Blar i Bergen Open Research Archive på forfatter "Stausberg, Michael"
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The Abyss of Intransitivity: On Critical Realism and Theories of Religion
Stausberg, Michael (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021) -
Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Ingvild Sælid Gilhus, Luther H. Martin, Jeppe Sinding Jensen, Jesper Sørensen (eds), Evolution, Cognition, and the History of Religion: Festschrift in Honour of Armin W. Geertz. Leiden 2018
Stausberg, Michael (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020) -
The appropriation of a religion: The case of Zoroastrianism in contemporary Russia
Stausberg, Michael; Tessmann, Anna (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013-10-10)This paper distinguishes between the (ontological) creation, (historical) emergence and (legal) ‘making’ of religion. Many religions claim plausibility by invoking long chains of (invented) traditions, while some post-modern ... -
Auschwitz and the Meta-Topography of the Sacred
Stausberg, Michael (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This article proposes a distinction between the religious and the sacred. It treats the sacred as an analytical concept and seeks to demonstrate its effectiveness by using it as a lens through which to look at Mucha’s ... -
Book review: Considering Comparison: A Method for Religious Studies by Oliver Freiberger, New York, Oxford University Press, 2019
Stausberg, Michael (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020) -
The Demise, Dissolution and Elimination of Religions
Stausberg, Michael (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Abstract While it is generally acknowledged that religions can “die” or go “extinct,” little research has been dedicated to the problem of the demise of religions. This text reviews earlier research on this topic and ... -
Leaving Hinduism: deconversion as liberation
Stausberg, Michael (Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2020)Dr. Bhimrao Amebdkar (1891–1956) was an activist intellectual, journalist, lawyer and a prominent figure in Indian politics. A Mahar, Ambedkar campaigned against the various sorts of discrimination suffered by so-called ... -
On dragons and elephants: Religion in domestic and international tourism in China and India
Stausberg, Michael; Aukland, Knut (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)This introductory essay explores some of the commonalities and differences that emerge from reading this thematic issue on religion and tourism in China and India. Economic growth has led to an explosion in domestic tourism ... -
Religious Minorities: Conceptual Perspectives
van der Haven, Alexander; Stausberg, Michael; Baffelli, Erica (Journal article, 2023)This essay proposes definitions of key terms such as ‘minoritization’, ‘majoritization’, and ‘religious minority’, and problematizes standard criteria of identification of religious minorities while also advocating for an ... -
Review essay: Apples and Oranges: Explorations In, On, and With Comparison, written by Bruce Lincoln
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Survey Zoroastrians: Online Religious Identification in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Stausberg, Michael; Arab, Pooyan Tamimi; Maleki, Ammar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This article contributes to the internationalization of survey methodology by discussing a case from a totalitarian state, the Islamic Republic of Iran. In 2020, GAMAAN (The Group for Measuring and Analyzing Attitudes in ... -
Taking Stock of the Academic Work of Geo Widengren: Some Observations on a Forgotten Classic and an "all-Round Historian of Religion"
Stausberg, Michael (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)In the 1950s and 1960s, the Swedish scholar Geo Widengren (1907–1996) was a towering figure on the international landscape of the history of religions. This essay reads Widengren as a forgotten classic, i.e., an author ...