Knut Axel Jacobsen

Stilling: professor

Telefon: 55 58 24 49

E-post: Knut.Jacobsen@ahkr.uib.no

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• Hinduismen
• Religionspluralisme i Sør-Asia
• Religion i de sørasiatiske diasporaene
• Helligsteds- og pilegrimstradisjoner i India
• Sikhismen
• Yoga
• Sāṃkhya

 

Publikasjoner i Cristin

Books

Jacobsen, Knut A. (ed) (2014) Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Volume Six. Leiden: Brill.

Jacobsen, Knut A. (ed) (2013) Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Volume Five. Symbolism, Diaspora, Modern Groups and Teachers Leiden: Brill.

Jacobsen, Knut A. (2013) Jainismen:religion, historie og ikkevold. Oslo: Cappelen Damm Akademisk.

Jacobsen, Knut A.(2013) Pilgrimage in the Hindu Tradition: Salvific Space. London: Routledge.

Jacobsen, Knut A. (ed.)  (2012) Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Volume Four. Historical perspectives, poets, teachers, and saints, relation to other religions and traditions, Hinduism and contemporary issues. Leiden: Brill.

Jacobsen, Knut A. and Kristian Myrvold (eds) (2012) Sikhs Across Borders: Transnational Practices among European Sikhs. London: Bloomsbury.

Jacobsen, Knut A. (ed.) (2012) Yoga Powers: Extraordinary Capacities Attained Through Meditation and Concentration. Editor. Leiden: Brill.

Jacobsen, Knut A. (2012) Buddhismen. 2nd. ed. Oslo: Pax.

Jacobsen, Knut A. (ed.) 2011) Verdensreligioner i Norge. 3d. ed. Oslo: Norwegian University Press. 

Jacobsen, Knut A. and Kristina Myrvold (eds.) (2011) Sikhs in Europe: Migration, Identity and Transnational Practices.  Farnham: Ashgate.

Jacobsen, Knut A. (ed.) (2011) Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Volume Three. Society, Religious Specialists, Religious Traditions, Philosophy. Leiden: Brill.

Jacobsen, Knut A. (2010) Hinduismen. 2nd. ed. Oslo: Pax.

Jacobsen, Knut A. (ed.) (2010) Bioetikk i verdensreligionene: religion, medisin og teknologisk endring. Oslo: Abstrakt Forlag.

Jacobsen, Knut A. (ed.) (2010) Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Volume Two. Sacred Languages, Ritual Traditions, Arts, Concepts, Leiden: Brill.

Jacobsen, Knut A. (ed.) (2009) Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Volume One. Regions, Pilgrimage, Deities. Leiden: Brill 2009.

Jacobsen, Knut A. (ed.) (2009) Modern Indian Culture and Society. 4 vols. Editor. London: Routledge.

Jacobsen, Knut A.  (2009) Hva er hinduisme. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.

Jacobsen, Knut A. and Selva J. Raj (eds) (2008) South Asian Christian Diaspora: Invisible Diaspora in Europe and North America. Farnham: Ashgate.

Jacobsen, Knut A. (ed.) (2008) South Asian Religions on Display: Religious Processions in South Asia and the Diaspora. London: Routledge.

Jacobsen, Knut A. (2008) Kapila: Founder of Samkhya and Avatara of Vishnu. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal. 

Jacobsen, Knut A (2007) Hyllest til Gudinnen: Visjon og tilbedelse av hinduismens store Gudinne. Oslo: Emilia forlag.

Jacobsen, Knut A (2006) Sikhismen: Historie, tradisjon og kultur. Kristiansand : Høyskoleforlaget.

Jacobsen, Knut A (ed.) (2005) Theory and Practice of Yoga: Essays in Honour of Gerald James Larson . Leiden: Brill. Indian edition: Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2008.  

Jacobsen, Knut A. (ed.) (2005) Verdensreligioner i Norge. 2d. ed. Oslo: Norwegian University Press.  

Jacobsen, Knut A. (ed.) (2004) Sanger fra Adi Granth. Oslo: De norske bokklubbene.  

Jacobsen, Knut A. (ed.) (2004) Yoga. Oslo: De norske bokklubbene. 

Jacobsen, Knut A. and P. Pratap Kumar (ed.) (2004) South Asians in Diaspora: Histories and Religious Traditions. Leiden: Brill.

Jacobsen, Knut A. (2003). Hinduismen. Oslo: Pax. Swedish translation, Hinduismen: Historia, tradition, mångfold, Stockholm: Natur og Kultur, 2004.  

