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Jensen, Hans Jørgen Lundager
Rituals (Theories of rituals), Ancient Near Eastern, Cultural theory, Culture and cognition, History of research on religion (Claude Lévi-Strauss, Emile Durkheim, Georges Dumézil, Jan Assmann, Mary Douglas, Peter Sloterdijk, Philipe Descola, René Girard, Roy A. Rappaport), Myths and rituals (myths, purity, rituals, sacrifice), Old Testament (cult, deuteronomism, Old Testament Theology, priestly theology, sacrifice, temple), Research methods (anthropology, comparativism, cultural evolution, structuralism)
Petersen, Anders Klostergaard
Rituals, Biological psychology, Canon (Processes of canonisation), Christianity (Early Christian Apologetics, Early Christian asceticism, Early Christianity in the pre-Constantine Period, Early patristics, The martyr literature, The Partings of the Way debate), Classical rhetoric, Cultural theory, Culture and cognition, Evolution, Feminist philosophy (Studies on the conception of gender and sexuality in antiquity), Gender, God (Contemporary concepts of God), Historical method and research techniques, History of mentalities (Intellectual history with regard to the study of the ancient world, Theorising on the possibilities for conducting intellectual history), History of research on religion (Myth and Ritual School, Roy A. Rappaport, The History of Religions School), Jesus (The Historical Jesus), Judaism (Apologetics in Early Judaism, Diaspora Judaism, Judaism of the Late Second Temple Period, Qumran - Dead Sea Scrolls), Lives of other animal and human species past and present, Multireligiosity (Epistemological conditions for modern Christianity), Myths and rituals (Ritual theory), New Testament (The Origin of the New Testament), Paul (The new perspective on Paul), Phenomenology of religion (Charism/charismatic(s) movements, Typological definitions of sacred texts), Psychology of cognition, Research methods (Ancient rhetorics and epistolography, Cultural and social anthropology, History of research, Ritual theory, Semiotics of religion), Rituals (Cognitive approaches (Boyer, McCauley/Lawson, etc., Cultural, symbolic approaches (Geertz, Rappaport), Ritual studies), The Bible