3. oktober 1913 satt Fridtjof Nansen på den transsibirske jernbanen ett døgn fra Vladivostok og skrev brev hjem til sin nære venn og kollega Bjørn Helland-Hansen: «Jeg har hatt en interessant reise på mange måter, og har nu hodet fullt av helt nye inntrykk av den mest forskjellige slags fra Ishavet og hit til det Himmelske Rike, som vi nu har reist gjennom, […] Hvad jeg skal gjøre med alt det nye ...

Minnestudier har fra dets gjennombrudd på 1980-tallet vist seg relevant for religionsvitenskap og teologi, ikke minst gjennom studier av hvordan minnet opprettholdes og formes av skrift, kanon og monumenter. når oppmerksomheten i den følgende artikkelen skal rettes mot den kristne nattverdsforståelsen, kommer en ofte underbelyst side til syne: Erindringen har også en kroppslig dimensjon. I ...

The discovery of an amber bead and an unusual type of slate knife at a site near Tromsø, Norway instigated reflection upon inter-regional mobility and possible travel routes in northern Fennoscandia. In combination with finds near Kilpisjärvi, Finland, these early Neolithic objects found far from their main distribution area allow us to suggest that the Torne River and its connected waterways provided ...

This article, a revised version of Tore Rem’s keynote lecture at the XIVth International Ibsen Conference in Skien on 5–8 September 2018, draws on pp. 140–174 in Narve Fulsås and Tore Rem, <i>Ibsen, Scandinavia and the Making of a World Drama</i> (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2018). This version expands on the theoretical-analytical framework of our suggested typology.

The New Testament is a cultural canon that fundamentally shaped the development of Christian Europe and the entire Christian world. The Bible can be seen as a repository of ideas and behavioral rules that have been read and interpreted by many generations of (cultural) Christians. The ideas and behavioral rules that became part of the Bible, as well as their specific combinations and intertextual ...

Vi hevder i den nylig utgitte boken Religion i pressen (Universitetsforlaget 2013) at den norske islamdekningen er blitt mer kunnskapsbasert og nyansert i løpet av 2000-­‐tallet, og at flere muslimske stemmer har kommet på banen. I et eget kapittel viet den såkalte moskesaken i Tromsø, hevder vi også at Nordlys-­‐serien ”Islam i Tromsø,” høsten 2010, brøt med denne tendensen. Det er i og for ...

Norway and Russia are both northern states, who administer vast maritime zones and land territories in the Arctic. Because of this, in both states we find a distinct northern focus that has occupied a prominent place, not least inside the field of sciences over the last two centuries. During the last decades of the 19th century there developed a handful of so to say specific arctic research disciplines, ...

What did the protestant reformations look like in the very north of Europe? How did the cultural, political and economic consequences of the religious change influence the relationship between Scandinavia, the British Isles and continental Europe? Various questions related to these main themes were the topics for discussions at the conference “Northern Reformations” in Tromsø, Norway, September ...

The number of studies on social inequality in mortality in Norway before 1960 is limited and they often focus on early life outcomes. Little is known about socioeconomic differences in old-age mortality before the emergence of the welfare state. Linked census and church records from the Historical Population Register of Norway were used to study a sample of 10,457 men and women born 1841–1870 ...