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

Bjørn Ola Tafjord

  • Bjørn Ola Tafjord :
    Reinterpreting Mother Earth: Translation, Governmateriality, and Confidence
    Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture (JSRNC) 2024 DOI
  • Bjørn Ola Tafjord :
    Why is it sometimes risky to present indigenous traditions as religious?
    Equinox Publishing 2022 OMTALE / DOI
  • Bjørn Ola Tafjord :
    Can non-indigenous religious traditions become indigenous?
    Equinox Publishing 2022 OMTALE / DOI
  • Bjørn Ola Tafjord :
    On the (un)doing of anthropology and secularity, and its relevance for religious studies
    Religion 2021 DOI
  • Bjørn Ola Tafjord :
    Modes of indigenizing: remarks on indigenous religion as a method
    Equinox Publishing 2020
  • Bjørn Ola Tafjord :
    Modes of indigenizing: remarks on indigenous religion as a method
    International Journal for the Study of New Religions 2019 ARKIV / FULLTEKST / DOI
  • Bjørn Ola Tafjord, Gregory D. Alles :
    Introduction: performances and mediations of indigenous religion(s)
    Numen 2018 DOI
  • Bjørn Ola Tafjord :
    Venting som metode
    DIN - Tidsskrift for religion og kultur 2018 FULLTEKST / ARKIV
  • Gregory D. Alles, Bjørn Ola Tafjord :
    Mediating indigenous religions: by way of introduction
    Religious Studies and Theology 2017 DOI
  • Bjørn Ola Tafjord :
    Towards a typology of academic uses of 'Indigenous Religion(s9', or eight (or nine) language games that scholars play with this phrase
    Brill Academic Publishers 2017 DOI
  • Bjørn Ola Tafjord :
    Norsk misjon i Latin-Amerika: frå sjømenn og pinsevener til utviklingsprosjekt og politikk
    Cappelen Damm Akademisk 2017 DOI
  • Bjørn Ola Tafjord :
    Scales, translations and siding effects: Uses of indígena and religión in Talamanca and beyond. In Religious Categories and the Construction of the Indigenous, ed. by C. Hartney & D. J. Tower
    Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 2016 DOI
  • Siv Ellen Kraft, Bjørn Ola Tafjord, Arkotong Longkumer, Gregory D. Alles, Gregory Bruce Johnson :
    Indigenous Religion(s): Local Grounds, Global Networks
    Routledge 2020 OMTALE
  • Bjørn Ola Tafjord, Arkotong Longkumer, Sneha Roy, Aheli Moitra :
    Governmaterialities of religion, nature, and ecology
    2024
  • Bjørn Ola Tafjord :
    Challenging, Broadening, and Sharpening the Study of Indigenous Religious Traditions: On Arkotong Longkumer’s The Greater India Experiment: Hindutva and the Northeast (2021, Stanford University Press)
    Indigenous Religious Traditions 2024
  • Bjørn Ola Tafjord, Ingvild Jensen Haldorsen, Liudmila Nikanorova, Heidi Cristina Mayorga Escalante, Ahmet Kerim Gültekin, Galina Belolyubskaya :
    Defiant Indigeneities in Marginalized Spaces
    2024
  • Bjørn Ola Tafjord :
    Kva er urfolk sine religionar?
    2023 DATA
  • Bjørn Ola Tafjord, James L. Cox, Steven J. Sutcliffe, Suzanne Owen, Bettina E. Schmidt :
    A Discussion of James L. Cox's A Phenomenology of Indigenous Religions
    Indigenous Religious Traditions 2023 DOI
  • Bjørn Ola Tafjord :
    Land back/language back/religion back? Special panel on global indigeneity with Greg Johnson, Bjørn Ola Tafjord, Liudmila Nikanorova and Arkotong Longkumer
    2023 SAMMENDRAG
  • Bjørn Ola Tafjord :
    Translating into effect a Talamancan indigenous religion: two historical examples
