During the last 30–40 years, «new» religious movements have invaded secular segments of our northern and western culture. Among these movements, the so-called New Age movement has played rather a dominant role. This article ...

I 2005 var det 60 år siden andre verdenskrig tok slutt, og skildringene av Den røde armés erobring av Berlin nådde et stort publikum i Norge gjennom filmen Der Untergang. Medie-oppmerksomheten omkring bøker som f.eks. ...

I Arne Garborgs litterære verk er ordval, språkleg form og målføring ein viktig del av miljø- og personskildringa, og har klar litterær funksjon. Garborg omtala Fred (1892) som sin “naturalistiske Jær- roman”. Også språkleg ...

Artikkelen presenterer og analyserer fransk afrikapolitikk de siste 15 årene. Innholdet i Françafrique beskrives og diskuteres. Praksis i fransk afrikapolitikk drøftes opp mot strategier og taler som fremhever menneskerettigheter, ...

During the last three or four decades the so-called «Faith Movement» has made great success in many Christian areas of the world. Traditional churches have been influenced by the «power» of this movement, and a lot of new ...

Psychology – a multi-level perspective Traditional models of theory reduction and explanation (the deductive-nomological model) may be adequate models for understanding what characterizes physics, but they don’t seem to ...

The topic of this article is Magnus Olsen's study of settlement names ending in -stad (ON - staðir) and - land. In NG as well as in Olsen's book Ættegård og helligdom (1926), published in English in 1928 with the title ...

During History of Theology the Biblical teaching of God’s love has not always been connected with the Christian dogma of God’s Trinity. Regretably, God’s love has quite often been perceived as a quality within God, ...

The topic for the article is the growing awareness of risk and safety in Norway and Sweden during the last decades of the 20th century, and how the two Scandinavian states have organized investigations of accidents. In ...