About this user
Education: BA, Religious Studies
Pending: MA, African Studies
I'm right now in Ghana conducting a fieldwork regarding Homosexualism. If you write, be patienced I will come back to you.
This profile is neither political nor religious neutral. Anyhow, I hope you'll feel yourself welcome :)
You are a product of your childhood, your family, your work, your co-workers, your friends, your society, your choices through life and much more. Trying to understand a person by reading a book like the bible will get you nowhere.
People are religion-producing creatures, therefore to understand religion is to understand ourselves and the people producing this. The best way to understand people is through communication.
Wanna know Islam, talk to muslims.
Wanna know Christianity, talk to christians.
Wanna know thy neighbour, talk to thy neighbour
Etc, etc, etc ...
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Some scholars I find important.
Anthropologists: Sir Evans-Pritchard, Ferguson, Geerts, Malinowski, Sosis and Turner.
Cognitivity: Berger, Boyer, Festinger, Sørensen.
Hizb ut-Tahrir: Kirstine Sinclair
Multiculturalism: Malik and Stjernfelt.
Nationalism Explained: A.D. Smith, Cohen, Bellah http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exImf29Tsw8 and Frederik Barth (premordialism vs instrumentialism).
Sociologists: Durkheim, Stark and Weber
Terrorism: Juergensmeyer
Others: Bilde, Hjärpe, Hume, Jensen, Rothstein http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XanJUpNGbE and Simonsen.
Definitions of religion: Geertz, Lincoln and Tylor.
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Books and Articles recommendable:
Boyer: Religion Explained.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFW9LPSuFB4&feature=related (pp 1-2)
Buruma & Margalit: Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies
Rippin: Muslims - Their religious beliefs (...)
Sosis: Religious behaviors, badges and bans http://www.anth.uconn.edu/faculty/sosis/publications/SosisBehaviorsBadgesBans.pdf (free download)
Zuckerman: Society without God
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9vc7v7em_4
For people understanding Danish:
Antologi: Darwin eller Intelligent Design
Buruma & Margalit: Aftenland - Vesten set med fjendeøjne
Eriksen & Stjernfelt: Adskillelsens Politik
Hjärpe: 99 Spørgsmål om islam
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If you believe in conspiracies like:
The zionists/NWO/muslims/etc. are taking over the world, 9/11 was an inside job etc. Do NOT send my a friend invitation.
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We are all small stars created to lighten up when darkness settles in.
Mister vi evnen til inde bag den fremmede fremtoning at genkende os selv som fædre, mødre, søskende, børn, så har vi sat vores medmenneskelighed og medfølelse over styr. Så har vi udtørret de dybeste kilder i vores sind
-Svend Auken, RIP
Bart invites his new friend and the family, who are muslims, over for dinner: Homer acts disgracefully.
Marge: You're teaching Bart a terrible lesson of intolerance! Homer: I'm sorry. It's just so fun and easy to judge people based on their religion.
Calvin: Hobbes, do you think our morality is defined by our actions, or by what's in our hearts?
Hobbes: I think our actions show what's in our hearts
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