(The links direct to some selected examples of publications. For full list, see below or Cristin.no) 

 

Religion and popular culture

· Lego 
· Marvel 
· Beyoncé 
· Percy Jackson
· Kaos

Didactics of religion

· Images, materiality and art in religious education
· Children, popular culture and religion
· Rituals and ritualizations in school
· Textbook-religion
· Multimodality 

Religions in antiquity

· Roman religion
· Church Fathers
· Sacred virgins, virgin martyrs, male virgins
· Gender, sexuality, asceticism and sanctity 
· Reception and ancient religions in new media
 

 

 

 

Magical Bricks: Religion, Spirituality and Modern Magic in the Toy Box - Religion Going Public (2018)

AHKR215/210 Ancient Rome (at the Norwegian Institute in Rome)

DIDAREL 1 Didactics of the Study of Religion 1 (Upper Secondary School)

DIDAREL2 Didactics of the Study of Religion 2 (Lower Secondary School)

RELDI 111 Didactics of the Study of Religion 1 (Upper Secondary School) integrated teacher education 

RELDI112 Didactics of the Study of Religion 2 (Lower Secondary School) integrated teacher education 

RELV100 Religion, culture and society

RELV 105 The Older Religions of the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Areas, Old Norse and Sami Religions

RELV221 New Religious Movements 

RELV222 Religions in Antiquity

RELVI250 Bachelor's Assignment in the Systematic Study of Religion

RELVI250L Bachelor's Assignment in the Systematic Study of Religion – teacher education

AHKR201 Supervised Work Placement

RELVI301 (2016, 2022) Theoretical Perspectives in the Study of Religions (MA-level) 

Course coordinator: RELV100, RELVI250, RELVI250L, RELV222, DIDAREL 1, DIDAREL2, RELDI111, RELDI112

 

Supervision

PhD: supervisor (40%) Solveig Moldrheim, The power of prejudice: Students' stories about othering – use, practice, and experiences 

MA: Master theses supervised

Hildegunn Lone Eriksen: Populærkultur i Religion og etikk. En kvantitativ undersøkelse av læreres bruk av populærkultur i undervisningen i Religion og etikk på offentlige videregående skoler. (2017) 

Jan Marius Bjørnebo Ringstad: By the old Gods and the New. A study of magic and religion in Game of Thrones. (2018) 

Barbro Franciska Svela: Artemis Brauronia-kulten: Menstruasjon og religion i det antikke Hellas. (2020). 

Eva Elana Saltvedt Appleton: An Inquiry into How Some Muslims and Hindus in Indonesia Relate to Death. (co-supervisor, UiA) 2020

Marlene Johansen: MANNSpodden – Jakten på den forsvunne maskulinitet. En kritisk diskursanalyse av maskulinitetsforestillinger og konstruksjonen av maskulinitet i MANNSpodden (2021)

Maja Marcella Sanaker Kjærstad: Populærkultur i KRLE og fagfornyelsen. En kvalitativ studie (2021)

Jenny Alnes Bakkerud: Utenfra innenfraperspektivet: En diskursanalyse av perspektiv i norsk religionsdidaktisk faglitteratur mellom 2008-2021 (2022)

Sophie Krüger Dagsland: Religion og Film: Wanda Maximoff (Scarlet Witch) og Agatha Harkness i WandaVision (2021). En utforskning av den moderne heksen i populærkulturen (2022)

Trym Stranda Eilertsen: Menn, myter og arketyper. En kvalitativ studie av initieringsorganisasjoner for menn. (2022)

Ida Marie Brandmo: La Santa Muerte På TikTok: Religion i Sosiale Media. (2023)

Marie Gjøsæter: Den Heilage LK20: Ein kvalitativ studie av tre kristne privatskular i Nord-Noreg. (2023)

Andrine Granstad: Folkehelse og livsmestring i KRLE: En kvalitativ analyse av et utvalg KRLE-lærere sin forståelse av det tverrfaglige temaet Folkehelse og livsmestring i KRLE-faget på ungdomsskolen. (2023)

Ada Våge Jagedal: Sensitive Kontroverser - å Navigere i et Spenningsfelt. En kvalitativ undersøkelse av hvordan et utvalg religionslærere reflekterer rundt sin undervisning i sensitive temaer – Med utgangspunkt i skytingen i Oslo 25. Juni 2022. (2024)

Emma Karlsen Åvitsland. LK20s Kompetansemål i Religion og etikk-faget. (2024). 

