!!Knut Axel Jacobsen - Curriculum Vitae
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__Current position__
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*Professor, History of Religions, Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion, University of Bergen (AHKR), Norway, 1996 - present
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__Previous university employment__
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*1.1.1995-30.04.1996	Post doc scholar Norwegian Research Council, at the University of Oslo, History of Religions. \\
*1.1.1991-30.06.1994 	Ph.D. scholar Norwegian Research Council, at University of California at Santa Barbara, Religious Studies\\
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__Education and degrees__
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*1994	    	Ph.D., Religious Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara\\
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__Academic fellowships and awards__
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*2025 Senior Fellow, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies\\
*2024 J.P. and Beena Khaitan Fellowship, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies (OCHS),\\
*2022 Shivadashani Fellowship, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies (OCHS)	\\
*2015 Elected Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters\\
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__Academic grants__
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*2009 - 2013	One of five participants in the project “Sikh Identity Formation: Generational Transfer of Traditions in the Nordic Countries,” a NORDCORP project funded by the Nordic Research Councils for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS), 2009 - 2013.\\
*2004	Project planning grant for Nordic project on “Religious pluralism in the Nordic countries,” Nordic Research Councils for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (NOS-HS), 2004.\\
*1999	Research project on “Religious pluralism in Norway: Hinduism” funded by the Research Council of Norway, 1999. \\
*1995	Post.doc. on project on Sāṃkhya traditions funded by the Research Council of Norway 1995 - 1997 (declined April 1996, started as professor UiB). 36 months.\\
*1991	Ph.D. on Sāṃkhya traditions fully funded by the Research Council of Norway 1991-1994. 42 months.
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__Field work abroad__
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*1990 - 2024 	Numerous periods of fieldwork in India to investigate Sāṃkhya and Yoga traditions, Hindu traditions of salvific space, rituals, processions and festival culture. Fieldwork Hindu diasporas in Mauritius and Malaysia.
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__Publication__ \\
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Published around 45 books and over 100 articles. \\
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__MOST IMPORTANT MONOGRAPHS IN ENGLISH__
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*2025	Jacobsen, Knut A. Hinduism in the World. London: Routledge.\\
*2018	Jacobsen, Knut A. Yoga in Modern Hinduism: Hariharānanda Āraṇya and Sāṃkhyayoga. London: Routledge.\\
*2013	Jacobsen, Knut A. Pilgrimage in the Hindu Tradition: Salvific Space. London: Routledge.\\
*2008	Jacobsen, Knut A. Kapila: Founder of Sāṃkhya and Avatāra of Viṣṇu. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal. \\
*1999	Jacobsen, Knut A. Prakṛti in Sāṃkhya-Yoga: Material Principle, Religious Experience, Ethical Implications. New York: Peter Lang; Indian edition: Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2002.
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__MOST IMPORTED EDITED VOLUMES IN ENGLISH__
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*2023	Jacobsen, Knut A. (ed.). Hindu Diasporas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.\\
*2021	Jacobsen, Knut A. (ed.) Routledge Handbook of South Asian Religions. London: Routledge, 2021.\\
*2020	Jacobsen, Knut A. and Ferdinando Sardella (eds.). Handbook of Hinduism in Europe. Two volumes. Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2 South Asia. Leiden: Brill.\\
*2020	Jacobsen, Knut A., John Cort, Paul Dundas and Kristi Wiley (eds.). Brill’s Encyclopedia of Jainism. Leiden: Brill, 2020.*2018	Jacobsen, Knut A. and Kristina Myrvold (eds.) Religion and Technology in India: Spaces, Practices and Authorities. Abingdon: Routledge.\\
*2016 	Jacobsen, Knut A. (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Contemporary India. Abingdon: Routledge. (2nd edition, 2024)\\
*2015 Jacobsen, Knut A., Mikael Aktor and Kristian Myrvold (eds) Objects of Worship in South Asian Religions: Forms, Practices and Meanings. Abingdon: Ashgate.\\
*2012	Jacobsen, Knut A. (ed.) Yoga Powers: Extraordinary Capacities Attained Through Meditation and Concentration. Leiden: Brill.\\
*2009-2023	Jacobsen, Knut A. (ed.) Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Seven Volumes Leiden: Brill.\\
*2009	Jacobsen, Knut A. (ed.) Modern Indian Culture and Society. 4 vols. Editor. London: Routledge.\\
*2005	Jacobsen, Knut A (ed.) Theory and Practice of Yoga: Essays in Honour of Gerald James Larson. Leiden: Brill. Indian edition: Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2008.\\
*2004	Jacobsen, Knut A. and P. Pratap Kumar (ed.) South Asians in Diaspora: Histories and Religious Traditions. Leiden: Brill.\\ \\
__MOST IMPORTANT RECENT ARTICLES (Selected and only last five years)__ \\
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2024	Jacobsen, Knut A. 2024. “The ritual of parikramā, Hinduization of space and the case of Ayodhyā.” Contemporary South Asia 32. 1, 54-65. \\
