Hans J Lundager Jensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 449186 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hans J Lundager Jensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hans J Lundager |
| FAMILY NAME | Jensen |
| SIGNATURE | JENSEN H J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9451-0735 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 66 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 66 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
I begyndelsen var festen: Fest, ritual og religion
ENGLISH SUMMARY: The article discusses the concept of feasts as a possible important religio-phenomenological category. Against archaeological-anthropological theorizing according to which feasts are essentially battlegrounds for status competition (Hayden, Dietler), I argue (with Weismantel, Etzioni, Nahum-Claudel) for a more basic understanding of feasts as joyful gatherings of persons not normally together or eating and drinking together. Feas…
Indledning til RvT 75: Religion og klasse
Indledning til RvT 75: Religion og klasse: Om temaet, om de tre artikler der relaterer sig til temaet, samt om to yderligere artikler
Fra strukturalisme til kulturel evolution: Fratrædelsesforelæsning: Religionsvidenskab 1970’erne-2022
Om dominerende tendenser i religionshistorisk forskning, beskrevet som tre faser fra 1970’erne til 2022: (1) Religionsantropologi og strukturalisme; (2) Religions- og ritualteori; (3) Religionshistorie på basis af kulturel evolution ‒ og om hvordan de har påvirket min egen forskning og undervisning
Anmeldelse af Benny Schuster, Om påskelatteren. Forsynet med indledning, noter og en fremstilling af påskelatterens kulturhistorie og teologi samt et essay om latterens kulturelle, kirkelige og teolog…
Anmeldelse af Benny Schuster, Om påskelatteren. Forsynet med indledning, noter og en fremstilling af påskelatterens kulturhistorie og teologi samt et essay om latterens kulturelle, kirkelige og teologiske forvandling
Arkaisk religion, komparation, norrøn og mesopotamisk
The contribution departs from the conceptual dilemma between ‘primary religions’ and ‘archaic religions’ relative to the trifunctional paradigm of Dumézil. Jens Peter Schjødt has shown that in the Scandivian triad of deities in Uppsala, the paradigm can be seen as abstract relations, but not through the individual gods. The trifunctional paradigm is present as an implicit inspiration, realized in an independent and original constellation. Similar…
Neubabylonische Frömmigkeit im Alten Testament?: Die East India House Inschrift und die deuteronomisch-deuteronomistische Theologie
To love God with all your heart (Deut 6:5) and the hope that God will write the law on the hearts (Jer 31:34) are key forms and expressions of Hebrew Bible personal piety. Hitherto neglected but close parallels between these forms of personal piety are to be found in the neo-Babylonian East India House Inscription by Nebuchadnezzar II. In this paper, we shall draw some parallels and propose that personal piety in Deuteronomy and Jeremiah is being…
Virkeligheder og religionshistorie: En introduktion til ontologier ifølge Philippe Descola
ENGLISH SUMMARY: A presentation of Philippe Descola’s model of four ontol-ogies (animism, totemism, analogism, and naturalism) and six forms of attach-ment (gift, exchange, etc.) and an argument for their relevance for the academic study of religion. The four ontologies overlap partly with Robert Bellah’s stages of cultural-religious evolution: Animism and totemism dominate in tribal religions, analogism in archaic and post-axial religions, natur…
Jægeren, de venlige jaguarer og honningfesten: Om Claude Lévi-Strauss’ miskendelse af animismen og den påståede afbrydelse af forbindelsen imellem himmel og jord
Engelsk summary: This brief article is an addition to my introduction to Philippe Descola’s theory on ontologies available in this volume of RvT. Inspired by a South American myth about helpful jaguars, I discuss Lévi-Strauss’ miscomprehension of the animist ontology, which paradoxically pervades the Amerindian myths analyzed in detail in his Mythologies and other works. I also propose a reason for this miscomprehension. At the end of the fourth …
Indledning til RvT 71: Dyr, Natur, Religion
Indledning til RvT 71, temanummer om dyr, natur, religion
Forside
Forsie og kolofon til RvT 70
Forord til RvT 70: Religion Og Medier
Forord til RvT 70: religion og medier
Alexandra Maryanski om Durkheim og religionens oprindelse
Review-artikel: Alexandra Maryanski om Durkheim og religionens oprindelse
Forord til RvT 69: Forløsning Og Urenhed
Forord til RvT 69: forløsning og urenhed
Igennem urenhed til himlen: Den tanato-kosmologiske transformation fra israelitisk religion til kristendom
