Pascal Boyer: Den ganske historie om religion (nogensinde) by Jeppe Sinding Jensen

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Processioner i førkristen nordisk religion by Simon Nygaard, Luke John Murphy

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Kolonier ‘for Kirke og Folkelivets Vækst og Udvikling’ Spatial mediering af dansk-amerikansk grundtvigianisme i USA, ca. 1900 by Tina Langholm Larsen

Subjects: “…Danish American history; immigrant religion; mediated religion; heritage management; human geography; material culture…”
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Ritual, sprog og verden by Jeppe Sinding Jensen

“…Both works draw on theoretical linguistics, in particular the transformational and generative grammars formulated by Noam Chomsky and attempt to apply this theorizing in pursuit of formal properties of ritual system. whereas Staal concentrates on the purely rule-governed, Lawson and McCauley include semanti dimeensions in their investigations of ritual syntax. this article cirtically surveys both works, their theses and divergences, and their validity and applicability in the history of religion. …”
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Hinduistiske helligsteder i religionsfænomenologisk og forskningsteoretisk belysning by Erik Reenberg Sand

“…Finally, some more general considerations are set forth about the significance of these methodological problems for the more traditional, textually based History of Religion.…”
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Contested citizenship, religious discrimination and the growth of Nubian identity in Northern Uganda by Charles Amone

“…I conducted key informants’ interviews, used archival records, and reviewed a host of secondary data to conclude that Nubians in northern Uganda face discrimination on the basis of their history and religion but rather than cry foul, they have used these to forge an identity and defend their citizenship.…”
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Nye processioner som udtryk for gamle religionsmønstre by Kirstine Helboe Johansen, Marie Vejrup Nielsen

“…These two cases are analyzed from theoretical perspectives that connect approaches from sociology of religion within the study of contemporary religion (McGuire 2002; Ammerman 2016) with history of religion perspectives on the understanding and development of religious rituals (Bellah 1964; Rappaport 1999). …”
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Robert Bellah, religion og menneskelig evolution by Hans J. Lundager Jensen

“…Hopefully, Bellah's book will be a standard reference work in the academic study of religion and an inspiration for the history of religion in the future to engage in historical and comparative studies. …”
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Udstigere og immunsystemer, asketer og akrobater. Om Peter Sloterdijks Du musst dein Leben ändern. Über Anthropotechnik by Hans J. Lundager Jensen

“…The analysis can (partly against the author’s own intentions) be seen as an important contribution to an evolutionary history of religion. A fuller understanding of the phenomenon of asceticism as a cultural constant needs, however, the supplement provided by Emile Durkheim’s theory of the ‘negative cult’. …”
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Religionshistoriske og typologiske overvejelser over fænomenet askese by Anders Klostergaard Petersen

“…Contrary to much traditional scholarship on asceticism within the history of religion that has focused almost exclusively on the phenomenon as confined to a Judaeo-Christian and Indian context, I point to the importance of bringing the later phenomena into dialogue with previous examples in tribal and archaic types of religion. …”
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Leder religionsantropologins utmaningar och forskningsproblematik till nostalgiska elegier och idylliska tankar om ädla vildar? by Anne-Christine Hornborg

“…ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Theology, religious studies, the history of religion, and the anthropology of religion have different histories as research disciplines, which explains differences in how they pose research problems and define their research fields. …”
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Jægerkulturer og fænomenet skyld by Karl W. Luckert

“…This article is a slightly edited Danish version of the opening Fulbright address given at the Department of the History of Religions, Aarhus University. The article introduces definitions of religion, guilt, and religious behaviour, and then introduces a means by which the history of religion can be applied to the evolution of humankind and culture in a timeframe of several thousand years. …”
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Formindskede bøger i jødisk religion by Marianne Schleicher

“… English abstract: The size of religious books matters to how religion and religiosity has been mediated up through history, not only the history of religion, but also the history of the book. The purpose of this article is to offer a functional approach to how size, especially small size, comes to matter in religious medialization. …”
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Gerardus van der Leeuw. Et forstudie til en kognitiv revurdering af mana by Jesper Sørensen

“…Finally, in a more speculative manner, I shall present a number of hypotheses concerning the relation between social organization and mana and argue that this relation can be understood as a driving factor in a general history of religion. Dansk resume: Denne artikels formål er dobbelt. …”
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Religionshistorien og "De Andre" by Jeppe Sinding Jensen

“…The History of Religions as an academic enterprise has traditionally been concerned with the study of Otherness, i.e. non-Christian traditions. …”
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Ritualistik - en ny religionshistorisk disciplin by Jørgen Podemann Sørensen

“…The idea of ritualistics as a new discipline in history of religions is based on practical as well as theoretical considerations. …”
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The Old Norse goði and his ring by Olof Sundqvist

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Religiøs ikonografi hos nordamerikanske indianere - En introduktion by Armin W. Geertz

“…A typology of the religions iconography of native North Americans is then developed in this article based upon the epistemology of the History of Religions. This is accomplished by focussing upon the inherent typology exhibited by indigenous mythology and by emphasizing the relationships between the visual motives and their religious meanings.…”
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Om symboler og deres virkning - inddragelse af Jungs analytiske psykologi i religionsfænomenologien by Lars Albinus

“…After this, the relevance of his theories in relation to research within the history of religions is critically assessed. The aim is to establish that a deeper understanding of religious symbols can be reached on the basis of Jung’s model of the unconscious. …”
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Religion og medier i et religionsvidenskabeligt perspektiv by Armin W. Geertz, Laura Feldt

“…Scholars of religion have also begun to pay attention to the important role that media, mediation, and mediatization have played in the history of religions. It is this growing awareness that we wish to examine here. …”
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