Michael Stausberg

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Michael Stausberg

Religious Studies

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According to Wikipedia, Michael Stausberg is a German scholar on religion. He was born in Köln. He studied in Bonn, Tübingen, Bergen and Rome. He is now a professor at the University of Bergen, Norway. Apart from Zoroastrianism, Zoroastrian priesthood in contemporary India and related topics, Stausberg's interests encompass the history and terminology of the scientific study of religion, ritual & ritual theory, and religion & modern tourism.

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Contemporary theories of religion : a critical companion (2009) (58)
Religious America, Secular Europe? A Theme and Variations (2010) (53)
Religion and Tourism: Crossroads, Destinations and Encounters (2010) (50)
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Zoroastrianism: Stausberg/The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Zoroastrianism (2015) (48)
Albert de Jong: Traditions of the Magi: Zoroastrianism in Greek and Latin Literature (1998) (39)
Defining Magic: A Reader (2014) (25)
Distinctions, Differentiations, Ontology, and Non-humans in Theories of Religion (2010) (24)
The Study of Religion in a New Key: Theoretical and Philosophical Soundings In the Comparative and General Study of Religion – Jeppe Sinding Jensen (2006) (24)
On the State and Prospects of the Study of Zoroastrianism (2008) (24)
The study of religion(s) in Western Europe (II): Institutional developments after World War II (2008) (21)
The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Religion (2021) (20)
Religion and Spirituality in Tourism (2014) (20)
Methods for the Study of Religious Change: From Religious Studies to Worldview Studies (2015) (19)
The study of religion(s) in Western Europe (I): Prehistory and history until World War II (2007) (19)
Pure and Impure (2011) (19)
Introductory essay. Crisis and creativity: opportunities and threats in the global study of religion\s (2011) (18)
There is life in the old dog yet: An introduction to contemporary theories of religion (2009) (17)
Zoroastrian rituals in context (2004) (16)
The study of religion(s) in Western Europe III: Further developments after World War II (2009) (16)
Prospects in Theories of Religion (2010) (15)
Exploring the meso-levels of religious mappings: European religion in regional, urban, and local contexts (2009) (14)
Spiritual Tourism: Travel and Religious Practice in Western Society. By Alex Norman. (2012) (14)
Theorizing Rituals, Volume 1: Issues, Topics, Approaches, Concepts (2006) (12)
Bellah’s Religion in Human Evolution: A Post-Review (2014) (11)
Hell in Zoroastrian History (2009) (11)
Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion (2016) (9)
Rec. av Albert de Jong: Traditions of the Magi. Zoroastrianism in Greek and Latin literature; Leiden: Brill, 1997 (1998) (9)
Textbooks in the study of religion\s: introducing a new feature series (2013) (8)
1 INTRODUCTION Research methods in the study of religion\s (2013) (8)
Big Gods in review: introducing Ara Norenzayan and his critics (2014) (8)
The Bologna process and the study of religion\s in (Western) Europe (2011) (7)
Monday-Nights at the Banaji, Fridays at the Aslaji: Ritual Efficacy and Transformation in Bombay City (2004) (6)
Textbooks in review: Introductions to the psychology of religion (2013) (6)
The Demise, Dissolution and Elimination of Religions (2021) (6)
Considering Comparison: A Method for Religious Studies (2020) (6)
Editorial: Acknowledging peer review (2010) (6)
The sacred, the holy, the numinous – and religion: on the emergence and early history of a terminological constellation (2017) (5)
Theorizing Rituals, Volume 2: Annotated Bibliography of Ritual Theory, 1966-2005 (2007) (5)
Raffaele Pettazzoni And The History Of Religions In Fascist Italy (1928–1938) (2008) (5)
What is it all about? Some reflections on Wouter Hanegraaff's Esotericism and the Academy (2013) (5)
Peer-reviewers and selected review statistics, 2013–2014 (2016) (5)
‘Ritual’: A Lexicographic Survey of Some Related Terms from an Emic Perspective (2006) (4)
