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Bilde av Tafjord, Bjørn Ola
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Bilde av Tafjord, Bjørn Ola
Department of Archaeology, History, Religious Studies and Theology bta023@post.uit.no +4777645289 Tromsø

Bjørn Ola Tafjord

Professor

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Research interests

Ethnographic and historiographic studies of indigeneities and religions; materiality; pedagogical, political, and analytical translations; religion and politics; missionising; indigenising, religionising, and secularising; indigenous traditions in Talamanca (Costa Rica/Panama) and Sápmi (Norway/Sweden/Finland); religion in international networks of indigenous peoples; Christianities in Latin America and the Nordic countries; Baha'i; other religious groups and movements in Latin America.


Member of research group

Indigenous Religion(s): Local Grounds, Global Networks (INREL)   Norsk innhold

Member of project

GOVMAT    English content

CV

Co-leader (with Professor Siv Ellen Kraft) of the research group Indigenous Religion(s): Local Grounds, Global Networks (INREL).

Leader of the collaborative research project The Governmateriality of Indigenous Religions (GOVMAT).

Director of the study programmes in religious studies and theology at UiT.