Sissel Undheim

Professor, Study of Religion

Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion

E-mailSissel.Undheim@uib.no
Phone+47 55 58 23 24+47 916 80 069
Visitor Address
Øysteinsgate 3
Postal Address
Postboks 7805

5020 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

Academic article

2019. Consecrated Virgins as Living Reliquaries in Late Antiquity. RIHA Journal.
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2019. Med tente lys inn i varmen. Lucia-tog i norske skoler og barnehager. DIN - Tidsskrift for religion og kultur. 166-197.
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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.
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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.
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2016. The sacred power of Lego-Chi: mediatized spirituality in Lego, legends of Chima. Young - Nordic Journal of Youth Research. 66-86.
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2016. Spiritual Lego. Temples, rituals and new age in Ninjago and Chima. IIPC: International Institute of Popular Culture Publication Series. 48-58.
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2013. RLE-religion. Religionsbegrepet i RLE-læreverkene for småskoletrinnet. Prismet. 251-265.
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2012. Christus Virgo: Representations of Christ as a Virgin in Early Christianity and Late Antiquity. Bulletin for the Study of Religion. 22-27.
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Lecture

2020. “Playing with religion: Lego, humor and metamodern spirituality.”.
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2020. Fagdidaktisk forskning i religionsvitenskap (ved UiB).
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2019. The Beauty of Virginity.
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2019. Popkultur og RE/KRLE-faget .
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2019. Defining virginity and non-virginity. Borderline virginities and sacred virgins in Late antiquity.
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2018. Religiøs, ateist, – eller noe midt i mellom?
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2018. "Never set in stone. Power and texts on public display".
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2017. Religionsfagene i skolen. Muligheter, begrensninger og religionsvitenskapelige perspektiver .
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2017. Religion i verden og i Bergen i 2050 - et forsøk på noen religionsorakelspådommer.
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2017. Hva skal vi med religion og livssyn i skolen?
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2015. Religion etter læreboka. Representasjon og modalitet i lærebøker for den norske skolens religionsfag.
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2015. En tid for alt? Religion og ungdomskultur(er).
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2014. Skal den unge jenta bli med barn? Greske guder i antikken og norsk Bibeloversettelse i 2011.
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Popular scientific lecture

2019. "Fiksjon som religion? Jediriddere, Tolkiens alver og Church of all Worlds" .
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2017. Uberørt og ren? Om jomfruhinner og jomfrutesting i antikken og i dag.
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2015. Religiøs Lego? Ritualer og New Age i lekekassa.
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2014. “Religionshistorie og religionsvitenskap”.
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2013. Kyske hedninger og falske jomfruer. Kirkefedrene om Vestakulten og vestalinnene.
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2013. Honningstemme: Sapfo og den lesbiske lyrikken.
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2010. Som engler på jorden. Om kroppsløs jomfrudom og mannlige jomfruer i senantikken.
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2008. "Keisere og vestalinner".
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2007. "Asketenes Jesus. Jesus-bilder fra 300-tallet".
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Academic lecture

