Ida Marie Høeg

Appointments

• Professor of Sociology of Religion, University of Agder (2016–)
• Guest professor, Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and Forum for Gender Studies (2020–)
• Board member Agder Academy of Sciences (2020-)
• Medlem UiAs styringsgruppa Kompetanseenheten for kjønns- og seksualitetsmangfold  (2020-)
• Visiting Researcher, Boston University, USA (Autumn 2019)
• Associate Professor KIFO, Institute for Church, Religion, and Worldview Research (2008–2015)

Education

• PhD in Religious Studies, University of Bergen (2008)

Research Projects

• Negotiating Jewish Identity - Jewish Life in 21st Century Norway (2017–2021). Funded by: The Research Council of Norway’s SAMKUL program, led by Research Professor Cora Alexa Døving, The Norwegian Centre for Holocaust and Minority Studies.
• Practices of death. Memory, governance, and religious change (2017–2018). Funded by: The Joint Committee for Nordic research councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS), led by Ulla Schmidt, Aarhus University.
• Reassembling Democracy. Ritual as Cultural Resource (REDO) (2013–2017). Funded by: The Research Council of Norway’s SAMKUL program, led by Professor Jone Salomonsen, University of Oslo.

Interests

I study the forming of meaning understood as everyday practices, with a focus on identity construction among the majority of the population and ethnic minorities in Norway. My work is concerned with how these groups express, uphold and develop their everyday life in the outskirts of, or in the extension of, organised religion, both in private and public places (public institutions, public urban and natural landscapes). I am especially interested in how agency is influenced by social structures like hierarchy, authority, gendered social relationships, as well as global tendencies particularly migration and consumption. Most of my scholarship centres on negotiating of identity and how the sense of belonging creates and maintains ritual actions, emotions, and space. I have been focusing on how young people, newly established parents and bereaved people assign meaning to ritual actions in response to changes in life courses and social contexts.  

Teaching

·Sociology of Religion

·Research Method

·Gender Studies

·Methodology

Publications

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