Jørgen Podemann Sørensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1447362 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jørgen Podemann Sørensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jørgen Podemann |
| FAMILY NAME | Sørensen |
| SIGNATURE | SØRENSEN J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Festlarm og Stilhed: Af kultdramaets videnskabshistorie
In Vilhelm Grønbech’s The Culture of the Teutons (1931), there was a chapter on ‘The Creative Festival’, originally the final chapter in the first Danish edition and entitled ‘Festal silence and festal noise’. To the English edition was finally added an ‘Essay on ritual drama,’ often considered the very foundation of the traditionally strong interest in the myth-ritual relationship among Danish historians of religions. Grønbech did not pretend to…
At løfte himlen, forene sig med solen og sætte pottemagerskiven i gang: Transmytologisk redundans i en ægyptisk fest
Rituals are often redundant sequences repeating important themes, e.g. a key mythological event, very much as a refrain. This mythological redundancy may, however, also consist in analogous, but narratively unconnected mythical events, e.g. killing a dragon – stabilizing the earth – civilizing the country. A good example of this transmythological redundancy is an ancient Egyptian festival of Khnum in Esna. All festivals are, with an expression bo…
Siálfr siálfom mér’ – Hávamál 138 og offerets retorik: Et komparativt perspektiv
In Hávamál 138, Oðinn describes, in almost provocative, paradox terms, how he was once hanging in a tree, sacrificed to himself. The strange motif has been compared with Vedic ideas of sacrifice, and also Christian influence has been suggested. This paper is an attempt – through a broader comparative study of the circular logic of sacrifice as expressed in religious texts notably from ancient Egypt and Vedic India – to understand the significance…
I begyndelsen var snavset: Snavs, råddenskab og anomisk adfærd som forløsende i traditionelle (’præ-axiale’) religioner
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This paper deals with dirt, anomic behaviour, death and decay as productive and redemptive means within four very different traditional religions: Shinto, ancient Egyptian religion, classical Indian religion and Greek religion. In all four contexts, the motif is somehow anchored in mythology and makes sense first and foremost in ritualization, i.e. as part of the symbolic accompaniment of ritual metamorphosis. As others have dem…
The real presence of Osiris: Iconic, semi-iconic and aniconic ritual representations of an Egyptian god
The ancient Egyptian god Osiris was represented in iconic forms in temple reliefs and statues, in semi-iconic form in the so-called corn-Osiris or Osiris-bed, and in aniconic form as the Djed-pillar. All three variations in iconicity are ritual representations of the god and somehow claim his real presence: the temple reliefs by (textually transmitted) conventions, the corn-Osiris by the real, sprouting corn that fills the Osiris outline or form,…
The Sacrificial Logic of Cultic Meals in Antiquity
Den rituellen Mahlzeiten des Altertums liegt ein traditioneller Opfergedanke zu Grunde. Das Opfer wird als kritischer Drehpunkt gedeutet, an dem die Weltordnung, ein bestimmtes Projekt oder die Gemeinschaft, die auf dem Spiel stehen, erneuert und bestätigt werden. In den nachfolgenden Mahlzeiten werden die Gäste oder die Gemeinschaft dieser Erneuerung teilhaftig. Auch bei der spätantiken Spiritualisierung des Opfers kann die Mahlzeit den gemeinsa…
Sortes virtuales: A comparative approach to digital divination
Divination, or at least that branch of it that was once called inductive divination, may perhaps be considered an early form of information technology: it involves an input of information as well as an output of information, and between them, there is a process of random access to a kind of retrieval system. At any rate, divination has proven to be almost the ideal form of religious practice for the internet; in principle, at least, an act of di…
Animal Sacrifice in Ancient Greek Religion, Judaism, and Christianity, 100 BC to AD 200
The rhetoric of ritual
Ritual is an activity formally situated at that point zero where every move and every word become efficacious because they deal with things in their "state of not yet being". The role of religious representations in ritual is to dramatize the countdown to that turning point and sometimes also to express and secure the order of things the priest wishes to see when he re-emerges from the primeval darkness of the sanctuary. There are multiple ways i…
Religion in Roman Egypt: Assimilation and Resistance. David Frankfurter
Det religiøse nulpunkt
Taking its point of departure in Frits Staal’s theory of ritual as a pure, meaningless activity, this paper identifies and further develops a somewhat similar, but more sophisticated Andamanese theory of ritual as an activity formally situated in point zero and, with a classical Daoist expression, “dealing with things in their state of not yet being.” This theory unites the formal aspects of existing theories of myth and ritual and rites of passa…
Daily Life of the Egyptian Gods . Dimitri Meeks , Christine Favard-Meeks , G. M. Goshgarian
On divination: An exercise in comparative method
Some comparative methods aim at establishing universals, others seek human causes that will account for cross-cultural or transhistorical resemblance. The sole aim of the comparative method presented here is to improve our questionnaire. All theories, including those claiming universals, contribute to our professional questionnaire; and that is how, in spite of the theoretical monsters we have to kill every year, our discipline has been making so…
"Isis belongs to your image …". The Idea and the Purport of the Image in the 5th Hour of the Amduat
No abstract available