The psychology of religion/spirituality and the study of religion (2015) (4)
The significance of the kusti : A history of its zoroastrian interpretations (2004) (4)
Acknowledging our referees (with selected review statistics) (2013) (4)
FROM POWER TO POWERLESSNESS: ZOROASTRIANISM IN IRANIAN HISTORY (2012) (4)
Theories of Religion (2016) (4)
From 1799 to 2009: Religious Experience Reconsidered—background, argument, responses (2010) (4)
Susan Greenwood “Magical Consciousness: A Legitimate Form of Knowledge” (2014) (4)
The Invention of a Canon: The Case of Zoroastrianism (1998) (3)
Theorising Religion. Classical and Contemporary Debates (2008) (3)
The sacred and the holy – from around 1917 to today (2017) (3)
Classical Approaches to the Study of Religion. Vol 2: Bibliography (1974) (3)
Theorizing Rituals, Volume 1 Issues, Topics, Approaches, Concepts (Paperback) (2008) (2)
The Sacred Is the Profane: The Political Nature of “Religion.” By William E. Arnal and Russell T. McCutcheon. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. xvi +240 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-975712-1 (pbk.) (2013) (2)
The Demise of Religion (2020) (2)
Introduction: On Dragons and Elephants: Religion in Domestic and International Tourism in China and India (2020) (2)
Ritual orders and ritologiques: a terminological quest for some neglected fields of study (2003) (2)
WITHDRAWN: Challenging apostasy: Responses to Moojan Momen's ‘Marginality and Apostasy in the Baha'i Community’ (2008) (2)
Peer review, reviewers, and review policy 2015–2016 (2018) (2)
Challenging apostasy: Responses to Moojan Momen's ‘Marginality and Apostasy in the Baha’i Community’ (2008) (2)
The Lure of Empire (2009) (2)
How Religions End: Terms and Types (2020) (2)
Evolution, Cognition, and the History of Religion: Festschrift in Honour of Armin W. Geertz, edited by Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Ingvild Sælid Gilhus, Luther H. Martin, Jeppe Sinding Jensen, and Jesper Sørensen (2020) (2)
Advocacy in the study of religion\s (2014) (2)
Gerardus van der Leeuw Religion in Essence and Manifestation (2014) (1)
The appropriation of a religion: The case of Zoroastrianism in contemporary Russia (2013) (1)
The New Science of the Enchanted Universe: An Anthropology of Most of Humanity (2023) (1)
"Being religious and living through the eyes" : studies in religious iconography and iconology : a celebratory publication in honour of Jan Bergman, Faculty of Theology, Uppsala University : published on the occasion of his 65th birthday, June 2, 1998 (1998) (1)
Editorial (2008) (1)
Zarathustra: Post-Gathic Trajectories (2015) (1)
The Invention of Sacred Tradition: A name for all and no one: Zoroaster as a figure of authorization and a screen of ascription (2007) (1)
Leaving Hinduism: Deconversion as Liberation (2020) (1)
Evil, Good, and Gender: Facets of the Feminine in Zoroastrian Religious History. By Jamsheed K. Choksy. Toronto Studies in Religion, vol. 28. New York: Peter Lang. Pp. xii+166, bibliography and index. $49.95. (2003) (1)
Approaches to the Study of 'Time' in the History of Religions (2004) (1)
Editorial: In this issue–the centenary of Durkheim's Les formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse (2012) (1)
The Abyss of Intransitivity: On Critical Realism and Theories of Religion (2021) (1)
Religion, Theory, Critique: Classic and Contemporary Approaches and Methodologies, edited by Richard King (2019) (1)
A new theory of religion? Introducing the review symposium on Manuel A. Vásquez: More Than Belief (2011) (2012) (1)
Zarathustra and Zoroastrianism (2008) (1)
Contextualizing the Contexts. On the Study of Zoroastrian Rituals (2004) (1)
Religion at 50: pasts and futures (2020) (1)
Religion: A Very Short Introduction (2021) (0)
Introduction: The Demise of Religions: Or Do Religions End? (2020) (0)
Rite and Ritual (2011) (0)
Patterns of Magicity A Review of Defining Magic : A Reader (2016) (0)
Pliny the Elder Historia Naturalis (2014) (0)
Defining Magic: Jesper Sørensen (2013) (0)
Defining Magic: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (2013) (0)
