Short CV
CURRENT POSITION
Professor, Department
of the History of Religions, University of Bergen, Norway, 1999-
PREVIOUS ACADEMIC
POSITIONS
Associate Professor,
Department of the History of Religions, University of Bergen, Norway,
1996-99.
Post-doctorate Fellow,
Research Council of Norway, 1995-1996
Doctorate fellow, The
Research Council of Norway, 1991-1994
Research Assistant,
University of California, Santa Barbara, 1990
Teaching Assistant,
University of California, Santa Barbara, 1988-1991
PROFESSIONAL
INTERESTS
Hinduism, Yoga, South
Asian Diaspora, Buddhism, Sikhism, Religious Pluralism, Sanskrit, Pali,
Theories of Religion, Religion and Nature.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Department of
Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) 1994.
Publications: Books
Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. 5 vols. Editor in chief. Volume 4-5, Leiden:
Brill, forthcoming 2012-2013.
Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. 5 vols. Editor in chief. Volume 3: Society, Professionals, Communities,
Philosophies, Leiden: Brill, forthcoming 2011.
Sikhs in Europe: Migration, Identity and Transnational Practices. So-edited with Kristian Myrvold), Farnham: Ashagate,
forthcoming 2011.
Yoga Powers: Extraordinary Capacities
Attained Through Meditation and Concentration.
Editor. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming 2011.
Hinduismen. 2nd. ed. Oslo: Pax, 2010.
Bioetikk i
verdensreligionene: religion, medisin og teknologisk endring. Editor. Oslo: Abstrakt Forlag,
2010.
Brill's
Encyclopedia of Hinduism. 5 vols. Editor in chief. Volume 2: Sacred Languages,
Ritual Traditions, Arts, Concepts, Leiden: Brill, 2010.
Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. 5 vols. Editor in chief. Volume 1: Regions,
Pilgrimage, Deities. Leiden: Brill 2009.
Modern
Indian Culture and Society. 4 vols. Editor. London: Routledge, 2009.
Hva er hinduisme. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget,
2009.
South Asian
Christian Diaspora: Invisible Diaspora in Europe and North America. Co-edited with
Selva J. Raj. London: Ashgate, 2008.
South Asian
Religions on Display: Religious Processions in South Asia and the Diaspora. Editor. London:
Routledge, 2008.
Kapila: Founder of
Sāṃkhya and Avatāra of Viṣṇu. Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal,
2008.
Hyllest
til Gudinnen: Visjon og tilbedelse av hinduismens store Gudinne. Oslo: Emilia
forlag, 2007.
Sikhismen:
Historie, tradisjon og kultur . Kristiansand : Høyskoleforlaget, 2006.
Theory and Practice
of Yoga: Essays in Honour of Gerald James Larson. Editor. Leiden: Brill, 2005
(Indian edition: Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2008).
Verdensreligioner i
Norge
("World Religions in Norway’). Editor and contributing author. 2d. ed.
Oslo: Norwegian University Press, 2005.
Sanger fra Adi
Granth
("Songs from the Adi Granth"). Editor. Oslo: De norske bokklubbene,
2004.
Yoga . Editor and contributing author.
Oslo: De norske bokklubbene, 2004.
South Asians in
Diaspora: Histories and Religious Traditions. Ed. Knut A. Jacobsen and P.
Pratap Kumar. Leiden: Brill, 2004.
Hinduismen ("Hinduism," in
Norwegian). Oslo: Pax, 2003. Swedish translation, Hinduismen: Historia, tradition, mångfold, Stockholm:
Natur og Kultur, 2004.
Verdensreligioner i
Norge
("World Religions in Norway’). Editor and contributing author. Oslo:
Norwegian University Press, 2001.
Bhagavadgita og
andre hellige skrifter fra Hinduismen ("Bhagavadgita and other Sacred Texts of
Hinduism," in Norwegian). Editor and contributing author. Oslo: De
norske bokklubbene, 2001.
