About Aarhus University
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa
Postdoc.
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa
Postdoc.
- School of Culture and Society - Systematic Theology, subject
Email: teoses@cas.au.dk
Mobile: +4526257674
Personal information
Uddannelse & grader
2013 MA Theology, Aarhus University
2017 PhD in Systematic Theology, Aarhus University
2018 Teacher Training Programme for Assistant Professors and Postdocs at Aarhus
University
Employment History
2006-2010 Editor in Chief of the student magazine FigenBladet
2007-2010 Student Counselor, Theology, Aarhus University
2010-2016 PhD Student within Systematic Theology, Aarhus University
2017-2019 Postdoc at the Department of Theology and at Lumen - Center for the Study
of Lutheran Theology and Confessional Societies, Aarhus University
2020-21 Research Assistant at the Grundtvig Study Center, Aarhus University
2021 Postdoc at the Department of Theology, Aarhus University
2022 Visiting Professor at Graduiertenkolleg "Interkonfessionalität in der frühen
Neuzeit", Hamburg Universität
2022-24 The Carlsberg Foundation Internationalisation fellowship, School of Social and
Political Science, Edinburgh University
Positions Abroad
University, Tübingen
2014 Research stay at the Department of Religious Studies, Northwestern University
2018 Visiting Scholar at Hamburg University
Activities
Forging Trusting Nordic Nations: Trustworthiness: The Rhetorical History of Trust in the Nordics
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Participant)
Theological influence on the development of 19th and early 20th century Danish trust culture
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Invited speaker)
Er Luthers Gud umenneskelig? Om Luthers teologi i dag
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
At home in creation? Exilic existence and theological trust culture in Luther and Løgstrup
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Invited speaker)
The Nordic Society for Philosophy of Religion Conference: Religion and Nature
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Participant)
Børn og unges mistrivsel og kampen for social anerkendelse
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
Undskyldning
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
Store tanker om hverdagslivet: Ære
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
“… quae Dei sunt, de homine dicantur” - On the relationship between language and reality in Luther’s theology
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Invited speaker)
Den tillidsvækkende Grundtvig: Om Grundtvigs indflydelse på dansk tillidskultur
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
Luthers dobbelttydige kvindesyn og dets historiske konsekvenser
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Invited speaker)
Tillid til Gud, konge og brugsuddelere - Om Grundtvig og grundtvigianismens indflydelse på dansk tillidskultur
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
Tagung des theologischen Arbeitskreises für Reformationsgeschichliche Forschung (TARF) & The Nordic Luther Network
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Participant)
The Emotional Luther. Mastering Emotions in Luther's Theology
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Invited speaker)
Den tillidsvækkende Grundtvig
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
Theological influence on the development of the high trust cultures undergirding the Nordic welfare states
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Invited speaker)
Indflyvning til æresbegrebet
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
Luthersk menneskeforståelse
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Invited speaker)
Den tillidsvækkende Grundtvig
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
Store tanker om hverdagslivet: Ære
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
Luther and Logic
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Participant)
Den tillidsvækkende Grundtvig
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
Den tillidsvækkende Grundtvig: Kærlig tillid som danskernes arvelige kendemærke
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
University of Edinburgh
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Visiting researcher)
Folkekirkens lutherske bekendelsesgrundlag til debat: Frihed, synd og forløsning
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Invited speaker)
14th International Congress for Luther Research
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Participant)
Consuming the Word of God. The Divine Word as Material Reality in Luther's Theology and in 18th Century Danish Catechetical Literature
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Invited speaker)
Objekte in Bewegung - bewegende Objekte. Inter- und transkonfessionelle Perspektiven auf die materielle Kultur der frühen Neuzeit
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Participant)
Trust your neighbor as yourself – How Lutheran theology might have fertilized the ground for social trust in 19th and early 20th century Denmark
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Invited speaker)
Why is trust so high in the border region between Germany and Denmark?
