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Dirk Johannsen

Dirk Johannsen studied Religion and Philosophy at the Universities of Hannover, Germany, and Varanasi, India, and  completed his PhD in the study of religion at the University of Bayreuth in 2006. Subsequently, he worked at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, as a senior researcher and at the University of Basel as a research coordinator and postdoctoral fellow. He held additional teaching assignments at the Universities of Berne and Lucerne.
Dirk Johannsen will be joining the Department and School  in January 2013.

Academic Degrees / Certificates:

• Certificate of Advanced Studies in Higher Education, University of Berne, Switzerland
• Dr. phil., University of Bayreuth, Germany
• Magister Artium, University of Hannover, Germany

Research Interests:

Theory and Method:         

Theories of religion and the history of the study of religion; cultural studies, narratology and cognitive approaches.

History of Religions:          

European and Scandinavian history of religion; popular religion; literature and religion in modernity; atheism and secular thought in modernity; history of magic and occultism.

University Didactics:       

Qualification frameworks in the study of religion.

 

Selected Publications:

Books:

Konstruktionsgeschichten. Narrationsbezogene Ansätze in der Religionsforschung [Construed Histories. Narratological approaches to the study of religion], edited by Dirk Johannsen and Gabriela Brahier. Düsseldorf: Ergon Verlag (Diskurs Religion), 2012.
Das Numinose als kulturwissenschaftliche Kategorie - Norwegische Sagenwelt in religionswissenschaftlicher Deutung [The numinous as a category for cultural studies. An interpretation of Norwegian oral traditions from a science of religion point of view]. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag (Religionswissenschaft heute), 2008.
 

Articles:

'Religion' als diegetischer Raum. Eine narratologische Analyse von Rudolf Ottos Das Heilige. ['Religion' as a diegetic space. A narratological analysis of Rudolf Otto's 'The Idea of the Holy'] In: Thorsten Dietz, Harald Matern (Eds.): Rudolf Otto. Subjekt und Religion. Zürich: TVZ, p. 237-256, 2012.
No time to philosophize. Norwegian oral tradition and the cognitive economics of belief. In: Luther H. Martin, Jesper Sørensen (Ed.): Past Minds. Studies in Cognitive Historiography. London:Equinox Press, p. 77-88, 2011.
Kognition und Narration. Zur Tradierung von Mythen [Cognition and narration. On the spread and stability of myths]. In: Udo Tworuschka, Michael Klöcker (Eds.): Handbuch der Religionen, 29. Ergänzung, I-21. München: Olzog Verlag, p. 1-12, 2011.
Deskriptorengeleitete Seminargestaltung [Using the qualification frame as a didactic tool], with Petra Bleisch. In: Silke Wehr, Thomas Tribelhorn (Eds.): Bolognagerechte Hochschullehre. Beiträge aus der hochschuldidaktischen Praxis. Bern: Haupt Verlag, p. 15-35, 2011.
Religion als Nebenprodukt der Evolution. Religionsgeschichte und die Modularität des Geistes [Religion as an evolutionary by-product. History of religions and the modularity of the mind]. In: Mariano Delgado, Oliver Krüger, Guido Vergauwen (Eds.): Das Prinzip Evolution. Darwin und die Folgen für Religionstheorie und Philosophie. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag, p. 221-238, 2010.

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