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2023	Jacobsen, Knut A. “Hindu Diasporas in Europe: Plurality as the Foundation of Growth,” in Knut A. Jacobsen, ed., Hindu Diasporas, 209-234. Oxford: Oxford University Press.\\
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2023	Jacobsen, Knut A. “Pilgrimage Sites and Procession Rituals in the Hindu Diasporas,” in Knut A. Jacobsen, ed., Hindu Diasporas, 328-353. Oxford: Oxford University Press. \\
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2023	Jacobsen, Knut A. “Pilgrimage Space, Hinduization of Space, Hindutva Politics of Space, and the Case of Ayodhyā as a Religious and Religiopolitical Hotspot.” Numen 70, 1: 95-112.\\
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2022	Jacobsen, Knut A. “Hindu Diasporas and Gods on the Move: Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage in Hindu Europe.” In Gavin Flood (ed.), Blackwell Companion to Hinduism, Second Edition, 338-351. Wiley-Blackwell.\\
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2021	Jacobsen, Knut A. “Early pilgrimage traditions in South Asia,” in Knut A. Jacobsen (ed.), Routledge Handbook of South Asian Religions, 111-123. London: Routledge, 2021.\\
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2021	Jacobsen, Knut A. “Modern Sāṃkhya: Plurality of Sāṃkhya traditions in Modern India,” in Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, Jacob Schmidt-Madsen, and Sara Speyer (eds.), Body and Cosmos: Studies in Early Indian Medical and Astral Sciences in Honor of Kenneth G. Zysk, 408-420. Leiden: Brill 2021.\\
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2020	Jacobsen, Knut A. “The Plurality of Hindu Traditions in Europe,” in Knut A. Jacobsen and Ferdinando Sardella (eds.), Handbook of Hinduism in Europe. Leiden Brill.\\
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2020	Jacobsen, Knut A. “Hindu Processions in Europe,” in Knut A. Jacobsen and Ferdinando Sardella (eds.), Handbook of Hinduism in Europe. Leiden Brill.\\
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2020	Jacobsen, Knut A. “Hindu and Sikh Processions in Europe: Material Objects and Ritual Bodies on the Move,” in Vasudha Narayanan (ed.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Materiality, 226-240. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell.\\
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2020	Jacobsen, Knut A. “Sāṃkhyayoga and the Internet: The website of a contemporary Hindu monastic institution,” in Xenia Zeiler (ed.), Digital Hinduism, 128-144. London: Routledge.\\
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2018	Jacobsen, Knut A. “The diverse traditions of Sāṃkhya,” in Purushottama Bilimoria (ed.), History of Indian Philosophy, 200-210. Abingdon: Routledge, 2018.\\
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Jacobsen, Knut A. “The material culture of Sāṃkhya: Kapila as object of worship.” In Knut A. Jacobsen, Kristina Myrvold, and Mikael Aktor (eds) Objects of Worship in South Asian Religions: Forms, practices and meanings. London: Routledge, 2015, s. 51-66\\
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__Service to the discipline__\\
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Founding editor and editor in chief of the Seven Volume, Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Leiden: Brill, 2009-2023; founding editor of the two volume Brill’s Encyclopedia of Sikhism; founding editor of Brill’s Encyclopedia of Jainism.\\
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On the editorial board of a number of international journals: South Asian Diaspora, Religions of South Asia, Contemporary Voice of Dalit, Nidan: Journal for the Study of Hinduism, Temenos: Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion. Peer reviewer of articles from a large number of journals such as Religion, Numen, Temenos, South Asian Diaspora, Contemporary South Asia, Contemporary Voice of Dalit.\\
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External examiner of Ph.D. dissertations at University of London, University of Copenhagen, University of Southern Denmark, Århus University, Lund University, and Åbo University.\\
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Member of Swedish Research Council evaluation panel Religious Knowledge, 2013-2015, Independent Research Fund Denmark evaluation panel Art, Architecture, Design, History, Religion, Theology, 2022-2025, and The Research Foundation – Flanders Cult4 (FWO, a Belgian public research council), 2023-2025.\\
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Leader of the Norwegian Association of the History of Religions (Norsk religionshistorisk forening) 1998-2023.\\
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__Guest lectures and conference papers__\\
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Have over the years presented hundreds of conference papers at conferences in Asia, North America, Australia and Europe, and been invited keynote speaker for conferences at University of London, Monash University, Melbourne, Centre for South Asian Studies (CEIAS, CNRS-EHESS), Paris and Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Bulgaria. Given invited guest lectures at Universities in India, Germany, Sweden, Finland, USA, Canada, and Norway.\\
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__Current research priority areas__\\
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Sāṃkhya; Yoga; Hinduism, Hindu pilgrimage, festival and procession culture; Buddhism in India, Europe and Norway; Hindu diasporas, Religion and nature.\\ \\[{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW edit kjacobsen}][{ALLOW upload kjacobsen}][{ALLOW comment All}]