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Participant)
Disinfect with trust – The Influence of a Lutheran Trust Culture on the Successful Handling of the Corona Pandemic in Denmark
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Invited speaker)
20th Nordic Conference for Systematic Theology
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Participant)
A Word of Confidence. Trust as the Fountain of Community in Luther, Grundtvig, and Løgstrup
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Invited speaker)
Kærlig tillid som danskernes arvelige kendemærke: Dannelse til tillid hos Luther, Grundtvig og Løgstrup
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
At leve i nøgen tillid til Gud - Luthers forestilling om den skjulte Gud og dens nutidige relevans
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
Seminar: "The interplay between theology and societal development in the Early Modern Period"
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
Universität Hamburg, Graduiertenkolleg Interkonfessionalität in der Frühen Neuzeit
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Visiting researcher)
Den tillidsvækkende Grundtvig
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
Juri Lotman 100. Juri Lotman's Semiosphere. Congress 2022.
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Participant)
Store tanker om hverdagslivet: Ære
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
Teologiske forestillingers indflydelse på udviklingen af dansk tillidskultur i det spirende demokratiske velfærdssamfund
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Invited speaker)
Trusting in God and his earthly masks - The theological roots of Scandinavian trust culture
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Invited speaker)
MethodsNet Workshop on Qualitative Research Interviewing
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Participant)
En mundret bid: Om Katekismer som indkogt Bibel
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
Fra Jesus af Nazareth til Kristus med de to naturer: Om Biblen som grundlag for den lutherske dogmatik
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
Store tanker om hverdagslivet: Ære
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
Den tillidsvækkende Grundtvig
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Invited speaker)
Grundtvig. Danmarks store mand 1872-2022
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Participant)
“Ich werdend spreche Ich Du” – Creative dialogue in the relational anthropologies of Martin Luther and Martin Buber
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Invited speaker)
The Nordic Society for Philosophy of Religion Conference: “Symbolizing Transcendence: the limits of language”
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Participant)
Fortabt til frihed - Frelse som oprør mod naturalismens drømmende uskyldstilstand
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Invited speaker)
Hvad betyder frelse for os i dag?
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Participant)
Tænkepause: Ære
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
At leve i nøgen tillid til Gud - Luthers forestilling om den skjulte Gud og dens nutidige relevans
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
Tænkepause: Ære
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
Martin Luther's importance for the Scandinavian societies
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
Tagung des Theologischen Arbeitskreises fürReformationsgeschichtliche Forschung (TARF) & The Nordic Luther Network.
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Participant)
Synd og tillid som grundbestemmelser i en teologisk menneskeforståelse
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
“Ich werde am Du” – The role of the second-person perspective and creative dialogue in the relational anthropologies of Martin Luther and Martin Buber
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Invited speaker)
Relational Ontology in Luther, Kierkegaard, and Løgstrup
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Organizer)
Af Guds nåde
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
Introduktion til K.E. Løgstrups tænkning
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
Who is a trustworthy authority? - Changes to the Lutheran trust culture of 19th century Denmark in the transition from absolutism to liberal democracy
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Invited speaker)
Reformation and everyday life
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Participant)
Agapeistic Ethics: Exploring the Second Person Perspective
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Participant)
Tænkepause: Ære
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
Comforted by divine wrath? Suffering God's wrath and trusting his mercy as the paradoxical pivot of human experience with God in Lutheran theology
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Invited speaker)
Verletzt Fühlen. Systematich-theologische Perspektiven auf den Zusammenhang von Verletzung und Emotion
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Participant)
Ære
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
Ære
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
Tænkepause: Ære
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
Har den danske tillidskultur rødder i den lutherske teologi?