2019. Schools as arenas for religious change: Identifying and analyzing religious practice in contemporary society.
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2019. Ritualizations and demarcations of religion and non-religion in schools.
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2019. Ancilla virgo/famula Christi. Virginity, sanctity and slavery in the fourth century. .
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2018. Redeeming the Vestal Virgins: Afterlife and Reception in Hagiography and Medieval Literature.
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2018. New curriculum, new subject? Religion as subject in the ongoing Norwegian curriculum revision. .
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2018. Generational representations? Tracing religion in children's media. .
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2017. “As Antichrist pretends to be Christ.” Fake virgins in Late Antique ascetic discourses.
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2017. Virginity at the spatial turn. Sacred virgins, sacred places, and ideals of immobility of in Late Antiquity.
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2017. Transmitting and transforming religious practice. Varieties of rituals and ritualizations in public and private schools: Procession of light. The celebration of Saint Lucy in Norwegian schools and society.
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2017. Transmitting and Transforming Religious Practice: Varieties of Rituals and Ritualizations in Public and Private Schools.
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2017. Symposia: Educational rituals? Ritualizations and varieties of religious practice in public and private schools.
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2017. Procession of lights. The celebration of Saint Lucy in Norwegian schools and society.
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2016. Whether raped or willing. Bishops, Church Fathers and Canonical regulations on the spiritual sword and punishment of fallen virgins.
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2016. Teaching religion with Beyoncé and beliebers. Using youth culture and media to challenge the WRP in Norwegian classrooms. .
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2016. No Time for the Past? “Dead religions” and the Teaching of Religion Within a World Religion Paradigm in Norwegian RE.
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2015. “Lego-religion in the classroom. The potential use of children’s popular culture in the teaching of religion and ethics”.
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2015. Spiritual Lego. Toys, temples and New Age in the Lego brick universes of Ninjago and Chima.
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2015. Securing Theusebius’ Salvation: The Motif of the ‘Virgin Crown’ in a Late Antique Latin Epitaph.
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2015. Double martyrdom, double crown. Virgin martyrs and fourth-century ascetic hierarchies.
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2015. Aniconism and images in Norwegian RE-textbooks. Representations and historical change.
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2015. Aniconism and images in Norwegian RE-textbooks. Representations and historical change.
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2014. Spiritual Lego. Temples, rituals and new age in Ninjago and Chima.
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2014. "Brief lives, double death. Commemorating the life of a child in Late Antiquity".
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2013. Sacred virginity as a question of class. Vestal and Christian virgins in fourth century Rome.
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2013. "Modaliteter i en multireligiøs skole. Religionsbegrepet i de nye RLE-læreverkene".
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2012. Virgin Fathers? Sacred Virginity, Salvation and Male Virgins in Late Antiquity.
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2012. Veiled visibility. Negotiating the movements of sacred virgins in Late Antiquity.
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2012. Passio Agnetis: life, death and double martyrdom in fourth century Rome.
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2011. Virginity on display. Sacred virgins' veiling and visibility in the city of Rome in Late Antiquity.
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2011. Unevnelige forbrytelser. To senantikke brev om falne jomfruer og "crimen incesti".
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2011. Når jomfruer føder: Jes 7,14 og Matt 1,23 i kontekst.
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2011. Modaliteter i multireligiøse kontekster. Om sannhet, fortelling og bilder i de nye RLE-læreverkene.
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2011. Jomfrufedre? Om hellig jomfrudom og mannlige jomfruer i senantikken.
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2011. "Ideals and accepted norms for male sexuality in Late Roman Antiquity”.
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2008. "A bodiless virginity? On flexity, fixity and the purported novelty of Christian virgin-ideology.".
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2007. ”The temple of Vesta and the house of the vestal virgins” - in situ forelesning.
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2007. ”De lapsu virginum consecratarum. Crime and punishment of fallen virgins”.
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2007. “Vanishing women? Elizabeth Clark on the “linguistic turn”, New Intellectual History, and the study of women in Early Christianity.”.
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2007. “The virgin martyrs of Rome” -in situ foredrag i Sant’Agnese Fuori le Mura.
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2007. "Un-gendering virginity? Male virgins and genderless virginity in the Latin West of Late Antiquity".
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2007. "Kjønnsløs jomfrudom og mannlige jomfruer".
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2007. "Gendering virgins".
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2006. “Elizabeth Clark on theoretical approaches to patristic texts after 'the linguistic turn'”.
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2005. ”The echo of the Fathers. A brief history of reception and research”- fremlegg av avhandlingskapittel.
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2005. ”Innskriftene fra Vestalinnenes Hus.” -forelesning in situ.
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2005. ”Hellige jomfruer i Roma”.
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2005. ”Crime and punishment of fallen virgins”.
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2005. ”CIL 06.35887/ILS 8168: en gravinnskrift for Mus”.
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2005. “Canonical age for consecrated virgins? Ambrose of Milan and Basil of Caesarea.”.
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2004. ”Romas jomfrumartyrer. Hagiografi og kult i det fjerde århundret.”.
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2004. ”Imagining the vestals. Rhetoric and the proximate other.”.
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2004. “Consecrated Virgins in Roman Inscriptions of Fourth and Early Fifth Century: Preliminary reflections.”.
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2003. ”The wise and the foolish virgins: Ambrose, Jerome and Augustine on vestal virginity and pagan chastity”.
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Editorial

2019. Religionsvitenskap, ritualer og ritualisering i skolen. DIN - Tidsskrift for religion og kultur.
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2017. OMG! Religion og ungdomskultur. Prismet. 3-8.
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Book review

2016. Anne Stensvold: A history of pregnancy in Christianity. From original sin to contemporary abortion debates. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning. 239-242.
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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.
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2013. Approaches to the Visual in Religion. Edited by Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati and Christopher Rowland. Numen. 368-370.
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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.
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Academic anthology/Conference proceedings

2017. Religion i skolen : didaktiske perspektiver på religions- og livssynsfaget. Universitetsforlaget.
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Academic monograph

2017. Borderline Virginities. Sacred and Secular Virgins in Late Antiquity.
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Non-fiction book

2010. Romersk Religion Verdens Hellige Skrifter. Bokklubben.
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Research groups

Research group Antiquity and the Classical Tradition

Research Group Literature & Religion

Research Group: Religions of Late Antiquity