Ritual Art: A Key to the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead
The Bambara sculpture is a ritual object, in fact one of the dramatis personae of a ritual drama. The Civara, as it is called, is carried on the head during the ritual dance as a token of the presence of the mythical antilope which brought agriculture to the Bambara. Besides the male Civara there is also a female one, and in their dance, the two of them dramatize the fertilizing interaction of sun and soil. Without further exploring Bambara ritua…
Major Issues in the Study of Ancient Egyptian Religion
No abstract available
Ritualistics: A New Discipline in the History of Religions
The history of Religions is in need of subdisciplines. Those that it has are mostly derived from other academic disciplines such as psychology, sociology, or, to mention a more recent invention, aesthetics. Interdisciplinary studies are in many ways a characteristic, inherent feature of the humanities, and certainly not to be resented or mistrusted. It is, however, worth noticing that the History of Religions has only one discipline entirely of i…
Conference on comparative studies in Copenhagen
No abstract available
Ritualistik - en ny religionshistorisk disciplin
The idea of ritualistics as a new discipline in history of religions is based on practical as well as theoretical considerations. The broad, comparative discipline sometimes called the phenomenology of religion has above all adressed a number of interesting themes, usually without distinguishing levels of analysis. In discussions of themes like the idea of god or divine kingship, the failure to recognize ritual as a distinct level not immediately…
Anmeldelser
Three Varieties of Ritual Drama
No abstract available
Go west, man - western-myten i undervisningen. Et forløb i dansk
Go west, man - western-myten i undervisningen. Et forløb i dansk
Gnosis and mysticism as illustrated by Eugnostos the Blessed
The Letter of Eugnostos or Eugnostos the Blessed as the text is usually called, has come down to us in two copies, one in NagHammadi Codex III and another less well preserved in Codex V. The text has aroused considerable interest as a possible sample of so-called pre-christian gnosis. Writing under the programmatic name Eugnostos and the more common Makarios, the author addresses his pupils or adepts to teach them about god. He starts by refuting…
The real presence of Osiris: Iconic, semi-iconic and aniconic ritual representations of an Egyptian god
The ancient Egyptian god Osiris was represented in iconic forms in temple reliefs and statues, in semi-iconic form in the so-called corn-Osiris or Osiris-bed, and in aniconic form as the Djed-pillar. All three variations in iconicity are ritual representations of the god and somehow claim his real presence: the temple reliefs by (textually transmitted) conventions, the corn-Osiris by the real, sprouting corn that fills the Osiris outline or form,…
Det religiøse nulpunkt
Taking its point of departure in Frits Staal’s theory of ritual as a pure, meaningless activity, this paper identifies and further develops a somewhat similar, but more sophisticated Andamanese theory of ritual as an activity formally situated in point zero and, with a classical Daoist expression, “dealing with things in their state of not yet being.” This theory unites the formal aspects of existing theories of myth and ritual and rites of passa…
Ritualistik - en ny religionshistorisk disciplin
The idea of ritualistics as a new discipline in history of religions is based on practical as well as theoretical considerations. The broad, comparative discipline sometimes called the phenomenology of religion has above all adressed a number of interesting themes, usually without distinguishing levels of analysis. In discussions of themes like the idea of god or divine kingship, the failure to recognize ritual as a distinct level not immediately…
Gnosis and mysticism as illustrated by Eugnostos the Blessed
The Letter of Eugnostos or Eugnostos the Blessed as the text is usually called, has come down to us in two copies, one in NagHammadi Codex III and another less well preserved in Codex V. The text has aroused considerable interest as a possible sample of so-called pre-christian gnosis. Writing under the programmatic name Eugnostos and the more common Makarios, the author addresses his pupils or adepts to teach them about god. He starts by refuting…
Go west, man - western-myten i undervisningen. Et forløb i dansk
Go west, man - western-myten i undervisningen. Et forløb i dansk
Three Varieties of Ritual Drama
No abstract available
Anmeldelser
Conference on comparative studies in Copenhagen
No abstract available
Ritualistik - en ny religionshistorisk disciplin
The idea of ritualistics as a new discipline in history of religions is based on practical as well as theoretical considerations. The broad, comparative discipline sometimes called the phenomenology of religion has above all adressed a number of interesting themes, usually without distinguishing levels of analysis. In discussions of themes like the idea of god or divine kingship, the failure to recognize ritual as a distinct level not immediately…
Ritualistics: A New Discipline in the History of Religions
The history of Religions is in need of subdisciplines. Those that it has are mostly derived from other academic disciplines such as psychology, sociology, or, to mention a more recent invention, aesthetics. Interdisciplinary studies are in many ways a characteristic, inherent feature of the humanities, and certainly not to be resented or mistrusted. It is, however, worth noticing that the History of Religions has only one discipline entirely of i…
Major Issues in the Study of Ancient Egyptian Religion
No abstract available
Ritual Art: A Key to the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead
