Kathinka Frøystad

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Academic interests

Frøystad came to the study of religion from social anthropology and modern South Asia studies. Her professorial qualifications derive from the two latter disciplines.

Frøystad's research clusters around three topics: Firstly, religious change: What makes people alter their religious priorities? Secondly, friction: Which forms do contemporary religious contestations take, and why? And thirdly, their arguably cosmopolitan opposite: What makes people cross "official" religious boundaries for divine interventions, and to what extent can such crossings promote social cohesion in plural societies?

Having done in-depth fieldwork on these topics since the early 1990s, Frøystad has also contributed to the long-standing debate about anthropological research methods. Snippets of her recent ethnographic material are depicted in the ethnographic films A Kali Temple Inside Out (2018), which is available at RAI and Kanopy, and An Indian Love Story (2023).

Teaching

Frøystad's teaching currently covers an introduction to Hinduism (REL2220), Field methods for the study of religion (REL4002) and Religion and politics (KOS4050). She also has extensive teaching experience from India studies and the anthropology departments in Bergen and Oslo.

Background

  • 2022 --- : Editor (with Tord Larsen) of Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift, a Norwegian-language peer-reviewed anthropology journal
  • 2017-2019  Adjunct Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, Unviersity of Bergen
  • 2014 --- : Professor of Modern South Asian Studies, University of Oslo
  • 2013: Guest researcher, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen
  • 2007-2014: Professor/Associate Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen
  • 2006-2007 Visiting scholar, UC San Diego Department of Anthropology (6 months)
  • 2003-2007: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo
  • 2000-2003: Lecturer, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo
  • 2000: Dr Polit (PhD), Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo
  • 1995-2000: PhD Research Fellow, International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO)
Tags: India, Anthropology, Religion and politics, Inequality, Ethnography, Hinduism, Religious pluralism
Published Aug. 20, 2014 12:44 PM - Last modified Jan. 22, 2024 7:31 PM