Birgitte Schepelern Johansen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3693546 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Birgitte Schepelern Johansen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Birgitte Schepelern |
| FAMILY NAME | Johansen |
| SIGNATURE | JOHANSEN B S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Hate, crime and epistemic vulnerability: On sense-making and feelings of (un)safety among Danish Muslims
This article investigates feelings of (un)safety emerging from knowing and sharing knowledge about hate crime and hate incidents. Drawing on fieldwork and interviews with young Muslims living in the greater Copenhagen area, the article explores the way the interlocutors seek to make sense of their experiences through available epistemic categories, and how this sense-making is shaped by reactions from the surrounding society, e.g., whether it is …
Chasing the Secular: Methodological Reflections on How to Make the Secular Tangible
How can we engage the secular in ways that encourage empirical investigations of its specific and embodied expressions? Locating the secular in particular places and situations invites the scholar to recognize it, to say "there it is." However, the secular seems difficult to pin down precisely: it quickly expands into everything that is not considered religion in a given context, and the distinctively secular seems to evaporate into nothing. This…
A liberal battle cry against hate
Book review: Against Hate, by Carolin Emcke. Polity. 156 pp
Hate, Politics, Law
What is at stake in the modern combatting of hate in liberal democratic societies? This book takes up the question and offers a critical exploration of the basic assumptions, ideals and agendas behind the fighting of hate, as expressed for example through anti-hate speech and anti-hate crime initiatives. Most research on hate crime, on hatred as such, and on the -isms and -phobias with which it is commonly connected (racism, anti-Semitism, homoph…
When the State Hates: Critical Perspectives on Combating Hate
This chapter considers the liberal state not as an opponent, but as a perpetrator, of hate. It explores the possibility that the liberal state might express or enact, through policies or institutional action or design, something we would recognize as hate if it were perpetrated by a private actor or a repressive regime. The chapter takes as a case study the regime of “enforcement by attrition” deployed against undocumented immigrants by American …
Pondering Hatred
The Memory of Prevention. European Anti-Hate Crime Policy and Holocaust Remembrance
Hate as a Political Outcast
Increasingly, certain types of crime, speech and prejudice are being targeted by European policy makers under the label of “hate.” Building on participant observations at anti-hate crime conferences in Copenhagen and Vilnius, and policy documents and campaign material from a range of national an international actors, this article probes the ways in which hate is problematized within current anti-hate crime activities in Europe. Hate seems here to…
Heroin: From Drug to Ambivalent Medicine
An Introduction to Alternative Spaces
This book is about people who, in various ways, seek to carve out a space for themselves relatively independently of the existing social and political realities of which they, nevertheless, continue to be a part. Through a range of ethnographical cases, the book addresses the innovative and complex ways in which social groups show abilities to position themselves between cultures, between states, between moralities, or between local communities a…
Counting niqabs and burqas in Denmark: Methodological Aspects of Quantifying Rare and Elusive Religious Sub-cultures
Muslim women wearing face-covering clothing are the subject of politicallyheated debates in a number of European countries, but reliable data on the number of these women (niqabis) are generally lacking. At the request of the Danish government, the authors conducted a survey of niqabis in Denmark; this work is the first attempt to quantify niqabis in a European country by sampling new data from several different kinds of sources. Sociologically, …
Post-secular sociology: Modes, Possibilities and Challenges
It is by now well known that the modern category of religion has evolved as part of a certain trajectory of Western history. Among its many aspects, this trajectory is about how religion became part of a definitive relationship with the category of the secular - a relationship that implies an understanding of religion as something distinct - and ideally # - from other categories such as science, politics, and law. The place of the category of rel…
Shifting gear: New Agendas in the Sociological Study of Religion
Editorial for the special issue on the new agendas in the sociological study of religion
Negotiating The Object. Nearness, Distance and The Category ‘Religion’ in Academic Practices
