Sindre Bangstad
Academic Interests
Thematical: The anthropology of secularism and secularity, Islam, Muslims in secular societies, European Muslims, secularisation and re-islamisation, sexual politics, Islamic feminism, Islam and human rights.
Regional: Norway, South Africa, (India)
Background
Employment: Junior researcher, Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), Bergen, 2002. PhD Fellow, The International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM), Leiden, The Netherlands 2003-2007, Consultant the Norwegian Immigration Appeals Board (UNE), Oslo, 2008, Associate Professor, Social Welfare Research Institute/Department of Social Science, Oslo University College, 2008-2010, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, 2010-.
Awards
Oslo University Press’ Award for Best Scholarly Manuscript 2008 for the project The Faces of Secularism (published 2009).
The postdoctoral project
The project “Reframing the Secular: Vernacular Concepts of the Secular Among Young Norwegian Muslims” has been financed by the Norwegian Research Council (NRC) through its FRISAM-programme. The project aims at establishing how young Norwegian men and women with a Muslim minority background, regardless of whether they are religiously practising or not, and across ethnic backgrounds, relates to contemporary Norwegian secularity and liberality.
Publications
Select publications
- 2004a. ‘When Muslims Marry non-Muslims: Marriage as Incorporation in a Cape Muslim Community', Islam and Muslim-Christian Relations, 15 (3), 349-364.
- 2004b.‘The Changed Circumstances for the Performance of Religious Authority in a Cape Muslim Community', Journal of Religion in Africa, 34 (1-2), 39-61.
- 2005a. 'Hydras Heads: PAGAD and Responses to the PAGAD phenomenon in a Cape Muslim Community', Journal of Southern African Studies 31 (1), 187-208.
- 2005b. ‘Food For Thought: The Social Meanings of Food in a Cape Muslim Community,’ Annual Review of Islam in South Africa 6.
- 2006c. Diasporic Consciousness as a Strategic Resource: A Case-Study From a Cape Muslim Community. In Leif O. Manger og Munzoul A. Assal (eds.) Diasporas Within and Without Africa: Dynamism, Heterogeneity, Variation. Uppsala: Nordic Africa Institute, 32-60.
- 2007a. ‘Global Flows, Local Appropriations: Facets of Secularisation and Re-Islamisation Among Contemporary Cape Muslims’. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
- 2007b. ‘How ‘Islamic’ is Secularism? Lessons from Cape Town, South Africa’, ISIM Review 20 (Autumn) 2007, 52-53.
- 2009a. ‘AIDS and ‘The Wrath of God’. In Esack, Farid and Sarah Chiddy (eds.) Islam and AIDS: Between Scorn, Pity and Justice, 43-58. Oxford: Oneworld Publications.
- 2009b. ‘Contesting Secularism/s: Secularism and Islam in the Work of Talal Asad’, Anthropological Theory 9 (2), 188-208.
- 2009c. Sekularismens Ansikter [The Faces of Secularism]. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.
- 2010. (With Bjørn E. Bertelsen) ̔Heart of Darkness Reinvented? The Tale of Two Norwegian Ex-Soldiers in the Congo’, Anthropology Today 26 (1), 8-12.
- 2010a. ‘Hvorfor så sinte?’ (bokanmeldelse), Morgenbladet, 8 January 2010.
- 2010b. ‘Å bruke Said’ (idéessay), Morgenbladet, 8 January 2010.
