Knut Aukland
PhD Candidate
Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion
Homepage: http://www.uib.no/en/bsaf
Title: PhD Candidate
Cellphone: +47 472 98 662 SMS
E-mail: Knut.Aukland@ahkr.uib.no
Visiting address: Øysteinsgate 3
Room number: 423
Jainism, Hinduism, pilgrimage, religion and science, religion and tourism, Indian colonial history
Academic publications
"Deity Worship in Nakoda: Religion and Economy in a Jaina Pilgrimage Site" in Jaina Law and Society, Ed. Peter Flügel, Routledge. Forthcoming, February 2014.
"Connecting British and Indian, elite and subaltern: Arthur Crawford and corruption in the later nineteenth century Western India" in South Asian History and Culture, Vol. 4, Is. 3, 2013.
"Understanding Possession in Jainism: A Study of Oracular Possession in Nakoda" in Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 47, 2013, pp. 109-134.
"The Cult of Nakoda Bhairava: Deity Worship and Possession in Jainism" in Jaina Studies: Newsletter of the Centre of Jaina Studies, Is. 6 March 2011, pp. 31-33.
Other publications
"Jainisme på norsk", Religioner.no, aug. 2013
"Norges fineste 99-er", BT, mai 2013
"Nākoḍā Bhairava", Jainpedia, des. 2012
"Med godt skal ondt fordeles", BT og Concerned Scientists Norway, okt. 2012
"Religion er en viktig arena", BT og , sep. 2012
"Om terror og tilregnelighet", Religioner.no, sep. 2012
RELV 103 – Hinduism, Buddhism and other Asian Religions
Ph.D. project (2012-2016)
Religion and tourism in Hindu pilgrimage practices - an anthropological study of the encounter between travelers and pilgrimage destinations in North India.
Supervisor: Michael Stausberg
Co-supervisors: Kathinka Frøystad og Istvan Keul