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Jesper Aagaard Petersen

Jesper Aagaard Petersen

Vice-Dean Research
SU Faculty Administration
Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences

jesper.petersen@ntnu.no
+4773598312 Paviljong C, Rom 119, Dragvoll
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About

I am the Vice-Dean of Research at the Faculty until 2025. As Vice-Dean Research I have the following responsibilities in close collaboration with the Rectorate, Faculty management and Departments: 

  • Build research and development as core activities through strategic leadership
  • Lead and develop doctoral education
  • Lead the faculty Research Committee and other arenas for research and innovation
  • represent the faculty in research contexts locally, nationally and internationally
Key words are research culture, research strategy, research politics, research ethics, research funding and internationalization horizontally and vertically throughout the organization.
 
My background is in Religious Studies. My work is primarily in the fields of Religious Education, theory and methodology, and contemporary religion in the West. I am specialized in modern Satanism and alternative currents, RE as theory and practice, and the study of religion in general.
 
Current fields of interest include
  • Conspiracy thinking in school and society (I co-manage the research group KONSPISK)
  • Science as replacement religion, including teacher values in school, secularity and non-religion, secular apocalypses
  • the academization of Religious Education
  • transgressive art and religion
  • religion and popular culture

Competencies

  • Discourse analysis
  • Discursive practice
  • Esotericism
  • Faith and Science
  • Internet
  • New Age
  • New Religious Movements
  • Occultism
  • Religion and popular culture
  • Religious education
  • Religious studies, history of religion
  • Satanism
  • Science Studies
  • Social science methods
  • Subject didactics
  • Syncretism
  • Theory in the science of religions

Publications

  • Chronological
  • By category
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2021

  • Bergane, Jean; Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2021) Alt henger sammen! Konspirasjonsteorier og hva vi kan gjøre for å forebygge dem.
    Web pages (information material)

2020

  • Løset, Sveinung; Oestvang, Janne; Pedersen, Eilif; Mathisen, Karina; Petersen, Jesper Aagaard; Kummen, Jon; Pukstad, Brita; Lohndal, Terje; Penner, Angelina; Christensen, Idd Andrea. (2020) Rapport om utvidelse av forskerlinjer ved NTNU. 2020.
    Report

2019

  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2019) Religionsfag distribuert som meningsskapende mulighet i en flerfaglig praksis. Dybde//læring - en flerfaglig, relasjonell og skapende tilnærming.
    Academic chapter/article
  • Østern, Tone Pernille; Dahl, Thomas; Strømme, Alex; Petersen, Jesper Aagaard; Østern, Maria Anna-Lena Viola; Selander, Staffan. (2019) Dybde//læring - en flerfaglig, relasjonell og skapende tilnærming. Universitetsforlaget. 2019. ISBN 978-82-15-02972-6.
    Scientific anthology

2017

  • Østern, Tone Pernille; Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2017) Ph.d. i kunstnerisk utviklingsarbeid – en philosophiae doctor uten forskning?. Universitetsavisa.
    Chronicle

2016

  • Dyrendal, Asbjørn; Lewis, James R; Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2016) The Invention of Satanism. Oxford University Press. 2016. ISBN 9780195181104.
    Scientific monography
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2016) Satanism in Denmark. Western Esotericism in Scandinavia.
    Academic chapter/article
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard; Holt, Cimminnee. (2016) Modern Religious Satanism: A Negotiation of Tensions. Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements vol.2.
    Academic chapter/article

2015

  • Ödlund, Christine; Börjesson, Johan; Arnesen, Trond; Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2015) Planteprat. Panel/samtale. Om planters kommunikasjon og økologi vs økokrise vs teosofi. Helaften med kunstneren Christine Ödlund. Panel/samtale med forskere. [Kunstnerisk og museal presentasjon] . Trondheim Kunstmuseum. Gråmølna.; Trondheim. 2015-01-09.
    Art exhibition
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2015) Contemporary Satanism. The Occult World.
    Academic chapter/article
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2015) Satanisme i Norge? Å ja, black metal…. religioner.no.
    Popular scientific article
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2015) Vantroens fremtid? Om et ikke-troens trosmangfold. Humanist : tidsskrift for livssynsdebatt.
    Popular scientific article
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard; Dyrendal, Asbjørn. (2015) Old Nick on the 'Net: On Satanic Politics. OUPblog.
    Popular scientific article

