Formatting Religion

Marius Timmann Mjaaland is Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo, Norway. He is president of the Nordic Society for Philosophy of Religion and served as Academic Director of Oslo University’s inter-facultary research program PluRel (Religion in Pluralist Societies) 2013–17. He is also the author and editor of several books, including Autopsia (2008) and The Hidden God: Luther, Philosophy and Political Theology (2016).

• 1. Formatting Religion: Introducing the Approach 2. Sacralization and Desacralization: Political Domination and Religious Interpretation 3. A New Formatting: Myanmar´s 2015 ‘Race and Religion Laws’ 4. Monitoring Religious Freedom: Persecution, documentation and the role of political fact 5. ‘Shared Religiousness’ as a Source of Values? 6. A Time of Change in the Estonian Islamic Community: The Question of Power among the Surrendered Ones 7. Media Formatting Religion and Conflict 8. Do the Toledo Guiding Principles Politicise Religious Education? 9. Salient or Silenced: How Religion and Terrorism are Formatted in School 10. Religion, Human Rights and Juridification 11. Towards Re-Sacralization of Nordic Law?