Silje Olin Eimhjellen Yksnøy. Religion på arbeidsplassen. (2024)

Iselin Flaaten: Knask eller knep? En studie av halloween i norske barneskoler (2025)

Pauline Skreslett: Konfirmasjon og ungdom i Den norske kirke: de ansattes perspektiv. En kvalitativ studie (2025)

Emilie Kvål Stangeland: Digital religion i praksis En kvalitativ studie av kristne menighetslederes bruk av sosiale medier (2025)

Hanna Stakkeland: Ungdoms fortolkninger og samtaler om religion gjennom bilder En kvalitativ studie som utforsker hvordan ungdom i videregående skole forstår og tolker religion gjennom bruk av bilder i fokusgruppeintervjuer (2025) (co-veileder sammen med Marie von der Lippe)

Emil Olsbø Wagelseth Nilsen: Gudene er tilbake! Fremstilling av Thor, Odin og Loke i videospillet God of War: Ragnarök (2022) (2025)

2007

• Sissel Undheim (2007). "Un-gendering virginity? Male virgins and genderless virginity in the Latin West of Late Antiquity". (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2007). “Vanishing women? Elizabeth Clark on the “linguistic turn”, New Intellectual History, and the study of women in Early Christianity.”. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2007). ”De lapsu virginum consecratarum. Crime and punishment of fallen virgins”. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2007). "Kjønnsløs jomfrudom og mannlige jomfruer". (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2007). "Gendering virgins". (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2007). "Asketenes Jesus. Jesus-bilder fra 300-tallet". (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2007). ”The temple of Vesta and the house of the vestal virgins” - in situ forelesning. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2007). “The virgin martyrs of Rome” -in situ foredrag i Sant’Agnese Fuori le Mura. (external link)

2019

• Sissel Undheim; Christian Lomsdalen (2019). Podcast: Lektor Lomsdalens innfall. Om populærkultur i religionsfagene.. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2019). Ancilla virgo/famula Christi. Virginity, sanctity and slavery in the fourth century.. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2019). The Beauty of Virginity.. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2019). Popkultur og RE/KRLE-faget. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim; Marie von der Lippe (2019). Religionsvitenskap, ritualer og ritualisering i skolen. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2019). Med tente lys inn i varmen. Lucia-tog i norske skoler og barnehager. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim; Marie Lippe, von der (2019). Ritualizations and demarcations of religion and non-religion in schools. (external link)
• Vladimir Ivanovici; Sissel Undheim (2019). Consecrated Virgins as Living Reliquaries in Late Antiquity. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2019). Made Up Prophecies: Metamodern Play with Religion, Spirituality and Monomyth in the LEGO Universe. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim; Marie Lippe, von der (2019). Schools as arenas for religious change: Identifying and analyzing religious practice in contemporary society. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim; Victoria Marie Kristiansen (2019). Hvorfor feirer vi valentinsdagen
?. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2019). "Fiksjon som religion? Jediriddere, Tolkiens alver og Church of all Worlds". (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2019). Defining virginity and non-virginity. Borderline virginities and sacred virgins in Late antiquity.. (external link)

2005

• Sissel Undheim (2005). “Canonical age for consecrated virgins? Ambrose of Milan and Basil of Caesarea.”. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2005). ”Hellige jomfruer i Roma”. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2005). ”Innskriftene fra Vestalinnenes Hus.” -forelesning in situ. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2005). ”The echo of the Fathers. A brief history of reception and research”- fremlegg av avhandlingskapittel. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2005). ”Crime and punishment of fallen virgins”. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2005). ”CIL 06.35887/ILS 8168: en gravinnskrift for Mus”. (external link)

2011

• Sissel Undheim (2011). Unevnelige forbrytelser. To senantikke brev om falne jomfruer og "crimen incesti". (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2011). "Ideals and accepted norms for male sexuality in Late Roman Antiquity”. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2011). Jomfrufedre? Om hellig jomfrudom og mannlige jomfruer i senantikken. (external link)
• Synnevåg Anne; Sissel Undheim (2011). Intervju om PhD-avhandling. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2011). Virginity on display. Sacred virgins' veiling and visibility in the city of Rome in Late Antiquity. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2011). Modaliteter i multireligiøse kontekster. Om sannhet, fortelling og bilder i de nye RLE-læreverkene. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim; Ingvild S. Gilhus (2011). Sanctae Virginitates. Sacred and consecrated virginities in Late Roman Antiquity. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2011). Randsonejomfruer. Jomfruer og hellighet i senantikken. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2011). Når jomfruer føder: Jes 7,14 og Matt 1,23 i kontekst. (external link)

2015

• Sissel Undheim (2015). Star Wars skulle gjøre unge interessert i religion. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2015). “Lego-religion in the classroom. The potential use of children’s popular culture in the teaching of religion and ethics”. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2015). Aniconism and images in Norwegian RE-textbooks. Representations and historical change. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2015). Bilder og bildeforbud i skolens religionsfag. En analyse av lærebøker for KRL og RLE. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2015). Aniconism and images in Norwegian RE-textbooks. Representations and historical change.. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (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)
• Sissel Undheim (2015). Religion etter læreboka. Representasjon og modalitet i lærebøker for den norske skolens religionsfag. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2015). En tid for alt? Religion og ungdomskultur(er). (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2015). Spiritual Lego. Toys, temples and New Age in the Lego brick universes of Ninjago and Chima. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2015). Double martyrdom, double crown. Virgin martyrs and fourth-century ascetic hierarchies. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2015). Veiled visibility: Morality, Movement and Sacred Virginity in Late Antiquity. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2015). Securing Theusebius’ Salvation: The Motif of the ‘Virgin Crown’ in a Late Antique Latin Epitaph. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2015). Religiøs Lego? Ritualer og New Age i lekekassa.. (external link)

2018

• Sissel Undheim (2018). Lego religion in the classroom. The potential use of children’s popular culture in the teaching of religion in kindergarten and primary school. (external link)
• Trine Anker; Marie Lippe, von der; Sissel Undheim (2018). Ungdom og religion : tradisjon, nyskaping og individuelle valg. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2018). Magical Bricks: Religion, Spirituality and Modern Magic in the Toy Box. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2018). "Never set in stone. Power and texts on public display". (external link)
• Sissel Undheim; Sara Høgestøl (2018). Heltinne 
i mørketiden.. (external link)
• Marie Lippe, von der; Sissel Undheim (2018). Religiøs, ateist, – eller noe midt i mellom?. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2018). New curriculum, new subject? Religion as subject in the ongoing Norwegian curriculum revision.. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2018). Generational representations? Tracing religion in children's media.. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim; Marie Lippe, von der (2018). KRLE-podden til Knut Aukland, episode 4: "Populærkultur og spenning". (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2018). Redeeming the Vestal Virgins: Afterlife and Reception in Hagiography and Medieval Literature. (external link)
• Marie Lippe, von der; Sissel Undheim; Knut Aukland (2018). Fritak. (external link)
• Knut Aukland; Sissel Undheim; Marie Lippe, von der (2018). Populærkultur og spenning. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim; Marie Lippe, von der; Vigdis Hølen et al. (2018). Hva skal vi med etikken?. (external link)

2020

• Sissel Undheim (2020). Om Valentinsdagen, Hordaland i dag, NRK P1. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2020). Fagdidaktisk forskning i religionsvitenskap (ved UiB). (external link)
• Anna Rebecca Solevåg; Sissel Undheim (2020). Vårt Land overser kirkemødrene. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2020). Helt seriøst!? Om populærkultur i KRLE og Religion og Etikk. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2020). “Playing with religion: Lego, humor and metamodern spirituality.”. (external link)

2023

• Sissel Undheim (2023). Vestalinner på norsk - fra Ibsen til Instagram. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2023). The Magic of the Multiverse: Easter Eggs, Superhuman Beings, and Metamodernism in Marvel’s Story Worlds.. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2023). Virginity and purity. Revisisting crimen incesti.. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2023). Forsker på Luciafeiringer. Intervju på nrk Hordaland i dag.. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2023). Populærkultur og religion i gamle dager. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2023). ‘Karl Ove Knausgaard’s The Morning Star-project as Hyperserial Narration and Metamodern Mythology: Between Relativism and the Desire for Universal Truths’. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2023). Minorities, religious pluralism and stereotypes in Rick Riordan’s Heroes of Olympus. (external link)

