Birgitte Schepelern Johansen

Birgitte Schepelern Johansen

Associate Professor

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    1. 2023
    2. Published

      (Re)habilitating the insider: Negotiations of epistemic legitimacy in Islamic theology and newer social justice mobilization

      Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern, 2023, Islamic studies in European higher education: Navigating academic and confessional approaches. Nielsen, J. S. & Jones, S. H. (eds.). Edinburgh University Press, p. 32-52 20 p.

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

    3. 2022
    4. Published

      Chasing the Secular: Methodological Reflections on How to Make the Secular Tangible

      Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern, 1 Sep 2022, In: Religion and Society. 13, 1, p. 126-139 14 p., 13.

      Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

    5. Published

      Føler du dig sekulær nu?

      Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern, 2022, Religionssociologiske perspektiver på religion i Danmark. Hvithamar, A., Jacobsen, B. A., Warmind, M. & Andersen, P. B. (eds.). Højbjerg: Forlaget Univers, p. 67-87 20 p.

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

    6. 2020
    7. Published

      A liberal battle cry against hate

      Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern, 2020, In: The Political Quarterly. 91, 3, p. 675-677 3 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature review

    8. 2019
    9. Published

      The Memory of Prevention: European Anti-Hate Crime Policy and Holocaust Remembrance

      Brudholm, Thomas & Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern, Jun 2019, In: International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society. 32, 2, p. 195-209 15 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

    10. Published

      Secular bodies, affects and emotions: European configurations

      Scheer, M. (ed.), Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern (ed.) & Fadil, N. (ed.), 10 Jan 2019, London, Oxford, NY: Bloomsbury Academic. 272 p.

      Research output: Book/ReportAnthologypeer-review

    11. Published

      Quantitative Knowledge Production on Muslims in Europe as a Practice of 'Secular Suspicion'

      Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern & Spielhaus, R., 2019, Secular bodies, affects and emotions: European configurations. Bloomsbury Academic, p. 171-185

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

    12. Published

      Secular Embodiments: Mapping an Emergent Field

      Scheer, M., Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern & Fadil, N., 2019, Secular bodies, affects and emotions: European configurations. London, Oxford, NY: Bloomsbury Academic

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

    13. Published

      Secular exitement and academic practice

      Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern, 2019, Affect and Emotion in Multi-Religious Secular Societies. von Scheve, C., Berg, A. L., Haken, M. & Ural, N. Y. (eds.). Routledge, p. 194-210 17 p.

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

    14. 2018
    15. Published

      Hate, Politics, Law: Critical Perspectives on Combating Hate

      Brudholm, Thomas (ed.) & Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern (ed.), 6 Jun 2018, Oxford University Press. (Studies in Penal Theory and Philosophy).

      Research output: Book/ReportAnthologypeer-review

    16. Published

      Introduction

      Brudholm, Thomas & Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern, 6 Jun 2018, Hate, Politics, Law: Critical Perspectives on Combating Hate. Oxford University Press, p. 1-13 13 p.

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

    17. Published

      Tolerance: An appropriate Answer to Hate?

      Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern, 6 Jun 2018, Hate, Politics, Law: Critical Perspectives on Combating Hate. Oxford University Press, 18 p. (Studies in Penal Theory and Philosophy).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

    18. Published

      Hjem: Årbog for ToRS 2017

      Galal, Ehab (ed.) & Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern (ed.), Jun 2018, Hjem. Institut for Tværkulturelle og Regionale Studier, Københavns Universitet, p. 1-209 209 p.

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

    19. Published

      Die Vermessung der Muslime

      Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern & Spielhaus, R., May 2018, Der Inspizierte Muslim: Zur Politisierung der Islamforschung in Europa. Transcript Verlag, p. 125-157

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

    20. Published

      Pondering Hatred

      Brudholm, Thomas & Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern, 22 Mar 2018, Emotions and Mass Atrocity: Philosophical and Theoretical Explorations. Cambridge University Press, p. 81-103 23 p.

