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Danish scribes and German Bibles

Biblical paraphrases in the local language were popular in the late Middle Ages. In 1482 a Danish scribe completed a Low German paraphrase of Old Testament books.

Africa Cup of Nations: Politics and Power

Buster Kirchner, a student at the Centre of African Studies, has recently participated in a podcast titled ‘Field of Dreams: the politics and power of the Africa Cup of Nations’ produced by the Nordic Africa Institute.…

Muslim Political Dissent in Coastal East Africa

Visiting researcher and former Marie Curie Fellow at the Centre of African Studies Hans Olsson, has recently published a co-authored article in the Journal of Eastern African Studies titled ‘Muslim political dissent in…

New chart-topping Italian podcast »L'invasione« on the Indo-Europeans – featuring Birgit Rasmussen

Birgit Rasmussen has been interviewed for the chart-toping Italian podcast L'invasione on Proto-Indo-European and the Indoeuropeans.

A Prayer Book for the Entire Year — And Every Occasion

December means another year is coming to a close, at least according to our modern secular calendar. The liturgical year, on the other hand, has just begun with the first Sunday of Advent. A sixteenth-century prayer boo…

Paolo Astorri publishes chapter in Oxford Handbook of Christianity and Law

Paolo Astorri publishes chapter in Oxford Handbook of Christianity and Law titled "Christianity and Contract Law"

Professor Lisbet Christoffersen wins Danish Textbook Award 2023

Lisbet Christoffersen, who is professor of Ecclesiastical and Religion Law at the Department of Social Sciences and Business at University of Roskilde and adjunct professor at the Faculty of Theology at University of…

An Educational Poem by Petrus Riga

A previously unidentified fragment can now be shown to contain the educational poem De venditione Joseph by Petrus Riga.

On 1 September, Anna Vind begins a monograph scholarship from The Carlsberg Foundation

Associate Professor Anna Vind of the Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, received a monograph-scholarship of DKK 746,325 from the Carlsberg Foundation in December 2022, which is now about to begin.

International award for Professor Stig Hjarvard

The International Society for Media, Religion and Culture (ISMRC) has given the ”Stewart M. Hoover Mentorship Award” to Stig Hjarvard for his innovating research on the mediatization of religion.

Cultural threats can lead to violent extremism

People with specific personality traits who perceive their cultural values as threatened are more likely to show hostility and support violent extremist behaviour directed against that threat. This is shown in a new…

New Symposium of Religion and Society edited by Andreas Bandak and Simon Stjernholm

A new symposium entitled Engaging Religion has just been published open access with Religion and Society. The collection invites an open conversation about what is lost and what can be found in the translations and…

Religion blocks freedom and democracy across the globe

A new major study documents that religiously motivated legislation has taken place in all types of societies and religions – to the detriment of democratic rights.

Grounding the Prosperity Gospel

In their recent work, Associate Professor Karen Lauterbach and CAS Affiliate Professor George Bob-Milliar, present an overview of grounding the prosperity gospel, basing their discussion on an analysis of the project of…

Philosopher: Mindfulness rests on dubious philosophical foundations

Mindfulness is one of the most widespread forms of therapy for people suffering from stress, and many report that they benefit greatly from it. However, the philosophical assumptions on which mindfulness is based are…

Managing Sacralities: Competing and Converging Claims of Religious Heritage

Professor Oscar Salemink co-edited the volume Managing Sacralities: Competing and Converging Claims of Religious Heritage with Ernst van den Hemel and Irene Stengs.

Millions of farmers put their faith in God when making decisions

A widespread belief among millions of smallholder farmers in one of the world’s poorest countries is that God determines their yields. This is shown by a study that has examined the correlation between religiosity and…

Heritagizing Asian cities: space, memory and vernacular heritage practices

Edited by Oscar Salemink and Marina Svensson, theme issue of International Journal of Heritage Studies 27(8), 2021

Heritagizing Asian cities: space, memory and vernacular heritage practices

The IJHS is the main outlet for what is called “critical heritage studies” and has under the editorship of Professor Laurajane Smith become one of the most prestigious journals in heritage studies.

Heritagizing Asian cities: space, memory and vernacular heritage practices

Oscar Salemink and Marina Svensson are coeditors of a theme issue of the International Journal of Heritage Studies 27(8) titled "Heritagizing Asian Cities: Space, memory, and vernacular heritage practices".

Sacred but not holy: Awe, spectacle, and the heritage gaze in Danish religious heritage contexts

Professor Oscar Salemink, PhD fellow Rasmus Rask Poulsen and PhD fellow Sofie Isager Ahl published an open access article titled “Sacred but not holy: Awe, spectacle, and the heritage gaze in Danish religious heritage…

Ancient Egyptian manual reveals new details about mummification

Based on a manual recently discovered in a 3,500-year-old medical papyrus, University of Copenhagen Egyptologist Sofie Schiødt has been able to help reconstruct the embalming process used to prepare ancient Egyptians fo…

The wars in Former Yugoslavia continue in the classroom

According to the Education Act, schools in the ethnically divided Bosnia and Herzegovina must teach students “democratic ideals in a multicultural society." But according to new research from the University of…

Sapere Aude Grant for research into the connection between religiosity and wealth

Associate Professor Jeanet Sinding Bentzen from the Department of Economics has received the Independent Research Fund Denmark’s Sapere Aude grant for talented research leaders.