2017

• Sissel Undheim (2017). Menneske først, prest så. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim; Marie Lippe, von der (2017). OMG! Religion og ungdomskultur. (external link)
• Marie Lippe, von der; Sissel Undheim (2017). Transmitting and Transforming Religious Practice: Varieties of Rituals and Ritualizations in Public and Private Schools. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim; Marie Lippe, von der (2017). KRLE-podden til Knut Aukland. Episode 3 "Verdensreligionsmodellen". (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2017). Religionsfagene i skolen. Muligheter, begrensninger og religionsvitenskapelige perspektiver. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim; Marie Lippe, von der; Knut Aukland (2017). Verdensreligionsmodellen. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2017). Uberørt og ren? Om jomfruhinner og jomfrutesting i antikken og i dag. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2017). The wise and the foolish virgins: Representations of Vestal virginity and pagan Chastity by Christian writers in late antiquity. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2017). Aniconism and images in Norwegian RE textbooks: Representations and historical change. (external link)
• Marie Lippe, von der; Sissel Undheim (2017). Symposia: Educational rituals? Ritualizations and varieties of religious practice in public and private schools.. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim; Marie Lippe, von der (2017). KRLE-podden av Knut Aukland, episode 1: "Å lære i/om/av religion". (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2017). Procession of lights. The celebration of Saint Lucy in Norwegian schools and society. (external link)
• Marie Lippe, von der; Sissel Undheim (2017). Religion i skolen : didaktiske perspektiver på religions- og livssynsfaget. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2017). Transmitting and transforming religious practice. Varieties of rituals and ritualizations in public and private schools: Procession of light. The celebration of Saint Lucy in Norwegian schools and society.. (external link)
• Marie Lippe, von der; Sissel Undheim (2017). Hva skal vi med et felles religionsfag i skolen?. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2017). Borderline Virginities. Sacred and Secular Virgins in Late Antiquity. (external link)
• Marie Lippe, von der; Sissel Undheim (2017). Hva skal vi med et felles religionsfag i skolen?. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2017). “As Antichrist pretends to be Christ.” Fake virgins in Late Antique ascetic discourses. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2017). Kan populærkultur og døde religioner vekke liv i religionsfaget?. (external link)
• Marie Lippe, von der; Sissel Undheim (2017). Forord. (external link)
• Marie Lippe, von der; Sissel Undheim; Christian Lomsdalen (2017). Hva skal vi med religion og livssyn i skolen?. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2017). Virginity at the spatial turn. Sacred virgins, sacred places, and ideals of immobility of in Late Antiquity. (external link)
• Knut Aukland; Marie Lippe, von der; Sissel Undheim (2017). Å lære i/om/av religion. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2017). Religion i verden og i Bergen i 2050 - et forsøk på noen religionsorakelspådommer. (external link)

2024

• Sissel Undheim (2024). Forholdet mellom omfang og metode. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2024). Virgin/Virginity. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2024). "The most precious gems of the Church" Visualising and mediating virginal perfection in Late Antiquity. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2024). Virgin/Virginity. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2024). Velatio. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2024). Populærkultur og religion i gamle dager. Historiske og komparative innfallsvinkler til medier, mangfold og levd religion. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2024). Colorless gems of the church, glittering jewels of heaven. Representations of sacred virgins in late antique texts and visual arts.. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2024). Lucia for dummies med professor Sissel Undheim/ innslag i Distriksprogram - Møre og Romsdal. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2024). Myter og metamorfoser i Kaos.. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2024). The Demigods Amongst Us: Rick Riordan’s Heroes of Olympus and Contemporary Religious Change.. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2024). Heksas store comeback. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2024). Velatio. (external link)

2008

• Sissel Undheim (2008). "A bodiless virginity? On flexity, fixity and the purported novelty of Christian virgin-ideology.". (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2008). "Keisere og vestalinner". (external link)

2012

• Sissel Undheim (2012). Virgin Fathers? Sacred Virginity, Salvation and Male Virgins in Late Antiquity. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2012). Veiled visibility. Negotiating the movements of sacred virgins in Late Antiquity. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2012). Christus Virgo: Representations of Christ as a Virgin in Early Christianity and Late Antiquity. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2012). Passio Agnetis: life, death and double martyrdom in fourth century Rome. (external link)

2016

• Sissel Undheim (2016). No Time for the Past? “Dead religions” and the Teaching of Religion Within a World Religion Paradigm in Norwegian RE.. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2016). Religionsfaget skal motvirke fordommer og diskriminering. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2016). Jomfruhinnen finnes ikke. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2016). Teaching religion with Beyoncé and beliebers. Using youth culture and media to challenge the WRP in Norwegian classrooms.. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2016). Den evige jomfruen. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2016). Anne Stensvold: A history of pregnancy in Christianity. From original sin to contemporary abortion debates.. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2016). Islam kommer alltid dårlig ut i undervisningen. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2016). The sacred power of Lego-Chi: mediatized spirituality in Lego, legends of Chima. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2016). Whether raped or willing. Bishops, Church Fathers and Canonical regulations on the spiritual sword and punishment of fallen virgins.. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2016). Spiritual Lego. Temples, rituals and new age in Ninjago and Chima. (external link)