Jacobsen, Knut A. (ed.) (2001) Verdensreligioner i Norge. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.

Jacobsen, Knut A. (ed.) (2001) Bhagavadgita og andre hellige skrifter fra Hinduismen.  Oslo: De norske bokklubbene.  

Jacobsen, Knut A. (2000) Buddhismen Oslo: Pax,. Swedish translation, Buddhismen: Kultur, historia, traditon, Stockholm: Natur og Kultur, 2002.  

Jacobsen, Knut A. (1999) Prakriti in Samkhya-Yoga: Material Principle, Religious Experience, Ethical Implications. New York: Peter Lang; Indian edition: Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2002.  

Jacobsen, Knut A. and Notto R. Thelle (1999) Hinduismen og Buddhismen.  Kristiansand: Høyskoleforlaget, 1999.

Articles

Jacobsen, Knut A. “Transnational European Sikhs“. Co-authored with Kristina Myrvold. In: Sikhs Across Borders: Transnational Practices of European Sikhs. Continuum 2012, 1-8.

Jacobsen, Knut A. “Tuning identity in European “Houses of the Guru”: The importance of gurdwaras and kirtan among Sikhs in Europe.“ In: Knut A. Jacobsen and Kristina Myrvold, eds, Sikhs Across Borders: Transnational Practices of European Sikhs. Bloomsbury 2012, 105-118.

Jacobsen, Knut A. “Contesting and confirming religious authority in the diaspora: Transnational communication and the Dasam Granth controversy in the Nordic countries.“ Co-authored with Kristina Myrvold, Ravinder Kaur and Laura Hirvi. In: Sikhs Across Borders: Transnational Practices of European Sikhs. Bloomsbury 2012, 232-250.

Jacobsen, Knut A. “Gudene på jorden møter norsk byråkrati: Hinduismens prester, termplenes forstandere og statlige reguleringer.“ In: Cora Alexa Døving og Berit S. Thorbjørnsrud, eds, Religiøse ledere: makt og avmakt i norske trossamfunn. Universitetsforlaget 2012 ISBN 978-82-15-01971-0. s. 187-199.

Jacobsen, Knut A. “The Punjab Diaspora in the Scandinavian Countries.“ In: P. S. Sahai and Krishan Chand, eds, Indian Diaspora: Migration and Development with Focus on the State of Punjab. Chandigarh: Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development (CRRID) 2012 . s. 171-176

Jacobsen, Knut A. “Yoga Powers in a Contemporary Sāṃkhya-Yoga Tradition.” In Yoga Powers: Extraordinary Capacities Attained Through Meditation and Concentration, edited by Knut A. Jacobsen. Leiden: Brill, 2012, 459-477.

Jacobsen, Knut A. “Yoga Powers and Religious Traditions.” In Yoga Powers: Extraordinary Capacities Attained Through Meditation and Concentration, edited by Knut A. Jacobsen. Leiden: Brill, 2012, 1-31.

Jacobsen, Knut A. “Gurus and Ācāryas.” Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Knut A. Jacobsen, Editor in chief. Volume III: Society, Religious Specialists, Religious Traditions, Philosophy. Leiden: Brill, 2011, 227-234.

Jacobsen, Knut A. “Town and City.” Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Knut A. Jacobsen, Editor in chief. Volume III: Society, Religious Specialists, Religious Traditions, Philosophy. Leiden: Brill, 2011, 177-185.

Jacobsen, Knut A. “Sāṃkhya.” Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Knut A. Jacobsen, Editor in chief. Volume III: Society, Religious Specialists, Religious Traditions, Philosophy. Leiden: Brill, 2011, 686-698.

Jacobsen, Knut A. “Pātañjala Yoga.” Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Knut A. Jacobsen, Editor in chief. Volume III: Society, Religious Specialists, Religious Traditions, Philosophy. Leiden: Brill, 2011, 746-759.

Jacobsen, Knut A. “Institutionalization of Sikhism in Norway: Community Growth and Generational Transfer.” In Sikhs in Europe: Migration, Identities and Representations, edited by Knut A. Jacobsen and Kristina Myrvold. Ashgate: Farnham, 2011, 19-38.

Jacobsen, Knut A. “Introduction: Sikhs in Europe.” Co-authored with Kristina Myrvold. In Sikhs in Europe: Migration, Identities and Representations, edited by Knut A. Jacobsen and Kristina Myrvold. Ashgate:Farnham, 2011, 1-15.