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In the Hebrew Bible, there is no wish for a heavenly existence among human beings; God and his angels on the one hand and human beings on the other, normally maintain a safe distance from each other. Divine beings are potentially deadly for humans, and dead humans are the strongest source of impurity that threatens to encroach upon holy places. With the ‘ontological’ transformation in antique Judaism and early Christianity that …
Forside og kolofon
Forside og kolofon
Indkomne bøger
Liste over indkomne bøger
James George Frazer: Viktoriansk Helt, 20.årh.s Skurk, Nutidig Mediator
DANSK RESUME: Efter en kort præsentation af Frazers liv, karriere og indhol-det i hans hovedværk, The Golden Bough, diskuteres dels Frazers treleddede evo-lutionsskema (magi-religion-videnskab), dels anvendeligheden af værkets akkumu-lerede mytologisk-folkloristiske materiale. Frazers komparative tilgang kontraste-res med Claude Lévi-Strauss’ i dennes Mythologiques, hvori der kan antages at spores en frazersk inspiration. Frazers evolutionsskema …
Forord
Forord til RvT 68: reformer ‒ og andre temaer
Forside
RvT nr. 68 2018
Biskoppen og asketen: Post-aksial kompromisreligion og Aarhus Domkirkes altertavle
ENGELSK SUMMARY: The sculptures on the altarpiece of Aarhus Cathedral are a good example of 'analogism', an understanding of reality (an 'ontology') that presents an ideal reality as a harmonious order. The altarpiece sought to mediate between two in principle different types of religions: archaic religion, typical of the great cultures of ancient times, claiming a divinely guaranteed good and beautiful hierarchical world, and the axial rejection…
Indledning
Indledning til RvT 67 og til tema "de (halv-)glemte 'helte
Modtagne bøger
Modtagne bøger
Om dejlige dage: Hiero- og teofore processioner i arkaisk religion og i Det Gamle Testamente
English abstract: This article, “On lovely days: hierophoric and theophoric processions in archaic religion and in the Old Testament”, provides examples of processions and their significance in archaic Near Eastern religions and of the scholarly discussions on possible processions in the Yahweh-religion. The article also proposes that the prohibition against images in the Old Testament is rooted in an effort to immunize Jews against the attractio…
Peter Sloterdijk, Skum og religion
ENGLISH SUMMARY: Introduction to the work of Peter Sloterdijk, with special attention to his ideas on religion. The article first gives an overview of the main subjects of some of the most important books: Critique of Cynical Reason, the three volumes in the Spheres-trilogy: Bubbles, Globes, and Foams and In the World Interior of Capital. Subsequently, it explains the main topics in the work such as post-enlightenment, immunity systems, anthropol…
Processioner: Indledning
English abstract: The introduction to this thematic issue of Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift provides an overview of contemporary lexical discussions of and explications of processions, a discussion of reasons for a certain tendency to forget about processions and a consideration of processions in relation to basic theories of ritual.Dansk resume: Indledningen til dette temanummer af Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift giver en oversigt over nu…
Robert Bellah, religion og menneskelig evolution
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Introduction to and discussion of Robert Bellah's major book, Religion in Human Evolution (2011). which defines and describes tribal religion (religion in pre-state societies), archaic religion (religion in early states) and religious currents in the axial age, the period in the middle of 1st mill. BC, where new radical and intellectual ideas and practices, sceptial or world renouncing, appeared in China, India and Greece. Hopef…
Religion, hukommelse og viden - Jan Assmann, med udblik til Durkheim, Rappaport og Augustin
Den tyske egyptolog Jan Assmanns begreb om den 'kulturelle hukommelse' kan blive centralt for religionsvidenskaben. Dels er det relevant for den religionshistoriske forståelse af overgangen fra mundtlige religionsformer til former, hvor skriftligheden indgår som en essentiel del. Dels bidrager det til en understregning af hukommelsen som et essentielt tema i en generel religionsteori. Artiklen diskuterer Assmanns brug af Maurice Halbwachs og fore…
Roy Rappaport: Ritual and Religions in the Making of Humanity
Review-artikel af Roy A. Rappaport, Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity, Cambridge University press 1999
Religionshistorie og aksetid
