Research Areas
Areas of special interest in the field of the Study of Religion
- The encounter between cultures, especially in the Middle East and the Mediterranean
- European identity: historically, sociologically, philosophically
- Method and theory in the Study of Religion
- Ritualistics
- Religion, cognition and culture
- Religious narrativety, cognition and culture
Contact persons and supervisors (full-time faculty)
- Lars Ahlin : Religiosity in the modern world; New Age; spirituality and its relation to alternative treatment.
- Lars Albinus : See Department of Systematic Theology
- Vagn Andersen : German philosophy in the 19th and 20th centuries; Kierkegaard; hermeneutics.
- Marianne Qvortrup Fibiger : Hinduism; Srilankan-tamilhinduismHinduwomen; culture meetings; religion in diaspora; tradition and renewal.
- Armin W. Geertz : Indigenous religions; Native Americans (esp. Hopi Indians); anthropological method & theory; method & theory in the study of religion; cognition and religion; new and alternative religions; religion & gender
- Hans Jørgen Lundager Jensen : Narratives and rituals in the Old Testament; Old Testament theology; Babylonian and Near Oriental religions; Structuralism, mythology, post-structural theories of myth and ritual (e.g., Burkert, Girard); history of religious studies, especially Durkheim.
- Jeppe Sinding Jensen : Method and theory in comparative religion, philosophy / theory of science in / for comparative religion, phenomenology of religion; cosmology and anthropology in Islam, early Islam.
- Lene Kühle : Sociology of religion; Pierre Bourdieu; theory of modernity; research methods; religious pluralism; religious movements; Islam; Danish eccleciastical law; recognition of religious communities. Society and Politics: Democracy and citizens; democracy and power.
- Klaus Bo Nielsen : Chinese religion and philosophy
- Anders Klostergaard Petersen : Paul; Second Temple Judaism; ritual studies; theory of science and hermeneutics; history of research; Ritual Studies; Semiotics; Modern Historiography; Socialconstructivism; Greco-Roman History of Religion of the Hellenistic Era.
- Jens Peter Schjødt : Phenomenology of religion; Old Norse Religion and comparative Indo-European myth.
- Marianne Schleicher : The Psalter in Jewish tradition, Jewish mysticism, intertextuality.