Jørn Borup
Biographic Data
| ID | 4166409 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jørn Borup |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jørn |
| FAMILY NAME | Borup |
| SIGNATURE | BORUP J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1750-6772 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ritualising Waste, Disposal and Afterlife in Japanese Buddhism
Religious waste requires special attention from religious practitioners. Handling of emotionally charged exhausted objects, human-like dolls and ‘lonely deaths’ likewise reflects key aspects of the religion and the cultural understanding of what is and what is not valued as enduring life and disposable waste. What kind of religious practice is required for what kind of waste and death? How are these objects and bodies disposed of, transformed, le…
Lay Zen in Contemporary Japan: Tradition, Interpretation, and Invention, by Erez Joskovich
Temple Death and Revitalization: Managing Religious Waste and Excess
Buddhist temples have had a significant role and function in Japanese society for centuries. In recent decades, depopulation, urbanization, and general secularization have severely impacted the raison d’être of especially rural temples with significant social and cultural consequences of the growing number of empty and abandoned temples. Awareness of such material symbols of Japanese Buddhism’s crisis has led local initiatives to rethink and revi…
Response to Natalie Fisk Quli’s Review of Decolonising the Study of Religion: Who Owns Buddhism
Decolonising the Study of Religion: Who Owns Buddhism?
Decolonising the Study of Religion analyses historical and contemporary discussions in the study of religion and Buddhism and critically investigates representations, possibilities, and challenges of a decolonial approach, addressing the important question: who owns Buddhism? The monograph offers a case-based perspective with which to examine the general study of religion, where new challenges require reflection and prospects for new directions. …
Sōjiji: Discipline, Compassion, and Enlightenment at a Japanese Zen Temple, by Joshua A. Irizarry
Review Joshua A. Irizarry, Sōjiji: Discipline, Compassion, and Enlightenment at a Japanese Zen Temple. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2022
Sophia Rose Arjana, Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace
Conclusion: Decolonising Buddhist and Religious Studies and Beyond
The overall aim of the book was to analyse the postcolonial and decolonial critique of the study of religion, with a particular focus on Buddhist studies in the West and in Japan. Aspects of the new decolonial critique with its identitarian focus is relevant, but with its own flaws not salient in itself as a new general theory. This concluding chapter recapitulates the insights from previous chapters and manoeuvres beyond the ideologised ‘culture…
Cultural religion: Patterns of contemporary majority religion in Denmark
Denmark offers a unique context for exploring patterns of religion among the majority population. In the research of contemporary religion in Europe, many concepts have been developed in the attempt to capture a complex pattern of affiliation, practices, and beliefs among the majority populations in Western Europe. In a Scandinavian setting, however, one such concept, ‘cultural religion’, has appeared in several situations with various foci and e…
Store fortællinger: Tintinologiske refleksioner over alimentære koder, postaksiale idealer og andre metanarrative symptomer på en Hans Jørgen Lundager Jensen’sk religionshistories evige relevans
Det tintinske univers er på mange måder sammenligneligt med et religionsvidenskabeligt. Denne artikel undersøger førstnævnte med sidstnævnte (og vice versa), med slet skjulte referencer til Hans Jørgen Lundager Jensens forfatterskab og faglighed
Identity Turn: Managing Decolonialization and Identity Politics in the Study of Religion
The academic study of religion, with its concepts and theories that originate in a Western, Protestant context, has justly been criticized in postmodern and identity-focused discourses, in recent years under the umbrella of decolonization and social justice activism. It has been suggested that allegedly universally-applicable theories and methodologies are relativized and revealed as particularized Eurocentrism in the hegemonic representations of…
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Annmeldelser til RvT 71: Erika Wallander: Unity, Division and the Religious Mainstream in Sweden (Anne Lundahl Mauritsen) Tero Alstola: Judeans in Babylonia: A Study of Deportees in the Sixth and Fifth Centuries BCE (Frederik Poulsen) Iselin Frydenlund & Michael Jerryson: Buddhist-Muslim Relations in a Theravada World (Jørn Borup
Har en hund Buddha-natur
