MF CASR Publications
For full CASR Fellow publications, click on individual Fellows.
Recent Book Releases
The Transmission of Mark's Endings in Different Traditions and Languages: Papers presented at the International Workshop, Lausanne, 2-3 June 2022 - edited by Claire Clivaz, Mina Monier, and Dan Batovici
The first online conference hosted by the five-year Swiss National Science Foundation project ‘MARK16’—held from Lausanne (CH) in September 2020 and published in 2021—had, as its purpose, to highlight and strengthen the bridges between ancient codicology and digital humanities, focusing on the creation of virtual research environments (VRE). The second ‘MARK16’ online conference, held from Lausanne in June 2022, also built bridges, but between ancient languages and traditions surrounding Mark 16, and between New Testament (NT) exegesis and textual criticism. This interdisciplinary subject is the focus of a publication of selected papers in this ‘MARK16’ Com-parative Oriental Manuscript Studies (COMSt) Bulletin special issue.
Lykkeforskning: En sosiologs oppdagelsesreise - Lars Laird Iversen
Lykkeforskning - en sosiologs oppdagelsesreise utforsker ulike forskeres forsøk på å forstå hva lykke er og hvordan man oppnår det. Boka er en sosiologisk respons på den voksende interessen for selvutvikling og et samfunnsvitenskapelig bidrag til forskningen på livsmestring.
Forfatteren tar for seg fem tema som lykkeforskningen er samstemt på at kan gjøre oss lykkeligere: fellesskap, bevegelse, natur, oppmerksom tilstedeværelse og ritualer. Funnene fra lykkeforskningen diskuteres så i lys av kritiske samfunnsvitenskapelige perspektiver.
Lykkeforskning er en tverrfaglig bok som retter seg mot studenter i sosiologi og andre samfunnsfag, samt et bredere publikum med interesse for lykkeforskning. Flere av eksemplene er hentet fra skolen, og boken vil være nyttig for de som arbeider med livsmestring og folkehelse, særlig innen samfunnsfag og KRLE.
The Making of Islamic Economic Thought: Islamization, Law, and Moral Discourses - Sami Al-Daghistani
Interrogating the development and conceptual framework of economic thought in the Islamic tradition pertaining to ethical, philosophical, and theological ideas, this book provides a critique of modern Islamic economics as a hybrid economic system. From the outset, Sami Al-Daghistani is concerned with the polyvalent methodology of studying the phenomenon of Islamic economic thought as a human science in that it nurtures a complex plentitude of meanings and interpretations associated with the moral self. By studying legal scholars, theologians, and Sufis in the classical period, Al-Daghistani looks at economic thought in the context of Sharī'a's moral law. Alongside critiquing modern developments of Islamic economics, he puts forward an idea for a plural epistemology of Islam's moral economy, which advocates for a multifaceted hermeneutical reading of the subject in light of a moral law, embedded in a particular cosmology of human relationality, metaphysical intelligibility, and economic subjectivity.
Klagens ABC: Boken Klagesangene i dens samtid og ettertid - Gard Granerød
Klagens ABC: Boken Klagesangene i dens samtid og ettertid analyserer den bibelske boken Klagesangene. Sentralt står spørsmålene: Hvordan kan vi oversette den hebraiske teksten og samtidig ta hensyn til grunntekstens poetiske virkemidler og innsikter fra nyere forskning på bibelhebraisk grammatikk? Hva er diktenes litterære form og innhold? Hvordan har lesere lest, forstått og brukt Klagesangene gjennom dens resepsjonshistorie?
Forfatteren drøfter Klagesangenes litterære form, dens religionshistoriske, teologiske og historiske innhold og dens kontekster. I tillegg drøftes utvalgte stasjoner langs Klagesangenes nomadiske vandring gjennom resepsjonshistorien. Boken kombinerer historisk-kritiske, litterære og formkritiske metoder. De fem diktene i Klagesangene analyseres ut fra kategoriene orientering (en tilværelse i likevekt), desorientering (en virkelighet ute av balanse) og nyorientering (en tilværelse hvor likevekten er gjenopprettet), inspirert av Walter Brueggemanns salmetypologi. På grunnlag av en nitid filologisk analyse av den hebraiske teksten presenterer forfatteren en ny, transparent norsk oversettelse. Et kjennetegn ved oversettelsen er at den i flere tilfeller forstår hebraisk perfektum (qatal) som en såkalt prekativ perfektum («bønneperfektum»).
Klagens ABC henvender seg til teologi- og religionsstudenter, forskere, kirkelige medarbeidere, legfolk og alle som interesserer seg for Bibelens klagelitteratur og gudsbilder i et teologisk og religionshistorisk perspektiv.
The Psychology of Meaning in Life - Tatjana Schnell
This book offers an inspiring exploration of current findings from the psychology of meaning in life, analysing cutting-edge research to propose practical, evidence-based applications. Schnell draws on psychological, philosophical and cognitive perspectives to explore basic concepts of meaning and introduce a multidimensional model of meaning in life.