Jacobsen, Knut A. “Sāṃkhya-Yoga Traditions.” In The Continuum Companion to Hindu Studies, edited by Jessica Frazier. London: Continuum, 2011, 74-83.

Jacobsen, Knut A. “The Wisdom of Kapila’s Cave: Sāṃkhya-Yoga as Practice.” In Hinduism in Practice, edited by Hillary Rodrigues. London: Routledge, 2011, 104-112.

Jacobsen, Knut A. “Songs to the Highest God (Īśvara) of Sāṃkhya-Yoga.“ In Yoga in Practice, edited by David Gordon White. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011, 325-336.

Jacobsen, Knut A. “Hinduisme.” In Gyldendals religionshistorie: ritualer, mytologi, ikonografi. 2. reviderte og udvidede udgave, edited by Tim Jensen, Mikael Rothstein and Jørgen Podemann Sørensen. Købemhavn: Gyldendal, 2011, 404-450. 

Jacobsen, Knut A. “Den guddommelige, kosmologiske, sosiale og menneskelige kroppen i hinduismen.” Religion og livssyn  Tidsskrift for religionslærerforeningen i Norge. 23., no. 2 (2011): 7-12

Jacobsen, Knut A. “Bioetikk i buddhismen.” In Bioetikk i verdensreligionene: religion, medisin og teknologisk endring, edited by Knut A. Jacobsen.Oslo: Abstrakt forlag, 2010, 242-265.  

Jacobsen, Knut A. “Bioetikk i hinduismen.” In Bioetikk i verdensreligionene: religion, medisin og teknologisk endring, edited by Knut A. Jacobsen.Oslo: Abstrakt forlag, 2010, 211-241.

Jacobsen, Knut A. “Bioetikk og religionene.” In Bioetikk i verdensreligionene: religion, medisin og teknologisk endring, edited by Knut A. Jacobsen.Oslo: Abstrakt forlag, 2010, 11-23. 

Jacobsen, Knut A. “Establishment of Buddhist Sacred Space in Contemporary India: The Ambedkarite Buddhism, Dalit Civil Religion and the Struggle Against Social Exclusion.” In World Religions and Multiculturalism: A Dialectic Relation, edited by Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Yitzhak  Sternberg. Leiden: Brill, 2010, 219-236.

Jacobsen, Knut A. “Leadership Structures and Government Regulation of Hinduism in Norway.” Finnish Journal of Ethnicity and Migration 5, no. 2 (2010): 39-46.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Ahiṃsā." Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Knut A. Jacobsen, Editor in chief. Volume II: Text and Languagess, Rituals, Arts, Concepts, Leiden: Brill, 2010, 675-680.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Sevā." Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Knut A. Jacobsen, Editor in chief. Volume II: Text and Languagess, Rituals, Arts, Concepts, Leiden: Brill, 2010, 861-865.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Prakṛti." Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Knut A. Jacobsen, Editor in chief. Volume II: Text and Languagess, Rituals, Arts, Concepts, Leiden: Brill, 2010, 883-837.

Jacobsen, Knut A. “The Disharmony of Interdependence: Samkhya-Yoga and Ecology.” In Yoga and Ecology, edited by Christopher Key Chapple. Hampton, Virginia: Deepak Heritage Books 2009,105-121

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Establishing Tamil Ritual Space: A Comparative Analysis of the Ritualisation of the Traditions of the Tamil Hindus and the Tamil Roman Catholics in Norway," Journal of Religion in Europe 2, 2 (2009): 180-198.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Introduction." Modern Indian Culture and Society. 4 vols. Editor. London: Routledge, 2009.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Introduction." Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Knut A. Jacobsen, Editor in chief. Vol. I. Leiden: Brill 2009, xxxiii-xliii.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Tīrtha and Tīrthayātrā." Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Knut A. Jacobsen, Editor in chief. Vol. I. Leiden: Brill 2009, 381-410.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Uttar Pradesh." Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Knut A. Jacobsen, Editor in chief. Vol. I. Leiden: Brill 2009, 171-186.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Sacred Animals." Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Knut A. Jacobsen, Editor in chief. Vol. I. Leiden: Brill 2009. 711-718.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Processions." Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Knut A. Jacobsen, Editor in chief. Vol. I. Leiden: Brill 2009, 445-455.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Three Functions of Hell in the Hindu Traditions." Numen 56, 2-3 (2009): 385-400.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Processions, Public Space and Sacred Space in the South Asian Diasporas in Norway." In South Asian Religions on Display: Religious Processions in South Asia and in the Diaspora. Edited by Knut A. Jacobsen. London: Routledge, 2008, 191-204.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Creating Sri Lankan Tamil Catholic Space in the South Asian Diaspora in Norway." In South Asian Christian Diaspora: An Invisible Diaspora in Europe and North America. Edited by Knut A. Jacobsen and Selva J. Raj. London: Ashgate, 2008, 117-132.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "The Meaning of Prakrti in the Yogasutra and Vyasabhashya. " Asian Philosophy 17, no 1 (2007): 1-16.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "What Similes in Samkhya Do: A Comparison of the Similes in the Samkhya texts of the Mahabharata, the Samkhyakarika and the Samkhyasutra." Journal of Indian Philosophy 34 (2006): 587-605.

