Helge Årsheim
Biographic Data
| ID | 5581485 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helge Årsheim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helge |
| FAMILY NAME | Årsheim |
| SIGNATURE | ÅRSHEIM H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6411-6123 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Always too Much, and Never Enough? Nordic Laws and the Bible
This article examines the complex relationship between the Bible and Nordic law, focusing on its evolving legal reception in increasingly secular societies. Once foundational to legal and social frameworks, the Bible’s role in Nordic law today is fragmented and context-dependent. Drawing on examples from hate speech law, religious community regulations, asylum cases, and protections for sacred materials, the article explores how the Bible operate…
Finding Religion
This article examines refugee status determination (RSD) procedures in Norway and Canada, focusing on religious conversion claims. It is structured in two parts. The first describes the features of RSD in both countries, including the standards of review and legal precedents used by courts. The second part explores how international human rights law defines ‘religion’ and how Norwegian and Canadian courts handle religious conversion cases. The st…
Nonreligion in Late Modern Societies
Legalities Unbound
International human rights law ( ihrl ) has traditionally enjoyed an uneasy relationship with customary, religious, and indigenous forms of law. International courts and tribunals have considered these non-state forms of law to represent both structural and material challenges to the implementation of human rights norms at the domestic level. Over the course of the last decades, however, the theory and practice of human rights has increasingly st…
Introduction
The phrase “religious controversies” is blunt and evocative, and immediately brings up associations to angry mobs, flag burning and, at times, inexplicable rage at seemingly mundane matters. The capacity of religion, whether in its doctrinal, social or institutional form, to generate, propagate and exacerbate controversy appears endless. While this capacity may not be unique to religion, nor recent in origin, the last couple of decades have seen …
Implicit Beliefs, Explicit Practices
In this article, I discuss how international human rights law (IHRL) interacts with the notions of "implicit" and "lived" religion. More specifically, I examine the capability of Article 9 on the freedom of thought, conscience and religion in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) to provide protection for rights claims that derive from "implicit" and "lived" forms of religion. I develop this argument in three steps: First, I provide a wo…
Making Religion and Human Rights at the United Nations
This volume examines the different and sometimes contradictory approaches of four UN human rights committees to the concept of religion. Drawing on critical perspectives from religious studies, the book combines a genealogical assessment of the role of religion in international law with a detailed textual study of the reporting practice of the committees monitoring racial discrimination, civil and political rights, women's rights, and children's …
Young Islam. The New Politics of Religion in Morocco and the Arab World
Young Islam. The New Politics of Religion in Morocco and the Arab World." Politics, Religion & Ideology, 19(2), pp. 257–258
Including and Excluding Indigenous Religion through Law
Across the world, indigenous peoples enjoy unprecedented access to international, regional, and domestic legal remedies to gain protections for their religious, spiritual, and customary identities, beliefs, and practices through a wide spectrum of judicial platforms. These remedies provide a broad, inclusive, and “intersectional” vocabulary for indigenous peoples to formulate their rights claims. Despite the growing interest in research on law an…
Religion
This chapter focuses on the increasing importance of religion to international organizations (IOs) over the course of the last decade. The first part gives an overview of how and why religion(s) and IOs relate and interact. It discusses the definitional ambiguity of what constitutes ‘religious’ IOs and examines some proposals to clarify the issue, before mapping some important and influential religious IOs. The second part of the chapter presents…
The Changing Nature of Religious Rights under International Law
The title of this edited volume is pertinent as it is published at a time when the nature of religious rights is indeed very much in flux. As major figures within the UK field of law and religion s
The Ministerial Exception—Comparative Perspectives
This essay introduces the theme of the Special Issue on the legal practice of granting ‘ministerial exceptions’ to religious organizations and its relation to the principle of collective religious autonomy. It introduces and situates the other essays and their analyses of how concrete national and regional jurisdictions address calls for collective religious autonomy and ministerial exceptions within the wider debate regarding the nature of and r…
Including and Excluding Indigenous Religion through Law
