Browsing Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion - AHKR by Author "Gilhus, Ingvild S."

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    • The Cosmology of Lists in Ancient and Contemporary Societies 

      Gilhus, Ingvild S. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      This essay is my keynote address to the conference Religions, Science and Technology in Cultural Contexts: Dynamics of Change, NTNU, Trondheim (2012), on the topic of ‘lists’: omen compendia, lists of gods, lists of the ...

    • Laughing and humor in ancient Egyptian monasticism 

      Gilhus, Ingvild S. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
      The goal of this article is to analyze laughter and humor in the Egyptian monastic and ascetic movement in the 4th and 5th centuries with a special focus on solitary and non-humorous laughter. The article argues that ...

    • Learning from the past 

      Gilhus, Ingvild S. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      The Legacy, Life and Work of Geo Widengren and the Study of the History of Religions after World War II, editor Göran Larsson, illuminates the scholarly career of Geo Widengren and the development of the Study of Religion. ...

    • The Study of the Past and its Present Challenges in the Study of Religions 

      Gilhus, Ingvild S. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      The article comments on the three challenges, which Mattias Brand presents in the Introduction: the questioning of central concepts, multiplication and fragmentation, and communication with a large audience. It also comments ...

    • ‘Tears flowed from his eyes unceasingly’: weeping and total devotion in Egypt in late antiquity 

      Gilhus, Ingvild S. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      The article discusses the practice of weeping in Pachomian monasticism as a performance of absolute devotion. Theories about radical religion and approaches to emotions are used as a theoretical lens. Pachomian sources ...