Written in an accessible style, this book covers a range of topics including the distinction between meaning and happiness, the impact of meaning on health and longevity, meaning in the workplace, and meaning-centred interventions. Each chapter ends with exercises to encourage self-reflection and measurement tools are presented throughout, including the author’s original Sources of Meaning and Meaning in Life Questionnaire (SoMe), to inspire the reader to consider the role of meaning in their own life.
A Basic Theory of Everything: A Fundamental Theoretical Framework for Science and Philosophy - Atle Otteson Søvik
What are the basic building blocks of the world? This book presents a naturalistic theory saying that the universe and everything in it can be reduced to three fundamental entities: a field, a set of values that can be actualized at different places in the field, and an actualizer of the values. The theory is defended by using it to answer the main questions in metaphysics, such as: What is causality, existence, laws of nature, consciousness, thinking, free will, time, mathematical entities, ethical values, etc.? The theory is compared with the main alternatives and argued to solve problems better than the existing theories. Several new theories are suggested, such as how to understand mental causation, free will and the truth of ethics and mathematics.
Det livssynsåpne samfunn - Sturla J. Stålsett
«Det livssynsåpne samfunn» er blitt et nøkkelbegrep i diskusjonen om religion og politikk i Norge og ligger til grunn for den nye Lov om tros- og livssynsamfunn, som gjelder fra 2021. Men hva er et livssynsåpent samfunn?
«Det livssynsåpne samfunn» representerer en bestemt, ny begrunnelse for politisk myndighetsutøvelse overfor tro og livssyn i samfunnet, ifølge forfatteren. I denne boka beskriver han hvordan det livssynsåpne samfunn er blitt til gjennom politisk debatt, utredninger og lovgivning, og han vurderer modellens sterke og svake sider. Han drøfter også prinsippene for et livssynsåpent samfunn i møte med dagsaktuelle utfordringer knyttet til likestilling, menneskerettigheter, symbolbruk og vold.
Invisible Manuscripts: Textual Scholarship and the Survival of 2 Baruch - Liv Ingeborg Lied
In this critical exploration of the role of manuscripts in textual scholarship, Liv Ingeborg Lied studies the Syriac manuscript transmission of 2 Baruch. These manuscripts emerge as salient sources to the long life of 2 Baruch among Syriac speaking Christians, not merely witnesses to an early Jewish text. Inspired by the perspective of New Philology, Lied addresses manuscript materiality and paratextual features, the history of ownership, traces of active readers and liturgical use, and practices of excerption and re-identification. The author's main concerns are the methodological, epistemological and ethical challenges of exploring early Jewish writings that survive only in Christian transmission. Through engagement with the established academic narratives, she retells the story of 2 Baruch and makes a case for manuscript- and provenance-aware textual scholarship.
Pilgrimage, Landscape, and Identity: Reconstructing Sacred Geographies in Norway - Marion Grau
Grau's book explores the ritual geography of a pilgrimage system that arose around medieval saints in Norway, a country now being transformed by petroleum riches, neoliberalism, migration, and global warming. The study maps how pilgrims, hosts, church officials, and government officials participate in reshaping narratives of landscape, sacrality, and pilgrimage as a symbol of life journey, nation, identity, Christianity, and Protestant reflections on the durability of medieval Catholic saints.
Tracing the Jerusalem Code, Volumes 1-3 - ddited by Kristin B. Aavitsland, Line M. Bonde, Eivor Andersen Oftestad, Joar Haga, Ragnhild J. Zorgati, and Anna Bohlin
With the aim to rewrite the history of Christianity in Scandinavia with Jerusalem as a lens, this book investigates the image – or rather the imagination – of Jerusalem in the religious, political, and artistic cultures of Scandinavia through most of the second millennium. Jerusalem is conceived as a code to Christian cultures in Scandinavia. The first volume deals with the different notions of Jerusalem in the Middle Ages, the second with Jerusalem's impact on Protestantism and Christianity in Early Modern Scandinavia, and the third with Jerusalem's the impact on Scandinavian Christianity from the 18th to early 20th centuries.
Ethical Teachings of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī, Economics of Happiness - Sami Al Daghistani
This book studies the interplay of economic philosophy and moral conduct as reflected in the writings of one of the most renowned scholars in Islamic history, Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazālī (d. 1111). As is well known, Imām al-Ghazālī, nicknamed “the proof of Islam”, contributed immensely to Islamic theology, philosophy, and Sufism or Islamic mysticism (taṣawwuf). Strikingly enough, al-Ghazālī also made seminal contributions to the field of economic thought, but this contribution has been largely neglected, although al-Ghazālī dedicated many chapters to what he considered just and Sharī‘a-based economic conduct in (Muslim) society. This book aims to analyse and revive al-Ghazālī’s understudied contribution to economic thought by emphasizing his economic philosophy and its correlation between Sharī‘a’s moral law and the tradition of taṣawwuf, as well as to situate his thought within the context of modern economic theories.