Buddhismen ("Buddhism," in
Norwegian). Oslo: Pax, 2000. Swedish translation, Buddhismen: Kultur, historia, traditon, Stockholm: Natur
og Kultur, 2002.
Prakṛti in Sāṃkhya-Yoga:
Material Principle, Religious Experience, Ethical Implications . New York: Peter Lang, 1999;
Indian edition: Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2002.
Hinduismen og
Buddhismen ("Hinduism
and Buddhism," in Norwegian). Co-authored with Notto R. Thelle.
Kristiansand: Nordic Academic Press, 1999.
Publications: Articles
"Ahiṃsā." Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Knut A. Jacobsen, Editor in chief. Volume II: Text and Languagess, Rituals, Arts, Concepts,
Leiden: Brill, 2010.
"Sevā." Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Knut A. Jacobsen, Editor in chief. Volume II: Text and Languagess, Rituals, Arts, Concepts,
Leiden: Brill, 2010.
"Prakṛti." Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Knut A. Jacobsen, Editor in chief. Volume II: Text and Languagess, Rituals, Arts, Concepts,
Leiden: Brill, 2010.
"Establishing
Tamil Ritual Space: A Comparative Analysis of the Ritualisation of the
Traditions of the Tamil Hindus and the Tamil Roman Catholics in Norway," Journal of Religion in Europe 2, 2
(2009): 180-198.
"Introduction."
Modern
Indian Culture and Society. 4 vols. Editor. London: Routledge, 2009.
"Introduction."
Brill's
Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Knut A. Jacobsen, Editor in chief. Vol. I. Leiden:
Brill 2009, xxxiii-xliii.
"Tīrtha
and Tīrthayātrā." Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Knut A. Jacobsen, Editor in
chief. Vol. I. Leiden: Brill 2009, 381-410.
"Uttar
Pradesh." Brill's
Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Knut A. Jacobsen, Editor in chief. Vol. I.
Leiden: Brill 2009, 171-186.
"Sacred
Animals." Brill's
Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Knut A. Jacobsen, Editor in chief. Vol. I.
Leiden: Brill 2009. 711-718.
"Processions."
Brill's
Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Knut A. Jacobsen, Editor in chief. Vol. I.
Leiden: Brill 2009, 445-455..
"Three
Functions of Hell in the Hindu Traditions." Numen 56, 2-3 (2009): 385-400.
"Introduction:
Religion on Display." In South Asian Religions on Display: Religious Processions in South
Asian and in the Diaspora. Edited by Knut A. Jacobsen. London: Routledge,
2008, 1-11.
"Processions,
Public Space and Sacred Space in the South Asian Diasporas in Norway." In South Asian
Religions on Display: Religious Processions in South Asian and in the
Diaspora. Edited by Knut A. Jacobsen. London: Routledge, 2008, 191-204.
"Introduction:
Making an Invisible Diaspora Visible" Co-authored with Selva J. Rai. In South Asian
Christian Diaspora: An Invisible Diaspora in Europe and North America.
Edited by Knut A. Jacobsen and Selva J. Raj. London: Ashgate, 2008, 1-14.
"Creating
Sri Lankan Tamil Catholic Space in the South Asian Diaspora in Norway."
In South
Asian Christian Diaspora: An Invisible Diaspora in Europe and North America.
Edited by Knut A. Jacobsen and Selva J. Raj. London: Ashgate, 2008, 117-132.
"The
Meaning of
Prakrti in the Yogasutra and Vyasabhashya. " Asian Philosophy 17, no 1 (2007): 1-16.
"What
Similes in Samkhya Do: A Comparison of the Similes in the Samkhya texts of the Mahabharata,
the
Samkhyakarika and the Samkhyasutra." Journal of Indian Philosophy 34 (2006):
587-605.
"Is Hinduism an Offshoot of Buddhism?" Co-authored with Ninian
Smart. In
Indian Religions: Renaissance and Renewal: The Spalding Papers in Indic
Studies. Edited by Anna King. London: Equinox, 2006, pp. 41-53.
