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Bjørn Ola Tafjord

Position

Professor

Affiliation

Research

In my research, I am especially interested in

  • the interfaces of indigeneities and religiosities
  • the history, ethnography, and religiography of Talamanca
  • the politics of religions across Indigenous and Latin America
  • instantiations of indigenous religions and their participation in governing
  • bodies, practices, and politics of Christianities in Costa Rica, Norway, and globally
  • fieldwork, translation, and research history / methods and methodologies in the study of religions, anthropology, and history
  • Costa Rica/Latin America, Norway/Sápmi/Europe, international networks

PI of the research project (GOVMAT), funded by the Research Council of Norway (FRIPRO), 2020-2025.

Teaching

In 2024, supervision of master and PhD dissertations.

Publications

. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 18 (2024), 2.

. Religion 51 (2021), 4: 614–622.

. Indigenous Religion(s): Local Grounds, Global Networks, pp. 21–58. London 2020: Routledge.

. Introduction and conclusion co-written by Siv Ellen Kraft, Bjørn Ola Tafjord, Arkotong Longkumer, Gregory D. Alles, and Greg Johnson. London 2020: Routledge.

. Journal for the Study of New Religions 9 (2018), 2 (special issue: Indigenizing movements in Europe, ed. G. Harvey): 303–327.

. Numen 65 (2018), 5–6 (special section, eds. B. O. Tafjord and G. D. Alles).

. Handbook of Indigenous Religion(s) (Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion 15), eds. G. Johnson and S. E. Kraft, pp 25–51. Leiden 2017: Brill.

. Religious Categories and the Construction of the Indigenous (Supplements to Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 7), eds. C. Hartney and D. Tower, pp. 138–177. Leiden 2016: Brill.

. Numen 63 (2016), 5–6: 548–575.

. Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 25 (2013), 3: 221–243.

Projects

PI of the research project (GOVMAT), funded by the Research Council of Norway (FRIPRO).

Collaborating researcher in the project , organized from the University of Oslo and funded by the Research Council of Norway (FRIPRO).

Senior research fellow of , organized from Leipzig University and funded by DFG (Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe).