Cecilie Endresen

Associate Professor - Study of Religion
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Academic interests

  • Christianity in the Philippines
  • Islam and pluralism in Europe 
  • Religion, politics and identity in Southeast Europe
  • Islam and Christianity in the Balkans
  • Religion among the Albanians
  • Religion and globalization
  • Secularisation and religious change
  • Alternative religion, New age spirituality and new religious movements

Ongoing research

At present, I explore questions of charisma, authority, globalization, and social change in the complex Christian landscape of the contemporary Philippines. I also study emerging and alternative forms of religion in Southeast Europe, religious hybridity, myth, identity, and nationalism, and Christian-Islamic encounters.

Higher education and employment history

  • Tenured position as associate professor in history of religion at Dept. of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS) since 2016.
  • Postdoctoral fellow 2012-2016, funded by the Research Council of Norway (FRIPRO), with the project Religious and national identities among Albanians in relation to Greece and Europe (CRYMUS). Guest researcher at Centre d'Études Turques, Ottomanes, Balkaniques et Centrasiatiques, EHESS, 2014-2015.
  • PhD in 2010. Dissertation: Is the Albanian’s religion really “Albanianism”? Religion and nation according to Muslim and Christian leaders in Albania.
  • MA degree (hovedfag) in history of religion, 2000. Thesis: The right-winged archangels of Romania: A study of the mystico-fascist Legionary Movement after Communism. (Incl. Romanian language component from the Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 1998-1999).
  • BA degree (cand.mag) in 1997, with history of religion, philosophy, German, East European area studies and ethics.
  • Contract work at history of religion, IKOS, 2010-2013.
  • Researcher at the project Strategies of Symbolic Nation-building in South Eastern Europe, funded by the Research Council of Norway, 2011.
  • Contract work as political analyst in the Balkans, incl. 1.5 years for the European Union, all in all 3.5 years between 2001 and 2008. 
  • Researcher at the project Religion and nationalism in the Western Balkans, funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Courses taught

Tags: History of Religion, Islam and Christianity in Southeast Europe, Religion and politics, Religious pluralism, Albanian, Nationalism

Publications

  • A Fantastic People and Its Enemies: An Analysis of an Emerging Albanian Mythology,In Asbjørn Dyrendal; Egil Asprem & David G Robertson (ed.),  Handbook of Conspiracy Theory and Contemporary Religion.  Brill Academic Publishers.  ISBN 978-90-04-38150-6.  Chapter 15.  s 343 - 360.
  • “Norway, religion and the United Nations». (Co-author: Ingrid Vik.) Religion, State and the United Nations: Value Politics. Anne Stensvold (ed.).New York: Routledge, 2017. p. 170-184.
  • «Faith, Fatherland, or both? Accommodationist and neo-fundamentalist Islamic discourses in Albania», The revival of Islam in the Balkans. Arolda Elbasani and Olivier Roy (eds.). Palgrave, 2015. http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/the-revival-of-islam-in-the-balkans-arolda-elbasani/?K=9781137517838
  • «The nation and the nun: Mother Teresa, Albania’s Muslim Majority and the Secular State», Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations 1/2015, p. 53-74. dx.doi.org/10.1080/09596410.2014.961765. 
  • «Status report Albania 100 years: symbolic nation-building completed?», Strategies of Symbolic Nation-building in South Eastern Europe. Pål Kolstø (ed.). Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate, 2014, p. 201-226. www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781472419163. 
  • «Diversiteti fetar në teori dhe praktikë: Qasja e klerikëve shqiptarë ndaj ritualeve të familjes dhe jetës», Përpjekja 32/2014. (Translation by Arbana Rexhepaj.) 
  • «One object, several definitions. The Albanian ‘church-mosque’ dispute», Annuario  2013, p. 39-60.
  • «Raporti për gjendjen në Shqipëri në 100 vjet: Përfundimi i kombformimit simbolik?», Kombformimi simbolik në Europën juglindore. Qendra për hulumtime dhe politikë gjinore, 2013, p. 325-364. (Original title: Strategies of Symbolic nation building. Albanian edition prepared by Vjollca Krasniqi. Translation: Translation Center.)
  • Is the Albanian’s religion really «Albanianism»? Religion and nation according to Muslim and Christian leaders in Albania. Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, 2012, www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/title_4092.ahtml?NKLN=410_A 
  • «Gud i nasjonal kontekst: En sammenligning av rumensk-ortodokse og albansk-ortodokse forestillinger om Gud». Dīn 2, 2012, ojs.novus.no/index.php/DIN/article/view/449.     
  • «Romania’s Saving Angels: ‘New Men’, Orthodoxy and Blood Mysticism in the Legionary Movement», Bulletin for the Study of Religion 41/2, 2012, www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/BSOR/article/view/Endresen. 
  • «‘Kristi soldater’ i Romania». Nordisk Østforum 2, 2012, www.idunn.no/ts/nof/2012/02/kristi_soldater_i_romania_jerngardens_postkommunistiske_. 
     