    2022
  • Bjørn Ola Tafjord :
    Professor James L. Cox's research questions in A Phenomenology of Indigenous Religions: Theory and Practice (Bloomsbury 2022)
    2022
  • Bjørn Ola Tafjord :
    What is she doing? Some recent acts of a tiny black rock statue
    2022
  • Bjørn Ola Tafjord :
    La Negrita as governmateriality in Costa Rica
    2021
  • Bjørn Ola Tafjord :
    The governmateriality of Nuestra Senora de los Angeles
    2021
  • Bjørn Ola Tafjord :
    Indigenous medicine and religion as governmateriality
    2020
  • Bjørn Ola Tafjord :
    Reflexiones en torno a conceptos bribris y la antropología de las religiones en Talamanca
    2019
  • Bjørn Ola Tafjord :
    Imagined ethnographies and religiographies of Talamanca, Costa Rica
    2019
  • Bjørn Ola Tafjord :
    Response to the panel Indigenising movements in Europe
    2018
  • Bjørn Ola Tafjord :
    Indigenous religion as a method (also for the repatriation of knowledge)
    2018
  • Bjørn Ola Tafjord :
    Secularity and indigenous religion as a method
    2018
  • Bjørn Ola Tafjord :
    How can something resembling secularity be found around a genealogy of indigenous religion in Talamanca?
    2018
  • Bjørn Ola Tafjord :
    Review of Alternative Voices ed. by A. Adogame, M. Echtler & O. Freiberger
    Numen 2018
  • Bjørn Ola Tafjord :
    Indigenous religion as a method in and beyond museums
    2018
  • Bjørn Ola Tafjord :
    Connecting indigeneities while doing religious studies in Talamanca, Tromsø, and elsewhere
    2018
  • Bjørn Ola Tafjord :
    Indigenitet(ar) i eintal og fleirtal
    2018
  • Bjørn Ola Tafjord :
    Venting som metode
    2018
  • Hans Geir Aasmundsen, Jelena Porsanger, Bjørn Ola Tafjord :
    Openheit / Rabasvuohta
    DIN - Tidsskrift for religion og kultur 2018
  • Jelena Porsanger, Bjørn Ola Tafjord :
    A conversation about indigenous methodologies and translation
    2017
  • Bjørn Ola Tafjord :
    The constitutions of religions in the construction and destruction of Santiago de Talamanca (1605 - 1610)
    2017
  • May-Lisbeth Brew, Bjørn Ola Tafjord :
    Practices of consultation with indigenous peoples in Indigenous/Latin America
    2017
  • Bjørn Ola Tafjord :
    Indigenous methodologies and religious terminologies
    2017
  • Bjørn Ola Tafjord :
    La religionización de tradiciones indígenas en Talamanca
    2017
  • Bjørn Ola Tafjord :
    Translating God, converting Sibö, or turning Him into an akeköl
    2017
  • Bjørn Ola Tafjord, Siv Ellen Kraft :
    Co-production of knowledge, from the local to the global
    2017
  • Liudmila Nikanorova, Bjørn Ola Tafjord :
    Indigenous religions and the work of scholars in Sakha, Talamanca, and Tromsø
    2017
  • Bjørn Ola Tafjord :
    "Costa Rica, indigenous peoples, really?"
    2017
  • Bjørn Ola Tafjord :
    Indigenous methodologies: local/global and religious terminology
    2017
  • Arkotong Longkumer, Bjørn Ola Tafjord, David Robertson :
    What do we mean by indigenous religion(s)?
    02. October 2017 DATA
  • Bjørn Ola Tafjord :
    Opponent på prøvedisputas i kulturhistorie, Universitetet i Oslo. Avhandling: Åmund Norum Resløkken, Forskningsobjektene i Ord og Sed
    2016
  • Bjørn Ola Tafjord :
    Religion in Talamanca
    2016

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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.