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Ecologization of Buddhism makes sense in both a mod-ern and posthuman perspective. Initiatives and institutions based on socially engaged Buddhism with sustainability, biodiversity and ecology as ideals have spread in recent decades in both East and West. There are arguments from both classical Pali Buddhist literature and East Asian Mahayana philosophy to justify Buddhist nature symbiosis from both ontological, ethical, and sot…
Who Owns Religion? Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Cultural Appropriation in Postglobal Buddhism
While historically sharing the characteristics of a universalistic religion and a modernist grand narrative, global Buddhism is mainly the product of a late modern development. Centripetal forces with circulating ideas, practices, and institutions have been part of a liberal market in an open exchange society with “open hermeneutics” and an accessible universal grammar. Its global focus has triggered de-ethnification, de-culturalization, and de-t…
Anmeldelse af Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism og The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism
Anmeldelse af Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism og The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism
Galskab og hellighed: Overskridelsens logik og retorik i chan/zen-buddhismen
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Antinomian transgressions have played an important role in Chinese Chan Buddhism (and to a lesser extent in Japanese Zen Buddhism). Wild, crazy, fierce and strange figures have, together with ‘the enlightened layman’, been used as expressions of the Chan/Zen universe, whose style is quite unique in the history of religions. The present article investigates these transgressions’ hermeneutic and performative logic as a contrast to…
The Critical Analysis of Religious Diversity
Drawing on international and thematic case studies, The Critical Analysis of Religious Diversity asks its readers to pay attention to the assumptions and processes by which scholars, religious practitioners and states construct religious diversity. The study has three foci: theoretical and methodological issues; religious diversity in non-Western contexts; and religious diversity in social contexts. Together, these trans-contextual studies are ut…
Anmeldelse af: Jason A. Josephson-Storm, The Myth of Disenchantment. Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences
Anmeldelse af: Jason A. Josephson-Storm, The Myth of Disenchantment. Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences, The University of Chicago Press, 411 s., $ 32/96
D. T. Suzuki: Post-orientalistisk zen-tænker
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Japanese D. T. Suzuki occupies a unique position in the history of Zen Buddhism's migration from East to West. His many publications on Zen until a few decades ago were the only channel to knowledge about this universe, and 'Suzuki Zen' in itself has been a catalyst for lived Zen Buddhism in the West. This article describes Suzuki's life and places his understanding of Zen, Buddhism and religion in a historical and network-theor…
Anmeldelse af: G. Clinton Godart, Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine. Evolutionary Theory and Religion in Modern Japan
Anmeldelse af: G. Clinton Godart, Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine. Evolutionary Theory and Religion in Modern Japan, University of Hawaii Press 2017, 301 s., $ 68.00
Prosperous Buddhism, Prosperity Buddhism, and Religious Capital
In the West, Buddhism as a “world rejecting” religion based on ascetic renunciation and non-economic spirituality is often invoked as a default narrative, and in many Buddhist cultures, immateriality is indeed promoted as a symbolic ideal of authenticity. Economy and materiality, however, are inherently part of Buddhism. This is notably the case in Japan, where monasteries, temples, and associations throughout history have been wealthy organizati…
Analogi og genealogi: Protestantiske Reformbuddhismer
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Buddhism's history can be seen as a succession of reformisms. To focus the relevance of the concept, it is understood in this article as a concept measuring significant change within the religion itself and the surrounding community. With three examples from different contexts: ‘Protestant Buddhism' in the 19th century Sri Lanka, the Shin Buddhist reform movement in the Japanese Middle Ages, and Japanese diaspora Buddhism in Haw…
Eastspirit: Transnational Spirituality and Religious Circulation in East and West
Anmeldelse af Isumae Jun'ichi: Religious Discourse in Modern Japan - Religion, State, and Shinto
i Vesten studeret
Buddhistisk askese: Fra verdensforsagelse til coping og dannelse
Asceticism is a central concept in Buddhism. It is both a constituent ideal and a practice needing to be tamed by institutional religion. This article analyzes Buddhist asceticism as textual ideal and religious practice from an understanding of asceticism as both renunciation (Gavin Flood), and training (Peter Sloterdijk). Influenced by Mary Douglas' group/grid model, a typology is suggested in which both the Buddha legend, historical Buddhism in…
