Ingvild Flaskerud Editor

Ingvild Flaskerud is a Post Doc Fellow at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her main research interests include Twelver Shia rituals, their material and visual culture, the negotiation of religious authority, and Shia migration and regrounding in the West. Flaskerud has published the monograph Visualizing Belief and Piety in Iranian Shiism (2010), and is the co-author, with Inger Marie Okkenhaug, of Gender, Religion and Change in the Middle East: Two Hundred Years of History (2005), as well as the producer of the ethnographic film ‘Standard-bearers of Hussein. Women commemorating Karbala’ (2003).

Richard Johan Natvig is Associate Professor of History of Religions at the University of Bergen, Norway. His main research interests are everyday religion in Egypt, especially the zar spirit possession beliefs and rituals, saint cults, and religious iconography among Muslims. He has published several articles and book-chapters on these and other issues, and is co-editor of Islamer i Norge ("Islams in Norway", 2005), and of Metode i religionsvitenskap ("Method in religious studies", 2006).