Artiklen præsenterer og diskuterer to artikler af den amerikanske religionssociolog Robert Bellah, “Religious evolution” fra 1964 og “What is Axial about the Axial Age?” (2005). I forhold til en generel mangel på interesse for en religionens historie (forskellig fra religionernes historie) blandt religionsvidenskabelige forskere anbefales Bellahs model som et frugtbart udgangspunkt for en revitalisering af en hæderværdig del af religionsvidenskab…
Genese og funktion - offeret ifølge Walter Burkert
Introduction to Walter Burkert's theory of the origin and function of animal sacrifice, with some remarks on it similarities with and differences to the alternataive theory of René Girard
James George Frazer: Viktoriansk Helt, 20.årh.s Skurk, Nutidig Mediator
DANSK RESUME: Efter en kort præsentation af Frazers liv, karriere og indhol-det i hans hovedværk, The Golden Bough, diskuteres dels Frazers treleddede evo-lutionsskema (magi-religion-videnskab), dels anvendeligheden af værkets akkumu-lerede mytologisk-folkloristiske materiale. Frazers komparative tilgang kontraste-res med Claude Lévi-Strauss’ i dennes Mythologiques, hvori der kan antages at spores en frazersk inspiration. Frazers evolutionsskema …
Om dejlige dage: Hiero- og teofore processioner i arkaisk religion og i Det Gamle Testamente
English abstract: This article, “On lovely days: hierophoric and theophoric processions in archaic religion and in the Old Testament”, provides examples of processions and their significance in archaic Near Eastern religions and of the scholarly discussions on possible processions in the Yahweh-religion. The article also proposes that the prohibition against images in the Old Testament is rooted in an effort to immunize Jews against the attractio…
Aniconic propaganda in the Hebrew Bible, or: The Possible Birth of Religious Seriousness
The Hebrew Bible promotes aniconistic worship: images of the god Yahweh were prohibited. In the Ten Commandments, aniconism follows immediately after the monolatrous rule not to ‘have’ other gods than Yahweh. The reason for the prohibition against ‘idols’ is Yahweh’s singularity, but not his inherent indescribability; in the Bible, there is no lack of literary images of Yahweh who is described as or compared with humans and animals as well as wit…
Tema: Religionshistorie og kulturel evolution
Redaktionelt forord om dette nummers tema: Robert Bellah, religionshistorie og kulturel evolution
Jul, julefrokost og nytår - en ritualanalyse
The article assumes that a ritual's meaning should not be considered only in relation to a myth (or doctrine, or another form of language based meaning), but (1) that the ritual's form may be determined by its position among other rituals with which it may constitute a group of transformations; (2) that the ritual's meaning may not simply miorror a specific myth, but instead (or also) invert the myth. Examples are given from the Old Testament's s…
Ontologisk urenhed i Gammel Testamente
The article discusses the rationality behind the category ontological (or natural) impurity in the priestly parts of the Pentateuch in the Hebrew Bible. After a discussion of Mary Douglas' hypothesis from 1966, correctly rejected by Jacob Milgrom, and a semiotic reformulation of Milgrom's definition of holy/common and unclean/clean, the thesis of Milgrom and others, according to which impurity basically signifies "death", is likewise rejected. As…
Introduktion til Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift
This editorial announces the founding of a new scientific journal in Denmark entitled Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift (“Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion”). The goal of the Journal is to create a forum of research, information and debate within the field of the humanistic, scientific study of religion. “Religionsvidenskabeligt” does not in any way refer to a particular school or a special area of the study of religion. It refers, in…
Præsentation
af RvTs temanummer om fortællingen og det religiøse sprog
Introduktion til Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift
This editorial announces the founding of a new scientific journal in Denmark entitled Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift (“Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion”). The goal of the Journal is to create a forum of research, information and debate within the field of the humanistic, scientific study of religion. “Religionsvidenskabeligt” does not in any way refer to a particular school or a special area of the study of religion. It refers, in…
Anmeldelse af "L'invention de la mythologie" af Marcel Detienne
Gilgameš-epet. Kosmologi og antropologi
Gilgameš' Epik er traditionelt set blevet analyseret ud fra to synsvinkler: På den ene side er det historiske synspunkt blevet anvendt til at belyse tidligere skriftlige og mundtlige overleveringer om Gilgameš', og på den anden side det interne tematiske synspunkt har været anvendt til at bestemme epiken rækkefølge og dens behandling især temaer som "død" og "venskab". Denne artikel viser - med behørig henvisning til og kritik af Th. Jacobsens an…
