Announcing the MF CASR Annual Lecture 2022: Achille Mbembe
Published: 21. April 2022
MF CASR is excited to announce that our Annual Lecture will be on May 31, featuring Achille Mbembe. The lecture will be in person and streamed on YouTube. …
MF professor publishes "theory of everything"
Published: 31. March 2022
Atle O. Søvik won an international manuscript competition with the book A Basic Theory of Everything, where he presents a theory of the basic building blocks…
Baptismal Practices in the Nordic Countries
Published: 23. March 2022
Professor of systematic theology, Harald Hegstad, has been the coordinator and contact for Norway in the Nordic project "Baptism in times of change", where the participants have surveyed existing research and resources related to the topic of baptism in the Nordic countries since the year 2000.
The Material History of Manuscripts
Published: 29. March 2022
In her most recent publication, Invisible Manuscripts: Textual Scholarship and the Survival of 2 Baruch, Liv Ingeborg Lied examines what changes when we study historical texts as material texts and assume that text and manuscript are closely connected with one another.
DEChriM – A Platform for the Study of Early Egyptian Christianity
Published: 6. December 2021
Coinciding with the launch of the new website for MF is the publication of the website of DEChriM, ‘Deconstructing Early Christian Metanarratives’, the ERC project directed by Professor Victor Ghica.
- The living tradition is important to understand the textual tradition
Published: 4. November 2021
The relationship between religious texts and lived religion is central to Ute Hüsken's research. In her next planned project, she will open up new opportunities for research in this intersection.
RCN Funding to MF Project EthiCodex
Published: 29. January 2021
The Research Council of Norway has allocated NOK 11.7 million to Professor Brent Nongbri's research project EthiCodex. The research project addresses the history of the early codex and aims to develop a new methodology and ethics for manuscript studies.
Teologi som møter traumer
Published: 26. February 2020
Hvordan kan vi relatere Jesu lidelse på korset til hvordan traumatiserte mennesker forstår sin egen lidelse?
MF CASR Annual Lecture 2019: Prof. Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
Published: 29. March 2019
Don't miss the 2019 MF CASR Annual Lecture 6 September. Elizabeth Shakman Hurd will talk about Religion on the border: The politics of the ‘Muslim ban’ and the limits of law
MF establishes MF CASR!
Published: 14. February 2018
MF is proud to announce its new research centre called the MF Center for the Advanced Study of Religion!