Dag Øistein Endsjø
Professor
Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion
Homepage: http://doendsjo.blogspot.no/
Title: Professor
Phone: +47 55 58 23 55
E-mail: Dag.Endsjo@ahkr.uib.no
Visiting address: Øysteins gate 3
- Religion og human rights
- Sex and religion
- Religion and popular culture
- Greek religion og early Christianity
- Death and immortality beliefs in western traditions
- Cultural and religious understanding of space
Books
Det folk vil ha. Religion og populærkultur. (What people want. Religion and popular culture) Written together with Liv Ingeborg Lied. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget 2011. http://www.universitetsforlaget.no/boker/religion/katalog?productId=46383745
Sex and religion. Teachings and Taboos in the History of World Faiths . Oslo: Universitetsforlaget 2009. This book is also published in Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Serbian and Swedish.http://www.reaktionbooks.co.uk/book.html?id=448
Greek resurrection beliefs and the success of Christianity. The enduring longing for immortal flesh. New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2009. http://www.palgrave-usa.com/catalog/product.aspx?isbn=0230617298
Primordial landscapes, incorruptible bodies. Desert asceticism and the Christian appropriation of Greek ideas on geography, bodies, and immortality. New York: Peter Lang 2008. http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=15718&concordeid=310181
Lei av kjønn. Nær-kjønn-opplevelser og andre beretninger fra virkeligheten (Sick of gender. Near-gender-experiences and other tales from reality) (together with Helge Svare a.o). Oslo: Cappelen Akademisk Forlag 2001
Scientific articles (selection)
«The queer periphery. Sexual deviancy and the cultural understanding of space». Journal of Homosexuality, vol. 54, 2008: 9-20.
«Immortal bodies, Before Christ. Bodily continuity in ancient Greece and 1 Corinthians». Journal for the Study of the New Testament 30, 2008: 417-36. http://jnt.sagepub.com/content/30/4/417.short?rss=1&ssource=mfc
«Sex, nattverd og menneskerettigheter. Nye utfordringer for Den katolske kirke» in Tomas Hägg (red.) Kjetterne og kirken. Fra antikken til i dag. Oslo: Scandinavian Academic Press 2008: 209-22.
«Funksjonshemmede og rangeringssamfunnet: Hva sier menneskerettighetene om å rangere diskrimineringsvernet etter diskrimineringsgrunnlag?» in Toril Heglum og Ann Kristin Krokan (red.) Med vitende og vilje. Om funksjonshemming, diskriminering og krenkelse. Oslo: Kommuneforlaget 2006: 70-82.
«Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights and the religious relativism of human rights». Human Rights Review, 6, 2005: 102-110. http://www.springerlink.com/content/bbgl735nwh725y05/?MUD=MP
«To control death. Sacrifice and space in classical Greece». Religion, 33/4, 2003: 323-340.
«To lock up Eleusis. A question of liminal space». Numen, 47, 2000: 351-86. http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3270305?uid=2&uid=4&sid=21101011209283
«…and knowledge shall be encreased. Newton, millenniet og den opprinnelige kunnskap». Chaos. Dansk-norsk tidsskrift for religionshistoriske studier, 34, 2000: 67-79.
«Placing the unplaceable. The making of Apollonius’s Argonautic geography». Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies. Vol 38. 1997: 373-85.
Op-eds and popular articles
Some over 100 i various newspapers and journals. All since 2009 and some more may also be found on my blog, although most of it is in Norwegian. Krig og fred og politikk og sånn. http://doendsjo.blogspot.no/
RELV101 Introduction to Religious Studies
RELV227/327 Religion and Human Rights
RELV250 Bachelor Assignment in the Systematic Study of Religion