Margrethe Løøv Associate Professor in Religious Studies Theology, Religion and Philosophy NLA University College Staffeldtsgate +4721969536 Send e-mail Send e-mail Office: Staffeldtsgate See full cristin profile Norwegian Workfield: {{field.description}} , Choose your workfeilds(ctrl for multiselect) Update workfield <p>Religious Studies</p> <p>New Age religion</p> <p>New religious movements</p> <p>Sami religion and history of missions</p> Research and publications Update publications <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 1cm; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Løøv, Margrethe. Forthcoming. “Interpreting the Radicalisation of Youth: A Comparative Analysis of Converts to New Religious Movements and Radical Islamism” in Akil Awan & James R. Lewis (eds.) <em>Radicalisation in Comparative Perspective</em>, 2020, Hurst / Oxford University Press.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 1cm; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Løøv, Margrethe and James R. Lewis. Forthcoming. “New Age” in </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Chris Rojek (ed.) </span><em><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology</span></em><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;">, second edition. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 1cm; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 1cm; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Løøv, Margrethe. Forthcoming. “Quantitative Sociological Methods in the Study of Contemporary Esotericism” in Egil Asprem (ed.) <em>Dictionary of Contemporary Esotericism</em>.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 1cm; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 1cm; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Løøv, Margrethe. 2019. “Between Religion and Science: Shifting Perceptions of Knowledge in Acem and the Transcendental Meditation Movement”, <em>Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review</em>, vol. 10 (1), 2019, pp. 25-47.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 1cm; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 1cm; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Lewis, James R., Margrethe Løøv and Bernard Doherty. 2017. “Same Trajectory, Different Prospects: Anglophone Census Data and the Future of the Irreligious and the ‘Nones’”, <em>Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review</em>, vol. 8 (1), 2017, pp. 123-149. Available from: </span><a style="color: purple;" href="https://www.pdcnet.org/asrr/content/asrr_2017_0008_0001_0123_0149"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;">https://www.pdcnet.org/asrr/content/asrr_2017_0008_0001_0123_0149</span></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 1cm; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -1cm;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Løøv, Margrethe. 2017. “Povel Resen og tidlig norsk misjon blant samene”, <em>Norwegian Journal of Missiology, </em>vol. 71 (1), pp. 46-58. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Symbol;">[</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;">ENG: </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Povel Resen and the early Norwegian Mission among the Samis</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Symbol;">]</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;">. Available from: </span><a style="color: purple;" href="http://egede.no/tidsskrift"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;">http://egede.no/tidsskrift</span></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 1cm; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Løøv, Margrethe. 2017. “From ‘Network’ to ‘Visions’: The Role of the Umbrella Organization VisionWorks in the Norwegian Alternative Movement” in Ingvild Sælid Gilhus, Siv Ellen Kraft and James R. Lewis (eds.) <em>New Age in Norway</em>, Sheffield: Equinox, pp. 45-63.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 1cm; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 1cm; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Løøv, Margrethe. 2016. “Quantitative Approaches to New Religions” in James R. Lewis and Inga B. Tøllefsen (eds.) <em>Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements II</em>, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 72-83. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 1cm; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 1cm; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Løøv, Margrethe. 2016. “Shoppers in the Spiritual Supermarket: A Quantitative Study of Visitors at Scandinavia’s Largest Alternative Fair”, <em>Journal of Contemporary Religion</em>, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;">vol. 31 (1) pp. 67-84.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 1cm; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 1cm; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Løøv, Margrethe. 2015. “Acem: Disenchanted Meditation” in James R. Lewis (ed.) </span><em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Nordic New Religions</span></em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;">, Leiden: Brill, p</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;">p. 255-268.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 1cm; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -1cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 1cm; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -1cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Løøv, Margrethe and Knut Melvær 2014. “Spirituell, religiøs eller åndelig? Om selvbetegnelser i det norske alternativmiljøet” in <em>Dīn – tidsskrift for religion og kultur</em>, vol. 16 (1-2), pp. 113-133. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;">ENG: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Symbol;">[</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Spiritual or Religious? Self-Designations in the Norwegian Alternative Milieu</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Symbol;">]</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 1cm; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 1cm; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;">Løøv, Margrethe. 2012. “Acems avfortrylling: Fra nyreligiøs motkultur til sekulær selvutviklingsteknikk”, <em>Chaos</em> vol. 58, pp. 9-34. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Symbol;">[</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;">ENG: </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;">The Disenchantment of Acem: From Spiritual Subculture to Secular Science</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Symbol;">]</span></p> Education Update education <p>PhD from the University of Bergen (2019)</p> <p>MA from the University of Oslo (2010)</p> <p> </p> Teaching Update teaching Dissemination Update dissemination <p>Encyclopedia entries in <a href="https://brukere.snl.no/53797">Store norske leksikon</a></p> <p>Editor of <a href="https://journals.uis.no/index.php/AURA/about">Aura</a></p> <p> </p> Projects Update projects <p>Book projects: </p> <p><em>Networking Spirituality: The Organization, Power and Ideology of the New Age</em></p> <p><em>New Age</em>, Cambridge Elements, Cambridge University Press</p>