2014

  • Faxneld, Per; Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2014) Cult of Carnality: Sexuality, Eroticism and Gender in Contemporary Satanism. Sexuality and New Religious Movements.
    Academic chapter/article
  • Lewis, James R.; Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2014) Controversial New Religions. Oxford University Press. 2014. ISBN 9780199315314.
    Scientific anthology
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2014) Art, Anarchy and Apostasy – en samtale mellom Martin Palmer og Jesper Aagaard Petersen. Art, Anarchy and Apostasy [Kunstnerisk og museal presentasjon] . Rozemin Keshvani; TKM Gråmølna. 2014-04-04.
    Other
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2014) Carnal, Chthonian, Complicated: The Matter of Modern Satanism. Controversial New Religions.
    Academic chapter/article
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2014) Operation Mindfuck, Viking Edition: How Fear of the Satanic and Cartoon Exoticism Fueled the Prank of the Century. Here To Go 2014: Art, Counter-Culture and the Esoteric.
    publications.POPVIT_KAPITTEL
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2014) Sataniske pikesmykker?. religioner.no.
    Popular scientific article

2013

  • Faxneld, Per; Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2013) The Devil's Party: Satanism in Modernity. Oxford University Press. 2013. ISBN 9780199779239.
    Scientific anthology
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2013) Bracketing Beelzebub: Introducing the Academic Study of Satanism. International Journal for the Study of New Religions. volum 4 (2).
    Academic article
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2013) Da Satan kom til Tromsø. PluRel - en blogg om religion og samfunn (UiO).
    Popular scientific article
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2013) From Book to Bit: Enacting Satanism Online. Contemporary Esotericism.
    Academic chapter/article
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2013) Moderne satanisme: En religionsvidenskabelig rejseparlør. Religion. Tidsskrift for Religionslærerforeningen for Gymnasiet og HF.
    Article
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2013) The Carnival of Dr. LaVey: Articulations of Transgression in Modern Satanism. The Devil's Party: Satanism in Modernity.
    Academic chapter/article

2012

  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2012) Alteritet og transgression: "Post-kristen" og "post-satanisk" satanisme.
    Web pages (information material)
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2012) Goetisk gru. Helvede i populærkulturen. Kritisk forum for praktisk teologi.
    Academic article
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2012) The Seeds of Satan: Conceptions of Magic in Contemporary Satanism. Aries. volum 12 (1).
    Academic article
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard; Dyrendal, Asbjørn. (2012) Satanism. The Cambridge Companion to New Religious Movements.
    Academic chapter/article

2011

  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2011) "Smite him hip and thigh": Satanism, violence and transgression. Violence and New Religious Movements.
    Academic chapter/article
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard; Dyrendal, Asbjørn. (2011) Between Darwin and the Devil. Modern Satanism as Discourse, Milieu, and Self. 2011. Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU (245).
    PhD thesis

2010

  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2010) "We demand bedrock knowledge". Modern Satanism between secularized esotericism and "esoterizised" secularism. Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion.
    Academic article

2009

  • Hjelm, Titus; Bogdan, Henrik; Dyrendal, Asbjørn; Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2009) Nordic Satanism and Satanism Scares: the Dark Side of the Secular Welfare State. Social Compass. volum 56 (4).
    Academic article
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2009) Contemporary Religious Satanism: A Critical Anthology. Ashgate. 2009. ISBN 978-0-7546-5286-1.
    Scientific anthology
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2009) Hypersymmetrisk asymmetri: Distance og engagement som kritiske begreber. Chaos - Skandinavisk tidsskrift for religionshistoriske studier. volum 50.
    Academic article
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2009) Satanists and nuts : the role of schisms in modern Satanism. Sacred Schisms: How Religions Divide.
    Academic chapter/article

2008

  • Lewis, James R.; Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2008) The Encyclopedic Sourcebook of Satanism. Prometheus Books. 2008. ISBN 1-59102-390-4.
    Scientific anthology

2005

  • Lewis, James R.; Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2005) Controversial New Religions. Oxford University Press. 2005. ISBN 0195156838.
    Scientific anthology
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2005) Modern Satanism: Dark Doctrines and Black Flames. Controversial New Religions.
    Academic chapter/article

2002

  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2002) Binary Satanism: The Construction of Community in a Digital World. Syzygy (Stanford, Calif.). volum 11.
    Academic article

2001

  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2001) Den satans lyst! Kærlighet og sex blant satanister. DIN - Tidsskrift for religion og kultur.
    Academic article