"Når
Lakshmi flytter inn, flytter Sarasvati ut: religion og profitt." Praktisk
økonomi og finans 4 (2006): 47-54.
'Scandinavia' In
Peter Reeves, Brij V. Lal and Rajesh Rai (eds.), Encyclopedia of the
Indian Diaspora. Singapore: Editions Didier Millet, 2006,
pp. 361-363 .
"Hindu
Processions, Diaspora and Religious Pluralism," in Religious Pluralism and the Diaspora,
ed. P. Pratap Kumar. Leiden: Brill, 2006, pp
163-173.
"Krig og krigerasketer
i hinduismens tradisjoner." Chaos 45 (2006): 9-22.
"Veda,
vitenskap og vestens herredømme: hinduistiske møter med moderne
kunnskapstradisjoner". Religion og livssyn 18, nr. 1 (2006): 25-32.
‘Purusha is Different from Everything.’ Sankhyayana 3 (2005): 72-77.
"Globalisert yoga:
Om hvordan en esoterisk religiøs lære for asketer i India ble et
verdensomspennende sekulært helse-, trim- og sportsfenomen." Norsk Teologisk Tidsskrift 107, nr. 1
(2006): 3-17.
"The Great Monkey
Jataka." In Encyclopedia of
Religion and Nature. Edited by Bron Tylor. New York: Continuum,
2005, 904-905.
"Bhagavadgita."
In Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature.
Edited by Bron Tylor. New York: Continuum, 2005, 172-173.
"Arne Naess."
In Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature.
Edited by Bron Tylor. New York: Continuum, 2005, 1149-1150.
"Jataka," In Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature.
Edited by Bron Tylor. New York: Continuum, 2005, 903, 904.
" India," In Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature.
Edited by Bron Tylor. New York: Continuum, 2005, 823-827.
"Ahimsa" In Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature.
Edited by Bron Tylor. New York: Continuum, 2005, 30-31.
"Prakriti."
In Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature.
Edited by Bron Tylor. New York: Continuum, 2005, 1299-1301.
"The Tirtha of
sage Kapila." Manushi.
Issue 150, pp. 26-29
"Introduction:
Yoga Traditions." In Theory and
Practice of Yoga: Essays in Honour of Gerald James Larson. Ed.
Knut A. Jacobsen. Leiden: Brill, 2005, 1-28.
"In Kapila’s Cave:
A Samkhya-Yoga Renaissance in Bengal." In Theory and Practice of Yoga: Essays in Honour of Gerald James Larson.
Ed. Knut A. Jacobsen. Leiden: Brill, 2005, 333-350.
"Det andre
livsstadiet: Ekteskapstradisjoner i hinduismen i Sør-Asia og i
diasporaen," i Evig Din?:
Ekteskaps- og samlivstradisjoner i det flerreligiøse Norge. Ed.
Berit Synnøve Thorbjørnsrud. Oslo: Abstract forlag, 2005. 174-195.
"Kapila in the Mahabharata." In The Mahabharata: Whatever Is Not There Is Nowhere
else. Ed. T. S. Rukmani. Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal. 35-47.
"Interdependence
and Non-Injury." Sankhyayana
2 (2004): 25-26.
"Nye rituelle rom
i hindudiasporaen i Norge." Chaos
41 (2004): 41-52.
"The Child
Manifestation of Shiva in Contemporary Hindu Popular Prints." Numen 52 (2004): 237-264.
"Hva er
Yoga?" P2-Akademiet
XXXI. Oslo:Transit, 2004, pp. 156-168.
"Hinduisme: Mat
som kosmisk, etisk, sosial og materiell virkelighet." In Når Gud bestemmer menyen. Ed Gunnar
Neegaard. Oslo: Yrkeslitteratur, 2004, pp. 191-215.
"Menneskerettigheter
i hinduisme." Religion og livssyn
16, no. 1, (2004): 25-30.
