D. Smith (review). Classical World. 583-584.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Anna Rebecca Solevåg, Birthing Salvation: Gender and Class in Early Christian Childbearing Discourse. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2013. Teologisk Tidsskrift. 212-214.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Jørgen Podemann Sørensen, Ritual og Praksis: Tanke, sprog og handling i komparativt religionshistorisk perspektiv (Janua Religionum, 7). København. Chaos - Skandinavisk tidsskrift for religionshistoriske studier. 203-205.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Ancient Angels: Conceptualizing Angeloi in the Roman Empire. By Rangar Cline (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 172.) Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011, xviii + 181 pp. ISBN 978-9004194533 (hbk.). Numen. 139-141.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Per Bilde, Hvor original var Jesus? Fredriksberg: Anis, 2011, 348 s. Chaos - Skandinavisk tidsskrift for religionshistoriske studier. 146-148.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Lars Nylander, Litteraturen, kjønnet og kunsten å begjære i antikken. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning. 269-271.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Harris, Max. Sacred Folly. A New History of the Feast of Fools. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Medieval Review. 2 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Laura Hobgood-Oster, Holy Dog and Asses. Animals in the Christian Tradition (Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008). Journal of Religion in Europe. 313-315.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Die Hypostase der Archonten (Nag Hammadi-Codex II,4), neu herausgegeben, übersetzt und erklärt von Ursula Ulrike Kaiser. Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geshichte der altchristlichen Literatur 156, Berlin/New York (Walter de Gruyter) 2006, VIII + 460 S. Zeitschrift für antikes Christentum. 252-253.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Asceticism and History of Religions. A comparative study of Brahmin and early Christian texts. Religion. 225-226.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Inventing Superstition: From the Hippocratics to the Christians by Dale B. Martin. Journal of Religion in Europe. 116-118.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Anmeldelse Arne Bugge Amundsen (red.), Norges religionshistorie, Universitetsforlaget, Oslo, 2005. DIN - Tidsskrift for religion og kultur. 60-78.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Anders Klostergaard Petersen et. al. (red.) Mellom venner og fiender. En folkebog om Judasevangeliet, tidlig kristendom og gnosis. Norsk Teologisk Tidsskrift. 262-264.
  • Show author(s) (2007). A communion of subjects: Animals in religion, science and ethics. Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 998-1000.
  • Show author(s) (2007). A Communion of Subjects. Animals in Religion, Science and Ethics. Edited by P. Waldau and K. Patton. Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 998-1000.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Ph.d.-afhandling Anita Leopold; "Syncretism: The Problem of Defining a Category". Religionsvidenskapeligt Tidsskrift. 90-93.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Våre forfedres tro og liv. Apollon : Forskningsmagasin for Universitetet i Oslo. 47-47.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Bokanmeldelse: Gro Steinsland: "Våre forfedres tro og liv." Pax 2005. Apollon : Forskningsmagasin for Universitetet i Oslo. 47-47.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Karen L. King, What is Gnosticism. Numen. 211-213.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Anne Eriksen og Anne Stensvold 2002. Maria-kult og helgendyrkelse i moderne katolisisme. Tidsskrift for kulturforskning. 70-71.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Maria Grazia Lancellotti, The Naassenes. Numen. 344-346.
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
  • Show author(s) (2019). The Archangel Michael in Africa: History, Cult, and Persona . Bloomsbury Academic.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Evolution, Cognition, and the History of Religion: A New Synthesis. Brill Academic Publishers.
  • Show author(s) (2017). New Age in Norway. Equinox Publishing.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Religion i skrift: Mellom mystikk og materialitet. Universitetsforlaget.
  • Show author(s) (2013). New Age Spirituality: Rethinking Religion. Acumen Publishing.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Verdens levende religioner. Pax Forlag.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Religiøse reiser: Mellom gamle spor og nye mål. Universitetsforlaget.
  • Show author(s) (2001). Kropp og oppstandelse. Pax Forlag.
Academic monograph
  • Show author(s) (2021). Clothes and Monasticism in Ancient Christian Egypt: A New Perspective on Religious Garments.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Farsmakt og moderskap i antikken.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Hva er religion?