Jacobsen, Knut A. and Ninian Smart "Is Hinduism an Offshoot of Buddhism?". In Indian Religions: Renaissance and Renewal: The Spalding Papers in Indic Studies. Edited by Anna King. London: Equinox, 2006, pp. 41-53.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Når Lakshmi flytter inn, flytter Sarasvati ut: religion og profitt." Praktisk økonomi og finans 4 (2006): 47-54.

Jacobsen, Knut A. 'Scandinavia' In Peter Reeves, Brij V. Lal and Rajesh Rai  (eds.), Encyclopedia of the Indian Diaspora. Singapore: Editions Didier Millet, 2006, pp. 361-363 .

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Hindu Processions, Diaspora and Religious Pluralism," in Religious Pluralism and the Diaspora, ed. P. Pratap Kumar. Leiden: Brill, 2006, pp 163-173.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Krig og krigerasketer i hinduismens tradisjoner." Chaos 45 (2006): 9-22.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Veda, vitenskap og vestens herredømme: hinduistiske møter med moderne kunnskapstradisjoner". Religion og livssyn 18, nr. 1 (2006): 25-32.

Jacobsen, Knut A. ‘Purusha is Different from Everything.’ Sankhyayana 3 (2005): 72-77.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Globalisert yoga: Om hvordan en esoterisk religiøs lære for asketer i India ble et verdensomspennende sekulært helse-, trim- og sportsfenomen." Norsk Teologisk Tidsskrift 107, nr. 1 (2006): 3-17.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "The Great Monkey Jataka." In Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. Edited by Bron Tylor. New York: Continuum, 2005, 904-905.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Bhagavadgita." In Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. Edited by Bron Tylor. New York: Continuum, 2005, 172-173.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Arne Naess." In Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. Edited by Bron Tylor. New York: Continuum, 2005, 1149-1150.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Jataka," In Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. Edited by Bron Tylor. New York: Continuum, 2005, 903, 904.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "India," In Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. Edited by Bron Tylor. New York: Continuum, 2005, 823-827.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Ahimsa" In Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. Edited by Bron Tylor. New York: Continuum, 2005, 30-31.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Prakriti." In Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. Edited by Bron Tylor. New York: Continuum, 2005, 1299-1301.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "The Tirtha of sage Kapila." Manushi. Issue 150, pp. 26-29

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Introduction: Yoga Traditions." In Theory and Practice of Yoga: Essays in Honour of Gerald James Larson. Ed. Knut A. Jacobsen. Leiden: Brill, 2005, 1-28.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "In Kapila’s Cave: A Samkhya-Yoga Renaissance in Bengal." In Theory and Practice of Yoga: Essays in Honour of Gerald James Larson. Ed. Knut A. Jacobsen. Leiden: Brill, 2005, 333-350.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Det andre livsstadiet: Ekteskapstradisjoner i hinduismen i Sør-Asia og i diasporaen," i Evig Din?: Ekteskaps- og samlivstradisjoner i det flerreligiøse Norge. Ed. Berit Synnøve Thorbjørnsrud. Oslo: Abstract forlag, 2005. 174-195