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Invited speaker)
Skabt af intet – Genskabt til intet. Om tilintetgørelsen af mennesket i luthersk antropologi
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
Ære (tænkepause)
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
Al(l)one: Solitude and what it tells us about Community
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Participant)
Trust and authority in the Lutheran North - Theological and historical perspectives on the trust culture sustaining the Scandinavian welfare states
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Organizer)
Trusting God and his earthly masks - Exploring the Lutheran roots of the Scandinavian high-trust culture
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
Lutheranism and the Nordic Welfare State
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Organizer)
Trusting God and his earthly masks - Exploring the Lutheran roots of the Scandinavian high-trust culture
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Invited speaker)
American Academy of Religion: Annual Meeting 2019
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Participant)
“Simul liber et servusˮ - Freiheit zur gottesverehrenden Knechtschaft in Martin Luthers De libertate Christiana
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
Martin Luther's view on women as rulers and wives
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
Workshop on Luther and Sex
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Participant)
Tagung des Theologischen Arbeitskreises für Reformationsgeschichtliche Forschung (TARF)
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Participant)
Gazing at the flesh to see glory - The paradox aesthetics of a Lutheran theology of glory
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Invited speaker)
Wings of Desire
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Participant)
Med kærlighedens tvang. Synderens resocialisering ind i det skabte livs orden i Erik Pontoppidans ”Sandhed til Gudfrygtighed”
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Invited speaker)
Det fromme subjekt - de helliges samfund – den gudgivne autoritet. Pietistiske strømningers betydning for forståelsen af samfund og autoritet i 1700-tallets nordiske enevoldsstater
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Organizer)
Consuming the Word of God. Eating the Eucharistic meal and practicing the catechism in Luther’s theology and in early modern Lutheran confessional culture
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Invited speaker)
Ninth Annual RefoRC Conference on Early Modern Christianity
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Participant)
"Kiere Barn, vil du ikke gierne være lykkelig på Jorden og salig i Himmelen?” – Synd, samvittighed og samfundsforståelse i 1700-tallets danske katekismusforklaringer
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Organizer)
Med kærlighedens tvang - Synderens resocialisering ind i det skabte livs orden i 1700-tallets katekismusforklaringer
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
Der Begriff der Ehre in Martin Luthers Theologie mit besonderer Rücksicht auf seine theologische Anthropologie
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
University of Hamburg
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Visiting researcher)
Foenix (Journal)
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Editor)
Fønix (Journal)
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Editor)
Tidsskriftet Fønix (Publisher)
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Editor)
Sin and Trust as Focal Points of Martin Luther’s Conception of Society
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
RETHINK Reformation 2017
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Participant)
The hidden God and the promise of unification
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
Reformationsjubilæum på Afdeling for Teologi
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Organizer)
Borger eller undersåt – Martin Luthers samfundsforståelse og dens betydning for udviklingen af demokrati
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
EPCOT: The 'Judaic-Christian Rule of Law' and the 'Reformation'
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Participant)
Dansk Teologisk Tidsskrift (Journal)
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Editor)
”’Jeg er forbandet. Gud er imod mig’ – Når Gud angriber mennesket hos Luther, Prenter og Løgstrup”
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
Is justification a proces of recognition?
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
13th International Congress for Luther Research: 1517. Luther between tradition and renewal
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Participant)
"Manden er som solen og kvinden som månen" - Luthers syn på kvinden som hustru og hersker
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
Luthers menneskesyn
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
Seventh Annual RefoRC Conference 2017 Wittenberg
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Participant)
Rethink reformation
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Participant)
Medlem af bestyrelsen for Teologisk Forening
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Participant)
The godly household: materiality and organization of the early modern household in northern Europe
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Participant)
LUMEN-seminar: Synkronosering
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Participant)
LUMEN: Åbningsseminar
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Participant)
Dansk Teologisk Tidsskrift (Journal)
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Reviewer)
CONSTITUTIONALISING EUROPE
Nina Javette Koefoed (Speaker), Gorm Harste (Participant), Bo Kristian Holm (Participant) & Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Participant)
Constitutionalizing Europe
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Participant)
LUMEN workshop 2016
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Participant)
Lutheran Confessional Cultures in Early Modern Germany and Scandinavia
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Participant)
18th Nordic Conference on Systematic Theology
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Participant)
LUMEN seminar december 2015
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Participant)
Oplæg på systematisk teologisk forskningsseminar
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Speaker)
Den lutherske husstand. Visioner og hverdag
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Speaker)
"Det trofaste hjerte giver Gud æren" - Forholdet mellem tro og ære hos Martin Luther
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
Honour, Dignity and Human Rights in early modernity
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Speaker)
Love and Authority in Family and Society
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Speaker)
Northwestern University
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Visiting researcher)
Seminar i Reformatorisk Teologi og Konfessionskultur
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Speaker)
Remembering the Past - Living the Future. Lutheran Tradition in Transition
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Participant)
Lutheran Confessional Culture
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Organizer)
Third RefoRC Conference 2013
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Participant)
"Ærekær og æreløs - Den paradoksale Gud hos Martin Luther"
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
12th International Congress for Luther Research
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Participant)
Refo500 Seminar: Melanchthon as the second reformer
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Participant)
Luther Renaissance: Past and Present I
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Participant)
"Er Gud kærlig?"
