Sissel Undheim
- E-mailSissel.Undheim@uib.no
- Phone+47 55 58 23 24+47 916 80 069
- 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
- (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/