"Future
Prospects." Co-authored with P. Pratap Kumar. In South Asians in Diaspora: Histories and
Religious Traditions.Ed. Knut A. Jacobsen and Pratap Kumar.
Leiden: Brill, 2004, pp. 498-500.
"Introduction."
Co-authored with P. Pratap Kumar. In
South Asians in Diaspora: Histories and Religious Traditions.Ed.
Knut A. Jacobsen and Pratap Kumar. Leiden: Brill, 2004, pp. ix-xxiv.
"Establishing
Ritual Space in the Hindu Diaspora in Norway." In South Asians in Diaspora: Histories and
Religious Traditions.Ed. Knut A. Jacobsen and Pratap Kumar. Leiden:
Brill, 2004, pp. 134-148.
"Matrigayaparvanashraddha: Pilegrimsferd til
Sidhpur for å gi frelse til avdøde mødre. " Chaos 39 (2003), pp. 49-58.
"The Sacred
Geography of Kapila: The Kapilashrama of Sidhpur, " Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis
vol 18: Ritualistics,
(2003) pp. 82-91.
"Settling in Cold
Climate: Tamil Hindus in Norway" In Martin Baumann, Brigitte Luchesi,
Annette Wilke (eds.), Tempel und
Tamilen in zweiter Heimat. Hindus aus Sri Lanka im deutschsprachigen und
skandinavischen Raum. Würzburg: Ergon Press 2003, pp. 363-377.
"Flere veier til
samme mål - Asiatiske verdensreligioner i Norge og religiøs sannhet." P2-Akademiet
Bind XXVII. Oslo: Transit 2003, pp. 76-88.
"Vold i
hinduismen" ("Violence in Hinduism" in Norwegian). Religion og livssyn 14, no. 4,
(2002), pp. 24-29.
"Shiva som barn:
Tradisjon og innovasjon i hinduismens gudeplakatkunst" ("Shiva as
Child: Tradition and Innovation in the God Posters of Hinduism". Din 2/3 (2002): 13-19.
"Buddhismens
ritualer" ("The Rituals of Buddhism, " in Norwegian). In P2
Akademiet X. Oslo: NRK Fakta, 2002, p. 95-107.
"Dyr i
hinduismen" ("Animals in Hinduism" in Norwegian). Religion og livssyn 14, no. 1,
(2002): 20-24.
"En flerreligiøs
verden og religionsmangfoldet i Norge." ("A Multireligious World
and the Plurality of Religions in Norway"). I Verdensreligioner i Norge. ("World
Religions in Norway’). Editor and contributing author. Oslo: Norwegian
University Press, 2001, 10-28.
"Buddhismen i
Norge" ("Buddhism in Norway"). In Verdensreligioner i Norge ("World Religions in
Norway’). Editor and contributing author. Oslo: Norwegian University Press,
2001, 29-75.
"Hinduismen i
Norge" ("Hinduism in Norway"). In Verdensreligioner i Norge ("World Religions in
Norway’). Editor and contributing author. Oslo: Norwegian University Press,
2001, 76-129.
"Hinduismens
gudsforestillinger." ("The Conception of Divinty in
Hinduism"). In P2 Akademiet Q. Oslo: NRK Kultur, 2000, 179-192.
"En
verdensreligion i diaspora: Sri Lanka tamilenes hinduisme i Bergen"
("A World Religion in Diaspora: The Sri Lanka Tamil Hinduism in
Bergen"). In Religionsbyen Bergen
(The Religious City Bergen), ed. Lisbeth Mikaelsson. Bergen, 2000, 159-174.
"Tid,
verdensoppløsning og religiøs opplevelse: Samkhya-prinsippenes (tattvaenes) funksjon i hinduismens
endetidsforestillinger." ("Time, Dissolution of the World, and
Religious Experience: The Function of the Samkhya-principles (tattvas) in Some Hindu Conceptions of
Universal and Individual Dissolution," in Norwegian) Chaos 33 (2000): 25-37.
