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Jesper Sørensen

  1. Book chapter › Research › Not peer-reviewed
  2. Published

    'The Morphology and Function of Magic' Revisited. / Sørensen, Jesper.

    Current Approaches in the Cognitive Study of Religion. ed. / Veikko Veikko Anttonen; Pÿsianen. Illka. London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2002. p. 172-202.

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceedingBook chapterResearch

  3. Published

    Charisma, Tradition, and Ritual : A Cognitive Approach to Magical Agency. / Sørensen, Jesper.

    Mind and Religion: Psychological and Cognitive Foundations of Religiosity. ed. / H Whitehouse; R.N McCauley. AltaMira Press, 2005. p. 167-186.

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceedingBook chapterResearch

  4. Published

    Karisma, ritual og magisk agens. / Sørensen, Jesper.

    Fra Buddha til Beckham. ed. / P Götke; J Havelund; K Rasmussen. Syddansk Universitetsforlag, 2005. p. 127-142.

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceedingBook chapterResearch

  5. Published

    Komparation, kognition og religionsvidenskabelige prototyper : (eller hvorfor man sammenligner æbler og pærer). / Sørensen, Jesper.

    Religionsvidenskabens komparative udfordring. ed. / J Haviv; A Lisdorf; P Poulsen. Museum Tusculanum, 2005. p. 111-126.

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceedingBook chapterResearch

  6. Published

    Malinowski and Magical Ritual. / Sørensen, Jesper.

    Religion, Anthropology, and Cognitive Science. ed. / Harvey Whitehouse; James Laidlaw. Durham, NC, USA : Carolina Academic Press, 2007. p. 81-104 (Ritual Studies Monograph Series).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceedingBook chapterResearch

  7. Published

    Ritual as Action and Symbolic Expression. / Sørensen, Jesper.

    Genre and Ritual: The Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals. ed. / E Østrem; M.B Bruun; N.H Petersen; J Fleischer. Museum Tusculanum, 2005. p. 49-64.

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceedingBook chapterResearch

  8. Book chapter › Research › Peer-reviewed
  9. Published

    Animatism reconsidered : A cognitive perspective. / Sørensen, Jesper; Purzycki, Benjamin Grant.

    The Minds of Gods: New Horizons in the Naturalistic Study of Religion. ed. / Benjamin Purzycki; Theiss Bendixen. London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. p. 63-75.

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Cognitive Science. / Sørensen, Jesper Frøkjær.

    The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the Study of Religion. ed. / Robert A. Segal; Nickolas P. Roubekas. 2. ed. Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell, 2021. p. 184-196 (The Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  11. Published

    Cognitive Underpinnings of Divinatory Practices. / Sørensen, Jesper Frøkjær.

    Theoretical and Empirical Investigations of Divination and Magic: Manipulating the Divine. ed. / Jesper Frøkjær Sørensen; Anders Klostergaard Petersen. Leiden : Brill, 2021. p. 124-150 (Numen Book Series, Vol. 171).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  12. Published

    Ekstase og kedsomhed : ritualer i menneskets evolution. / Sørensen, Jesper.

    Menneske, kultur, evolution: Et biokulturelt perspektiv. ed. / Trine Kellberg Nielsen; Casper Andersen; Alexandra R. Kratschmer; Mathias Clasen. Aarhus : Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2019. p. 103-116.

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  13. Published

    Force and Categorization : Reflections on Marcel Mauss and Henri Hubert’s Esquisse d’une théorie générale de la magie. / Sørensen, Jesper Frøkjær.

    Theoretical and Empirical Investigations of Divination and Magic: Manipulating the Divine. ed. / Jesper Frøkjær Sørensen; Anders Klostergaard Petersen. Leiden : Brill, 2021. p. 246-273 (Numen Book Series; No. 171).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  14. Published

    Guder, ånder og andre smitsomme ideer : religion i menneskets evolution. / Sørensen, Jesper.

    Menneske, kultur, evolution: et biokulturelt perspektiv. ed. / Trine Kellberg Nielsen; Casper Andersen; Alexandra R. Kratschmer; Mathias Clasen. Aarhus : Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2019. p. 89-102.

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  15. Published

    How do humans process ritualized actions? / Sørensen, Jesper; Nielbo, Kristoffer Laigaard.

    The Cognitive Science of Religion: A Methodological Introduction to Key Empirical Studies. ed. / Jason Slone; William McCorkle. Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. (Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  16. Published

    Ideology, Prophecy and Prediction : Cognitive Mechanisms of the 'Really Real'. / Sørensen, Jesper.

    Evolution, Cognition, and the History of Religion: A New Synthesis: Festschrift in Honour of Armin W. Geertz. ed. / Anders Klostergaard Petersen; Ingvild Sælid Gilhus; Luther H. Martin; Jeppe Sinding Jensen; Jesper Sørensen. Leiden, Boston : Brill, 2019. p. 334-347 (Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, Vol. 13).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  17. Published

    Index of Names. / Petersen, Anders Klostergaard; Gilhus, Ingvild Sælid; Martin, Luther H. et al.