Religious Diversity and Pluralism: Empirical Data and Theoretical Reflections from the Danish Pluralism Project
Although religious pluralism is a key word for understanding contemporary religious life, it is only recently that in-depth studies of religious pluralism have appeared. This article presents major findings from the Danish Pluralism Project, a collective research project which was launched in 2002. Religious diversity has grown in Denmark with the arrival of new immigrant groups and with new forms and interpretations of traditional religious and …
Cultural religion: Patterns of contemporary majority religion in Denmark
Denmark offers a unique context for exploring patterns of religion among the majority population. In the research of contemporary religion in Europe, many concepts have been developed in the attempt to capture a complex pattern of affiliation, practices, and beliefs among the majority populations in Western Europe. In a Scandinavian setting, however, one such concept, ‘cultural religion’, has appeared in several situations with various foci and e…
Who are these Buddhists and How Many of Them are There? Theoretical and Methodological Challenges in Counting Immigrant Buddhists: A Danish Case Study
Religious demography is generally a challenging endeavor, and counting and defining religions and religious identities in an Asian context is notoriously difficult. Buddhists in both Asia and the West have a long tradition of grey zone religiosity, which means that membership and mono-identity is less common than syncretic engagement and hybrid identity. The immigrant Buddhists in the West are far more numerous than the convert and new age Buddhi…
Religion and Cultural Integration: Vietnamese Catholics and Buddhists in Denmark
This article is based on a quantitative study of two rather distinct religious traditions (Buddhism and Christianity) sharing the same ethnic origin (Vietnamese) in the same host nation (Denmark). It investigates the possible relations between religion and acculturation, and looks at whether various forms of religiosity and religious belonging are plausible variables in acculturation perspectives. Our analyses suggest that there is a clear tenden…
Identity Turn: Managing Decolonialization and Identity Politics in the Study of Religion
The academic study of religion, with its concepts and theories that originate in a Western, Protestant context, has justly been criticized in postmodern and identity-focused discourses, in recent years under the umbrella of decolonization and social justice activism. It has been suggested that allegedly universally-applicable theories and methodologies are relativized and revealed as particularized Eurocentrism in the hegemonic representations of…
Who Owns Religion? Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Cultural Appropriation in Postglobal Buddhism
While historically sharing the characteristics of a universalistic religion and a modernist grand narrative, global Buddhism is mainly the product of a late modern development. Centripetal forces with circulating ideas, practices, and institutions have been part of a liberal market in an open exchange society with “open hermeneutics” and an accessible universal grammar. Its global focus has triggered de-ethnification, de-culturalization, and de-t…
Galskab og hellighed: Overskridelsens logik og retorik i chan/zen-buddhismen
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Antinomian transgressions have played an important role in Chinese Chan Buddhism (and to a lesser extent in Japanese Zen Buddhism). Wild, crazy, fierce and strange figures have, together with ‘the enlightened layman’, been used as expressions of the Chan/Zen universe, whose style is quite unique in the history of religions. The present article investigates these transgressions’ hermeneutic and performative logic as a contrast to…
D. T. Suzuki: Post-orientalistisk zen-tænker
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Japanese D. T. Suzuki occupies a unique position in the history of Zen Buddhism's migration from East to West. His many publications on Zen until a few decades ago were the only channel to knowledge about this universe, and 'Suzuki Zen' in itself has been a catalyst for lived Zen Buddhism in the West. This article describes Suzuki's life and places his understanding of Zen, Buddhism and religion in a historical and network-theor…
Analogi og genealogi: Protestantiske Reformbuddhismer
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Buddhism's history can be seen as a succession of reformisms. To focus the relevance of the concept, it is understood in this article as a concept measuring significant change within the religion itself and the surrounding community. With three examples from different contexts: ‘Protestant Buddhism' in the 19th century Sri Lanka, the Shin Buddhist reform movement in the Japanese Middle Ages, and Japanese diaspora Buddhism in Haw…