"Bhagavadgita,
Ecosophy T and Deep Ecology." In Beneath
the Surface: Critical Essays in the Philosophy of Deep Ecology,
ed. Eric Katz, Andrew Light, and David Rothenberg. Cambridge: The MIT Press,
2000, 231-52.
"Tekster fra
Hinduismen" ("Translation of texts from Hinduism") in Kildesamling til krl-faget. Oslo:
Nasjonalt læremiddelsenter 2000, 365-432.
"Mat og askese i
hinduismen" ("Food and Asceticism in Hinduism"). Din 1 (1999): 20-25
"Noen hinduistiske
forestillinger om tid (kala)" ("Some Conceptions of Time in
Hinduism," in Norwegian). Religion
og livssyn 11, no. 4, (1999): 34-41.
"Religionens
dimensjoner i hinduismens tempel (mandir) i Sør-Asia og i diaspora"
("The Dimensions of Religion in the Temple (Mandir) of Hinduism in South
Asia and in Diaspora," in Norwegian). Prismet
50, no. 4 (1999): 156-66. Also published in Tempel og Katedral: Kunst og arkitektur som gudstroens speilbilde.
Ed. Renate Banschbach Eggen og Olav Hognestad. Trondheim: Tapir, 2000, s.
23-39.
"Kapila: Founder
of Samkhya and Avatara of Vishnu." OrientaliaSuecana
vol 47 (1998): 69-85.
"Stedets kraft i
hinduismens hellige land og landskap" ("The Power of Place in The
Sacred Land and Landscape of Hinduism," in Norwegian). In Enhet i Mangfold: 100 år med religionshistorie i
Norge, ed. Inger Marie Ruud og Sigurd Hjelde. Oslo: Aschehoug,
1998, 118-32.
"Hinduismens
identitet" ("The Identity of Hinduism, " in Norwegian). Prismet 49.4 (1998): 155-62.
"Noen vanlige
misforståelser om hinduismen" ("Some Common Misunderstandings About
Hinduism," in Norwegian). Prismet
49.4 (1998): 163-66.
"Shivas
barndom." ("The Childhood of Shiva," in Norwegian). Chaos 29 (1998): 53-79.
"The Upanshads:
The Last Part of the Veda, the Revealed Scripture of Hinduism." In Philosophical Pocketbook: Circling Around the Act
of Creating, ed. Paula Fure. Kongsberg: Galleri Åkern, 1997, pp.
8-9.
"Hinduismen i
diaspora: Religiøs endring og norsk kontekst" ("Hinduism in
Diaspora: Religious Change and Norwegian Context," in Norwegian). Kirke og Kultur 102, no 4/5 (1997):
441-52.
"Komparasjon og
Pluralitet" ("Comparison and Plurality," in Norwegian). Religion og Livssyn 9, no 3 (1997):
16-19.
"Humankind and
Nature in Buddhism." In A
Companion to World Philosophies, ed. Eliot Deutsch and Ron
Bontekoe. Oxford: Blackwell, 1997, pp. 381-91.
"Fristende magiske
evner (siddhi, vibhuti) som bivirkninger av
yogapraksis i Samkhya og Samkhya-Yoga ("Tempting Magical Powers [siddhi, vibhuti] as Side-effects of Yoga Practice According to
Samkhya and Samkhya-Yoga," in Norwegian). Chaos 27 (1997): 79-94.
"Magiske evner som
ikke er magiske: Bedrageri og skepsis til magiske evner i sør-asiatisk
historie" ("Magic Powers that are not Magical," in Norwegian).
In Magi i møte med det moderne,
ed. Torunn Selberg. Oslo: Research Council of Norway. KULTs skriftserie nr.
83, pp. 152-66.
"Hinduismens
tempel (prasada, mandira)" ("The Temple of
Hinduism" [prasada, mandira] ," in Norwegian) Religion og Livssyn, 9, no. 2(1997):
40-3.
