About this course
This is an interdisciplinary course that combines sociology of religion, anthropology, political science, and gender studies. You learn these theories and methodologies by working on a wide selection of topics related to contemporary European forms of Islam such as DIY imams, pop-up mosques, IslamOnline, Salafi dating, rebel music, Islamic fashion, social movements, Islamic feminism, and the political effects of terrorism.
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Faculty
Tessie Bundgaard Jørgensen
FacultyPhD in Theology (UCPH 2024), MA in Philosophy of Ethics (al-Mustafa International University 2019), MA in Islamic Studies (UCPH 2015), BA in Science of Religion (UCPH 2013). Postdoc researcher at the cross-faculty Centre for Science and Faith and teacher at the Faculty of Theology at UCPH in Interreligious Islam Studies. General research interest is on Science and Faith relations, phenomenology and aesthetic experiences, including Islam as theology, history and lived religion. I am currently working on Edith Stein and developing a Theology of Milk and nursing. With DIS since 2026
Niels Valdemar Vinding
FacultyPhD in Islamic Studies (UCPH 2013), MA in Islamic Studies (UCPH 2009), BA in Theology (UCPH 2006) and LLM in Canon Law from (Cardiff U 2020). Associate Professor of Islamic Studies and Law & Religion at the Faculty of Theology at UCPH. General research interest is on Islam and Muslims in Denmark and Europe, including Islam in the State-Church context, and broader Law and Religion, such as human rights, court rulings, constitutional law on religion, and more. Co-convener of Copenhagen Research on Religion and Law (CORAL) and PI of the ‘Producing Sharia in Context’ project (2021-2025). With DIS from 2015-2020, and again from 2024