IAHR Executive Committee Members
Prof. Andrea Rota
Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS)
University of Oslo
P.A. Munchs hus
Niels Henrik Abels vei 36
0371 Oslo
Norway
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Secretary General: Dr. Andrea Rota
Andrea Rota (Ph.D., University of Fribourg, Switzerland; Habilitation, University of Bern) is Professor of the Study of Religion at the University of Oslo and Head of the Center for Religion and Politics in the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. His main research interests include the public presence of religion (with particular attention to public schools), the use of media technologies in religious contexts, the religious history of the “long sixties,” and problems of theory and method in the study of religion. In recent years, his research has focused on the relationship between religion and risk, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. His recent publications include the monographs La religion à l’école (Seismo, 2017) and Collective Intentionality and the Study of Religion: Social Ontology and Empirical Research (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023), as well as the edited volume Religion and Academia Reframed: Connecting Religion, Science, and Society in the Long Sixties (Brill, 2023).