Erratum, "The
Anthropocentric Bias in Eliade's Interpretation of the Samkhya and Samkhya-Yoga
Systems of Religious Thought." Religion
26 (1996): 401.
"Prakriti." In Kalatattvakosha: A Lexicon of Fundamental
Concepts of the Indian Arts, vol III, Primal Elements - Mahabharata, ed. Bettina Bäumer.
Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass., 1996. pp. 1-48.
"Bhagavadgita, Ecosophy T, and Deep
Ecology." Inquiry 39
(1996): 219-38.
"The Female Pole
of the Godhead in Tantrism and the Prakriti
of Samkhya." Numen 43
(1996): 56-81.
"Ikke-beskadigelse
(ahimsa) og offer-ideologi
i Bhagavadgita"
("Non-Injury (ahimsa)
and the ideology of the Sacrifice in the Bhagavadgita,"
in Norwegian). Chaos 24
(1995): 59-71.
"The
Anthropocentric Bias in Eliade's Interpretation of the Samkhya and
Samkhya-Yoga Systems of Religious Thought." Religion 25(1995): 213-225.
"The
Institutionalization of the Ethics of 'Non-injury Towards All Beings' in
Ancient India." Environmental
Ethics, 16, no 3 (1994): 287-301.
"Ordinary Nature: Pakati in the Pali Scripture." Asian Philosophy 3, no. 2 (1993):
75-87.
"Restrained
Persons, Transformed Places: Relation to Place in the Samkhya-Yoga
Traditions." In Environmental
Ethics: Discourses and Cultural Traditions, A Festschrift to Arne Naess,
ed. Rana B. Singh. Also published in The
National Geographical Journal of India, 39, no. 1-2 (1993):
141-49.
Book
reviews
Review of Hinduism and Ecology: The Intersection of Earth,
Sky, and Water, ed Christopher Key Chapple and Mary Evelyn
Tucker. Environmental Ethics 25 (2003): 333-336.
Review of The Work of Kings: The New Buddhism in Sri Lanka,
by H. L. Seneviratne. Religion
33 (2003): 181-182.
Review of The Emergence of Hindu Nationalism in India,
by John Zavos. Contemporary South Asia,
vol. 10 (2001): 439-440.
Review of Jnandev Studies I and II, Songs on Yoga
and III, The Conservative Vaishnava,
by Catharina Kiehnle. Acta Orientalia,
vol. 62 (2001): 269-271.
Review of Violence Denied: Violence, Non-violence and the
Rationalization of Violence in South Asian Cultural History, ed.
Jan. E. M. Houben and Karel R. van Kooij (eds.). Religion, 31, no. 3 (2001): 277-278.
Review of Indra and other Vedic deities: A euhemeristic
study, by Uma Chakravarty. International
Journal of Hindu Studies 4, nr. 2 (2000): 207-208.
Review of Politikens håndbog i Verdens religioner,
ed. Mikael Rothstein. Chaos
34, 111-112.
Review of Buddhism in Practice, ed. Donald S.
Lopez. Contemporary South Asia
9, no 3 (2000):384-385.
Review of Tone Lie
Bøttinger og Kåre A. Lie, Søstrenes
sanger: Therigatha. Chaos
34, 110-111.
Review of On Understanding Buddhists: Essays on the
Theravada Tradition in Sri Lanka, by John Ross Carter. Religion 30 (2000): 78-79.
Review of Professor Kane’s Contribution to Dharmashastra
Literature, ed. S. G. Moghe. Religious
Studies Review 25, no. 4 (1999): 443.
Review of A Buddhist Woman’s Path to Enlightenment,
ed. Peter Schalk. Temenos
34 (1998): 297-300.
Review of Deep Ecology for the 21st Century: Readings on
the Philosophy of the New Environmentalism, ed. Georg Sessions, Journal of the American Academy of Religion
66 (1998): 967-69.
Review of How Buddhism Began, by Richard F.
Gombrich. In Temenos 33
(1997): 276-79.
