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Jone Salomonsen
Address / Affiliation
Faculty of Theology
University of Oslo PBox 1023 Blindern 0315 Oslo Norway Phone: +47 22 85 03 73 Fax: +47 22 85 03 01 Email
Areas of Specialization
Christian, Neo-Pagan and Indigenous/Traditional forms of religiousity.
Areas of Interest
Major Relevant Publications
Jone Salomonsen, Enchanted Feminism. Ritual, Gender and Divinity among the Reclaiming Witches of San Francisco, Routledge, 2002.
Jone Salomonsen, "Methods of Compassion or Pretension? The Challenges of Conducting Fieldwork in Modern Magical Communities," in Blain et al, Researching Paganism, Altamira, 2004.
Jone Salomonsen, "Shielding girls at risk of HIV-AIDS by intertwining Zulu and Christian ritual heritage: State of denial or constructive faith-based response?" in, Richardson, N and Leonard, G. S. D.
Jone Salomonsen, Broken Bodies and Healing Communities: Faith-based responses to HIV-AIDS, Cluster Publications 2007 (in press).
Jone Salomonsen, "Where is my family, who owns my body, what is my responsibilty in a time of AIDS? Zulu and Shembe girls resisting sacrifice and marriage," in Salomonsen, J. and Roalkvam, S., Dying, Coping and Healing from AIDS in a Zulu township" (forthcoming).
Other Information of Interest
Salomonsen has an extensive international network. She has been a member of the steering committee of the "Ritual Studies Group" at the American Academy of Religion (AAR) since 2000. Salomonsen is also on the editorial board of The Pomegranate, The International Journal of Pagan Studies (since 2003), and the popular Norwegian periodical Kirke og Kultur (since 1989).
In her post-doctoral work, Salomonsen developed her ritual studies interest further and conducted a comparative ethnographic and theological study of emerging new rites of Christian confirmation in American and Norwegian congregations.
More recently, she has helped to establish and participated in large, collaborating, international research projects, such as "Religion and Globalisation" (2001-05) and "Broken Bodies, Healing Communities" (2002-2005).
Presently Salomonsen is Project director of the bilateral and interdisciplinary "Broken Women, Healing Traditions? Indigenous Resources for Gender Critique and Social-Religious Transformation in the Context of HIV-Aids in South Africa" (2007-2010), funded jointly by the national research councils of Norway and South Africa.
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