- Bangstad, Sindre; Leirvik, Oddbjørn Birger & Bowen, John R. (2013). 'Anthropologists Are Talking' About Islam, Muslims and Law in Contemporary Europe. Ethnos. ISSN 0014-1844. s 1- 20 . doi: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00141844.2013.776614
- Bangstad, Sindre (2012). En norsk sekularisme?, I: Sindre Bangstad; Oddbjørn Birger Leirvik & Ingvill Thorson Plesner (red.), Sekularisme-med norske briller.. Unipub forlag. ISBN 978-82-7477-536-7. Kapittel 3. s 47 - 67
- Bangstad, Sindre (2012). Failing to Protect Minorities Against Racist and/or Discriminatory Speech? - The Case of Norway and § 135(a) of The Norwegian General Penal Code. Nordic Journal of Human Rights. ISSN 1891-8131. (4), s 484- 514
- Bangstad, Sindre (2012). Muslimenes religiøse verdier endrer seg aldri, I: Motgift: Akademisk respons på den nye høyreekstremismen. Flamme forlag. ISBN 9788202381707. Kapittelbidrag. s 97 - 107
- Bangstad, Sindre (2012). Review of Chris Allen, Islamophobia (2010). Contemporary Islam. ISSN 1872-0218. . doi: 10.1007/s11562-012-0203-1
- Bangstad, Sindre (2012). Review of Peter Hervik's 'The Annoying Difference: the emergence of Danish neonationalism, racism and populism in the post-1989 world' (Berghahn Books, 2011). Social Anthropology. ISSN 0964-0282. 20(2), s 211- 212
- Bangstad, Sindre (2012). Terror in Norway. American Anthropologist. ISSN 0002-7294. 114(2), s 351- 353
- Bangstad, Sindre (2012). The Harm in Hate Speech by Jeremy Waldron: Review. Nordic Journal of Human Rights. ISSN 1891-8131. 30(2), s 217- 220
- Bangstad, Sindre; Eriksen, Thomas Hylland; Comaroff, John L. & Comaroff, Jean (2012). Anthropologists Are Talking: About Anthropology and Post-Apartheid South Africa. Ethnos. ISSN 0014-1844. 77(1), s 115- 136 . doi: 10.1080/00141844.2011.590218
- Bangstad, Sindre (2011). Islamofobi, rasisme og religionskritikk :. Kirke og kultur. ISSN 0023-186X. 116(4), s 247- 266
- Bangstad, Sindre (2011). Multikulturalismen og dens kritikere, I: Bente Puntervold Bø (red.), Multikulturell Teori og Flerkulturelle Praksiser. Abstrakt forlag. ISBN 978-82-7935-309-6. Deltema 1. s 21 - 46
- Bangstad, Sindre (2011). Saba Mahmood and Anthropological Feminism After Virtue. Theory, Culture and Society. Explorations in Critical Social Science. ISSN 0263-2764. 28(3), s 28- 54 . doi: 10.1177/0263276410396914
- Bangstad, Sindre (2011). 'The morality police are coming! Muslims in Norway's media discourses'. Anthropology Today. ISSN 0268-540X. 27(5), s 3- 7
- Bangstad, Sindre & Høigilt, Jacob (2011). Hvordan forstå Muslimbrødrene? Islamisme i den arabiske og europeiske konteksten.. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0800-336X. 28(2), s 123- 134
- Bangstad, Sindre & Vetlesen, Arne Johan (2011). Ytringsfrihet og ytringsansvar. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0800-336X. 28(4), s 334- 346
- Bangstad, Sindre (2010). Book review: Mashood A.Baderin (ed.) (2010): Islam and Human Rights: Selected Essays of Abdullahi An-Na'im.. Nordic Journal of Human Rights. ISSN 1891-8131. 28(2), s 293- 296
- Bangstad, Sindre (2012). Sekularismens ansikten. Studentlitteratur. ISBN 978-91-44-06910-4. 248 s.
- Bangstad, Sindre; Leirvik, Oddbjørn Birger & Plesner, Ingvill Thorson (red.) (2012). Sekularisme-med norske briller.. Unipub forlag. ISBN 978-82-7477-536-7. 197 s.
- Bangstad, Sindre (2013). Anmeldelse av Christine M. Jacobsens 'Islamic Traditions and Muslim Youth in Norway'. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7285. 24(1), s 70- 72
- Bangstad, Sindre (2013). Diskriminerende ytringer. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). . doi: http://snl.no/diskriminerende_ytringer
- Bangstad, Sindre (2013). Er det forbud mot islamkritikk i Norge?. Fordommer.no. . doi: http://www.fordommer.no/Fordommer-Home-Page/Fagartikler/Er-det-lovforbud-mot-islamkritikk-i-Norge
- Bangstad, Sindre (2013). Eurabia. Fordommer.no. . doi: http://folkehjelp.no/fordommer/Fordommer-Home-Page/Fagartikler/Eurabia2
- Bangstad, Sindre (2013). 'Eurabia': Bidrag til fordommer.no .