This article critically reflects on the presuppositions of the scholarly study of religion. It does so, by demonstrating the inadequacy of a spatial discourse that is frequently used to demarcate the scholarly study of religion from its object. This spatial discourse is based on the upholding of a sharp demarcation between religion and the academic study of religion, and between object and researcher. This boundary work implies the upholding of a…
Counting Deviance: Revisiting a Decade’s Production of Surveys among Muslims in Western Europe
This article looks at the emergence of Muslims as a category of knowledge in surveys and opinion polls that have been conducted as a reaction to the rising demand for data about Muslim populations in Western Europe within the last ten years. The most prevalent feature of the conceptualization of Muslims is that they are inherently immigrants, or of immigrant descent, who are living within a certain nation state. This creates a continuous statisti…
Doing the secular’: Academic practices in the study of religion at two Danish universities
The academic study of religion at the public university often presents itself as a secular, non-religious, scientific endeavor. The identity of the study is thus firmly rooted within one of the central secular—religious divides, namely that between science and religion. Based on the assumption that such distinctions between religion and the secular (in this case science) are by no means naturally given, but continuously need to be produced and sa…
Islamic Theology At The European Universities Secularisation, Boundaries And The Role Of Religion
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Counting Deviance: Revisiting a Decade’s Production of Surveys among Muslims in Western Europe
This article looks at the emergence of Muslims as a category of knowledge in surveys and opinion polls that have been conducted as a reaction to the rising demand for data about Muslim populations in Western Europe within the last ten years. The most prevalent feature of the conceptualization of Muslims is that they are inherently immigrants, or of immigrant descent, who are living within a certain nation state. This creates a continuous statisti…
Doing the secular’: Academic practices in the study of religion at two Danish universities
The academic study of religion at the public university often presents itself as a secular, non-religious, scientific endeavor. The identity of the study is thus firmly rooted within one of the central secular—religious divides, namely that between science and religion. Based on the assumption that such distinctions between religion and the secular (in this case science) are by no means naturally given, but continuously need to be produced and sa…
Chasing the Secular: Methodological Reflections on How to Make the Secular Tangible
How can we engage the secular in ways that encourage empirical investigations of its specific and embodied expressions? Locating the secular in particular places and situations invites the scholar to recognize it, to say "there it is." However, the secular seems difficult to pin down precisely: it quickly expands into everything that is not considered religion in a given context, and the distinctively secular seems to evaporate into nothing. This…
The Memory of Prevention. European Anti-Hate Crime Policy and Holocaust Remembrance
Counting niqabs and burqas in Denmark: Methodological Aspects of Quantifying Rare and Elusive Religious Sub-cultures
Muslim women wearing face-covering clothing are the subject of politicallyheated debates in a number of European countries, but reliable data on the number of these women (niqabis) are generally lacking. At the request of the Danish government, the authors conducted a survey of niqabis in Denmark; this work is the first attempt to quantify niqabis in a European country by sampling new data from several different kinds of sources. Sociologically, …
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Islamic Theology At The European Universities Secularisation, Boundaries And The Role Of Religion
Doing the secular’: Academic practices in the study of religion at two Danish universities
The academic study of religion at the public university often presents itself as a secular, non-religious, scientific endeavor. The identity of the study is thus firmly rooted within one of the central secular—religious divides, namely that between science and religion. Based on the assumption that such distinctions between religion and the secular (in this case science) are by no means naturally given, but continuously need to be produced and sa…
Negotiating The Object. Nearness, Distance and The Category ‘Religion’ in Academic Practices
This article critically reflects on the presuppositions of the scholarly study of religion. It does so, by demonstrating the inadequacy of a spatial discourse that is frequently used to demarcate the scholarly study of religion from its object. This spatial discourse is based on the upholding of a sharp demarcation between religion and the academic study of religion, and between object and researcher. This boundary work implies the upholding of a…