The Bambara sculpture is a ritual object, in fact one of the dramatis personae of a ritual drama. The Civara, as it is called, is carried on the head during the ritual dance as a token of the presence of the mythical antilope which brought agriculture to the Bambara. Besides the male Civara there is also a female one, and in their dance, the two of them dramatize the fertilizing interaction of sun and soil. Without further exploring Bambara ritua…
"Isis belongs to your image …". The Idea and the Purport of the Image in the 5th Hour of the Amduat
No abstract available
Daily Life of the Egyptian Gods . Dimitri Meeks , Christine Favard-Meeks , G. M. Goshgarian
On divination: An exercise in comparative method
Some comparative methods aim at establishing universals, others seek human causes that will account for cross-cultural or transhistorical resemblance. The sole aim of the comparative method presented here is to improve our questionnaire. All theories, including those claiming universals, contribute to our professional questionnaire; and that is how, in spite of the theoretical monsters we have to kill every year, our discipline has been making so…
Det religiøse nulpunkt
Taking its point of departure in Frits Staal’s theory of ritual as a pure, meaningless activity, this paper identifies and further develops a somewhat similar, but more sophisticated Andamanese theory of ritual as an activity formally situated in point zero and, with a classical Daoist expression, “dealing with things in their state of not yet being.” This theory unites the formal aspects of existing theories of myth and ritual and rites of passa…
Religion in Roman Egypt: Assimilation and Resistance. David Frankfurter
The rhetoric of ritual
Ritual is an activity formally situated at that point zero where every move and every word become efficacious because they deal with things in their "state of not yet being". The role of religious representations in ritual is to dramatize the countdown to that turning point and sometimes also to express and secure the order of things the priest wishes to see when he re-emerges from the primeval darkness of the sanctuary. There are multiple ways i…
Animal Sacrifice in Ancient Greek Religion, Judaism, and Christianity, 100 BC to AD 200
Sortes virtuales: A comparative approach to digital divination
Divination, or at least that branch of it that was once called inductive divination, may perhaps be considered an early form of information technology: it involves an input of information as well as an output of information, and between them, there is a process of random access to a kind of retrieval system. At any rate, divination has proven to be almost the ideal form of religious practice for the internet; in principle, at least, an act of di…
The Sacrificial Logic of Cultic Meals in Antiquity
Den rituellen Mahlzeiten des Altertums liegt ein traditioneller Opfergedanke zu Grunde. Das Opfer wird als kritischer Drehpunkt gedeutet, an dem die Weltordnung, ein bestimmtes Projekt oder die Gemeinschaft, die auf dem Spiel stehen, erneuert und bestätigt werden. In den nachfolgenden Mahlzeiten werden die Gäste oder die Gemeinschaft dieser Erneuerung teilhaftig. Auch bei der spätantiken Spiritualisierung des Opfers kann die Mahlzeit den gemeinsa…
The real presence of Osiris: Iconic, semi-iconic and aniconic ritual representations of an Egyptian god
The ancient Egyptian god Osiris was represented in iconic forms in temple reliefs and statues, in semi-iconic form in the so-called corn-Osiris or Osiris-bed, and in aniconic form as the Djed-pillar. All three variations in iconicity are ritual representations of the god and somehow claim his real presence: the temple reliefs by (textually transmitted) conventions, the corn-Osiris by the real, sprouting corn that fills the Osiris outline or form,…
I begyndelsen var snavset: Snavs, råddenskab og anomisk adfærd som forløsende i traditionelle (’præ-axiale’) religioner
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This paper deals with dirt, anomic behaviour, death and decay as productive and redemptive means within four very different traditional religions: Shinto, ancient Egyptian religion, classical Indian religion and Greek religion. In all four contexts, the motif is somehow anchored in mythology and makes sense first and foremost in ritualization, i.e. as part of the symbolic accompaniment of ritual metamorphosis. As others have dem…
Siálfr siálfom mér’ – Hávamál 138 og offerets retorik: Et komparativt perspektiv
In Hávamál 138, Oðinn describes, in almost provocative, paradox terms, how he was once hanging in a tree, sacrificed to himself. The strange motif has been compared with Vedic ideas of sacrifice, and also Christian influence has been suggested. This paper is an attempt – through a broader comparative study of the circular logic of sacrifice as expressed in religious texts notably from ancient Egypt and Vedic India – to understand the significance…
Festlarm og Stilhed: Af kultdramaets videnskabshistorie
In Vilhelm Grønbech’s The Culture of the Teutons (1931), there was a chapter on ‘The Creative Festival’, originally the final chapter in the first Danish edition and entitled ‘Festal silence and festal noise’. To the English edition was finally added an ‘Essay on ritual drama,’ often considered the very foundation of the traditionally strong interest in the myth-ritual relationship among Danish historians of religions. Grønbech did not pretend to…
At løfte himlen, forene sig med solen og sætte pottemagerskiven i gang: Transmytologisk redundans i en ægyptisk fest
Rituals are often redundant sequences repeating important themes, e.g. a key mythological event, very much as a refrain. This mythological redundancy may, however, also consist in analogous, but narratively unconnected mythical events, e.g. killing a dragon – stabilizing the earth – civilizing the country. A good example of this transmythological redundancy is an ancient Egyptian festival of Khnum in Esna. All festivals are, with an expression bo…
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