  • Endresen, Cecilie & Hvalstrand, Hedda Sebesta (2022). The celebration of Mikuláš: Cult of St. Nicholas, tradition and Czech identity. Chaos - Skandinavisk tidsskrift for religionshistoriske studier. ISSN 0108-4453. 75(1), p. 147–164.
  • Endresen, Cecilie & Stensvold, Anne (2022). Diana’s feast. The transient apotheosis of a princess. Chaos - Skandinavisk tidsskrift for religionshistoriske studier. ISSN 0108-4453. 75(1), p. 47–66.
  • Ruud, Arild Engelsen & Endresen, Cecilie (2022). Philippine Elections 2022: Bongbong Marcos Stories as Told by Filipino Voters. Contemporary Southeast Asia. ISSN 0129-797X. 44(3), p. 404–410.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2021). “Mystical and Mythical Thinking”: Myth-Making as a Compensatory Mechanism. In Musaraj, Smoki & Gregorič Bon, Nataša (Ed.), Remitting, Restoring and Building Contemporary Albania. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 978-3-030-84090-7. p. 211–238. doi: https:/doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84091-4.
  • Endresen, Cecilie & Kersten, Carool (2021). The politics of blasphemy in Indonesia. In Stensvold, Anne (Eds.), Blasphemies compared : Transgressive speech in a globalised world. Routledge. ISSN 9780367254223. p. 192–213.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2020). Indian Diplomacy, Yoga, and New Age in Serbia. In Jacobsen, Knut Axel & Sardella, Ferdinando (Ed.), Handbook of Hinduism in Europa volume 2: Hindu presence in European countries. Brill Academic Publishers. ISSN 9789004433441. p. 1410–1427. doi: https:/brill.com/view/title/56478.
  • Endresen, Cecilie; Crvenkovska Risteska, Ines & Risteski, Ljupčo S. (2020). Hinduism in the Republic of North Macedonia: Yoga, Gurus, and National Myths. In Jacobsen, Knut Axel & Sardella, Ferdinando (Ed.), Handbook of Hinduism in Europa volume 2: Hindu presence in European countries. Brill Academic Publishers. ISSN 9789004433441. p. 1218–1240. doi: https:/doi.org/10.1163/9789004432284.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2020). Yoga Tourism, Āyurveda and New Hindu Movements in Montenegro . In Jacobsen, Knut Axel & Sardella, Ferdinando (Ed.), Handbook of Hinduism in Europa volume 2: Hindu presence in European countries. Brill Academic Publishers. ISSN 9789004433441. p. 1191–1203. doi: https:/doi.org/10.1163/9789004432284.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2020). Meditation and Yoga for Peace in Kosovo. In Jacobsen, Knut Axel & Sardella, Ferdinando (Ed.), Handbook of Hinduism in Europa volume 2: Hindu presence in European countries. Brill Academic Publishers. ISSN 9789004433441. p. 1141–1151. doi: https:/doi.org/10.1163/9789004432284.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2020). Yoga, Meditation, and Guru Movements in Albania. In Jacobsen, Knut Axel & Sardella, Ferdinando (Ed.), Handbook of Hinduism in Europa volume 2: Hindu presence in European countries. Brill Academic Publishers. ISSN 9789004433441. p. 779–805. doi: https:/brill.com/view/title/56478.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2019). Vin og vinyasa: Yogaturisme på Balkan. AURA - Tidsskrift for akademiske studier av nyreligiøsitet. ISSN 2000-4419. 10, p. 61–90.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2019). Islam und religiöse Autorität im heutigen Albanien. In Telbizova-Sack, Jordanka & Voß, Christian (Ed.), Islam auf dem Balkan Muslimische Traditionen im lokalen, nationalen und transnationalen Kontext Series: Südosteuropa-Jahrbuch . Peter Lang Publishing Group. ISSN 978-3-631-79322-0. p. 89–101. doi: https:/doi.org/10.3726/b15775.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2019). Body, Mind and Spirit: A Therapeutic Turn in Muslim-majority Kosovo. I Bria, G., Clayer, N. (Eds.). (2019). "Power, authority and body: Islam’s transformations in South-East Europe between XX and XXI century [Special Issue]". Occhialì – Rivista sul Mediterraneo islamico, 5 (1). . Occhialì – Rivista sul Mediterraneo islamico. ISSN 2532-6740. 5(1), p. 94–125.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2019). Kosmiske språk, babelsk forvirring og indoeuropeisk kvantefysikk: Emisk lingvistikk og myter om språk i albansk nyreligiøsitet . Chaos - Skandinavisk tidsskrift for religionshistoriske studier. ISSN 0108-4453. 69, p. 67–93.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2018). A Fantastic People and Its Enemies: An Analysis of an Emerging Albanian Mythology. Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion. ISSN 1874-6691. p. 343–360. doi: 10.1163/9789004382022_017.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2017). Islam und religiöse Autorität im heutigen Albanien: Zwei Haupttendenzen. Südosteuropa Mitteilungen. ISSN 0340-174X. 1, p. 60–69.
  • Endresen, Cecilie & Vik, Ingrid (2017). Norway, religion and the United Nations. In Stensvold, Anne (Eds.), Religion, State and the United Nations: Value Politics. Routledge. ISSN 9781317382584. p. 170–184.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2016). Allah og aliens: Albanske mellomvesener og albanere som mellomvesener. AURA - Tidsskrift for akademiske studier av nyreligiøsitet. ISSN 2000-4419. 8, p. 28–56.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2016). Reform, sekularisme og globalisering. (Fokusartikkel). Internasjonal Politikk. ISSN 0020-577X. 74(4). doi: 10.17585/ip.v74.630.