Counting Deviance: Revisiting a Decade’s Production of Surveys among Muslims in Western Europe
This article looks at the emergence of Muslims as a category of knowledge in surveys and opinion polls that have been conducted as a reaction to the rising demand for data about Muslim populations in Western Europe within the last ten years. The most prevalent feature of the conceptualization of Muslims is that they are inherently immigrants, or of immigrant descent, who are living within a certain nation state. This creates a continuous statisti…
An Introduction to Alternative Spaces
This book is about people who, in various ways, seek to carve out a space for themselves relatively independently of the existing social and political realities of which they, nevertheless, continue to be a part. Through a range of ethnographical cases, the book addresses the innovative and complex ways in which social groups show abilities to position themselves between cultures, between states, between moralities, or between local communities a…
Counting niqabs and burqas in Denmark: Methodological Aspects of Quantifying Rare and Elusive Religious Sub-cultures
Muslim women wearing face-covering clothing are the subject of politicallyheated debates in a number of European countries, but reliable data on the number of these women (niqabis) are generally lacking. At the request of the Danish government, the authors conducted a survey of niqabis in Denmark; this work is the first attempt to quantify niqabis in a European country by sampling new data from several different kinds of sources. Sociologically, …
Post-secular sociology: Modes, Possibilities and Challenges
It is by now well known that the modern category of religion has evolved as part of a certain trajectory of Western history. Among its many aspects, this trajectory is about how religion became part of a definitive relationship with the category of the secular - a relationship that implies an understanding of religion as something distinct - and ideally # - from other categories such as science, politics, and law. The place of the category of rel…
Shifting gear: New Agendas in the Sociological Study of Religion
Editorial for the special issue on the new agendas in the sociological study of religion
Heroin: From Drug to Ambivalent Medicine
Hate as a Political Outcast
Increasingly, certain types of crime, speech and prejudice are being targeted by European policy makers under the label of “hate.” Building on participant observations at anti-hate crime conferences in Copenhagen and Vilnius, and policy documents and campaign material from a range of national an international actors, this article probes the ways in which hate is problematized within current anti-hate crime activities in Europe. Hate seems here to…
Hate, Politics, Law
What is at stake in the modern combatting of hate in liberal democratic societies? This book takes up the question and offers a critical exploration of the basic assumptions, ideals and agendas behind the fighting of hate, as expressed for example through anti-hate speech and anti-hate crime initiatives. Most research on hate crime, on hatred as such, and on the -isms and -phobias with which it is commonly connected (racism, anti-Semitism, homoph…
When the State Hates: Critical Perspectives on Combating Hate
This chapter considers the liberal state not as an opponent, but as a perpetrator, of hate. It explores the possibility that the liberal state might express or enact, through policies or institutional action or design, something we would recognize as hate if it were perpetrated by a private actor or a repressive regime. The chapter takes as a case study the regime of “enforcement by attrition” deployed against undocumented immigrants by American …
Pondering Hatred
The Memory of Prevention. European Anti-Hate Crime Policy and Holocaust Remembrance
A liberal battle cry against hate
Book review: Against Hate, by Carolin Emcke. Polity. 156 pp
Chasing the Secular: Methodological Reflections on How to Make the Secular Tangible
How can we engage the secular in ways that encourage empirical investigations of its specific and embodied expressions? Locating the secular in particular places and situations invites the scholar to recognize it, to say "there it is." However, the secular seems difficult to pin down precisely: it quickly expands into everything that is not considered religion in a given context, and the distinctively secular seems to evaporate into nothing. This…
Hate, crime and epistemic vulnerability: On sense-making and feelings of (un)safety among Danish Muslims
This article investigates feelings of (un)safety emerging from knowing and sharing knowledge about hate crime and hate incidents. Drawing on fieldwork and interviews with young Muslims living in the greater Copenhagen area, the article explores the way the interlocutors seek to make sense of their experiences through available epistemic categories, and how this sense-making is shaped by reactions from the surrounding society, e.g., whether it is …
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)