Elisabeth Tveito Johnsen Senior Fellow 2025–2026
- Discipline
- Religious studies
- Fellowship duration
- September 01, 2025–December 15, 2025
- Academic or artistic job title
- Professor of Practical Theology
- Home institution
University of Oslo, NO
- Contact
- Links
- Institutional website
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Elisabeth Tveito Johnsen is Professor of Practical Theology at the University of Oslo (NO). Her current research explores how digitalization influences, shapes, and transforms religious practices—both at the individual and institutional levels. Throughout her career, she has focused on how churches in Norway, as well as in neighboring Sweden and Denmark, are changing at both national and local levels.
An interdisciplinary scholar, Elisabeth draws on theoretical frameworks from media studies, sociology, education, cultural history, and religious studies. She holds a BA and MA in theology and religious studies, and earned her PhD from the University of Oslo in 2014. She was promoted to full professor in 2023.
She has served as principal investigator on two projects funded by the Nordic University Hub ReNEW: Reimagining the Nordic Model of Christian Cultural Heritage and Religious Rituals and Communities in an Age of Social Distancing. One of her recent journal articles is titled “Ecclesial Online Identities during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Scandinavian Majority Churches on Facebook, Christmas 2020”.
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