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  • Endresen, Cecilie (2023). Fra vekkelse til stillstand. Utsyn nr. 12, 2023. s. 4. [Journal]. Utsyn.
  • Endresen, Cecilie & Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2023). Foredrag Åpen dag: «It’s complicated»: Forholdet mellom religion og politikk – fra Amerika til Asia .
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2023). Kan du bruka tannkrem under fasta? Intervju om religion og teknologi i Framtida junior. [Internet]. Framtida junior .
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2023). «Teen injected himself with DNA from the Bible and the Quran»: DNA in religious discourse.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2022). Språk som totem?
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2022). Blasfemi, islam og nyreligiøsitet i Indonesia .
  • Endresen, Cecilie; Johannsen, Dirk; Frøystad, Kathinka; Stensvold, Anne; Ruud, Arild Engelsen & Trangerud, Hanne Amanda [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2022). Jo, mange forsker på religion og politikk! Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2022). Kompleks, relasjonell og kontekstuell islam: Sekularistisk ulama, kristne muslimer, fengslede profeter og New Age-islam .
  • Endsjø, Dag Øistein; Stensvold, Anne; Endresen, Cecilie; Zorgati, Ragnhild Johnsrud; Havnevik, Hanna & Stene, Nora [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2022). Religionsvitenskap er allerede på HF (Debattinnlegg fra faggruppen på religionsvitenskap, v. Anne Stensvold) «Like lite som filosofi kan opprette parallelle kurs i idéhistorie eller sosiologi, kan teologene ved TF starte kurs som prøver å imitere hva som allerede finnes på religionsvitenskap.». Uniforum. ISSN 1891-5825.
  • Endresen, Cecilie & Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2022). PODKAST: Duterte, Modi, Rajapaksa og Sheikh Hasina både fascinerer og bekymrer. Hva slags demokratier velger seg så autoritære ledere? . [Internet]. Universitetsplassen - podkast.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2022). Intervju om nordmenns synkende tiltro til naturmedisin. Om alternative terapier, nyreligiøsitet, antroposofi, magi. m.m. . [Radio]. Kompass, NRK P2.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2022). Bokomtale: The Image of Islam in Russia. Nordisk Østforum. ISSN 0801-7220. 36, p. 161–163. doi: 10.23865/noros.v36.3888.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2022). "Religious tolerance, hospitality and honor”: Albania’s rescue of Jews in postcommunist discourse .
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2022). Nyreligiøsitet, Religion og etikk: Lærebok i religion og etikk for Vg3. Aschehoug & Co. ISSN 9788203319570. p. 224–234.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2022). Relatively non-Muslim .
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2022). Filmvorführung und Publikumsgespräch: Ein Licht zwischen den Wolken (Alb. Streha mes reve). Ein Gespräch mit dem Regisseur Robert Budina. . [Internet]. Zweigstelle der Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft in Jena (online).
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2022). Prophets in prison: the visions of charismatic NRM leaders convicted of “blasphemy” in Indonesia.
  • Endresen, Cecilie & Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2022). Ferdinand Marcos, igjen. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. p. 20–20.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2022). Intervju til planlagt Dagsrevyen-reportasje om hekser i Ukraina som bruker krigsmagi mot russiske tropper. . [TV]. Dagsrevyen, NRK 1.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2022). "Religion in the election campaign" foredrag, Senter for utvikling og miljø - ASIANET: fokus - The return of Marcos: The recent elections in the Philippines and the road ahead .
