Sigurd Bergmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 3891086 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sigurd Bergmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sigurd |
| FAMILY NAME | Bergmann |
| SIGNATURE | BERGMANN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7729-7189 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Religion, Materialism and Ecology
Peder Anker, The Power of the Periphery
Peder Anker, The Power of the Periphery: How Norway Became an Environmental Pioneer for the World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), 285 pp., ISBN: 9781108477567
Christliche Umweltethik
Rituals in Weather Lands
Do rituals have a place in modern life? Are they ultimately pointless, or rather essential for social life? Can rituals themselves become specific places where meaning and belonging can emerge? Might they offer social skills to “make-oneself-at-home” in a world of constant homelessness and displacement? In the beginning two examples of the power and political significance of rituals are given: marathon runs in metropolitan surroundings, and the S…
The One at, around or with the Other
The article revises the well-known thesis about the intensification of pneumatology in the different kinds of crisis in Christian history. A brief remembrance of the rise of systematic Christian pneumatology in Eastern patristic late antiquity recalls its contextual and plural dimension. Gregory of Nazianz’s trinitarian cosmology embeds pneumatology and vitalises his historic-soteriological doctrine of the Spirit as Giver of Life and its Liberato…
Sweden's Pandemic Experiment
Evaluation of science advice during the Covid-19 pandemic in Sweden
Sweden was well equipped to prevent the pandemic of COVID-19 from becoming serious. Over 280 years of collaboration between political bodies, authorities, and the scientific community had yielded many successes in preventive medicine. Sweden's population is literate and has a high level of trust in authorities and those in power. During 2020, however, Sweden had ten times higher COVID-19 death rates compared with neighbouring Norway. In this repo…
Navigating ethics in a pandemic—Contempt for the weak versus love of neighbor in a Swedish lens
The article draws on the author's observations and reflections about Sweden's pandemic management from February 2020 to June 2021. It does not simply interpret the lessons one can learn from the Swedish biopolitical experiment, but focuses on some central ethical challenges that every nation had to face in an accelerating pandemic. The intention with such a sharp critical discussion of the Swedish experience is to clarify some of the crucial ethi…
Contextual Theology
Apartheid theology understood itself as a return to the "old paths" of reformed orthodoxy -but was subsequently recognised as a deeply contextual theological legitimation of settler colonialism.As this volume recognises, it is therefore important to place the recognition of the contextual nature of theology "at the forefront of the theological process".Would this recognition suffice for a "liberating faith"?Not by itself, since doing theology req…
Arts, Religion, and the Environment
Exploring Nature’s Texture brings together a collection of internationally-known group of artists, theologians, anthropologists and philosophers to look at the imaginative possibilities of using the visual arts to address the breakdown of the human relationship with the environment. ; Readership: Scholars and students in theology/religious studies, art history, artists and curators, environmental humanities, environmental studies, philosophy, ant…
Religion in the Anthropocene
The Ethics of Mobilities
Ethics of Mobilities
Naturethik und biblische Schöpfungserzählung
Spaces of Mobility
Spaces of Mobility
Christian Faith and the Earth Current Paths and Emerging Horizons in Ecotheology
Christian ecotheology may be regarded as an attempt to retrieve the ecological wisdom embedded in the Christian tradition as a response to ecological destruction and environmental injustices. 1 However, it is also prompted by the widespread suspicion that the root causes of the crisis are related to the impact of Christianity (as pointed out in the somewhat exaggerated claims of early critics). Th at Christianity is deeply implied in the roots of…
Fetishism Revisited
In the context of ecological destruction and the emergence of numerous eco-spiritualities the challenge for Christian theology is to address the question: Where does the Spirit, who liberates nature, take place today? This is addressed in three sections: In a first section pneumatology is revisioned as ecological soteriology while the Spirit is portrayed as a giver and liberator of life. In a second section it is suggested that the doctrine of th…
Trinitarian Cosmology in God’s Liberating Movement
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Making Oneself at Home in Environments of Urban Amnesia