Buddhistisk askese: Fra verdensforsagelse til coping og dannelse
Asceticism is a central concept in Buddhism. It is both a constituent ideal and a practice needing to be tamed by institutional religion. This article analyzes Buddhist asceticism as textual ideal and religious practice from an understanding of asceticism as both renunciation (Gavin Flood), and training (Peter Sloterdijk). Influenced by Mary Douglas' group/grid model, a typology is suggested in which both the Buddha legend, historical Buddhism in…
Zen og kunsten at spejlvende orientalisme
This article intends to put into perspective the critique on Orientalism raised by Edward Said with a case story (beyond Said's Orient) exemplifying how the Orientalist discourse has been inverted, serving as a means of religious and cultural identification. Focusing on the religious environment around the Japanese interpreter and poluparizer of Zen Buddhism., D. T. Suzuki, it is argued that a genealogical network of interrelated persons and a re…
Tekst og ritual i zen-buddhismen
Rituals and texts have had different and arbitrary status and roles within the different traditions and discourses of Buddhist teachings. In the open hermeneutics of Mahayana ideology they have both been negated and affirmed as a means of reaching and expressing truth. The aim of this article is, with examples from primarily contemporary Japanese Zen Buddhism, to explain rituals in the performative and institutional contexts. It is argues that po…
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Ph.d.-afhandling om Myōshinji
Er du dybest set ikke bare en turist?”, spurgte en rinzai zen-mester (shike) mig engang, da jeg interviewede ham om forskellige ting vedrørende hans liv. En så udtalt mistænkeliggørelse af, hvad jeg i det mindste selv betragtede som en plausibel, akademisk metode, er naturligvis ikke ny. At studere levende religion ved at inddrage andet og mere end klassiske og ‘rigtige’ tekster anses ofte som helligbrøde ikke blot på universitære institutioner…
Zen and the Art of Inverting Orientalism: Buddhism, Religious Studies and Interrelated Networks
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Eileen Barker kan vel med nogen ret kaldes religionssociologiens grand old lady
Konstruktion, rekonstruktion og strategiske essentialismer
Essentialisme og dennes misrepræsentation, etnocentrisme og hegemoni (som afsløret af eksempelvis postkoloniale studier) er et af de vigtigste kritikpunkter mod før-postmoderne religions- og kulturstudier. Denne artikel hævder, at konstruktioner (“opfindelser”) og essentialismer er naturlige og universelt udbredte også i de andres kulturelle og religiøse verdener, og at “strategisk essentialisme” er et vigtigt fænomen, der bør studeres, men i vid…
Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhism: Myōshinji, a living religion
Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhism gives a new perspective on contemporary Japanese Zen Buddhism. Ideas, ritual practices, temples and interactions between the clergy, the laity and the institution are investigated as living representations of a unique and yet common Japanese religion
Religion and Cultural Integration: Vietnamese Catholics and Buddhists in Denmark
This article is based on a quantitative study of two rather distinct religious traditions (Buddhism and Christianity) sharing the same ethnic origin (Vietnamese) in the same host nation (Denmark). It investigates the possible relations between religion and acculturation, and looks at whether various forms of religiosity and religious belonging are plausible variables in acculturation perspectives. Our analyses suggest that there is a clear tenden…
Religious Diversity and Pluralism: Empirical Data and Theoretical Reflections from the Danish Pluralism Project
Although religious pluralism is a key word for understanding contemporary religious life, it is only recently that in-depth studies of religious pluralism have appeared. This article presents major findings from the Danish Pluralism Project, a collective research project which was launched in 2002. Religious diversity has grown in Denmark with the arrival of new immigrant groups and with new forms and interpretations of traditional religious and …
Tema: Sekularisering Og Sakralisering
Introduktion til temaet i nr. 58: samtidsreligion, 'den subjektive vending', 'den spirituelle rvolution', sekularisering og sakralisering
Migrant-buddhismer
Buddhismen vinder frem i vesten, både som kulturreligiøs migrantreligion og som spirituel praksis for konvertitter. Konkrete kontekster viser dog, at en sådan udvikling er flertydig, og at både vækst og krise forekommer. Med en lang tradition for multireligiøsitet og for forskellige former for migrantbuddhisme er Hawai’i som knudepunkt mellem Øst og Vest et interessant laboratorium for studier af religionens rolle og funktion i nutidig og histori…