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

    21. 2017
    22. Published

      Prejudice, Extremism and the Power of Civil Society

      Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern, 2017, From a COmmon Word to Commited Partnership.: Danish-Arab Interfaith Dialogue 2012-2016. Secret Chamber Press

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingArticle in proceedingsCommunication

    23. 2015
    24. Published

      Locating hatred: On the materiality of emotions

      Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern, Aug 2015, In: Emotion, Space and Society. 16, p. 48-55 8 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

    25. Published

      Heroin: From Drug to Ambivalent Medicine: On the Introduction of Medically Prescribed Heroin and the Emergence of a New Space for Treatment

      Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern & Johansen, K. S., Mar 2015, In: Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry. 39, 1, p. 75-91 16 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

    26. Published

      Hate as a Political Outcast

      Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern, 2015, In: Ethnologia Europaea. 45, 2, p. 69-84 16 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

    27. 2014
    28. Published

      Den nødvendige dialog

      Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern, 2014, In: Danske Kirkers Råds Nyhedsbrev. 1 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journalJournal article

    29. Published

      Islamic Internet sites in Denmark

      Possing, D. H. & Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern, 2014, Islamic Movements of Europe. Public religion and Islamophobia in the modern worlda "European Islam". London/New York: I.B. Tauris, p. 4 4 p.

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

    30. Published

      Niqabis in Denmark: when politicians ask for a qualitative and quantitative profile of a very small and elusive subculture

      Østergaard, Kate, Warburg, Margit & Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern, 2014, The Experiences of Face Veil Wearers in Europe and the Law . Brems, E. (ed.). Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, p. 42-76 35 p. (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

    31. Published

      Tolerance og intolerance

      Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern, 2014, Forskellighed og fordomme : Et undervisningsmateriale til lærere om intolerance. Thuge, S. & Brøndum, T. (eds.). DIIS, p. 24-26 3 p.

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterCommunication

    32. Published

      What Matters: How Life Becomes "Empirical Material" in Academic Practice

      Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern, 2014, Qualitative Analysis in the Making. Kuzmanovic, D. & Bandak, A. (eds.). New York: Routledge, p. 123-141 19 p. (Routledge advances in research methods, Vol. 11).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

    33. 2013
    34. Published

      Post-secular sociology: Modes, possibilities and challenges

      Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern, Jun 2013, In: Approaching Religion. 3, 1, p. 4-15 12 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

    35. Published

      Shifting gear. New agendas in the sociological study of religion

      Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern & Garling, S., Jun 2013, In: Approaching Religion. 3, 1, p. 1-3 3 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

    36. Published

      Introduction: A Comparative Ethnography of Alternative Spaces

      Dahl, J., Fihl, Esther & Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern, 7 Jan 2013, A Comparative Ethnography of Alternative Spaces . Dahl, J. & Fihl, E. (eds.). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 1-18

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

    37. Published

      At tæmme nydelsen: En analyse af den rumlige indretning af en dansk heroinklinik

      Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern & Johansen, K. S., 2013, In: Tidsskrift for forskning i sygdom og samfund. 18, p. 113 - 134 21 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

    38. Published

      Counting niqabs and burqas in Denmark: Methodological Aspects of Quantifying Rare and Elusive Religious Sub-cultures

      Warburg, Margit, Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern & Østergaard, Kate, 2013, In: Journal of Contemporary Religion. 28, 1, p. 33-48

      Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

    39. 2012
    40. Published

      Negotiating the object: Nearness, distance and the category religion in academic practice

      Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern & Jeldtoft, N., Nov 2012, In: Nordic Journal of Religion and Society. 25, 2, p. 183-196 14 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

    41. Published

      Sitios webs musulmanes en Dinamarca

      Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern & Possing, D. H., Nov 2012, Los movimientos islámicos transnacionales y la emergencia de un "islam europeo": Transnational islamic movements and the emergence of a "European Islam". Peter, F. & Ortega, R. (eds.). Madrid/Barcelona: Biblioteca de casa arabe, p. 399 - 402 4 p. (Biblioteca del Islam contemporáneo, Vol. 44).

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

    42. Published

      Bag sløret: Hvorfor bruger kvinder ansigtsdækkende påklædning i Danmark?

      Østergaard, Kate, Warburg, Margit & Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern, 2012, Tværkultur: Årbog for ToRS - 2011. København, p. 45-50 6 p.