Anmeldelse af "Le regard éloigné" af Claude Levi-Strauss
Anmeldelse af Claude Lévi-Strauss: Paroles données
Anmeldelse af Umberto Eco: Rosens navn
Opening Address. The Director of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation
Opening Address. The Director of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation
Die Frauen der Patriarchen und der Raub der Sabinerinnen. Eine Bemerkung zur Entstehung der Völker und der Struktur der Identität
De fremmede, Det Gamle Testamente, vi
On the basis of examples of attitudes towards foreigners in the Old Testament, the internal tension between a tendency to eliminate the differences between Israel and foreigners and an insistence on maintaining the fundamental distance between Israel and foreigners, even in eschatological perspective, is presented. The a priori assumption of the Israelitic understanding of themselves is not a differentiation between nature and culture (between no…
"Kristendommen er ikke nogen "stor fortælling
H.J.L. Jensen: “Christianity is not a ‘great narrative’. A structural note on a typology of universal narratives” and P. Aa. Brandt: “Narrative and linguistic event. Comments on H.J.L. Jensen’s structural note”.Jean-François Lyotard has recently focused on the demise of the “great narratives”. But what is the nature of these narratives? Jensen’s note establishes an inventory of 8 types of “universal narratives” based on three axes: A) fall vs. er…
Die Pervertierung der Küche und die Dialektik der Aufklärung: Eine strukturell-exegetische Meditation über das Martyrium der Juden im 2. und 4. Makkabäerbuch
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Genese og funktion - offeret ifølge Walter Burkert
Introduction to Walter Burkert's theory of the origin and function of animal sacrifice, with some remarks on it similarities with and differences to the alternataive theory of René Girard
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Jernets alder
Samson, socalled "judge" and "nazarite", belongs to the same anti-heroic type as the legendary Amirani from Caucasus, masterly analyzd by George Charachidzé as a transformation of Prometheus. The two of them articulate a form of life which denies culture; their necessarily victorious enemies are women and blacksmiths. The human condition, being the world of bread, iron, work and death, stands in oppostion to the golden age. In Old Testament pries…
At udtage én
The rite of the laying on of hands in the Hebrew Bible has been interpreted in different ways, with no final conclusion being arrived at until now. Despite the ritual and semantic diversities of the different instances, one common point unites them all: in all instances one member is singled out of an anonymous group (or a group is singled out of a bigger group). The rituals to which the laying on of hands belongs can lead to enhanced life or dea…
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Ontologisk urenhed i Gammel Testamente
The article discusses the rationality behind the category ontological (or natural) impurity in the priestly parts of the Pentateuch in the Hebrew Bible. After a discussion of Mary Douglas' hypothesis from 1966, correctly rejected by Jacob Milgrom, and a semiotic reformulation of Milgrom's definition of holy/common and unclean/clean, the thesis of Milgrom and others, according to which impurity basically signifies "death", is likewise rejected. As…
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Jul, julefrokost og nytår - en ritualanalyse
The article assumes that a ritual's meaning should not be considered only in relation to a myth (or doctrine, or another form of language based meaning), but (1) that the ritual's form may be determined by its position among other rituals with which it may constitute a group of transformations; (2) that the ritual's meaning may not simply miorror a specific myth, but instead (or also) invert the myth. Examples are given from the Old Testament's s…
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"Disputats om "Den fortærende ild
Ph.d.-afhandling om Rabbi Nahmans fortællinger
Ph.d.-afhandlingen A Theology of Redemption – An Analysis of the Thirteen Tales in Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav’s Sippurey Ma’asiyot er skrevet med det formål dels at bidrage til den løbende diskussion, der foregår inden for judaistikken om udlægningen af Rabbi Nahmans tretten fortællinger, dels at præsentere religionsvidenskaben for en systematisk redegørelse for en af de mest komplekse jødisk-mystiske teologier. Rabbi Nahmans tretten fortællinger, …
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