Scientific articles

  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2013) Bracketing Beelzebub: Introducing the Academic Study of Satanism. International Journal for the Study of New Religions. volum 4 (2).
    Academic article
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2012) Goetisk gru. Helvede i populærkulturen. Kritisk forum for praktisk teologi.
    Academic article
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2012) The Seeds of Satan: Conceptions of Magic in Contemporary Satanism. Aries. volum 12 (1).
    Academic article
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2010) "We demand bedrock knowledge". Modern Satanism between secularized esotericism and "esoterizised" secularism. Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion.
    Academic article
  • Hjelm, Titus; Bogdan, Henrik; Dyrendal, Asbjørn; Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2009) Nordic Satanism and Satanism Scares: the Dark Side of the Secular Welfare State. Social Compass. volum 56 (4).
    Academic article
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2009) Hypersymmetrisk asymmetri: Distance og engagement som kritiske begreber. Chaos - Skandinavisk tidsskrift for religionshistoriske studier. volum 50.
    Academic article
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2002) Binary Satanism: The Construction of Community in a Digital World. Syzygy (Stanford, Calif.). volum 11.
    Academic article
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2001) Den satans lyst! Kærlighet og sex blant satanister. DIN - Tidsskrift for religion og kultur.
    Academic article

Journal publications

  • Østern, Tone Pernille; Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2017) Ph.d. i kunstnerisk utviklingsarbeid – en philosophiae doctor uten forskning?. Universitetsavisa.
    Chronicle
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2015) Satanisme i Norge? Å ja, black metal…. religioner.no.
    Popular scientific article
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2015) Vantroens fremtid? Om et ikke-troens trosmangfold. Humanist : tidsskrift for livssynsdebatt.
    Popular scientific article
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard; Dyrendal, Asbjørn. (2015) Old Nick on the 'Net: On Satanic Politics. OUPblog.
    Popular scientific article
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2014) Sataniske pikesmykker?. religioner.no.
    Popular scientific article
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2013) Da Satan kom til Tromsø. PluRel - en blogg om religion og samfunn (UiO).
    Popular scientific article
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2013) Moderne satanisme: En religionsvidenskabelig rejseparlør. Religion. Tidsskrift for Religionslærerforeningen for Gymnasiet og HF.
    Article

Books

  • Østern, Tone Pernille; Dahl, Thomas; Strømme, Alex; Petersen, Jesper Aagaard; Østern, Maria Anna-Lena Viola; Selander, Staffan. (2019) Dybde//læring - en flerfaglig, relasjonell og skapende tilnærming. Universitetsforlaget. 2019. ISBN 978-82-15-02972-6.
    Scientific anthology
  • Dyrendal, Asbjørn; Lewis, James R; Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2016) The Invention of Satanism. Oxford University Press. 2016. ISBN 9780195181104.
    Scientific monography
  • Lewis, James R.; Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2014) Controversial New Religions. Oxford University Press. 2014. ISBN 9780199315314.
    Scientific anthology
  • Faxneld, Per; Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2013) The Devil's Party: Satanism in Modernity. Oxford University Press. 2013. ISBN 9780199779239.
    Scientific anthology
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2009) Contemporary Religious Satanism: A Critical Anthology. Ashgate. 2009. ISBN 978-0-7546-5286-1.
    Scientific anthology
  • Lewis, James R.; Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2008) The Encyclopedic Sourcebook of Satanism. Prometheus Books. 2008. ISBN 1-59102-390-4.
    Scientific anthology
  • Lewis, James R.; Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2005) Controversial New Religions. Oxford University Press. 2005. ISBN 0195156838.
    Scientific anthology

Part of book/report

  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2019) Religionsfag distribuert som meningsskapende mulighet i en flerfaglig praksis. Dybde//læring - en flerfaglig, relasjonell og skapende tilnærming.
    Academic chapter/article
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2016) Satanism in Denmark. Western Esotericism in Scandinavia.
    Academic chapter/article
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard; Holt, Cimminnee. (2016) Modern Religious Satanism: A Negotiation of Tensions. Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements vol.2.
    Academic chapter/article
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2015) Contemporary Satanism. The Occult World.
    Academic chapter/article
  • Faxneld, Per; Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2014) Cult of Carnality: Sexuality, Eroticism and Gender in Contemporary Satanism. Sexuality and New Religious Movements.
    Academic chapter/article
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2014) Carnal, Chthonian, Complicated: The Matter of Modern Satanism. Controversial New Religions.
    Academic chapter/article
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2014) Operation Mindfuck, Viking Edition: How Fear of the Satanic and Cartoon Exoticism Fueled the Prank of the Century. Here To Go 2014: Art, Counter-Culture and the Esoteric.
    publications.POPVIT_KAPITTEL
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2013) From Book to Bit: Enacting Satanism Online. Contemporary Esotericism.
    Academic chapter/article
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2013) The Carnival of Dr. LaVey: Articulations of Transgression in Modern Satanism. The Devil's Party: Satanism in Modernity.
    Academic chapter/article
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard; Dyrendal, Asbjørn. (2012) Satanism. The Cambridge Companion to New Religious Movements.
    Academic chapter/article
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2011) "Smite him hip and thigh": Satanism, violence and transgression. Violence and New Religious Movements.
    Academic chapter/article
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2009) Satanists and nuts : the role of schisms in modern Satanism. Sacred Schisms: How Religions Divide.
    Academic chapter/article
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2005) Modern Satanism: Dark Doctrines and Black Flames. Controversial New Religions.
    Academic chapter/article