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterCommunication

    43. Published

      Counting Deviance: Revisiting a decade's production of surveys in Western Europe

      Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern & Spielhaus, R., 2012, In: Journal of Muslims in Europe. Vol 1, 1, p. 81-112 32 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

    44. 2011
    45. Published

      Flere muslimer bruger islam til selvudvikling

      Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern, 31 Aug 2011, In: religion.dk. 1 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journalContribution to newspaper - Newspaper article

    46. Published

      Vi bør tænke mere ud af den nationale boks

      Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern, 29 Jun 2011, In: religion.dk. 1 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journalContribution to newspaper - Newspaper article

    47. Published

      Statistik om muslimer er politisk bestillingsarbejde

      Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern, 22 May 2011, In: religion.dk. 1 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journalContribution to newspaper - Newspaper article

    48. Published

      'Doing the secular'. Academic practices in the study of religion at two Danish universities

      Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern, 2011, In: Arts and Humanities in Higher Education. Vol.10, 3, p. 279 294 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

    49. Published

      Between Gaza and Here: Analytical reflections on Modes of Identification, Minority Identity and Lived Space among Muslims in Britain and Denmark in the Course of the Gaza Conflict 2008-9

      Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern & Possing, D. H., 2011, Lived Space: Reconsidering Transnationalism among Muslim Minorities. Feldt, J. E. & Sinclair, K. (eds.). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, p. 29-48 20 p.

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

    50. Published

      Stor ståhej for ingenting: En sociologisk optælling af niqabier i Danmark

      Warburg, Margit, Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern & Kate, Ø., 2011

      Research output: Other contributionNet publication - Internet publicationResearch

    51. 2010
    52. Published

      Det tilslørede ansigt - frivillighed eller tvang?

      Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern, Warburg, Margit & Østergaard, Kate, 3 Mar 2010, In: Kristeligt Dagblad. p. 11 1 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journalContribution to newspaper - Feature article

    53. Published

      Adskillelsens logik: En undersøgelse af sekulære kategoriseringer af religion i akademisk praksis

      Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern, 2010, København: Museum Tusculanum. 279 p.

      Research output: Book/ReportPh.D. thesis

    54. Published

      Frivillighed eller tvang? Svar til Naser Khader om burka-rapporten

      Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern, Warburg, Margit & Østergaard, Kate, 2010, In: Kristeligt Dagblad.

      Research output: Contribution to journalComment/debate

    55. 2009
    56. Published

      Ansigtsdækkende beklædning i Danmark og Europa: Religionssociologiske perspektiver

      Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern, 2009, Rapport om brugen af niqab og burka. Københavns Universitet: Museum Tusculanum, p. 4 - 28 25 p.

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingReport chapterCommunication

    57. Published
    58. 2008
    59. Published

      Islam i dansk psykiatri

      Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern & Johansen, K. S., 2008, In: Tidsskrift for Islamforskning. 3, 1, p. 30-43 14 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

    60. Published

      Legitimizing Islamic Theology at European Universities

      Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern, 2008, The Study of Religion and the Training of Muslim Clergy in Europe: Academic and Religious Freedom in the 21th Century. van Koningsveld, S. & Drees, W. B. (eds.). Leiden: Amsterdam University Press, p. 445-467 23 p.

      Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

    61. Published

      Patienter med anden baggrund end dansk?

      Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern & Johansen, K. S., 2008, In: Ugeskrift for læger. 170, 1-2, p. 30-32 3 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

    62. 2006
    63. Published

      Islam at the European Universities. Report II

      Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern, 2006, Københavns Universitet: Satsningsområdet "Religion i det 21. århundrede".

      Research output: Book/ReportReport

    64. Published

      Islamic theology at the European universities: secularisation, boundaries and the role of religion

      Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern, 2006, In: Nordic Journal of Religion and Society. 19, 2, p. 93-106 14 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

    65. Published

      Muslimer - en minoritet i Europa?

      Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern & Possing, D. H., 2006, In: Nord nytt - Nordisk tidsskrift for folkelivsforskning. 98, p. 7-19 13 p.

      Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

    66. 2005
    67. Published

      Imamuddannelse i Europa - udfordringer og perspektiver: udredning vedr. imamuddannelse i Europa, rapport 1

      Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern, 2005, København: Satsningsområdet "Religion i det 21. årh.", Københavns Universitet. 59 p.

      Research output: Book/ReportReport

    68. 2004
    69. Published

      Islam med andre ord - og religionsbegrebet på hovedet.

      Johansen, Birgitte Schepelern, 2004, In: Religion. Tidsskriftet for Religionslærerforeningen for Gymnasiet og HF. 2

      Research output: Contribution to journalJournal article

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