Nora Stene

Academic Interests

• Christians in the Middle East
• Coptic Orthodox Church/Copts in Egypt, Sudan and in diaspora
• Migration-studies: Islam/ Muslim in the Middle East and in Europe
• Religious change in secular societies: Conversions and apostacy
• Minority-studies: Religious minorieties in contemporary Norway
• Childhood and socialisation within religious groups

Teaching and supervising

• "Introduction to world religions" REL 1003
• "Christianity" REL 2210
• "Judaisme" REL 2240
• "Islam in Europe" REL 3350
• "Bachelor studies" REL 3090
• "Gender and religion" REL 4040"
• "Supervised reading MA level" REL 4112

Supervising students at all levels.

2010/2011 Assesing PhD applications at IKOS

Ongoing research

The project "Missionary activity and Human Rights" analyses missionary activities carried out in a contemporary context, relating these activities to the complex field of Human Rights. The project wants to further a discussion on how a public debate on Human Rights reshapes missionary activites in multicultural societies and how the debate is influenced by activities carried out by missionary agents.

Higher education and employment history

CV

• 2014 onwards-  Associate professor at IKOS, UiO.
• 2005-2014 Senior lecturer at IKOS, UiO.
• 2005: PhD.
• 2004 Associate professor at Høgskolen in Oslo, HiO.
• Researching and teaching at all levels in different subjects at the institute of history of religion, IKOS.
• Part of Center for Islamic and Middleastern Studies at IKOS.
• Publishing nationally and internationally.
• Guest lecturer at different institutions, see overview in Cristin.

Reseach delegations and fieldwork – a selection

• Cairo, 31-4 till 6-4 2011. Visiting Al-Azhar and Egyptian intelectuals after the uprising in 2011. The visit was connected to a project financed by Norwegian Foreign Department with the aim of finding suitable teachers for intensive Islam classes at masterlevel at IKOS. Delegation: Lena Larsen, Nora Stene and Kari Vogt.
• Istanbul, 3-6 till 10-6 2006. Visiting different Christian orthodox churches, Church leaders and monastaries. Delegation: Vilde Reichelt, Nora Stene, Berit Thorbjørnsrud, Kari Vogt.
• Egypt, Great Britain,  - fieldwork connected to MA and PhD theses.

Offices

• 2010 on- Member of the board at "Prismet" (Journal with referees).
• 2010 on - Member of "Resource group: Diversity of religions and life stances" at Oslo University.
• 2007 on - Observer at bilateral talks between Islamic Council of Norway (IRN) and Church of Norway (DnK).
• 2006       Member of network for the study of reform in the field of religious education within The Norwegian Church, organised by KIFO, Church Research Center.

Ongoing projects

• Christians in the Middle East. Co-operation project at IKOS led by Berit Thorbjørnsrud.
• Trends in developments in Coptic visual culture. Co-operation with Kari Vogt, Nelly van Doorn-Harder.