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Kapila in the Mahabharata." In The Mahabharata: Whatever Is Not There Is Nowhere else. Ed. T. S. Rukmani. Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal. 35-47.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Interdependence and Non-Injury." Sankhyayana 2 (2004): 25-26.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Nye rituelle rom i hindudiasporaen i Norge." Chaos 41 (2004): 41-52.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "The Child Manifestation of Shiva in Contemporary Hindu Popular Prints." Numen 52 (2004): 237-264.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Hva er Yoga?" P2-Akademiet XXXI. Oslo:Transit, 2004, pp. 156-168.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Hinduisme: Mat som kosmisk, etisk, sosial og materiell virkelighet." In Når Gud bestemmer menyen. Ed Gunnar Neegaard. Oslo: Yrkeslitteratur, 2004, pp. 191-215.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Menneskerettigheter i hinduisme." Religion og livssyn 16, no. 1, (2004): 25-30.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Future Prospects." Co-authored with P. Pratap Kumar. In South Asians in Diaspora: Histories and Religious Traditions.Ed. Knut A. Jacobsen and Pratap Kumar. Leiden: Brill, 2004, pp. 498-500.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Introduction." Co-authored with P. Pratap Kumar. In South Asians in Diaspora: Histories and Religious Traditions.Ed. Knut A. Jacobsen and Pratap Kumar. Leiden: Brill, 2004, pp. ix-xxiv.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Establishing Ritual Space in the Hindu Diaspora in Norway." In South Asians in Diaspora: Histories and Religious Traditions.Ed. Knut A. Jacobsen and Pratap Kumar. Leiden: Brill, 2004, pp. 134-148.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Matrigayaparvanashraddha: Pilegrimsferd til Sidhpur for å gi frelse til avdøde mødre. " Chaos 39 (2003), pp. 49-58.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "The Sacred Geography of Kapila: The Kapilashrama of Sidhpur, " Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis vol 18: Ritualistics, (2003) pp. 82-91.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Settling in Cold Climate: Tamil Hindus in Norway" In Martin Baumann, Brigitte Luchesi, Annette Wilke (eds.), Tempel und Tamilen in zweiter Heimat. Hindus aus Sri Lanka im deutschsprachigen und skandinavischen Raum. Würzburg: Ergon Press 2003, pp. 363-377.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Flere veier til samme mål - Asiatiske verdensreligioner i Norge og religiøs sannhet." P2-Akademiet Bind XXVII. Oslo: Transit 2003, pp. 76-88.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Vold i hinduismen" ("Violence in Hinduism" in Norwegian). Religion og livssyn 14, no. 4, (2002), pp. 24-29.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Shiva som barn: Tradisjon og innovasjon i hinduismens gudeplakatkunst" ("Shiva as Child: Tradition and Innovation in the God Posters of Hinduism". Din 2/3 (2002): 13-19.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Buddhismens ritualer" ("The Rituals of Buddhism, " in Norwegian). In P2 Akademiet X. Oslo: NRK Fakta, 2002, p. 95-107.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Dyr i hinduismen" ("Animals in Hinduism" in Norwegian). Religion og livssyn 14, no. 1, (2002): 20-24.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "En flerreligiøs verden og religionsmangfoldet i Norge." ("A Multireligious World and the Plurality of Religions in Norway"). I Verdensreligioner i Norge. ("World Religions in Norway’). Editor and contributing author. Oslo: Norwegian University Press, 2001, 10-28.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Buddhismen i Norge" ("Buddhism in Norway"). In Verdensreligioner i Norge ("World Religions in Norway’). Editor and contributing author. Oslo: Norwegian University Press, 2001, 29-75.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Hinduismen i Norge" ("Hinduism in Norway"). In Verdensreligioner i Norge ("World Religions in Norway’). Editor and contributing author. Oslo: Norwegian University Press, 2001, 76-129.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Hinduismens gudsforestillinger." ("The Conception of Divinty in Hinduism"). In P2 Akademiet Q. Oslo: NRK Kultur, 2000, 179-192.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "En verdensreligion i diaspora: Sri Lanka tamilenes hinduisme i Bergen" ("A World Religion in Diaspora: The Sri Lanka Tamil Hinduism in Bergen"). In Religionsbyen Bergen (The Religious City Bergen), ed. Lisbeth Mikaelsson. Bergen, 2000, 159-174.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Tid, verdensoppløsning og religiøs opplevelse: Samkhya-prinsippenes (tattvaenes) funksjon i hinduismens endetidsforestillinger." ("Time, Dissolution of the World, and Religious Experience: The Function of the Samkhya-principles (tattvas) in Some Hindu Conceptions of Universal and Individual Dissolution," in Norwegian) Chaos 33 (2000): 25-37.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Bhagavadgita, Ecosophy T and Deep Ecology." In Beneath the Surface: Critical Essays in the Philosophy of Deep Ecology, ed. Eric Katz, Andrew Light, and David Rothenberg. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2000, 231-52.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Tekster fra Hinduismen" ("Translation of texts from Hinduism") in Kildesamling til krl-faget. Oslo: Nasjonalt læremiddelsenter 2000, 365-432.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Mat og askese i hinduismen" ("Food and Asceticism in Hinduism"). Din 1 (1999): 20-25

