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Nils Hallvard Korsvoll

Associate Professor
Department of Religion, Philosophy and History
Phone
+47 38141413
Mobile phone
+4741104587
Office E2013B (Universitetsveien 25, 4630 Kristiansand, Norway)

Research groups

Areas of responsibility

I have worked mainly with magic and ritual practice in late antiquity, but hope to proceed on how scholars use and deal with ancient artefacts with and without a known provenance. I also examine diversity and representation in religious education. I teach quite broadly within religious studies, with an emphasis on philology and history of religion, and also in teachers education.

Research

My research deals with history of religion, theoretical development, religious practices, ritual, popular religion, magic and material culture.

Tuition

In religious studies I teach holy scripture, reception and theoretical perspective, as well as religion and society. In teachers education I teach in religious education for teachers, in topics like Christianity, world religions, religion and society, religious studies and secular worldviews.

Short biography

01/2019 –                Associate Professor, Religious Studies, University of Agder (Norway)

08/2018 – 12/2018   Associate Professor, Religious Education, Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU (Norway)

09/2017 – 07/2018   Assistant Professor, Religious Education, Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU (Norway)

09/2012 – 08/2017   Research Fellow, Religious Studies, MF Norwegian School of Theology (Norway)

10/2011 – 03/2012   Research Fellow, Institute for Pre- and Early History and Near Eastern Archaeology, Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg (Germany) Collaborative Research Centre 933 “Material Text Cultures”        

Publications

  • Korsvoll, Nils Hallvard (2023). Jødedomsundervisning i fagfornyelsen: Minoritetsreligioner i dybdelæringens æra. Prismet. ISSN 0032-8847. 74(1-2), p. 93–118. Full text in Research Archive
  • Korsvoll, Nils Hallvard (2023). Disciplinary Pitfalls: How Good Philology Can Mask Bad Provenance. In Brodie, Neil; Kersel, Morag M. & Rasmussen, Josephine Munch (Ed.), Variant Scholarship: Ancient Texts in Modern Contexts. Sidestone Press. ISSN 9789464270464. p. 23–39.
  • Korsvoll, Nils Hallvard (2022). Agency and Efficacy in Syriac Amulets Across the Ages. In Christoffer, Theis & Vitellozzi, Paolo (Ed.), Textual Amulets from Antiquity to Early Modern Times: The Shape of Words. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 978-1-3502-5453-4. p. 56–68.
  • Korsvoll, Nils Hallvard (2021). Liturgy in Ancient Amulets – A Part of the Conversation. In Vinzent, M (Eds.), Studia Patristica. Vol. CXXV. Papers presented at the Eighteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2019. Volume 22: Liturgica, Tractatus symboli Orientalia Critica et Philologica. Peeters Publishers. ISSN 978-90-429-4778-8. p. 15–29.
  • Korsvoll, Nils Hallvard (2021). A double bypass? Tracing how the aims of religious education are negotiated across different dimensions of the curriculum in Norway. Religion & Education. ISSN 1550-7394. 48(3), p. 347–363. doi: 10.1080/15507394.2021.1876496. Full text in Research Archive
  • Korsvoll, Nils Hallvard (2021). Traces of a Storied Universe: Biblical Figures and Motifs in Late-Antique Syriac Amulets. In Moriggi, Marco & Bhayro, Siam (Ed.), Studies in the Syriac Magical Traditions. Brill Academic Publishers. ISSN 978-90-04-46719-4. p. 141–168.
  • Korsvoll, Nils Hallvard (2021). Introduction: Using Placebo Research to Explore Belief and Healing in Late Antiquity. Trends in Classics. ISSN 1866-7473. 13(1), p. 1–20. doi: 10.1515/tc-2021-0001.
  • Korsvoll, Nils Hallvard (2021). Scripture – What is it Good for? Biblical Quotations and References in Ancient Amulets. In Nikki, Nina & Valkama, Kirsi (Ed.), Magic in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean: Cognitive, Historical, and Material Perspectives on the Bible and Its Contexts. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. ISSN 978-3-666-52218-5. p. 239–256.
  • Korsvoll, Nils Hallvard (2020). Lækjande omstende: Kan placebo-forsking forklare læking i tidleg-moderne, syriske lokalsamfunn? Chaos - Skandinavisk tidsskrift for religionshistoriske studier. ISSN 0108-4453. 73(1), p. 33–56.

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