Religion
This research area covers a number of themes and specialisations. The researchers work with various geographical, theoretical, methodical and historical focus areas. Several are studying contemporary religion in Denmark, for example in the form of minority religiosity, globalisation and values. Others are experts in different parts of the world and historical eras, including Christianity in Russia, Islam in Bosnia and Turkey, religion in the Roman Empire, European philosophy of religion, the esoteric traditions of the West, Indian tribal religion, contemporary Sufism and pre-Christian Nordic religion.
The religion researchers at ToRS regularly participate in international conferences such as the international Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR) and the European Association for the Study of Religion (EASR). In recent years, our researchers’ work has been published via Oxford University Press, I.B. Tauris, Brill and Bloomsbury, among others, as well as in periodicals such as Implicit Religion, Journal of Contemporary Religion, Numen and Journal of Muslims in Europe. The research area’s two professors are responsible for religious history and sociology of religion, respectively.
Collective projects and research centres
- Complexity and Beyond in Studies of Religiosity in the Nordic Countries (CBSR)
- Copenhagen Center for the Study of Theosophy and Esotericism (CCSTE)
- Covid-19 – Religion and existential wellbeing
- Power of the Mosques
- Producing Sharia in Context
- Rearticulating Islam: A New Generation of Muslim Religious Leaders
- The Many Roads in Modernity
Researchers
Name | Title | Job responsibilities | Phone | |
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Andersen, Peter Birkelund | Associate Professor | Science of Religion | +4551303013 | |
Brekke, Torkel | Affiliate Professor | Science of Religion | ||
Hvithamar, Annika | Head of Department | Science of Religion | +4521328285 | |
Jacobsen, Brian Arly | Associate Professor | Science of Religion | +4551302481 | |
Jacobsen, Casper | Postdoc | Science of Religion | ||
Jørgensen, Tessie Bundgaard | PhD Fellow | Science of Religion | ||
Lasa, Maximilian | PhD Fellow | Science of Religion | +4593516020 | |
Lyngsøe, Maria Lindebæk | PhD Fellow | Science of Religion | +4522813448 | |
Netterstrøm, Kasper Ly | Postdoc | Science of Religion | ||
Nielsen, Bjarke Stanley | PhD Fellow | Science of Religion | ||
Nielsen, Jørgen Schøler | Affiliate Professor | Arabic Studies | ||
Onur, Petek | Marie Curie Fellow | Science of Religion | ||
Raudvere, Catharina | Professor | Science of Religion | +4551303037 | |
Rudbøg, Tim | Associate Professor | Science of Religion | +4593565623 | |
Sjöberg, Erik Johan Magnus | Marie Curie Fellow | Science of Religion | ||
Stjernholm, Simon | Associate Professor | Science of Religion | +4551300701 | |
Vinding, Niels Valdemar | Associate Professor | Science of Religion | +4551217682 | |
Viziale, Samanta | External, Ph.d Student | Science of Religion | ||
Warburg, Margit | Professor, Emerita | Science of Religion | +4551302935 | |
Warmind, Morten | Associate Professor | Science of Religion | +4560198795 | |
Westergaard, Peter Kurt | Associate Professor | Science of Religion | +4551300830 |