Across the world, indigenous peoples enjoy unprecedented access to international, regional, and domestic legal remedies to gain protections for their religious, spiritual, and customary identities, beliefs, and practices through a wide spectrum of judicial platforms. These remedies provide a broad, inclusive, and “intersectional” vocabulary for indigenous peoples to formulate their rights claims. Despite the growing interest in research on law an…
The Ministerial Exception—Comparative Perspectives
This essay introduces the theme of the Special Issue on the legal practice of granting ‘ministerial exceptions’ to religious organizations and its relation to the principle of collective religious autonomy. It introduces and situates the other essays and their analyses of how concrete national and regional jurisdictions address calls for collective religious autonomy and ministerial exceptions within the wider debate regarding the nature of and r…
The Changing Nature of Religious Rights under International Law
The title of this edited volume is pertinent as it is published at a time when the nature of religious rights is indeed very much in flux. As major figures within the UK field of law and religion s
Religion
This chapter focuses on the increasing importance of religion to international organizations (IOs) over the course of the last decade. The first part gives an overview of how and why religion(s) and IOs relate and interact. It discusses the definitional ambiguity of what constitutes ‘religious’ IOs and examines some proposals to clarify the issue, before mapping some important and influential religious IOs. The second part of the chapter presents…
Making Religion and Human Rights at the United Nations
This volume examines the different and sometimes contradictory approaches of four UN human rights committees to the concept of religion. Drawing on critical perspectives from religious studies, the book combines a genealogical assessment of the role of religion in international law with a detailed textual study of the reporting practice of the committees monitoring racial discrimination, civil and political rights, women's rights, and children's …
Young Islam. The New Politics of Religion in Morocco and the Arab World
Young Islam. The New Politics of Religion in Morocco and the Arab World." Politics, Religion & Ideology, 19(2), pp. 257–258
Including and Excluding Indigenous Religion through Law
Across the world, indigenous peoples enjoy unprecedented access to international, regional, and domestic legal remedies to gain protections for their religious, spiritual, and customary identities, beliefs, and practices through a wide spectrum of judicial platforms. These remedies provide a broad, inclusive, and “intersectional” vocabulary for indigenous peoples to formulate their rights claims. Despite the growing interest in research on law an…
Legalities Unbound
International human rights law ( ihrl ) has traditionally enjoyed an uneasy relationship with customary, religious, and indigenous forms of law. International courts and tribunals have considered these non-state forms of law to represent both structural and material challenges to the implementation of human rights norms at the domestic level. Over the course of the last decades, however, the theory and practice of human rights has increasingly st…
Introduction
The phrase “religious controversies” is blunt and evocative, and immediately brings up associations to angry mobs, flag burning and, at times, inexplicable rage at seemingly mundane matters. The capacity of religion, whether in its doctrinal, social or institutional form, to generate, propagate and exacerbate controversy appears endless. While this capacity may not be unique to religion, nor recent in origin, the last couple of decades have seen …
Implicit Beliefs, Explicit Practices
In this article, I discuss how international human rights law (IHRL) interacts with the notions of "implicit" and "lived" religion. More specifically, I examine the capability of Article 9 on the freedom of thought, conscience and religion in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) to provide protection for rights claims that derive from "implicit" and "lived" forms of religion. I develop this argument in three steps: First, I provide a wo…
Nonreligion in Late Modern Societies
Finding Religion
This article examines refugee status determination (RSD) procedures in Norway and Canada, focusing on religious conversion claims. It is structured in two parts. The first describes the features of RSD in both countries, including the standards of review and legal precedents used by courts. The second part explores how international human rights law defines ‘religion’ and how Norwegian and Canadian courts handle religious conversion cases. The st…
Always too Much, and Never Enough? Nordic Laws and the Bible
This article examines the complex relationship between the Bible and Nordic law, focusing on its evolving legal reception in increasingly secular societies. Once foundational to legal and social frameworks, the Bible’s role in Nordic law today is fragmented and context-dependent. Drawing on examples from hate speech law, religious community regulations, asylum cases, and protections for sacred materials, the article explores how the Bible operate…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Human rights (6 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (6 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (5 works) · International human rights law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Religious Freedom and Discrimination (4 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (3 works)