- Bangstad, Sindre (2013). Review of Michael Warner, Jonathan VanAntwerpen and Craig Calhoun's 'Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age'. Religion and Society. ISSN 1437-5370. 4(3), s 236- 238
- Bangstad, Sindre (2012). 'After Anders Breivik's conviction, Norway must confront Islamophobia'. The Guardian. ISSN 0856-5422. . doi: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2012/aug/28/anders-breivik-norway-islamophobia-muslims
- Bangstad, Sindre (2012). Antropologien om islam (invitert forelesning, Teologisk Fakultet, Universitetet i Oslo).
- Bangstad, Sindre (2012, 24. august). 'Breivik-dommen ikke viktig for folks rettsfølelse' . [Internett]. Forskning.no.
- Bangstad, Sindre (2012, 27. mai). Dal "Islamofobia' cha strage di Breivik, l'estrema dentra del Nord da fa panora' . La Repubblica.
- Bangstad, Sindre (2012, 18. mars). Deltakelse i debatt om sekularisme i Norge på NRK P2s 'Radio Migrapolis' med Else Cathrine Archer 18.03.2012 kl. 13.00. [Radio]. NRK P2.
- Bangstad, Sindre (2012, 15. september). Derfor er de så rasende . Aftenposten.no.
- Bangstad, Sindre (2012, 26. august). Domen mot Breivik - 3 frågor til Sindre Bangstad. [Internett]. Religionsvetenskapliga kommentarer.
- Bangstad, Sindre (2012, 16. april). EU authorities accused of blindness on 'counter-jihad' . [Internett]. eu.observer.com.
- Bangstad, Sindre (2012). Hvem kaprer den muslimske identiteten?. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116.
- Bangstad, Sindre (2012, 30. august). Intervju med Heikki Heiskanen for finsk TVs hovednyhetssending om dommen i terrorrettsaken . [TV]. YLE Uutiset TV1.
- Bangstad, Sindre (2012, 30. august). Intervju med Heikki Heiskanen for finsk radios aktualitetsprogram om norsk høyreekstremisme . [Radio]. Maikamapolitiikan Arkipäiväa, YLE Radio Suomi.
- Bangstad, Sindre (2012). Kulturmarxisme. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven). . doi: http://snl.no/kulturmarxisme
- Bangstad, Sindre (2012). Multiculturalism in Europe: An Exchange. The Immanent Frame [blog]. . doi: http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2012/06/01/multiculturalism-in-europe/
- Bangstad, Sindre (2012). Muslimsk raseri? Om ytringsfrihet, blasfemi og krenkelser i en globalisert virkelighet..
- Bangstad, Sindre (2012). Norway-one year after: An open wound. openDemocracy.net. . doi: http://www.opendemocracy.net/sindre-bangstad/norway-one-year-after-open-wound
- Bangstad, Sindre (2012). Om sekulære muslimer. Aftenposten.no. . doi: http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/Om-sekulare-muslimer-6840286.html
- Bangstad, Sindre (2012). Sekularismens Ansikter: Invitert forelesningsrekke (3 forelesninger) for studenter ved Menighetsfaktultetet i Oslo.
- Bangstad, Sindre (2012). Taking Stock of the 22/7 Trial And Norway's Future. ENARgy-The European Network Against Racism's Webzine. . doi: http://www.enargywebzine.eu/spip.php?article232&lang=en
- Bangstad, Sindre (2012). Terror and Islamophobia: Analyzing The Ideology Behind the 22/7 Attacks.
- Bangstad, Sindre (2012). The Myth of The Free Marketplace of Ideas: New Muslim Voices in Norwegian Mediated Public Spheres.
