• Statistical information about Religions and Life Stances in Norway

Centres/networks for interfaith dialogue in Norway:

• The Oslo Coalition on Freedom of Religion or Belief
  
• Information in Norwegian and English about the Council for Religious and Life Stance Communities in Norway (Samarbeidsrådet for tros- og livssynssamfunn)
  
• The Emmaus centre for dialogue and spirituality (information in Norwegian)
  
• Only in Norwegian: The National Christian-Muslim Contact Group of the Churches and the Islamic Council in Norway (Kontaktgruppa for Mellomkyrkjeleg Råd og Islamsk Råd )
  
• A "National dialogue on faith and life stances" (Nasjonal dialog om tro og livssyn) was carried out in 1999-2000 and organised jointly by the Human Values' Commission (Verdikommisjonen) and the Council for Religious and Life Stance Communities in Norway. See full report (in Norwegian). Cf. general presentation of the project and other related material on the home page of the Human Values Commission. See also links to the homepages of participating churches, religious communities and humanist organisations in Norway.

Introductions to interfaith dialogue and politics of religion in Norway:

• Oddbjørn Leirvik: The state of public debates on Islam today - a Norwegian perspective. Prepared for the British Council conference “’From Rushdie to Jyllands-Posten’. Debating Islam in our multi-ethnic societies”, Oslo, 23 November 2006.
• Interview with Anne Hege Grung: Gender Roles among Christians and Muslims: Shared Problems and Shared Solutions? (Culcom 11.06.06)
• Interview with Oddbjørn Leirvik: The sacred space between Christianity and Islam (Culcom 22.02.05)
• Oddbjørn Leirvik: Norwegian-Pakistani Islam. Religious transformation and dialogue in a multicultural society (2004)
• Oddbjørn Leirvik: Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations in Norway. Popular realities, political and religious responses, interfaith cooperation, printed in Islamochristiana vol. 29, 2003, pp. 121-140.
• Oddbjørn Leirvik: Christian-Muslim Relations in a State Church Situation: Politics of Religion and Interfaith Dialogue. Paper presented to the conference "Muslim minority societies in Europe", Universität Erfurt 2-3 March, 2001. Cf. abstract.
• Oddbjørn Leirvik: State, Church and Muslim minority in Norway. Paper presented to the conference "Dialogue of the cultures", Berlin 21-23 April, 1999.
• Tore Lindholm and Barbro Sveen: The emergence of interfaith dialogue: The Norwegian experience. Paper presented to a conference on freedom of conscience in Moscow, May 2000 - on behalf of the Oslo Coalition on Freedom of Religion or Belief.

Articles & documents on interfaith dialogue, by Norwegian authors, in English:

• Oddbjørn Leirvik: The current debate about religious education and freedom of religion in Norway. Contribution to a conference on Religious Education and Education in Religions, Alexandria/Egypt, September 2002.
• Oddbjørn Leirvik: How to build a multireligious society. Multicultural perspectives on religion, state and social realities. Contribution to a conference on How to Build a Multireligious Society in the Context of Political Islam, Arua/Uganda, August 2001.
• Ingvill Thorson Plesner: Religious Education in pluralistic Societies – Aims and Challenges. A Response to the documents for The International Consultative Conference on School Education in Relation to Freedom of Religion or Belief, Tolerance and Non Discrimination, to be held in Madrid 23-25 November 2001. Written by Ingvill Thorson Plesner for a working group under the Oslo Coalition on Freedom of Religion or Belief, April 2001.
• Anne Hege Grung: Dialogue can be a liberating experience for women. Contribution to a Multifaith Consultation on Religious Education and Instruction, Mülheim, Germany. November 1999. Printed in Current Dialogue vol. 35, July 2000.
• Oddbjørn Leirvik: Gender, Inter-religious Dialogue and Personal Change. Contribution to a seminar on Gender in Inter-religious Dialogue, Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo, January 1999.
• Oddbjørn Leirvik: Theology, Religious Studies and Religious Education, as seen from Norway. Diversity as Ethos. Challenges for Interreligious and Intercultural Education, ed. David Chidester, Janet Stonier and Judy Tobler, pp.75-83. Rondebosch: ICRSA, University of Cape Town 1999.
• Our Living Earth in Crisis - a Joint Call for a Spiritual Awakening.
  The result of an interreligious group work in Norway, Emmaus 1994. Printed in Areopagus, Trinity 1995 and Current Dialogue.
  
  

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