    Cognition, Evolution, and the History of Religion: A New Synthesis: Festschrift to Armin W. Geertz. ed. / Anders Klostergaard Petersen; Ingvild Sælid Gilhus; Luther H. Martin; Jeppe Sinding Jensen; Jesper Sørensen. Leiden, Boston : Brill, 2019. p. 645-660 (Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, Vol. 13).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  18. Published

    Kognitiv Religionsvidenskab. / Sørensen, Jesper; Nielbo, Kristoffer Laigaard.

    Religionsforskningen før og nu II: Nyere tid. ed. / Armin W. Geertz; Tim Jensen. Vol. 1 1. ed. København : Gyldendal, 2015. p. 469-509.

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  19. Published

    Magic Reconsidered: Towards a Scientifically Valid Concept of Magic. / Sørensen, Jesper.

    Defining Magic. ed. / Bernd-Christian Otto; Michael Stausberg. Equinox Publishing, 2012. (Critical Categories in the Study of Religion).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  20. Published

    Magic and Ritual in an Age of Science. / Sørensen, Jesper.

    Religion and Science as Forms of Life: Anthropological Insights into Reason and Unreason. ed. / Carles Salazar; Joan Bestard. New York : Berghahn Books, 2015. p. 62-84.

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  21. Published

    Manipulating the Divine : an Introduction. / Sørensen, Jesper; Petersen, Anders Klostergaard.

    Theoretical and Empirical Investigations of Divination and Magic: Manipulating the Divine. ed. / Jesper Sørensen; Anders Klostergaard Petersen. Leiden : Brill, 2021. p. 1-20 (Numen Book Series). (Numen Book Series, Vol. 171).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  22. Published

    Past Minds : Present Historiography and Cognitive Science. / Sørensen, Jesper.

    Past Minds: Studies in Cognitive Historiography. ed. / Luther H. Martin; Sørensen Jesper. London : Equinox Publishing, 2011. (Religion, Cognition and Culture).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  23. Published

    Preface : A Call for a New Synthesis. / Petersen, Anders Klostergaard; Martin, Luther H.; Jensen, Jeppe Sinding et al.

    Evolution, Cognition, and History in the Study of Religion: A New Synthesis: Festschrift in Honour of Armin W. Geertz. ed. / Anders Klostergaard Petersen; Ingvild Sælid Gilhus; Luther H. Martin; Jeppe Sinding Jensen; Jesper Sørensen. Leiden, Boston : Brill, 2019. p. 1-11 (Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, Vol. 13).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  24. Published

    Religionskritik og religionsvidenskab : Underminerer det videnskabelige studie af religion religiøse udsagns sandhedsprætentioner? / Sørensen, Jesper.

    At kortlægge religion: Grundlagsdiskussioner i religionsforskningen. ed. / Torben Hammersholt; Caroline Schaffalitzky de Muckadell. Vol. 1 1. ed. Højbjerg : Forlaget Univers, 2011. p. 137-157.

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  25. Published

    Ritual. / Sørensen, Jesper Frøkjær.

    The Bloomsbury handbook of the cultural and cognitive aesthetics of religion. ed. / Anne Koch; Katharina Wilkens. London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. p. 73-83 (Bloomsbury Handbooks in Religion).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  26. Published

    Taking Comparativism Two Levels further and One Step backwards. / Petersen, Anders Klostergaard; Sørensen, Jesper.

    Contemporary Views on Comparative Religion: In Celebration of Tim Jensen’s 65th Birthday. ed. / Peter Antes; Armin W. Geertz; Mikael Rothstein. Sheffield : Equinox Publishing, 2016. p. 59-71.

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  27. Published

    The Effects of Relative Stable Feedback Loops : Cognitive Science and Historical Explanations. / Sørensen, Jesper.

    Religion Explained?: The Cognitive Science of Religion after Twenty-Five Years. ed. / Luther H. Martin; Donald Wiebe. 1. ed. London; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. p. 143-152 (Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  28. Published

    The Experimental Study of Religion : Or There and Back Again. / Sørensen, Jesper; Nielbo, Kristoffer Laigaard.

    Studying the Religious Mind : Methodology in the Cognitive Science of Religion. Sheffield : Equinox Publishing, 2022. p. 77-94.

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  29. Published

    Tools for Thought : The Ritual Use of Ordinary Tools. / Liénard, Pierre; Sørensen, Jesper.

    Origins of Religion, Cognition and Culture. ed. / Armin W. Geertz. Durham : Acumen Publishing, 2013. p. 341-364 (Religion, Cognition and Culture).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  30. Encyclopedia entry › Research › Peer-reviewed
  31. Published

    Magic. / Sørensen, Jesper.

    Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions. ed. / Anne L. C. Runehov; Lluis Oviedo. London : Springer Science+Business Media, 2013. p. 1195-1202.

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceedingEncyclopedia entryResearchpeer-review

  32. Published

    Magic. / Sørensen, Jesper.

    The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. ed. / Hilary Callan. Wiley, 2018.

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceedingEncyclopedia entryResearchpeer-review

  33. Preface/postscript › Research › Peer-reviewed
  34. Published

    Preface. / Martin, Luther H.; Sørensen, Jesper.

    Past Minds: Studies in Cognitive Historiography. ed. / Luther H. Martin; Jesper Sørensen. London : Equinox Publishing, 2011. p. xi-xiii (Religion, Cognition and Culture).

    Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceedingPreface/postscriptResearchpeer-review