- Bangstad, Sindre (2012). The New Nationalism and Its Relationship to Islam.
- Bangstad, Sindre (2012). The 'Rana-debate' Revisited: Trying to Understand Norwegian Vernacular Concepts of the Secular and Secularism Through a Debate on Islam and Secularism.
- Bangstad, Sindre (2012). What's Wrong With Freedom of Expression? The Case of Norway and Its Muslims.
- Bangstad, Sindre (2012). Which Road to Enlightenment? On the Impasses of Secularist Absolutism in Relation to Anthropology in Norway.
- Bangstad, Sindre & Døving, Cora Alexa (2012). Forskningens veier etter 22.juli. Dagbladet. ISSN 0805-3766. . doi: http://www.dagbladet.no/2012/05/15/kultur/debatt/kronikk/terror/forskning/21598737/
- Bangstad, Sindre & Kohn, Ervin (2012). En plikt til å si imot. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116. . doi: http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikker/En-plikt-a-si-imot-6820265.html
- Bangstad, Sindre & Vetlesen, Arne Johan (2012). Ytringsfrihet i praksis. Dagsavisen. ISSN 1503-2892.
- Bangstad, Sindre & Vetlesen, Arne Johan (2012). Ytringsfrihetens blindsoner [tilsvar]. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0800-336X. 29(2), s 228- 232
- Bangstad, Sindre (2011). Ambigious Accommodation: On The Context of Cape Muslims and Post-Apartheid Politics.
- Bangstad, Sindre (2011). Anti-Islam Ideology: How Should a Liberal Order Respond?.
- Bangstad, Sindre (2011). Antropologien om islam.
- Bangstad, Sindre (2011). 'Bokanmeldelse: Bjørn Olav Utvik: Islamismen og Øystein Sørensen: Drømmen om det fullkomne samfunn'. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7285. 22(2), s 150- 152
- Bangstad, Sindre (2011). Fighting Words That Are Not Fought [blog-artikkel]. The Immanent Frame [blog]. . doi: http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2011/06/14/fighting-words/
- Bangstad, Sindre (2011). 'Hadet i vor midte'. Dagbladet Politiken. ISSN 0907-1814.
- Bangstad, Sindre (2011). 'Hvordan lyve med statistikk'. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116.
- Bangstad, Sindre (2011). 'I professorens verden'. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847.
- Bangstad, Sindre (2011, 27. juni). Intervju with Sindre Bangstad on Saba Mahmood . [Internett]. Theory, Culture and Society Blog.
- Bangstad, Sindre (2011). Islam i det offentlige ordsskiftet.
- Bangstad, Sindre (2011). Norway: Terror and Islamophobia in the Mirror. openDemocracy.net. . doi: http://www.opendemocracy.net/sindre-bangstad/norway-terror-and-islamophobia-in-mirror
- Bangstad, Sindre (2011). Om islam og demokrati.
- Bangstad, Sindre (2011). Om islamofobi.
- Bangstad, Sindre (2011). Reframing the Secular: Young Norwegians and Vernacular Concepts of the Secular.
- Bangstad, Sindre (2011). Review: Ivan Strenski 'Why Politics Can't Be Freed From Religion' (2010). Temenos, Studies in Comparative Religion. 46(2), s 253- 257
- Bangstad, Sindre (2011). Sivilisasjonskrasj eller falsk alarm: Hvor er Europa på vei?.
- Bangstad, Sindre (2011). Testimony to the InterParliamentary Hearing on Internet Hate Speech at the Houses of Parliament, Westminster, London, U.K..
- Bangstad, Sindre (2011). The Infrastructure of Hatred Unbound: Islamophobia in Norway.
- Bangstad, Sindre (2011). The 'religious' and the 'secular': On what poststructuralist anthropology gets right, and what it gets wrong (most of the time).
- Bangstad, Sindre (2011). Whatever happened to Norway's incitement laws?. IRR Newsletter.
- Bangstad, Sindre (2011). 'What's Wrong With Freedom of Expression? The Case of Norway and Its Muslims'.