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Noen hinduistiske forestillinger om tid (kala)" ("Some Conceptions of Time in Hinduism," in Norwegian). Religion og livssyn 11, no. 4, (1999): 34-41.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Religionens dimensjoner i hinduismens tempel (mandir) i Sør-Asia og i diaspora" ("The Dimensions of Religion in the Temple (Mandir) of Hinduism in South Asia and in Diaspora," in Norwegian). Prismet 50, no. 4 (1999): 156-66. Also published in Tempel og Katedral: Kunst og arkitektur som gudstroens speilbilde. Ed. Renate Banschbach Eggen og Olav Hognestad. Trondheim: Tapir, 2000, s. 23-39.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Kapila: Founder of Samkhya and Avatara of Vishnu." OrientaliaSuecana vol 47 (1998): 69-85.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Stedets kraft i hinduismens hellige land og landskap" ("The Power of Place in The Sacred Land and Landscape of Hinduism," in Norwegian). In Enhet i Mangfold: 100 år med religionshistorie i Norge, ed. Inger Marie Ruud og Sigurd Hjelde. Oslo: Aschehoug, 1998, 118-32.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Hinduismens identitet" ("The Identity of Hinduism, " in Norwegian). Prismet 49.4 (1998): 155-62.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Noen vanlige misforståelser om hinduismen" ("Some Common Misunderstandings About Hinduism," in Norwegian). Prismet 49.4 (1998): 163-66.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Shivas barndom." ("The Childhood of Shiva," in Norwegian). Chaos 29 (1998): 53-79.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "The Upanshads: The Last Part of the Veda, the Revealed Scripture of Hinduism." In Philosophical Pocketbook: Circling Around the Act of Creating, ed. Paula Fure. Kongsberg: Galleri Åkern, 1997, pp. 8-9.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Hinduismen i diaspora: Religiøs endring og norsk kontekst" ("Hinduism in Diaspora: Religious Change and Norwegian Context," in Norwegian). Kirke og Kultur 102, no 4/5 (1997): 441-52.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Komparasjon og Pluralitet" ("Comparison and Plurality," in Norwegian). Religion og Livssyn 9, no 3 (1997): 16-19.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Humankind and Nature in Buddhism." In A Companion to World Philosophies, ed. Eliot Deutsch and Ron Bontekoe. Oxford: Blackwell, 1997, pp. 381-91.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Fristende magiske evner (siddhi, vibhuti) som bivirkninger av yogapraksis i Samkhya og Samkhya-Yoga ("Tempting Magical Powers [siddhi, vibhuti] as Side-effects of Yoga Practice According to Samkhya and Samkhya-Yoga," in Norwegian). Chaos 27 (1997): 79-94.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Magiske evner som ikke er magiske: Bedrageri og skepsis til magiske evner i sør-asiatisk historie" ("Magic Powers that are not Magical," in Norwegian). In Magi i møte med det moderne, ed. Torunn Selberg. Oslo: Research Council of Norway. KULTs skriftserie nr. 83, pp. 152-66.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Hinduismens tempel (prasada, mandira)" ("The Temple of Hinduism" [prasada, mandira] ," in Norwegian) Religion og Livssyn, 9, no. 2(1997): 40-3.

Jacobsen, Knut A. Erratum, "The Anthropocentric Bias in Eliade's Interpretation of the Samkhya and Samkhya-Yoga Systems of Religious Thought." Religion 26 (1996): 401.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Prakriti." In Kalatattvakosha: A Lexicon of Fundamental Concepts of the Indian Arts, vol III, Primal Elements - Mahabharata, ed. Bettina Bäumer. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass., 1996. pp. 1-48.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Bhagavadgita, Ecosophy T, and Deep Ecology." Inquiry 39 (1996): 219-38.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "The Female Pole of the Godhead in Tantrism and the Prakriti of Samkhya." Numen 43 (1996): 56-81.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Ikke-beskadigelse (ahimsa) og offer-ideologi i Bhagavadgita" ("Non-Injury (ahimsa) and the ideology of the Sacrifice in the Bhagavadgita," in Norwegian). Chaos 24 (1995): 59-71.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "The Anthropocentric Bias in Eliade's Interpretation of the Samkhya and Samkhya-Yoga Systems of Religious Thought." Religion 25(1995): 213-225.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "The Institutionalization of the Ethics of 'Non-injury Towards All Beings' in Ancient India." Environmental Ethics, 16, no 3 (1994): 287-301.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Ordinary Nature: Pakati in the Pali Scripture." Asian Philosophy 3, no. 2 (1993): 75-87.