2003

• Sissel Undheim (2003). ”The wise and the foolish virgins: Ambrose, Jerome and Augustine on vestal virginity and pagan chastity”. (external link)

2004

• Sissel Undheim (2004). ”Imagining the vestals. Rhetoric and the proximate other.”. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2004). "Crimen incesti - vestalinnene og Roma". (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2004). ”Romas jomfrumartyrer. Hagiografi og kult i det fjerde århundret.”. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2004). “Consecrated Virgins in Roman Inscriptions of Fourth and Early Fifth Century: Preliminary reflections.”. (external link)

2013

• Sissel Undheim (2013). Sacred virginity as a question of class. Vestal and Christian virgins in fourth century Rome. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2013). Honningstemme: Sapfo og den lesbiske lyrikken. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2013). Approaches to the Visual in Religion. Edited by Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati and Christopher Rowland. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2013). Religionene i RLE - Multimodal religion (og ikke-religion) i RLE-læreverkene for småskoletrinnet. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2013). Kyske hedninger og falske jomfruer. Kirkefedrene om Vestakulten og vestalinnene. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2013). RLE-religion. Religionsbegrepet i RLE-læreverkene for småskoletrinnet. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (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)
• Sissel Undheim (2013). "Modaliteter i en multireligiøs skole. Religionsbegrepet i de nye RLE-læreverkene". (external link)

2014

• Sissel Undheim (2014). “Religionshistorie og religionsvitenskap”. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2014). Skal den unge jenta bli med barn? Greske guder i antikken og norsk Bibeloversettelse i 2011. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2014). Spiritual Lego. Temples, rituals and new age in Ninjago and Chima. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2014). "Brief lives, double death. Commemorating the life of a child in Late Antiquity". (external link)

2022

• Sissel Undheim (2022). «Rekindling the flame of Vesta: Some reflections on afterlives of Roman religion.». (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2022). Double Martyrdom, Double Crown: Virgin Martyrs and Fourth-Century Ascetic Hierarchies. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2022). Book review: Anne P. Alwis' Narrating Martyrdom. Rewriting Late-Antique Virgin Martyrs in Byzantium.. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2022). Respondent, SBL-panel on Materiality and Religion in the Greco-Roman World. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2022). Vestal Virgins Revived. Some Reflections on Dead Religions, Reception and Afterlives. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2022). Sex med guder? Spesialutfordringen episode 20, Universitetsbiblioteket i Bergen. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2022). Buddhismus im Spielzeug. Ninja-Kult aus Legosteinen. (external link)

2021

• Sissel Undheim (2021). Balansekunst med Beyoncé. Å spille på fordommer for å bryte dem ned?. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim; Xueqi Pang (2021). "Nå er det trendy å være heks". (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2021). Hunting easter eggs. Lego, Marvel and metamodern mythologies in contemporary popular culture. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2021). Kan man leke med religion? Om profetier på kino og guder i lekekassa. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2021). “Covering Up, Closing In. Regulating Sacred Virginity in Late Antiquity”. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2021). "Vestal Virgins Revived. Some reflections on afterlives, reception and Greco-Roman religions." Paper for Greco-Roman religions panel on "Do religions die? Theorizing Death and Demise of Greek and Roman religions". (external link)
• Sissel Undheim; Kristin Granbo (2021). «Aliya» (19) er redd for å miste «jomfruhinna»: – Det er ingen ugifte kvinner som bruker tampong. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2021). Playful awe: Demigods, demons and metamodern mythologies in contemporary popular culture. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2021). Hierarkier av jomfruelig hellighet. Caesarius av Arles' klosterregler for kvinner. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2021). The Vestal Nun: The Afterlife and Reception of Vestal Virgins in Art and Literature in Late Antiquity and After. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2021). Everyone’s Saint? The Scandinavian Cult of Saint Lucy. (external link)

2025

• Sissel Undheim (2025). Om hymen, hinner og hellighet – et utkast til jomfruhinnens religionshistorie. (external link)

2010

• Sissel Undheim (2010). Romersk Religion Verdens Hellige Skrifter. (external link)
• Sissel Undheim (2010). Som engler på jorden. Om kroppsløs jomfrudom og mannlige jomfruer i senantikken. (external link)

2006

• Sissel Undheim (2006). “Elizabeth Clark on theoretical approaches to patristic texts after 'the linguistic turn'”. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

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

Ongoing projects

Religious readers. Multimodal texts and their readers from antiquity to contemporary culture. (Part of PI project in SFF-initiative).

Apocalypses and pixie dust. Religion and popular culture.

Religion and popular culture in the ancient world: Media, materiality and market.

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