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Lecturer)
Nordic Luther Workshop
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (Organizer)
Projects
EPCOT: EPCOT - Eucharistic, political and cultural organizational transformations before, under and after the Reformation
Rønkilde, J. B., Jakobsen, R. S., Holm, B. K., Mathiasen Stopa, S. E., Østergaard, U., Arnórsdóttir, A. S., Ingesman, P., Harste, G., Skinnebach, L. K., Koefoed, N. J. & Jørgensen, E. K.
30/06/2017 → 31/12/2018
Epistemological aspects of 'Dialogue': Exploring the potential of the second-person perspective
Lysemose, K., Welz, C., Rabjerg, B., Hansen, B. M. S., Ikonen, E. M. & Mathiasen Stopa, S. E.
01/01/2021 → 31/12/2023
FIDUCIA: FIDUCIA: The theological roots of Danish trust culture undergirding the welfare state
Mathiasen Stopa, S. E.
01/01/2022 → 31/12/2023
Forskningsenhed for Teologisk Etik
Nissen, U., Andersen, S., Becker, E., Dietrich, J., Holm, B. K., Jacobsen, A., Lodberg, P., Nissen, J., Pedersen, E. M. W., Rabjerg, B., Schmidt, U., Mathiasen Stopa, S. E., Welz, C. & Balle, S.
01/01/2016 → …
Grundtvig og dansk tillidskultur
Mathiasen Stopa, S. E.
01/03/2020 → 30/06/2021
LUMEN: LUMEN - Center for the Study of Lutheran Theology and Confessional Societies
Andersen, P., Holm, B. K., Koefoed, N. J., Harste, G., Østergaard, U., Arnórsdóttir, A. S., Svendsen, G. T., Pedersen, E. M. W., Andersen, S., Nissen, U., Ingesman, P., Bach-Nielsen, C., Jensen, M. F., Kristiansen, M. S., Atzbach, R., Ladegaard, J., Skinnebach, L. K., Østergaard, U., Mathiasen Stopa, S. E., Jakobsen, R. S., Sommer Bostrup, M., Hilson, M., Nielsen, M. V., Tarp, L., Rasmussen, L. L., Zeller, K., Rønkilde, J. B., Ørnbjerg, J., Jørgensen, E. K., Christensen, A. W. V., Rasmussen, L. L., Pedersen, M. N. & Appel, C.
Universitetsledelsens Strategiske Midler
01/09/2015 → 31/12/2020
LUMEN: LUMEN - LUtheran Mentality and the Nordic
Mathiasen Stopa, S. E.
01/09/2015 → 31/12/2016
Lutheranism and societal development in Denmark
Koefoed, N. J., Holm, B. K., Harste, G., Mathiasen Stopa, S. E. & Pedersen, M. N.
01/11/2016 → 31/12/2022
Reformatorisk teologi og konfessionskultur
Holm, B. K., Ingesman, P., Pedersen, E. M. W., Andersen, S., Malmgart, L., Bach-Nielsen, C., Widmann, P., Johansen, K. H., Koefoed, N. J., Arnórsdóttir, A. S., Thomsen, S. F., Mathiasen Stopa, S. E., Dieter, T., Westhelle, V., Nielsen, M. V. & Mogensen, C. L.
01/08/2007 → 31/12/2016