Report

  • Løset, Sveinung; Oestvang, Janne; Pedersen, Eilif; Mathisen, Karina; Petersen, Jesper Aagaard; Kummen, Jon; Pukstad, Brita; Lohndal, Terje; Penner, Angelina; Christensen, Idd Andrea. (2020) Rapport om utvidelse av forskerlinjer ved NTNU. 2020.
    Report
  • Petersen, Jesper Aagaard; Dyrendal, Asbjørn. (2011) Between Darwin and the Devil. Modern Satanism as Discourse, Milieu, and Self. 2011. Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU (245).
    PhD thesis

Media

2018

  • Academic lecture
    Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2018) Megapolisomancy: Metaphor and Magic in the Metropolis. Magick, Mysticism and Art . Academia Ordo Templi Orientis; Hotel Oriente, Barcelona. 2018-06-24 - 2018-06-24.
  • Academic lecture
    Petersen, Jesper Aagaard; Nielsen, Carsten Viggo. (2018) Røre i andedammen: Receptionen af dansk ondskabskult 1973-2018. Chaos symposium 2018 . Chaos-redaktionen; Lunds universitet. 2018-05-04 - 2018-05-05.

2017

  • Academic lecture
    Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2017) “I believe in as much as possible”: Notes on the reception of A. Crowley in late 1960s Danish counterculture. Academia Ordo Templi Orientis 2017 Conference . Academia Ordo Templi Orientis; Monte Verita, Ascona. 2017-08-26 - 2017-08-26.
  • Academic lecture
    Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2017) The Satanic Milieu: Mapping and Modelling Double Deviance. 6th Intl conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism . ESSWE and Universität Erfurt; Augustinerkloster, Erfurt. 2017-06-01 - 2017-06-03.

2015

  • Academic lecture
    Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2015) Educating the public: Making sense of popular science television in Norway. IAHR XXI World Congress . International Association for the History of Religions; Erfurt Universitet. 2015-08-23 - 2015-08-29.
  • Academic lecture
    Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2015) «I fucking love science»: Naturvitenskap som identitetsmarkør på sociale medier. Ungdomsseminariet i Trondheim . SiPP (NTNU), YES (NTNU) og ALT (HiST); PLU, Moholt. 2015-09-24 - 2015-09-24.
  • Academic lecture
    Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2015) Natur og kultur i klasserommet: Gjensidighet i naturfag og religionsfag?. Et religionsfag for fremtiden . IHKR; Universitetet i Bergen. 2015-10-14 - 2015-10-15.

2014

  • Popular scientific lecture
    Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2014) Operation Mindfuck, Viking Edition. HERE TO GO II . Metamorf/TEKS; Dokkhuset, Trondheim. 2014-05-30 - 2014-05-31.

2013

  • Academic lecture
    Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2013) "Nobody likes to be fooled": Negotiating the "alternative" in Norwegian public debate. ESSWE4 . European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism; Göteborg. 2013-06-26 - 2013-06-30.
  • Academic lecture
    Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2013) Når kundskab krænker: Religionsfaget mellem værdipolitik og videnskabsfag. NOFA4 . NTNU; Hotel Royal Garden, Trondheim. 2013-05-29 - 2013-05-31.
  • Popular scientific lecture
    Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2013) SATANS YNGEL: Okkult, Ondsinnet & Orgasmisk. Forum Nidrosiae . Martin Palmer; Tulla Fischer, Trondheim. 2013-02-28 - 2013-02-28.
  • Interview
    Petersen, Jesper Aagaard; Jakobsen, Hanne Østli. (2013) RLE må bli ikke-religiøst. forskning.no [Internett]. 2013-04-19.

2012

  • Popular scientific lecture
    Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2012) En fjern torden: Kristne dommedagsforestillinger på det store lerret. Kosmorama . Kosmorama; Trondheim. 2012-03-21 - 2012-03-21.
  • Academic lecture
    Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2012) Megapolisomancy: Metaphor and Magic in the Metropolis. Here To Go: Art, counterculture and the esoteric . Meta.Morf 2012; Nova Kino, Trondheim. 2012-10-20 - 2012-10-20.

2010

  • Popular scientific lecture
    Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2010) Sabbath on Angel Dust, Motörhead for zombies: Transgressive Music and the Paradox of Society. Svart helg på Rockheim! . Rockheim og Forum Nidrosiae; Rockheim. 2010-11-12 - 2010-11-12.
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