  • Show author(s) (2006). Animals, Gods and Humans. Changing Attitudes to Animals in Greek, Roman and Early Christian Ideas.
Non-fiction book
  • Show author(s) (2002). Gnostiske skrifter. De norske bokklubbene.
  • Show author(s) (2001). Nytt blikk på religion. Studiet av religion idag. Pax Forlag.
Masters thesis
  • Show author(s) (2007). Mer enn en kirke. En studie av forholdet mellom religion og nasjon i sjømannskirken i New York.
Popular scientific article
  • Show author(s) (2011). Gåtefulle Maria Magdalena: En syndig helgen. Levende Historie. 26-33.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Religiøst mangfold og kristent gjennombrudd. Religion og globalisering i Romerriket. Årbok / Det norske videnskaps-akademi. 370-380.
  • Show author(s) (2000). Sufimusikk og kirkemusikk. Festspillmagasinet. 70-73.
  • Show author(s) (2000). Religion i det postmoderne samfunn. Religion og livssyn : Tidsskrift for religionslærerforeningen i Norge. 11-15.
  • Show author(s) (2000). Kroppen som tempel eller bordell i tidlig kristendom. Historie. 6-13.
Doctoral dissertation
  • Show author(s) (2019). Networking Spirituality. A Study of VisionWorks and the Norwegian Alternative Movement.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Sanctae Virginitates. Sacred and consecrated virginities in Late Roman Antiquity.
  • Show author(s) (2009). "Velkommen til oss" : ritualisering av livets begynnelse.
  • Show author(s) (1982). The nature of the Archons : a study in the stoeriology of a gnostic treatise from Nag hammadi (CG II,4).
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Show author(s) (2023). Ascetic Readings in Codex II from Nag Hammadi. 19 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2022). "You Ought to Observe Hounds When They Are Hunting Hares." Examples and Similes About Animals in the Apophthegmata Patrum. 21 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2021). What is religion today? The concept of religion and the study of religion. 24 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Sources for the study of animals in ancient Greek religion. 18 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Braiding Ropes, Weaving Baskets: The Narrative Culture of Ancient Monasticism. 21 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2019). On the Category of Angels. 11 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Mutations of Religious Authority in Contemporary Norway – Marginality and Mediatization in the Case of the Man from Snåsa . 16 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Enclothed Cognition and Ancient Monasticism. 15 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Merry Christmas! Religion in Norway. 18 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2018). How Things Make Monks: Objects and Artifacts in the Pachomian Rules. 22 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Chaotic mothers and creepy shadows: Metaphors of procreation and vision in On the Origin of the World (NHC II,5). 8 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Biographical sketches of the heretical life: The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis. 14 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Introduction. 18 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Angels: Between Secularization and Re-enchantment. 18 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Angels, Animals and Religious Change in Antiquity and Today. 20 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2016). What Became of Superhuman Beings? Companions and Field Guides in the Study of Religion. 13 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Theosophically Inspired Movements in Norway. 3 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2016). The New Age. 13 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2016). New Age in Norway. 6 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Anthroposophy in Norway. 5 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2015). ‘The Springtime of the Body’: Resurrection in Minucius Felix’s Octavius. 16 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Ritual Meals and Polemics in Antiquity. 14 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2015). A Study of New Religiosity in Norway. 15 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2015). "Flirty fishing and poisonous serpents: Epiphanius of Salamis inside his Medical chest against heresies". 16 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Menneskesyn og samfunnsverdier i nyreligiøsiteten. 21 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Animals in Late Antiquity and Early Christianity. 11 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Theosophy and Popular Fiction. 20 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Religion, tekst og skrift. 12 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2013). From Sacrifices to Symbols: Animals in Late Antiquity and Early Christianity. 18 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Conclusion: New Age spiritualities: "good to think" in the study of religion. 7 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Betydningen av religiøse lister: Johannes’ hemmelige bok og oppramsingens kunst. 16 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2013). "All over the place": the contribution of New Age to a spatial model of religion. 