How is urban space to be developed as a habitable place, and what could religion and theology contribute to it? This article explores the question in three sections. First, urbanization is considered as a religious phenomenon, and examples from Mayan sacred geography, Swedish landscape architecture and the medieval European Hansa city are presented and discussed. Then, the human dimension, and the human capacity 'to make oneself at home', are ela…
Peter Hanns Reill, Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment
Peter Hanns Reill, Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2005), 388 pp., $41.80, ISBN-10: 0520241355
Theology in its Spatial Turn
Space and place have been marginalised or even absent in theology for long periods of its history. Christian theology, hereby, mirrors a strong characteristic of the so-called 'Western culture and its history', which consequently has placed time over space. In the twentieth century's last years, however, space/place reflections have moved out from the margins to several sectors of sciences and the humanities in what has been summarised as 'the sp…
Atmospheres of Synergy
This essay moves the theme of space, place and surrounding from the margins to the centre of Religious Studies/Theology and Environmental Science. After a survey of diverse concepts of space in science, religion and environmentalism, which challenge scholars to explore the ‘trialectics’ of religion at a deeper level, it proceeds to a detailed presentation and discussion of three elaborated approaches in phenomenology, aesth/ethics and anthropolog…
Evaluation of science advice during the Covid-19 pandemic in Sweden
Sweden was well equipped to prevent the pandemic of COVID-19 from becoming serious. Over 280 years of collaboration between political bodies, authorities, and the scientific community had yielded many successes in preventive medicine. Sweden's population is literate and has a high level of trust in authorities and those in power. During 2020, however, Sweden had ten times higher COVID-19 death rates compared with neighbouring Norway. In this repo…
Theology in its Spatial Turn
Space and place have been marginalised or even absent in theology for long periods of its history. Christian theology, hereby, mirrors a strong characteristic of the so-called 'Western culture and its history', which consequently has placed time over space. In the twentieth century's last years, however, space/place reflections have moved out from the margins to several sectors of sciences and the humanities in what has been summarised as 'the sp…
Making Oneself at Home in Environments of Urban Amnesia
How is urban space to be developed as a habitable place, and what could religion and theology contribute to it? This article explores the question in three sections. First, urbanization is considered as a religious phenomenon, and examples from Mayan sacred geography, Swedish landscape architecture and the medieval European Hansa city are presented and discussed. Then, the human dimension, and the human capacity 'to make oneself at home', are ela…
Atmospheres of Synergy
This essay moves the theme of space, place and surrounding from the margins to the centre of Religious Studies/Theology and Environmental Science. After a survey of diverse concepts of space in science, religion and environmentalism, which challenge scholars to explore the ‘trialectics’ of religion at a deeper level, it proceeds to a detailed presentation and discussion of three elaborated approaches in phenomenology, aesth/ethics and anthropolog…
Trinitarian Cosmology in God’s Liberating Movement
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Atmospheres of Synergy
This essay moves the theme of space, place and surrounding from the margins to the centre of Religious Studies/Theology and Environmental Science. After a survey of diverse concepts of space in science, religion and environmentalism, which challenge scholars to explore the ‘trialectics’ of religion at a deeper level, it proceeds to a detailed presentation and discussion of three elaborated approaches in phenomenology, aesth/ethics and anthropolog…
Theology in its Spatial Turn
Space and place have been marginalised or even absent in theology for long periods of its history. Christian theology, hereby, mirrors a strong characteristic of the so-called 'Western culture and its history', which consequently has placed time over space. In the twentieth century's last years, however, space/place reflections have moved out from the margins to several sectors of sciences and the humanities in what has been summarised as 'the sp…
Making Oneself at Home in Environments of Urban Amnesia
How is urban space to be developed as a habitable place, and what could religion and theology contribute to it? This article explores the question in three sections. First, urbanization is considered as a religious phenomenon, and examples from Mayan sacred geography, Swedish landscape architecture and the medieval European Hansa city are presented and discussed. Then, the human dimension, and the human capacity 'to make oneself at home', are ela…