The Dissolution of a Religious Community: The Case of Knutby Filadelfia in Sweden (2021) (0)
Ritologiques A Terminological Quest for Some Neglected Fields of Study Ritual (2014) (0)
3. Isaac de Beausobre (1659-1738) (1998) (0)
Comparison: A Critical Primer , written by Aaron W. Hughes (2018) (0)
33 Bob Marley: Positive Vibrations (2020) (0)
History and Religion: Narrating a Religious Past, written by Bernd-Christian Otto, Jörg Rüpke, and Susanne Rau (2017) (0)
Religionsvitenskapens Komparative Utfordring – Edited by Joel Haviv, Anders Lisdorf, and Peter Weiss Poulsen (2006) (0)
I.1 Religion: Begriff, Definitionen, Theorien (2012) (0)
On dragons and elephants: Religion in domestic and international tourism in China and India (2018) (0)
A New Science: The Discovery of Religion in the Age of Reason. By Guy G. Stroumsa . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010. Pp. 223. (2012) (0)
Book reviews (2010) (0)
4. Agostino Steuco (1497/98–1548) (1998) (0)
Handbook of Religion and the Authority of Science, edited by James R. Lewis and Olav Hammer, Brill: Boston, 2011, xv + 923 pp. ISBN 978-9-004-18791-7, US$307.00 (hardback) (2014) (0)
Playing the Religion Card: The Creation and Dissolution of Rajneeshism (2020) (0)
40 Jim Jones, David Koresh, Asahara Shoku: Endzeiterwartungen und Gewaltexzesse (2020) (0)
Review: Jamsheed K. Choksy, Conflict and Cooperation. Zoroastrian Subalterns and Muslim Elites in Medieval Iranian Society, New York 1997 (1998) (0)
Zoroastrians in Modern Iran (2015) (0)
Index of People, Places, and Topics (2015) (0)
1. Georgios Gemistos Plethon (1355/1360-1454) (1998) (0)
21 Anandamayi Ma: Mutter, Göttin, Guru, Heilige (2020) (0)
Book reviews (2008) (0)
32 The Beatles: Musik, Rausch, Meditation (2020) (0)
M AKING SENSE OF J ULY 22 ND : O UTCOMES OF SECULAR AND RELIGIOUS / SPIRITUAL REAPPRAISAL AND COPING PROCESSES FROM A MEANING-MAKING PERSPECTIVE . A R ESEARCH P ROPOSAL AND ITS E VALUATIONS (2015) (0)
Religion: reviewers 2017–2018 (2020) (0)
Defining Magic: Sources (2013) (0)
Religious Studies in Germany: Institutional Frameworks and Constraints (2017) (0)
Every Beginning is Zarathustra (2008) (0)
14 Aleister Crowley: Magick, Wille, Sex (2020) (0)
Defining Magic: Plotinus (2013) (0)
Review of Psychology of Religion: Autobiographical Accounts. Edited by Jacob A. Belzen (2014) (0)
Challenging the secular (2021) (0)
Pascal Boyer: The Fracture of an Illusion: science and the dissolution of religion (2012) (0)
Ethics, Purity and Gender (2008) (0)
Introduction: Scholarship on Zoroastrianism (2015) (0)
Auschwitz and the Meta-Topography of the Sacred (2021) (0)
Introductory Essay Big Gods in review : introducing Ara Norenzayan and his critics (2014) (0)
Religion: reviewers 2019–2021 (2022) (0)
Editorial: Religion resituated (2011) (0)
2. Humphrey Prideaux (1648-1724) (1998) (0)
Pilgrimage and Tourism in India and China Article 2 2018 Introduction : On Dragons and Elephants : Religion in Domestic and International Tourism in China and India (2018) (0)
Defining Magic: Denis Diderot (2013) (0)
Apples and Oranges: Explorations In, On, and With Comparison, written by Bruce Lincoln (2019) (0)
Dallen J. Timothy and Daniel H. Olsen, Editors, Tourism, Religion and Spiritual Journeys, Routledge, London (2006) xv+285 pp., £ 85 (hardback), ISBN 978 0 415 35445 5. (2008) (0)
Lincoln, Bruce.Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars: Critical Explorations in the History of Religions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. xii+228 pp. $90.00 (cloth); $27.50 (paper). (2013) (0)
Demons , Priests and Scholars : Critical Explorations in the History of Religions Gods and Demons , Priests and Scholars : Critical Explorations in the History of Religions by Lincoln , Bruce Review (2013) (0)
Occult Roots of Religious Studies: On the Influence of Non-Hegemonic Currents on Academia around 1900, by Yves Mühlematter and Helmut Zander (eds.) (2022) (0)
Taking Stock of the Academic Work of Geo Widengren: Some Observations on a Forgotten Classic and an “All-Round Historian of Religion” (2022) (0)
14 NETWORK ANALYSIS (2013) (0)

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