Jacobsen, Knut A. "Restrained Persons, Transformed Places: Relation to Place in the Samkhya-Yoga Traditions." In Environmental Ethics: Discourses and Cultural Traditions, A Festschrift to Arne Naess, ed. Rana B. Singh. Also published in The National Geographical Journal of India, 39, no. 1-2 (1993): 141-49.

Book reviews

Jacobsen, Knut A. Review of Mikael Aktor og Robert Deliege (eds), From Stigma to Assertion: Untouchability, Identity and Politics in Early and Modern India. Chaos. Dansk-norsk tidsskrift for religionhistoriske studier 2012 (56) s. 149-151

Jacobsen, Knut A. Review of Inside the Guru’s Gate: Ritual Uses of Texts Among the Sikhs in Varanasi, Kristina Myrvold. Journal of Punjab Studies 2010 ;Volum 17.(1-2) s. 149-151

Jacobsen, Knut A. Review of Hinduism and Ecology: The Intersection of Earth, Sky, and Water, ed Christopher Key Chapple and Mary Evelyn Tucker. Environmental Ethics 25 (2003): 333-336.

Jacobsen, Knut A. Review of The Work of Kings: The New Buddhism in Sri Lanka, by H. L. Seneviratne. Religion 33 (2003): 181-182.

Jacobsen, Knut A. Review of The Emergence of Hindu Nationalism in India, by John Zavos. Contemporary South Asia, vol. 10 (2001): 439-440.

Jacobsen, Knut A. Review of Jnandev Studies I and II, Songs on Yoga and III, The Conservative Vaishnava, by Catharina Kiehnle. Acta Orientalia, vol. 62 (2001): 269-271.

Jacobsen, Knut A. Review of Violence Denied: Violence, Non-violence and the Rationalization of Violence in South Asian Cultural History, ed. Jan. E. M. Houben and Karel R. van Kooij (eds.). Religion, 31, no. 3 (2001): 277-278.

Jacobsen, Knut A. Review of Indra and other Vedic deities: A euhemeristic study, by Uma Chakravarty. International Journal of Hindu Studies 4, nr. 2 (2000): 207-208.

Jacobsen, Knut A. Review of Politikens håndbog i Verdens religioner, ed. Mikael Rothstein. Chaos 34, 111-112.

Jacobsen, Knut A. Review of Buddhism in Practice, ed. Donald S. Lopez. Contemporary South Asia 9, no 3 (2000):384-385.

Review of Tone Lie Bøttinger og Kåre A. Lie, Søstrenes sanger: Therigatha. Chaos 34, 110-111.

Jacobsen, Knut A. Review of On Understanding Buddhists: Essays on the Theravada Tradition in Sri Lanka, by John Ross Carter. Religion 30 (2000): 78-79.

Jacobsen, Knut A. Review of Professor Kane’s Contribution to Dharmashastra Literature, ed. S. G. Moghe. Religious Studies Review 25, no. 4 (1999): 443.

Jacobsen, Knut A. Review of A Buddhist Woman’s Path to Enlightenment, ed. Peter Schalk. Temenos 34 (1998): 297-300.

Jacobsen, Knut A. Review of Deep Ecology for the 21st Century: Readings on the Philosophy of the New Environmentalism, ed. Georg Sessions, Journal of the American Academy of Religion 66 (1998): 967-69.

Review of How Buddhism Began, by Richard F. Gombrich. In Temenos 33 (1997): Jacobsen, Knut A. 276-79.

Jacobsen, Knut A. Review of Prakriti: The Integral Vision, five volumes, ed. Kapila Vatsyayana. In Acta Orientalia 58 (1997): 244-49.

Jacobsen, Knut A. Review of Ancient Eastern Philosophy for Beginners, by Richard Osborne and Borin Van Loon. In Contemporary South Asia6 (1997): 294-95.

Jacobsen, Knut A. Review of Representing Hinduism, ed. Vasudha Dalmia and H. von Stietencron. In Numen 44 (1997): 347-48.

Jacobsen, Knut A. Review of The Divine and the Demoniac, by Carmel Berkson. In Contemporary South Asia6 (1997): 103-4.

Jacobsen, Knut A. Review of A Survey of Hinduism, by Klaus K. Klostermaier. In Numen 44 (1997): 97-8.