- Bangstad, Sindre (2011). What's Wrong With Freedom of Expression? The Case of Norway and Its Muslims.
- Bangstad, Sindre (2011). Which Road to Enlightenment? On The Impasses of Secularist Absolutism in Relation to Anthropology in Contemporary Norway.
- Bangstad, Sindre (2011). Ytringsfrihet etter 22/7.
- Bangstad, Sindre (2011). Ytringsfrihet etter 22/7 2011.
- Bangstad, Sindre & Døving, Cora Alexa (2011). Myter om islamofobi. Dagsavisen. ISSN 1503-2892. s 4- 4
- Bangstad, Sindre & Høigilt, Jacob (2011). Er Muslimbrødrene en trussel for Vesten?. Vårt land. ISSN 0805-5424.
- Bangstad, Sindre; Vetlesen, Arne Johan; Eriksen, Thomas Hylland & Ishaq, Bushra (2011). 'Straffbare ytringer som ikke straffes'. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116. . doi: http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/debatt/article4213677.ece
- Bangstad, Sindre; Vetlesen, Arne Johan; Eriksen, Thomas Hylland & Ishaq, Bushra (2011). Uakseptable ytringer. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116. . doi: http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikker/article4205167.ece
- Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge & Bangstad, Sindre (2010). Der kannibaler truer?. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. s 22- 23
- Bangstad, Sindre (2010). Al-Kubaisis demoner. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. s 18- 21
- Bangstad, Sindre (2010). Al-Kubaisis metode [Tilsvar til al-Kubaisi i al-Kubaisi-debatten]. Dagbladet. ISSN 0805-3766. s 58
- Bangstad, Sindre (2010). Anthropological Feminism After Virtue: Analyzing the Work of Saba Mahmood.
- Bangstad, Sindre (2010). Antropologien om det sekulære og det sekulæres grenser.
- Bangstad, Sindre (2010). Deltakelse i NRK P2 Søndagsavisa [om al-Kubaisis film 'Frihet, Likhet og Det Muslimske Brorskap]. Søndagsavisa, NRK P2.
- Bangstad, Sindre (2010). Edward W. Saids Orientalismen og dens kritikere.
- Bangstad, Sindre (2010). Feminismens fremtid? Replikk til Jorunn Økland.. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0800-336X. 4, s 447- 450
- Bangstad, Sindre (2010, 08. januar). French og Moland - typisk norske . [Internett]. forskning.no.
- Bangstad, Sindre (2010). Hva er et sekulært samfunn? Hovedforedrag ved Bispemøtet i Oslo, 2010..
- Bangstad, Sindre (2010, 18. oktober). Hva er sekularisme? Intervju med Lise Borchgrevink. [Radio]. NRK P2 Sånn er Livet.
- Bangstad, Sindre (2010). Hvilken debatt? [Tilsvar til Lily Bandehy i al-Kubaisi-saken]. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. s 23
- Bangstad, Sindre (2010). Hvorfor så sinte?. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847. s 32- 33
- Bangstad, Sindre (2010). Intervju med Anders Breivik Bisgaard i Morgenbladet om al-Kubaisis 'Frihet, Likhet og Det Muslimske Brorskap'. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847. s 26- 27
- Bangstad, Sindre (2010). Intervju med Maryam Tahir i Dagsavisen om al-Kubaisis 'Frihet, Likhet og Det Muslimske Brorskap'. Dagsavisen. ISSN 1503-2892. s 10- 10
- Bangstad, Sindre (2010). Intervju med Ronny Spaans i Klassekampen om al-Kubaisis 'Frihet, Likhet og Det Muslimske Brorskap'. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839.
- Bangstad, Sindre (2010). Islamophobia in Norway: What role for anthropology, if any, and why?.
- Bangstad, Sindre (2010). Kvifor så redd for Ramadan?. Dag og Tid. ISSN 0803-334X. s 30- 30
- Bangstad, Sindre (2010). Mistenksomhetens blikk. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116.