Thore Bjørnvig, thoreb@hum.ku.dk
External Lecturer, History of Religions, University of Copenhagen
“Gnosticism in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Cosmic Information and the Revolutionizing Effect of the Extraterrestrial Perspective”
Material: Abstract, excerpts from M.A. thesis
Markus Davidsen, markusdavidsen@privat.dk
Graduate student, M.A. thesis, Study of Religion, University of Aarhus
“The Cybernetics of the Holy: Roy Rappaport’s System Theoretic Approach to Religion and Society”
Material: Abstract
Laura Feldt, lf@teo.au.dk
Doctoral student, Study of Religion, University of Aarhus
“Fantasy and Religious Narrativity”
Material: Project description and article by Laura entitled “Signs of Wonder – Traces of Doubt: The Fantastic in the Exodus Narrative”
Ewa Weiling Feldthusen, slavewf@hum.au.dk
Doctoral student, Slavic Languages, University of Aarhus
“Dualist Heresies and the Russian Orthodox Church, 988-1299”
Material: Project description and an article by J. P. Rushton entitled “Ethnic Nationalism, Evolutionary Psychology and Genetic Similarity Theory”
Mads Aamand Hansen, houseofbain5quick@gmail.com
Graduate student, M.A. thesis, Study of Religion, University of Aarhus
“Religion and Violence: An Evolutionary Link?”
Material: Project description
Mads Jessen, madsjessen@hotmail.com
Graduate, Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Aarhus
“On the materiality of religious abstractions”
Material: Abstract and article by Matthew Day entitled “Religion, Off-Line Cognition and the Extended Mind”
Niels Nørkjær Johannsen, niels.johannsen@hum.au.dk
Doctoral student, Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Aarhus
“On the materiality of religious abstractions”
Material: Abstract and article by Matthew Day entitled “Religion, Off-Line Cognition and the Extended Mind”
Gretchen Koch, gk@teo.au.dk
Doctoral student, Study of Religion, University of Aarhus
“Whose Shoes Are We In?: Empathy as Imaginative Projection, the Soul, and Moral Judgment”
Material: Abstract and an article by Jonathan Haidt entitled “The Emotional Dog and Its Rational Tail”
Andreas Lieberoth, lieberoth@gmail.com
Graduate student, Study of Religion, Southern Denmark University Odense
“Imagining God: Imagination in Relation to Religious Representations”
Material: Abstract and an article by Andreas entitled “Drawing on the Canvas of Imagination”
Panagiotis Mitkidis, mitkidispan@yahoo.gr
Graduate exchange student, M.A. program, Study of Religion, University of Aarhus
“The Symbolism of Body in Rituals and in Society (from a Cultural Perspective)”
Material: Abstract
Anders Nielsen, andn@yahoo.com
Graduate, History of Religions, University of Copenhagen
“Icons and Agency in the Georgian Orthodox Church”
Material: Abstract and figures
Rune Nyord, rnyord@hum.ku.dk
Doctoral student, Egyptology, University of Copenhagen
“A Cognitive Linguistic Approach to Ancient Egyptian Sarcophagus Texts Exemplified by the Concept heka , ‘magic’”
Material: Abstract, project description and an article by Rune entitled “The Body in the Hymns to the Coffin Sides”
Marie Gregers Verdoner, mv@teo.au.dk
Doctoral student, Church History, University of Aarhus
“Superhuman Agency in the Church History of Eusebius”
Material: Chapter from Ph.D. thesis
Uffe Schjødt, us@teo.au.dk
Doctoral student, Study of Religion, University of Aarhus
“Neurofunctional Correlates to Doctrinary and Imagistic Prayer: Testing Whitehouse’s hypothesis”
Material: Abstract, project description and an article by Azari et al. entitled “Neural Correlates of Religious Experience”
Jesper Østergaard, jesper.oe@gmail.com
Graduate student, M.A. thesis, Study of Religion, University of Aarhus
“Tibetan Pilgrimage from the Perspective of Cognitive and Semiotic Theories”
Material: Abstract and article by Edwin Hutchins, “Material Anchors for Conceptual Blends”