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2022). Kriminell karisma: Blasfemidømte profeter i Indonesia.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2022). War in Ukraine. Religion: Political and security aspects.
  • Endresen, Cecilie & Ruud, Arild Engelsen (2022). Hvorfor vant diktatorsønnen valget? Avisa Vårt land. p. 16–17.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2022). "Religionsleksikon" - oversikt over de ti største religionene .
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2021). “Inner and outer peace”: Yoga and meditation among Muslims.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2021). Religion og konflikt på Balkan.
  • Rots, Aike Peter; Endresen, Cecilie; Gubrium, Erika; Tolgensbakk, Ida; Bell, Justyna & Tanyi, Attila [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2021). Et «fremmed» virus? – Covid-19, nasjonalisme og stengte grenser. Utrop.no.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2020). Intervju om Maradona-kirken og personkult. [Radio]. NRK P2 - Helgemorgen.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2020). Intervju om konspirasjonsteorier om Covid-19 i Dagsnytt 18 . [Radio]. Dagsnytt 18.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2020). P2 Nyhetsmorgen - intervju om integreringsbarometeret. . [Radio]. NRK P2.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2019). Book review: "Muslims in Eastern Europe, by Egdūnas Račius". Comparative Islamic Studies. ISSN 1740-7125. 12(1-2), p. 229–232. doi: 10.1558/cis.37910.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2019). Floating Islam: Islamic referents and Muslim identities in New Age spirituality in Albania .
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2019). Why does the pope matter to non-Catholics?
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2019). Turkey's soft power in Albania - cultural and religious links.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2019). Ny Salah-studie: Egypteren har halvert muslimhatet i Liverpool . [Internet]. Aftenposten.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2019). Sitert om sjamanisme. [Internet]. Adresseavisen.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2019). Sitert om sjamanisme. [Internet]. Sunnmørsposten.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2019). Intervju om sjamanisme og nysjamanisme. [Internet]. Verdens Gang.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2019). "Hva er en sjaman?". Intervju om sjamaner i Aftenposten junior. . [Newspaper]. Aftenposten.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2019). Intervjuet om moderne sjamanisme av Ole Peder Giæver i "Prinsessen og sjamanen: – Business og åndelighet" . [Internet]. ABC Nyheter.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2019). Tenåring injiserte seg med DNA oversatt fra Bibelen og Koranen": DNA i religiøs diskurs.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2019). Märthas sjaman-kjæreste sier han kan snu atomer. [Newspaper]. ABC nyheter.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2019). Om sjamanisme. [Newspaper]. Dagsavisen.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2019). "Märtha Louises sjaman-kjæreste sier han kan snu atomer" . [Newspaper]. Nettavisen.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2019). Intervju om sjamanisme og nyreligiøsitet. [Radio]. Studio 2, NRK P2.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2019). Bokanmeldelse: "Med guds hjälp: om religion och politik i Ryssland, Ungern och Polen. Nordisk Østforum". Nordisk Østforum. ISSN 0801-7220. 33(19), p. 17–18.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2018). Book review: Europe’s Balkan Muslims: A New History. By Nathalie Clayer and Xavier Bougarel. . Hungarian Historical Review. ISSN 2063-8647. 1, p. 164–169.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2018). ESOTERICISM AND THE HUMANITIES: Albanian esotericism, pseudo-linguistics and new religious authorities.