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Albinus, Lars
20th century (Jürgen Habermas, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Michel Foucault, Simone Weil), Antiquity (Augustine, Plato), Graeco-Roman religions (From mythos to logos, Greek Eschatology, The notion of daimon), Mysticism and spirituality (Simone Weil), Myth analysis (Greek Mythology), Philosophy of religion (Neo-wittgensteinian philosophy of religion, Reformed epistemology), Research methods (Analytics of power, Discourse analysis, Philosophy of language)
Christensen, Henrik Reintoft
Christianity, Church history, Islam (Islam in the Media), Multireligiosity, Religious movements, Research methods (Analytics of power, Discourse analysis, Quantitative methodology), Sociology of religion (Religion in public space, Religion, society and mass media), Welfare state
Geertz, Armin W.
Cultural change, Cultural theory, Culture and cognition, History of religion, History of research on religion, Indigenous Religions, Knowledge systems, Mysticism and spirituality, Myths and rituals, New religions, Phenomenology of religion, Religion and cognition, Research methods, Rituals, Symbols and classifications, Tradition
Jensen, Hans Jørgen Lundager
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), Rituals (Theories of rituals)
Kühle, Lene
20th century (Pierre Bourdieu, Theory of Modernity), Church history (Danish Eccleciastical Law, recognition of religious communities), Democracy and power, Islam, Multireligiosity (Religious pluralism), Religious movements, Research methods, Sociology of religion
Nielsen, Marie Vejrup
Christianity (Christian doctrine of sin, Christianity and grand narratives, Christianity and Politics/Society, Modern Christianity), Religious movements, Science and religion (Christianity and the Natural Sciences), Sociology of religion
Nygaard, Simon
History of religion (Comparative history of religions), Myth analysis (Ritual studies), Myths and rituals (Nordic mythology), Old Norse (Contextual runology, Old Norse poetry), Old Norse religion, Phenomenology of religion, Research methods (Cultural Evolution, Cultural Memory, Performance Theory)
Olesen, Mattias Gori
Empires and colonies (International anti-colonial cooperation), Islam (Dawoodi Bohras, Transregionalism), Nationalism (Egyptian nationalism, Internationalism, pan-Orientalism), Political history (Egyptian relations to India, China and Japan, Middle East)
Petersen, Anders Klostergaard
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), Rituals, The Bible
Schjødt, Jens Peter
History of research on religion, Myth analysis (comparative analyses, scandinavian myths), Old Norse religion, Phenomenology of religion (myth analyses, ritual studies), Rituals (initiationrituals)
Schleicher, Marianne
Canon (Functions of scripture, Processes of canonisation), Feminine philosophy, Gender, Hebrew, Judaism (Early Judaism, Hasidism, Jewish mysticism, Kabbalah, Midrash as interpretative activity, Modern Judaism, Rabbinical Judaism), Mysticism and spirituality (Psychological approaches to mysticism), Yiddish
Sedgwick, Mark
Africa in general (Sudan), Cultural history (Neo-Sufism, Religiosity), Europe in general (Islam in Europe, Neo-Sufism), Islam (Islam and Muslims in Europe, Islamism, Modernization and reform, Sufism), Meeting of cultures (Islam and the West), Middle East in general (Arab world, Iran, Israel, Turkey), Mysticism and spirituality (Sufism, Traditionalism), Other countries (Malaysia, Singapore), Religion and politics (Eurasianism, Islam), Religious movements (Neo-Sufism, New religious movements, Typology), Security (Islamism, Middle East, Religion and terrorism)