Knut Axel Jacobsen#
| Membership Number: | 7062 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | NORWAY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www4.uib.no/finn-ansatte/Knut.Axel.Jacobsen |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-8725-4756 |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/knutaxel.jacobsen |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1996 Professor in Religious studies, University of Bergen
- 1994 Post doc, Religious Studies, University of Oslo
Fields of Scholarship
- Samkhya and Yoga
- Buddhism in Europe
- Jainism
- Religion in South Asian diasporas
- Buddhism in India
- India and Hinduism
- Religious pluralism in South Asia
- Pilgrimage and sanctuaries in India
- Sikhism
Honours and Awards
- 2006 Recipient of the Bhai Gurdas Ji Prize, awarded by the Norwegian Sikh community
- Since 2015 Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
- Since 2025 Senior Fellow, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies
