Research areas

Religion Education

The Study of Religions

Religion in Media & Public Discourses

Politics, Law and Religion

Religion, Law & Human Rights

Secularization and Desecularization

World Religions in Denmark

Islam & Muslims in Denmark

Study of Religion Scholars as Experts and Public Opinion Makers

Tasks

General Secretary IAHR, The International Association for the History of Religions (http://www.iahr.dk)

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Tim Jensen (1950)
Historian of Religions, Associate Professor, Department of The Study of Religions, University of Southern Denmark, Odense.
E-mail: t.jensen@ifpr.sdu.dk

Offices held (samples):
1999 - 2007 Head of the Department of the Study of Religions,University of Southern Denmark, Odense
2001-2004 Head of the Institute of Philosophy and Religion, University of Southern Denmark, Odense
1997-2005 President of DAHR, the Danish Association for the History of Religions
2000-2004 General Secretary of EASR, the European Association for the Study of Religions
2005 - General Secretary of the IAHR, International Association for The History of Religions (http://www.iahr.dk) .

Member of editorial and advisory boards:
Anaquel de estudios  árabes; British Journal of Religious Education;  NUMEN; Religion & Education;Teaching Theology & Religious Studies; Temenos.


Some recent publications (in English):
 Secular Theories on Religion,  Museum Tusculanum: Copenhagen 2000 (eds. with M. Rothstein)
”The Religiousness of Muslim Pupils in Danish Upper-Secondary Schools”, in: Shadid. W.A.R. & P.S. van Koningsveld (eds.), Intercultural Relations and Religious Authorities: Muslims in the European Union, Peeters:Leuven 2002, 123-137;
"From History of Religions to the Study of Religions. Trends and Tendencies in Denmark", in: Gasparro, G. Sfameni (ed.), Themes and Problems of the History of Religions in Contemporary Europe. Collana di studi storico-religiosi 6, Cosenza: Edizione Lionelli Giordano, 2002, 183-208,
 “European and Danish Religious Education: Human Rights, the Secular State, and Rethinking Religious Education and Plurality, Journal of Religion & Education”, Vol.32, No. 1, Spring 2005, 60-78;
”Religious Pluralism in Denmark”, Canadian Diversité, vol. 4:3 Fall 2005, 11-15; (ed. with Lars Binderup), Human Rights, Democracy & Religion, University of Southern Denmark:Odense, 2005
”Religion in the Danish Newsrooms”, in: Salakangas, R.& J. Sumiala-Seppänen (eds.), Implications of the Sacred in (Post-)Modern Media, Göteborg:Nordicom, 2006,  119-137;
”The Muhammad Cartoon Crisis. The Tip of an Iceberg”, Japanese Religions, Vol 31 (2), 2006, 173-185.
”From a Prophetic Warner to a Villain”, Japanese Religions, Vol 31 (2), 2006, 163-171.
”THE CARTOON CRISIS REVISITED: A DANISH PERSPECTIVE” ARI 65/2006 – Análisis. ( 2/6/2006,
http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/analisis/989.asp
”Another Melancholy Dane”, Religion in the News, Summer 2006, Vol. 9, No. 1 (http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/csrpl/RINVol9No1/another%20melancholy%20dane.htm)
“The Study of Religions and Religion in Denmark”, Nederlands Theologisch Tijdschrift 61/4, 2007, 329-342.
"Religious Pluralism in Denmark", Res Cogitans. Special Issue: The Rights and Plights of Religious Minorities
Nr. 4 - Vol. 2 - 31.12.2007, 1-26 (http://www.rescogitans.sdu.dk/aargange/nummer.html?isid=34)
“In the Wake of the Cartoon Crisis: Freedom of Expression of Academics in Denmark.”, In The Study of Religion and the Training of Muslim Clergy in Europe, Academic and Religious Freedom in the 21st Century, eds. W. B. Drees, and P. Sjoerd van Koningsveld. Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2008, 243-274.
"RS based RE in Public Schools: A Must for a Secular State" Numen, Vol. 55, No. 2-3, 2008, 123-150.

Affiliations

• Study of Religions - Associate Professor, Head of Study

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