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2018). Bokanmeldelse: Blanes, Ruy Llera and Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic (eds.). 2017. Being Godless. Ethnographies of Atheism and Non-Religion. . Anthropological Notebooks. ISSN 1408-032X. XXIV(1), p. 115–116.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2018). The temporal in comparative religion.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2018). Images of religion in SKAM.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2018). Jihad og jihadisme.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2018). Testreise Thailand.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2018). Intervjuet av Eva Alnes Holte i art. "Ekstremistene drar religionen vår ned i søla" . [Newspaper]. Utrop.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2018). Intervjuet av Morten Strand ifm. "Demonstrasjoner i Romania: Korrupsjonen spiser landet" . [Newspaper]. Dagbladet.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2018). Promovideo for studier i Religionsvitenskap.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2018). Intervju i "De lever som menn - og sverger på å forbli jomfruer" av Øyvind Idsø. [Newspaper]. Dagbladet.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2018). Intervjuet av Mattis C. O. Vaaland: "Orientalisme på norsk". [Newspaper]. Vårt land.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2017). Kommentar til rapport om holdninger til muslimer https://www.utrop.no/Nyheter/Innenriks/32635. [Newspaper]. Utrop.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2017). Skrevet 30 artikler. Ansvar for 77 artikler som er lest 18 927 ganger. Fagansvarlig for 7 kategorier, bl.a.: Kosovos historie. In Bolstad, Erik (Eds.), Store norske leksikon (snl.no 2017). Store norske leksikon AS.
  • Endresen, Cecilie & Kersten, Carool (2017). "Blasphemy & Religious Intolerance:Indonesian contexts and cases" .
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2017). Intervjuet av Kjell G. Kvamme om endetidsforventinger og millenaristiske bevegelser, artikkel "Adventens mørke side". [Newspaper]. Vårt land.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2017). Intervjuet av Line Brustad om HL-rapport, i artikkel "Muslimfrykt". [Newspaper]. Dagbladet.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2017). Kosmiske språk, babelsk forvirring og indoeuropeisk kvantefysikk.
  • Endresen, Cecilie & Kai Erik, Westergaard (2017). Drikker muslimer? [Internet]. religioner.no.
  • Endresen, Cecilie & Kai Erik, Westergaard (2017). Alkohol og religion har gått hånd i hånd. [Internet]. religioner.no.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2017). Global kristendom.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2016). Der Einfluss der New Age-Bewegung auf Formen des Islams im Mittelmeerraum.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2016). "The pope in Balkan conflicts", panel The Pope: Relocation and Contestation in Local and Global Spheres of Meaning (chair).
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2016). Globalization and religious change: major trends in Islam.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2016). Bokanmeldelse: "Fuglerud, Øivind and Leon Wainwright (eds). 2015. Objects and Imagination. Perspectives on Materialization and Meaning". Anthropological Notebooks. ISSN 1408-032X. XXIII, No. 1, p. 131–132.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2016). Mother Teresa: A Saint in Albanian Politics. Religion: Going Public Blog.
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2016). Islam in heutigen Albanien: Eine Taxonomie (Glaube, Vaterland, oder beides? Neo-fundamentalistische und Anpassungsdiskurse in Albanien).
  • Endresen, Cecilie (2017). Religion after atheism . Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network.

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