Who are these Buddhists and How Many of Them are There? Theoretical and Methodological Challenges in Counting Immigrant Buddhists: A Danish Case Study
Religious demography is generally a challenging endeavor, and counting and defining religions and religious identities in an Asian context is notoriously difficult. Buddhists in both Asia and the West have a long tradition of grey zone religiosity, which means that membership and mono-identity is less common than syncretic engagement and hybrid identity. The immigrant Buddhists in the West are far more numerous than the convert and new age Buddhi…
Religiøse rødder og ruter mellem øst og vest – cirkulær evolution og hybride spejlinger
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The object of the present article is the transformative processes of religion between East and West. The article analyses the construction of religious traditions as hybrids and products of circular transformations, based on actor networks, practice/teaching and concrete historical contexts. Empirical data and discussions of illustrative metaphors are given to explore also theoretical implications for such flows and circulations…
Tema: Mindfulness
Forord til temanummer
Buddhistisk askese: Fra verdensforsagelse til coping og dannelse
Asceticism is a central concept in Buddhism. It is both a constituent ideal and a practice needing to be tamed by institutional religion. This article analyzes Buddhist asceticism as textual ideal and religious practice from an understanding of asceticism as both renunciation (Gavin Flood), and training (Peter Sloterdijk). Influenced by Mary Douglas' group/grid model, a typology is suggested in which both the Buddha legend, historical Buddhism in…
Anmeldelse af Tullio Federico Lobetti: Ascetic Practices in Japanese Religion
Eastspirit: Transnational Spirituality and Religious Circulation in East and West
Anmeldelse af Isumae Jun'ichi: Religious Discourse in Modern Japan - Religion, State, and Shinto
i Vesten studeret
The Critical Analysis of Religious Diversity
Drawing on international and thematic case studies, The Critical Analysis of Religious Diversity asks its readers to pay attention to the assumptions and processes by which scholars, religious practitioners and states construct religious diversity. The study has three foci: theoretical and methodological issues; religious diversity in non-Western contexts; and religious diversity in social contexts. Together, these trans-contextual studies are ut…
Anmeldelse af: Jason A. Josephson-Storm, The Myth of Disenchantment. Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences
Anmeldelse af: Jason A. Josephson-Storm, The Myth of Disenchantment. Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences, The University of Chicago Press, 411 s., $ 32/96
D. T. Suzuki: Post-orientalistisk zen-tænker
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Japanese D. T. Suzuki occupies a unique position in the history of Zen Buddhism's migration from East to West. His many publications on Zen until a few decades ago were the only channel to knowledge about this universe, and 'Suzuki Zen' in itself has been a catalyst for lived Zen Buddhism in the West. This article describes Suzuki's life and places his understanding of Zen, Buddhism and religion in a historical and network-theor…
Anmeldelse af: G. Clinton Godart, Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine. Evolutionary Theory and Religion in Modern Japan
Anmeldelse af: G. Clinton Godart, Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine. Evolutionary Theory and Religion in Modern Japan, University of Hawaii Press 2017, 301 s., $ 68.00
Prosperous Buddhism, Prosperity Buddhism, and Religious Capital
In the West, Buddhism as a “world rejecting” religion based on ascetic renunciation and non-economic spirituality is often invoked as a default narrative, and in many Buddhist cultures, immateriality is indeed promoted as a symbolic ideal of authenticity. Economy and materiality, however, are inherently part of Buddhism. This is notably the case in Japan, where monasteries, temples, and associations throughout history have been wealthy organizati…
Analogi og genealogi: Protestantiske Reformbuddhismer
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Buddhism's history can be seen as a succession of reformisms. To focus the relevance of the concept, it is understood in this article as a concept measuring significant change within the religion itself and the surrounding community. With three examples from different contexts: ‘Protestant Buddhism' in the 19th century Sri Lanka, the Shin Buddhist reform movement in the Japanese Middle Ages, and Japanese diaspora Buddhism in Haw…
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