Jacobsen, Knut A. Review of Harmony of Religions, by Thomas Manninezhath. In ActaOrientalia 57 (1996): 212-14.

Jacobsen, Knut A. Review of The Self and Its States, by Andrew O. Fort. In ActaOrientalia 57 (1996): 211-12.

Jacobsen, Knut A. Review of Ecology and Religion: Ecological Spirituality in Cross-Cultural Perspective, by David Kinsley. In Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 64 (1996): 907-9.

Jacobsen, Knut A. Review of The Philosophy of Religion and Advaita Vedanta: A Comparative Study in Religion and Reason, by Arvind Sharma. In Religion 26 (1996): 377-78.

Jacobsen, Knut A. Review of Ecological Prospects: Scientific, Religious, and Aesthetic Perspectives, ed. Christopher Key Chapple. In Journal of The American Academy of Religion 64 (1996): 656-9.

Jacobsen, Knut A. Review of Rules and Regulations of Brahmanical Asceticism, Yatidharmasamuccaya of Yadava Prakasha, ed. and trans. by Patrick Olivelle. In Numen 43 (1996): 321-2.

Jacobsen, Knut A. Review of Das Brahmanische Totenritual nach der Antyeshtipaddhati des Narayanabhatta, by Klaus Werner Müller. In Journal of Asian Studies 53, No. 2 (1994): 602-3.

Jacobsen, Knut A. Review of Buddha Nature, by Sallie B. King, In Buddhist-Christian Studies 14 (1994): 198-200.

Jacobsen, Knut A. Review of Religion Philosophy Yoga, by Jean Filliozat. In South Asia in Review, 16, no. 1 (1992): 42.

Jacobsen, Knut A. Review of Encountering the Goddess, by Thomas B. Coburn. In South Asia in Review, 15, n. 4 (1991): 87.

Jacobsen, Knut A. Review of Hugging the Trees: The Story of the Chipko Movement, by Thomas Weber. In South Asia in Review, 15, no. 4 (1991): 91-93.

Jacobsen, Knut A. Review of Human Fertility Cults and Rituals in Bengal, by P. K. Maity. In South Asia in Review, 14, no. 4 (1990): 11-12.

Public Radio Lectures

"Hva er Yoga?" P2 Akademiet (Public Radio Lecture). September 20. og 21. February, 2004.

"Flere veier til samme mål - verdensreligioner i Norge og religiøs sannhet" ("Several Paths to the same goal: World Religions in Norway and Religious Truth"). P2 Akademiet (Public Radio Lecture). September 10.,11. and 14., 2002.

"Buddhismens ritualer" ("The Rituals of Buddhism, " in Norwegian). P2 Akademiet (Public Radio Lecture) September 9. and 15., 2001.

"Hinduismens gudsforestillinger ("The Conceptions of God in Hinduism, " in Norwegian). P2 Akademiet (Public Radio Lecture) 17.4/24.4.1999.

Newspaper and Magazine Articles

"Religiøs identitet." Feature article (kronikk) Bergens Tidende, May 30, 2006.

"Indisk vei til helse og velvære." Feature article (kronikk) Aftenposten, August 4, 2005. Også utgitt i svensk oversettelse: Knut A. Jacobsen, "Väg till vishet har blivit motionsform". Sydasien 29.3 (2005):

"Hva skjer med Indias kastesystem." Feature article (kronikk) Aftenposten, July 11, 2004.

"Verdensreligionene forandrer Norge." Feature article (kronikk) Morgenbladet, July 2-8

"En sikh som leder skaper forsoning i India" ("A Sikh as leader creates reconciliation in India"). Feature article (kronikk) Aftenposten, June 15, 2004.

"Verdensreligioner i Norge" ("World Religions in Norway"). Feature article (kronikk) Aftenposten, November 21, 2001.

"Seva, maitri og karmayoga. " Tredje Verden Magasinet X 6 (2001): 52.

"Templet: En sentral institusjon for hinduismen i Tamil-kulturen i Norge"("The temple: A Central Institution for Hinduism of the Tamil Culture in Norway") Tamil Sangam i Norge 20 år, 41-43.

• Hinduistiske tradisjoner i Uttar Pradesh
• Religionspluralisme i Tamil Nadu
• Tamilhinduismen/tamilkatolisismen i Norge
• Samkhyatradisjoner i India/20. århundre Bengal
• Religiøse prosesjoner
• Religion og bioetikk
• Sikhismens ritualer i Norden