Research projects

• A
  • A Cross-Disciplinary Study of Euclid’s Elements
  • An Etymological Dictionary of Arabic Language and Culture
  • A new Turkish-Norwegian Dictionary
  • Animals as Objects and Animals as Signs

• B
  • Banal religion strikes back - The case of Padre Pio
  • Bibliotheca Polyglotta
  • Bodies, Women and Representation in Contemporary Japanese Literature

• C
  • Compound Formations in the Semitic Languages
  • Contemporary French in Africa and the Indian Ocean
  • Contemporary Views on Edo Society
  • Cultural Heritage in Norway
  • Cultural Histories of Meditation
  • Cultural Interchanges in Iberia
  • Cultural Memory and Sacralisation of Places

• D
  • Death Reflected in Cultural Research
  • Developments in Coptic Visual Culture
  • Digitital Arabic Textbook
  • Discipline, creativity and individualization in Chinese schools
  • Discourses of Cultural Diversity
  • Discourses on Social Change 1650-1800

• E
  • Encounters. Tourists and Travels in Norway
  • European Ethnology in the 20th Century
  • European National Museums: Identity politics, the uses of the past and the European citizen 1750-2010
  • Exibitionary Regimes in Transition
  • Exploring Post-Postmodernism

• F
  • Farmers' Diaries in the 19th Century
  • From Antiquities to Heritage

• H
  • Handmade in China: Appropriation and transmission of technical knowledge in Chinese history
  • Hognestad at Høvik

• I
  • Initiation, Priestly Ordination, Temple Festivals
  • Internet use in the Arab world
  • In the Borderlands of the Buddha

• J
  • Judeo-Arabic Texts from Iraq and Egypt

• L
  • Language Contact and Linguistic Typology
  • Literature and Translations Studies

• M
  • Modern Norwegians in Bohuslän

• N
  • Nanjing Popular Culture
  • Narrating Hiroshima: Representations of War in Contemporary Japan
  • New Perspectives on Folklore
  • Ni-causatives with Agentive Intransitive Verbs – Human Agent Marking with Dative

• O
  • Online Edition of the Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics
  • Original and Modern Productions of Old Operas

• P
  • Pagan Graves and Christian Cemeteries
  • Patterns of Cultural Valuation
  • Perfomance and Consciousness Studies
  • Performing the Sacred
  • Persian Exercises
  • Perspectives on Festivity
  • Project on Shina Grammar, Dictionary and Texts

• Q
  • Quoting medieval legends: Itô Hiromi and Tsuhima Yûko

• R
  • Religious Belief and Practice in the Danish-Norwegian United Monarchy 1500-1814
  • Religious Concepts and the Transformation of South Asian Religions from 1800
  • Religious Studies within the Tension of Rationalism and Romanticism
  • Revitalization of Buddhism in Mongolia after 1990
  • Roman Catholic identity politics in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kososvo

• S
  • Shinto History
  • Sibawayhi-Project
  • Social Darwinism and Nationalism in Korea – the Beginnings, 1883-1910
  • South Asian Political Culture
  • Sumerian Ritual as Theatre

• T
  • Talking with Angels and Demons in Scandinavia 1500-1800
  • The Afroasiatic Horizon: Tools for Semitic Linguistics
  • The Ethics of War in South Asia
  • The Gulf Research Unit
  • The Heritage of the Western Sea
  • The Hindi Database
  • The History of Middle Eastern Literatures Revisited
  • The Image of Zoroaster in the Dāstān-e Goshtāsp (Tale of Goshtāsp)
  • The Mimae and the Gaze: Considering the First Female Performers
  • The New Middle East
  • The Norwegian Manor 1500-2000
  • The Philanthropic Individual
  • The Power of the Example
  • Thesaurus Linguae Sericae (TLS)
  • Timbuktu Manuscripts Project for the Preservation and Promotion of African Literary Heritage
  • Tools, Tours and Vistas: Aesthetic Practices of Nature-Landscape in the Late 18th century
  • Topics in Arabic Dialectology and Sociolinguistics
  • Turkish Balkan Dialects
  • Turkish Transcription Texts

• U
  • Universalism and Nationalism in the Orthodox Church of Norway

• V
  • Violent Religion

• W
  • War and Dignity in Classical Indian legal, epic, philsophical and religious literature
  • What is Fundamentalism?
  • Women and Gender Studies in Tibet