Didactics of religion

· Textbook-religion
· Multimodality and teaching religion
· Images and art in religious education
· Children, popular culture and religion

Religions in antiquity

· Roman religion
· Church Fathers
· Sacred virgins, virgin martyrs, male virgins
· Gender, sexuality, asceticism and sanctity

 

Books

Borderline Virginities. Sacred and Secular Virgins in Late Antiquity. Routledge 2017

https://www.routledge.com/Borderline-Virginities-Sacred-and-Secular-Virgins-in-Late-Antiquity/Undheim/p/book/9781472480170

Religion i skolen. Didaktiske perspektiver på religions- og livssynsfaget. Marie von der Lippe og Sissel Undheim (red.), Universitetsforlaget 2017

https://www.universitetsforlaget.no/nettbutikk/religion-i-skolen-uf.html

Romersk religion. Verdens hellige skrifter. Sissel Undheim (red.) Bokklubben 2010

https://www.bokklubben.no/SamboWeb/produkt.do?produktId=4132346

2024

• Undheim, Sissel (2024). The Demigods Amongst Us: Rick Riordan’s Heroes of Olympus and Contemporary Religious Change.. (external link)

2023

• Undheim, Sissel (2023). The Magic of the Multiverse: Easter Eggs, Superhuman Beings, and Metamodernism in Marvel’s Story Worlds.. (external link)

2022

• Undheim, Sissel (2022). Book review: Anne P. Alwis' Narrating Martyrdom. Rewriting Late-Antique Virgin Martyrs in Byzantium.. (external link)
• Undheim, Sissel (2022). Double Martyrdom, Double Crown: Virgin Martyrs and Fourth-Century Ascetic Hierarchies. (external link)
• Undheim, Sissel (2022). Vestal Virgins Revived. Some Reflections on Dead Religions, Reception and Afterlives. (external link)

2021

• Undheim, Sissel (2021). The Vestal Nun: The Afterlife and Reception of Vestal Virgins in Art and Literature in Late Antiquity and After. (external link)
• Undheim, Sissel (2021). Balansekunst med Beyoncé. Å spille på fordommer for å bryte dem ned?. (external link)

2020

• Solevåg, Anna Rebecca; Undheim, Sissel (2020). Vårt Land overser kirkemødrene. (external link)
• Undheim, Sissel (2020). Helt seriøst!? Om populærkultur i KRLE og Religion og Etikk. (external link)

2019

• Undheim, Sissel (2019). Med tente lys inn i varmen. Lucia-tog i norske skoler og barnehager. (external link)
• Ivanovici, Vladimir; Undheim, Sissel (2019). Consecrated Virgins as Living Reliquaries in Late Antiquity. (external link)
• Undheim, Sissel (2019). Made Up Prophecies: Metamodern Play with Religion, Spirituality and Monomyth in the LEGO Universe. (external link)

2018

• Undheim, Sissel (2018). Magical Bricks: Religion, Spirituality and Modern Magic in the Toy Box. (external link)
• Anker, Trine; Lippe, von der, Marie; Undheim, Sissel (2018). Ungdom og religion : tradisjon, nyskaping og individuelle valg. (external link)
• Undheim, Sissel (2018). Lego religion in the classroom. (external link)

2017

• Lippe, von der, Marie; Undheim, Sissel (2017). Religion i skolen : didaktiske perspektiver på religions- og livssynsfaget. (external link)
• Undheim, Sissel (2017). Borderline Virginities. Sacred and Secular Virgins in Late Antiquity. (external link)
• Undheim, Sissel (2017). Kan populærkultur og døde religioner vekke liv i religionsfaget?. (external link)
• Lippe, von der, Marie; Undheim, Sissel (2017). Hva skal vi med et felles religionsfag i skolen?. (external link)
• Undheim, Sissel (2017). Aniconism and images in Norwegian RE textbooks: Representations and historical change. (external link)
• Undheim, Sissel (2017). The wise and the foolish virgins: Representations of Vestal virginity and pagan Chastity by Christian writers in late antiquity. (external link)
• Lippe, von der, Marie; Undheim, Sissel (2017). Hva skal vi med et felles religionsfag i skolen?. (external link)

2016

• Undheim, Sissel (2016). Spiritual Lego. Temples, rituals and new age in Ninjago and Chima. (external link)
• Undheim, Sissel (2016). Jomfruhinnen finnes ikke. (external link)
• Undheim, Sissel (2016). Anne Stensvold: A history of pregnancy in Christianity. From original sin to contemporary abortion debates.. (external link)
• Undheim, Sissel (2016). The sacred power of Lego-Chi: mediatized spirituality in Lego, legends of Chima. (external link)

2015

• Undheim, Sissel (2015). Veiled visibility: Morality, Movement and Sacred Virginity in Late Antiquity. (external link)
• Undheim, Sissel (2015). Bilder og bildeforbud i skolens religionsfag. En analyse av lærebøker for KRL og RLE. (external link)
• Undheim, Sissel (2015). Jörg Rüpke. Religion in Republican Rome: Rationalization and Ritual Change. (Empire and After). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. vi + 321 pp. ISBN 9780812243943 (hbk.). (external link)

2013

• Undheim, Sissel (2013). 2000 år på 300 sider. Bokomtale, Christine Amadou: Vestens idéhistorie, bind 1. Antikken og Middelalderen ca.750 f.kr.-1350. Cappelen Damm Akademisk, Oslo 2012. (external link)
• Undheim, Sissel (2013). RLE-religion. Religionsbegrepet i RLE-læreverkene for småskoletrinnet. (external link)
• Undheim, Sissel (2013). Approaches to the Visual in Religion. Edited by Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati and Christopher Rowland. (external link)
• Undheim, Sissel (2013). Religionene i RLE - Multimodal religion (og ikke-religion) i RLE-læreverkene for småskoletrinnet. (external link)

2012

• Undheim, Sissel (2012). Christus Virgo: Representations of Christ as a Virgin in Early Christianity and Late Antiquity. (external link)

2011

• Undheim, Sissel (2011). Randsonejomfruer. Jomfruer og hellighet i senantikken. (external link)

2010

• Undheim, Sissel (2010). Romersk Religion Verdens Hellige Skrifter. (external link)

2004

• Undheim, Sissel (2004). "Crimen incesti - vestalinnene og Roma". (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

Processions of light. Celebrating Saint Lucy in Norwegian schools and society.

http://religionsoraklene.no/hvorfor-feirer-vi-lucia-13-desember/

Apocalypses and pixie dust. Religion and popular culture.

The Demigods Amongst Us: Rick Riordan’s Heroes of Olympus and Contemporary Religious Change. Theology and the Riordanverse, edited by Nathan E. Fleeson and Carolyn M. Jones Medine.

Forthcoming 2023, Lexington

The magic of the multiverse. Easter eggs, superhuman beings and metamodernism in Marvel’s story worlds.  Comics and Religion, edited by Kees de Groot

Forthcoming 2023, Bloomsbury

See Comics, Culture, and Religion: Faith Imagined: Kees de Groot: Bloomsbury Academic