Ingvild Flaskerud
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| Occupation | Associate Professor |
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| Institutions | University of Tromsø |
Ingvild Flaskerud is Post-doctoral Fellow at Uni Global, the University of Bergen, Norway.
Research Interest
Ingvild Flaskerud's main research interests include Twelver Shia rituals, their material and visual culture, the negotiation of religious authority, and Shia migration and reforming in the West.
Education
- Ph.D. , The Department of Archeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion , the University of Bergen, 2008
- Post. Doctoral position at the University of Bergen, funded by the Norwegian Research Council , From 2010 and 2013
Her further educational information is not available on social media.
Career
- Program Fellow at Centre for Peace Studies, University of Tromsø
- Assistant Professor at the Department of Religious Studies, University of Tromsø
Books and articles
- Transmission and circulation of saintly blessing. Artefacts in Shia Pilgrimage, Journal of Transcultural Studies. E-journal of Cluster of Excellence: Asia and Europe in a Global Context, the University of Heidelberg , 2013
- Representing Spiritual and Gendered Space. Challenges in Audiovisual Recording of Iranian Shia Women’s Rituals , Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Europe , 2013
- Redemptive Memories: Portraiture in the Cult of Commemoration. Pedram Khosronejad (Ed.), Unburied Memories: The Politics of Bodies of Sacred Defense Martyrs in Iran. London and New York: Routledge , 2012
- Visualizing Belief and Piety in Iranian Shiism. London and New York: Continuum.2010
- Portraits of Prophets and Saints in the Twelver Shia Cult of Pilgrimage. Pedram Khosronejad , Saint and Holy Portraits in Shia- Sunnit Mausoleums and Saint Veneration. Oxford: Sean Kingston Publishing,2014
- Aruze Qasem- A Theatrical event in Shia Female Commemorative Rituals. Fahmida Suleman , People of the Prophet’s House: Artistic and Ritual Expressions of Shi'i Islam. The British Museum Press , 2014
Her vision towards Imam Hussain
In one of her books, Visualizing Belief and Piety in Iranian Shiism, she is offering a new paradigm of Islamic culture and iconography through an analysis of the Iranian Shia environment.
In one chapter of this book, she explains Ashura tragedy in detail and Shia’s opinions towards this tragedy. Then she mentioned the impression that Ashura has made so far, leading people’s actions in a certain way without ordering them directly. In the following chapters, she explained how the Ashura ritual has been held so far in Iran.
She introduced some new roles in Ashura’s ritual like Maddah explaining how they narrate the tragedy and send the message of Ashura to people.