15 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2013). "All mixed up" – Thinking about religion in relation to New Age spiritualities. 17 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Post-secular religion and the therapeutic turn: three Norwegian examples. 14 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Fugleflukt og vingedrømmer. 9 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Angles in Norway: Religious border-crossers and border-markers. 16 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2012). "The mountain, a desert place": Spatial categories and mythical landscapes in the Secret Book of John. 18 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Why did Jesus laugh? Laughing in Biblical-Demiurgical texts. 18 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2011). The non-confessional study of religion and its normative dimensions. 13 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Hermeneutics. 10 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Why is it better to be a plant than an animal? Cognitive poetics and ascetic ideals in the book of Thomas the Contender (NHC II,7). 19 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Contextualizing the Present, Manipulating the Past: Codex II from Nag Hammadi and the Challenge of Circumventing Canonicity. 18 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Pilegrimsreiser. 7 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Hva er religion i dag? Religionsbegrep og religionsvitenskap. 13 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Sacred Marriage and Spiritual Knowledge: Relations between Carnality and Salvation in the Apocryphon of John. 24 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Biskop Epifamios fra Salamis og "Medisinskrinet mot kjettere". 12 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Peter og de tolv apostlenes reiser. 12 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Nyreligiøsitet. 9 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Middelhavsområdet og Midtøstens religionshistorie (Ca. 3000 F.V.T.-400 E.V.T.). 6 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Kristendommen. 82 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Innledning: Religioner i endring. 12 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Innledning. 12 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2006). the role of religion in cosmopolitan cultures. 11 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Metodisk mangfold: Utforskningen av en religiøs tekst. 17 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Gudstro smurt tyndt udover. 18 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2005). "Hvis himmelen fantes, hva ville du ønske at Gud sa når du ankom?". 15 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Kampen om Dønnafallosen. 15 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Globalization and Religion in the Roman Empire. 15 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Latter og religion. 6 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2001). The Gnostic Myth and the Goddess Myth: Two Contemporary Responses to Questions about Human Identity. 20 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2001). "you have dreamt that our God is an ass´s head": Animals and Christians in Antiquity. 12 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2001). "The Virgin whom the Powers did not Defile" : Thoughts about Gender and Salvation in the Gnostic Text The Nature of the Archons. 12 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2000). The phenomenology of religion: An ideal and its problems. 12 pages.
  • Show author(s) (1997). Kaosmagi og kjøkkenmagi. Magiens sirkler og modernitetens menneskebilder. 13 pages.
  • Show author(s) (1997). Ain't no cure for love. 7 pages.
  • Show author(s) (1997). Ain't no cure for love. 7 pages.
  • Show author(s) (1997). Ain't no cure for love. 7 pages.
  • Show author(s) (1997). Ain't no cure for love. 7 pages.
  • Show author(s) (1997). Ain't no cure for love. 7 pages.
Encyclopedia article
  • Show author(s) (2003). Optimismus/Pessimismus I Religionsgeschichtlich. 596-597. In:
    • Show author(s) (2003). Religion in Geschichte und gegenwart.
  • Show author(s) (2000). Glück/Glückseligkeit. 1015-1016. In:
    • Show author(s) (2000). Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart. 3.
  • Show author(s) (2000). Freude. 346-347. In:
    • Show author(s) (2000). Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart. 3.
Introduction
  • Show author(s) (2019). Introduction: Christian Egypt. 31-33.
Chapter
  • Show author(s) (2023). Nyreligiøsitet og livssyn. 40-73. In:
    • Show author(s) (2023). KRLE 10 fra Cappelen Damm Grunnbok. Cappelen Damm AS.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Derisive laughter and religious identity in ancient Christianity. 33-46. In:
    • Show author(s) (2022). Humour in the Beginning. Religion, humor and laughter in formative stages of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Judaism. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Menschenbild und gesellschaftliche Werte in der Neureligiosität (Oversatt fra norsk i Bringeland og Brunvoll 2014). 163-183. In:
    • Show author(s) (2015). Die Religion und das Wertefundament der Gesellschaft. Studien zum 200. Jahrestag des norwegischen Grundgesetzes 2014. LIT-Verlag GmbH & Co.

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