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Arctic Justice : Environment, Society and Governance
- 2023
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Offering a unique introduction to the study of justice in the European, North American and Russian Arctic, this collection considers the responsibilities and failures of justice for environment and society in the region. Inspired by key thinkers in justice, this book highlights the real and practical consequences of postcolonial legacies, climate change and the regions’ incorporation into the international political economy. The chapters feature liberal, cosmopolitan, feminist, as well as critical justice perspectives from experts with decades of research experience in the Arctic. Moving from a critique of current failures, the collection champions a just and sustainable future for Arctic development and governance.
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- Arentzen, Thomas, 1976-, et al.
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Byzantine Tree Life : Christianity and the Arboreal Imagination
- 2021
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- This book examines the many ways Byzantines lived with their trees. It takes seriously theological and hagiographic tree engagement as expressions of that culture’s deep involvement—and even fascination—with the arboreal. These pages tap into the current attention paid to plants in a wide range of scholarship, an attention that involves the philosophy of plant life as well as scientific discoveries of how communicative trees may be, and how they defend themselves. Considering writings on and images of trees from Late Antiquity and medieval Byzantium sympathetically, the book argues for an arboreal imagination at the root of human aspirations to know and draw close to the divine.
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- Arentzen, Thomas, docent, 1976-
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Landscape Theology : Exploring the Outfields of the Telemarkian Dream Song
- 2020
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Ingår i: Landscapes: The Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language. - 1448-0778. ; 10:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article explores the Norwegian ‘national ballad’ Draumkvæde (the Dream Song) in Maren Ramskeid’s version. This work has traditionally been interpreted as a folklore adaptation of medieval visionary literature such as the Vision of Tundale, related to Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. The ballad, however, lacks demons and devils and infernal torture – it is even almost completely devoid of human beings. Instead it tells of a corporeal encounter with an imagined natural landscape. This dreamscape of the song is intimately intertwined with the local terrain of the singer. Maren Ramskeid engaged her own landscape in Telemark, the article argues, to decentre the canonized Christian text and the cultivated Christian building. Speaking an oral outdoor theology, she destabilized the heaven–hell dualism and envisioned a mythological landscape where nature turns dangerously and painfully on those who do not abide by its unwritten norms, but where all are eventually saved by a final judgement in a place called Broksvalin.
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- Arentzen, Thomas, 1976-
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Livnende stoff, elementers lengsel : En nymaterialistisk inngang til Elias Blix’ dåpssalme (145)
- 2021
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Ingår i: SANG. - 2597-0518. ; :1-2, s. 57-67
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- As the father of Lutheran hymns in the Norwegian Nynorsk language, Elias Blix (1836-1902) looms in the Scandinavian country’s songculture, and his compositions remain popular, both inside and outsidethe church. Blix lent significant space to the more-than-human in his poetry, expressing the Christian gospel in the changing of seasonsor the budding of plants. This article explores a baptismal hymn from a new-materialist perspective. It demonstrates how the poet cast the initiation rite as a dynamic, erotic dance between the two elements of water and spirit/breath/air. With what one might call an ecocentric sensibility, Blix adumbrated a Christian understanding that decenters the human, as baptismal transformation unfolds with the agency of the elements.
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- Arentzen, Thomas, docent, 1976-, et al.
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Rubenson on the Move : A Biographical Journey
- 2020
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Ingår i: Wisdom on the Move: Late Antique Traditions in Multicultural Conversation. - Leiden : Brill Academic Publishers. - 9789004430693 - 9789004430747 ; , s. 247-250
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- Arentzen, Thomas, 1976-
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Sex and the City : Intercourse in Holy Week
- 2020
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Ingår i: Journal of early Christian studies (Print). - : Project Muse. - 1067-6341 .- 1086-3184. ; 28:1, s. 115-147
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The last days before Easter are called Holy Week or Passion Week in most Christian calendars. The early history of these pre-paschal days is, however, obscure, and their historiography leaves much to be desired. This is particularlytrue of Holy Week observance in late ancient Constantinople. Was there even something that could be called a Holy Week in the imperial capital? The relative silence of liturgical handbooks regarding these days have led some liturgical scholars to give a negative answer to that question. This article revisits the problem, but approaches it from a different angle: What do hymns written for the week before the celebration of the resurrection tell us? Focusing on Monday to Wednesday, the present study demonstrates that singers and congregations intoned remarkable and dramatic songs between Palm Sunday and Maundy Thursday. Yet, rather than bewailing the imminent crucifixion or praising the resurrection, the hymnographers labored to read existential struggles of life and death in the sexual bodies of the congregated late ancientcity dwellers.
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- Arentzen, Thomas, et al.
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Sexuality and Orthodoxy : An Introduction
- 2022
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Ingår i: Orthodox Tradition and Human Sexuality. - New York : Fordham University Press. - 9780823299690 - 9780823299676 - 9780823299683 ; , s. 1-20
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- Arentzen, Thomas, et al.
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Some Early Christian Trees
- 2021
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Ingår i: Papers presented at the Eighteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2019 : Volume 1: Introduction; Historica - Volume 1: Introduction; Historica. - Leuven : Peeters Publishers. - 9789042947443 - 9789042947450 ; 104, s. 127-137
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the wake of the current environmental crisis, scholars of late antique Christianity are beginning to study Christian attitudes towards the natural world. How did the early Christians relate to their environment? This article explores perceptions of trees, surveying the writings of Tertullian, Basil of Caesarea, and Sozomen the historian. What did an arboreal plant do, according to patristic authors? What kind of agency did they imagine trees to have? The investigation shows that members of the educated elite might think of trees as bodies with living, intelligent souls; they saw complex variety and gendered creatures with personal characteristics when they gazed at beings in bark. Certain arboreal species engaged in and were communicating through a sexual-life; many individuals made rational choices. Although trees are not free to move around, Christians assumed that boughs and branches could bend in devotion as trees expressed attention to divine presence.
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- Arentzen, Thomas, docent, 1976-
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Songs about Women : [by] Romanos the Melodist
- 2024
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- At a time when Christianity was becoming the dominant religion in the Byzantine Roman Empire, Romanos the Melodist (ca. 485–565) was a composer of songs for festivals and rituals in late antique Constantinople. Most of his songs include dramatic dialogues or monologues woven with imagery from ordinary life, and his name became inseparably tied to the kontakion, a genre of dramatic hymn. Later Byzantine religious poets enthusiastically praised his creative virtuosity and a legend claimed that Romanos’s inspiration came directly from the Virgin Mary herself.Songs about Women contains eighteen works related to the liturgical calendar that feature important female characters, many portrayed as models for Christian life. They appear as heroines and villains, saints and sinners, often as transgressive and bold. Romanos’s songs offer intriguing perspectives on gender ideals and women’s roles in the early Byzantine world.This edition presents a new translation of the Byzantine Greek texts into English.
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