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Jesper Frøkjær Sørensen serves as Associate Professor in Comparative Religion at Aarhus University's Department of the Study of Religion, holding this position continuously since 2009 while leading significant departmental initiatives including the Religion, Cognition and Culture research unit and the department's research program.
Academic credentials:
- PhD in Study of Religion, Aarhus University (2001)
- Cand. mag. in History of Religion and Semiotics, Aarhus University (1995)
A pioneering scholar in the Cognitive Science of Religion, his research centers on ritual cognition, magical practices, and theoretical frameworks for analyzing religious phenomena. His foundational work A Cognitive Theory of Magic (2007) established key principles in the field, while his current project Religion as a Culturo-Immunological System pioneers interdisciplinary synthesis between theoretical biology and cognitive neuroscience to model religious traditions as adaptive cultural entities.
Professor Sørensen's leadership extends through his direction of the Religion, Cognition and Culture research unit and departmental research program, alongside his 2019 Käte Hamburger Kolleg fellowship focused on developing novel frameworks for understanding cultural system dynamics.
