Jesper Aagaard Petersen

Associate Professor / head of research

Department of Teacher Education

jesper.petersen@ntnu.no +47 73598312

Jonsvannsveien 82, Trondheim

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.

My current fields of interest include

the academization of Religious Education
secularity and non-religion
transgressive art and religion
religion and popular culture

Scientific, academic and artistic work

A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database

2016

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

2015

Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2015) Contemporary Satanism. The Occult World.

2014

Lewis, James R.; Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2014) Controversial New Religions. Oxford University Press. 2014. ISBN 9780199315314.

2013

Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2013) Bracketing Beelzebub: Introducing the Academic Study of Satanism. International Journal for the Study of New Religions. vol. 4 (2).
Faxneld, Per; Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2013) The Devil's Party: Satanism in Modernity. Oxford University Press. 2013. ISBN 9780199779239.

2012

Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2012) Goetisk gru. Helvede i populærkulturen. Kritisk forum for praktisk teologi.
Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2012) The Seeds of Satan: Conceptions of Magic in Contemporary Satanism. Aries : Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism. vol. 12 (1).

2011

Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2011) The Charge of the Armchair Crusader. International Journal for the Study of New Religions. vol. 2 (2).

2010

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

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. vol. 56 (4).
Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2009) Hypersymmetrisk asymmetri: Distance og engagement som kritiske begreber. Chaos. Dansk-norsk tidsskrift for religionhistoriske studier. vol. 50.
Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2009) Contemporary Religious Satanism: A Critical Anthology. Ashgate. 2009. ISBN 978-0-7546-5286-1.

2008

Lewis, James R.; Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2008) The Encyclopedic Sourcebook of Satanism. Prometheus Books. 2008. ISBN 1-59102-390-4.
Lewis, James R.; Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2008) The Encyclopedic sourcebook of Satanism. Prometheus Books. 2008. ISBN 978-1-59102-390-6.

2005

Lewis, James R.; Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2005) Controversial New Religions. Oxford University Press. 2005. ISBN 0195156838.

2002

Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2002) Binary Satanism: The Construction of Community in a Digital World. Syzygy (Stanford, Calif.). vol. 11.
Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2002) Introduction. Syzygy (Stanford, Calif.). vol. 11.

2001

Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. (2001) Den satans lyst! Kærlighet og sex blant satanister. DIN: Religionsvitenskapelig tidsskrift.