Peter Hanns Reill, Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment
Peter Hanns Reill, Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2005), 388 pp., $41.80, ISBN-10: 0520241355
Trinitarian Cosmology in God’s Liberating Movement
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Fetishism Revisited
In the context of ecological destruction and the emergence of numerous eco-spiritualities the challenge for Christian theology is to address the question: Where does the Spirit, who liberates nature, take place today? This is addressed in three sections: In a first section pneumatology is revisioned as ecological soteriology while the Spirit is portrayed as a giver and liberator of life. In a second section it is suggested that the doctrine of th…
Spaces of Mobility
Spaces of Mobility
Christian Faith and the Earth Current Paths and Emerging Horizons in Ecotheology
Christian ecotheology may be regarded as an attempt to retrieve the ecological wisdom embedded in the Christian tradition as a response to ecological destruction and environmental injustices. 1 However, it is also prompted by the widespread suspicion that the root causes of the crisis are related to the impact of Christianity (as pointed out in the somewhat exaggerated claims of early critics). Th at Christianity is deeply implied in the roots of…
The Ethics of Mobilities
Ethics of Mobilities
Naturethik und biblische Schöpfungserzählung
Arts, Religion, and the Environment
Exploring Nature’s Texture brings together a collection of internationally-known group of artists, theologians, anthropologists and philosophers to look at the imaginative possibilities of using the visual arts to address the breakdown of the human relationship with the environment. ; Readership: Scholars and students in theology/religious studies, art history, artists and curators, environmental humanities, environmental studies, philosophy, ant…
Religion in the Anthropocene
Contextual Theology
Apartheid theology understood itself as a return to the "old paths" of reformed orthodoxy -but was subsequently recognised as a deeply contextual theological legitimation of settler colonialism.As this volume recognises, it is therefore important to place the recognition of the contextual nature of theology "at the forefront of the theological process".Would this recognition suffice for a "liberating faith"?Not by itself, since doing theology req…
Navigating ethics in a pandemic—Contempt for the weak versus love of neighbor in a Swedish lens
The article draws on the author's observations and reflections about Sweden's pandemic management from February 2020 to June 2021. It does not simply interpret the lessons one can learn from the Swedish biopolitical experiment, but focuses on some central ethical challenges that every nation had to face in an accelerating pandemic. The intention with such a sharp critical discussion of the Swedish experience is to clarify some of the crucial ethi…
The One at, around or with the Other
The article revises the well-known thesis about the intensification of pneumatology in the different kinds of crisis in Christian history. A brief remembrance of the rise of systematic Christian pneumatology in Eastern patristic late antiquity recalls its contextual and plural dimension. Gregory of Nazianz’s trinitarian cosmology embeds pneumatology and vitalises his historic-soteriological doctrine of the Spirit as Giver of Life and its Liberato…
Sweden's Pandemic Experiment
Evaluation of science advice during the Covid-19 pandemic in Sweden
Sweden was well equipped to prevent the pandemic of COVID-19 from becoming serious. Over 280 years of collaboration between political bodies, authorities, and the scientific community had yielded many successes in preventive medicine. Sweden's population is literate and has a high level of trust in authorities and those in power. During 2020, however, Sweden had ten times higher COVID-19 death rates compared with neighbouring Norway. In this repo…
Religion, Materialism and Ecology
Peder Anker, The Power of the Periphery
Peder Anker, The Power of the Periphery: How Norway Became an Environmental Pioneer for the World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), 285 pp., ISBN: 9781108477567
Christliche Umweltethik
Rituals in Weather Lands
Do rituals have a place in modern life? Are they ultimately pointless, or rather essential for social life? Can rituals themselves become specific places where meaning and belonging can emerge? Might they offer social skills to “make-oneself-at-home” in a world of constant homelessness and displacement? In the beginning two examples of the power and political significance of rituals are given: marathon runs in metropolitan surroundings, and the S…
Philosophy (11 works) · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Environmental ethics (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Art (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · History (4 works)