Review of Prakriti: The Integral Vision, five
volumes, ed. Kapila Vatsyayana. In Acta
Orientalia 58 (1997): 244-49.
Review of Ancient Eastern Philosophy for Beginners,
by Richard Osborne and Borin Van Loon. In Contemporary
South Asia6 (1997): 294-95.
Review of Representing Hinduism, ed. Vasudha
Dalmia and H. von Stietencron. In Numen
44 (1997): 347-48.
Review of The Divine and the Demoniac, by
Carmel Berkson. In Contemporary South
Asia6 (1997): 103-4.
Review of A Survey of Hinduism, by Klaus K.
Klostermaier. In Numen 44
(1997): 97-8.
Review of Harmony of Religions, by Thomas
Manninezhath. In ActaOrientalia
57 (1996): 212-14.
Review of The Self and Its States, by Andrew O.
Fort. In ActaOrientalia 57
(1996): 211-12.
Review of Ecology and Religion: Ecological Spirituality in
Cross-Cultural Perspective, by David Kinsley. In Journal of the American Academy of Religion,
64 (1996): 907-9.
Review of The Philosophy of Religion and Advaita Vedanta: A
Comparative Study in Religion and Reason, by Arvind Sharma. In Religion 26 (1996): 377-78.
Review of Ecological Prospects: Scientific, Religious, and
Aesthetic Perspectives, ed. Christopher Key Chapple. In Journal of The American Academy of Religion
64 (1996): 656-9.
Review of Rules and Regulations of Brahmanical Asceticism,
Yatidharmasamuccaya of Yadava Prakasha, ed. and trans. by Patrick
Olivelle. In Numen 43
(1996): 321-2.
Review of Das Brahmanische Totenritual nach der
Antyeshtipaddhati des Narayanabhatta, by Klaus Werner Müller. In Journal of Asian Studies 53, No. 2
(1994): 602-3.
Review of Buddha Nature, by Sallie B. King, In Buddhist-Christian Studies 14 (1994):
198-200.
Review of Religion Philosophy Yoga, by Jean
Filliozat. In South Asia in Review,
16, no. 1 (1992): 42.
Review of Encountering the Goddess, by Thomas
B. Coburn. In South Asia in Review,
15, n. 4 (1991): 87.
Review of Hugging the Trees: The Story of the Chipko
Movement, by Thomas Weber. In South
Asia in Review, 15, no. 4 (1991): 91-93.
Review of Human Fertility Cults and Rituals in Bengal,
by P. K. Maity. In South Asia in Review,
14, no. 4 (1990): 11-12.
Public Radio
Lectures
"Hva er
Yoga?" P2 Akademiet (Public Radio Lecture). September 20. og 21.
February, 2004.
"Flere veier til
samme mål - verdensreligioner i Norge og religiøs sannhet"
("Several Paths to the same goal: World Religions in Norway and
Religious Truth"). P2 Akademiet (Public Radio Lecture). September
10.,11. and 14., 2002.
"Buddhismens
ritualer" ("The Rituals of Buddhism, " in Norwegian). P2
Akademiet (Public Radio Lecture) September 9. and 15., 2001.
"Hinduismens
gudsforestillinger ("The Conceptions of God in Hinduism, " in
Norwegian). P2 Akademiet (Public Radio Lecture) 17.4/24.4.1999.
Newspaper and
Magazine Articles
"Religiøs
identitet." Feature article (kronikk) Bergens Tidende, May 30, 2006.
"Indisk vei til
helse og velvære." Feature article (kronikk) Aftenposten, August 4, 2005. Også utgitt i svensk
oversettelse: Knut A. Jacobsen, "Väg till vishet har blivit
motionsform". Sydasien
29.3 (2005).
"Hva skjer med
Indias kastesystem." Feature article (kronikk) Aftenposten, July 11, 2004.
"Verdensreligionene
forandrer Norge." Feature article (kronikk) Morgenbladet, July 2-8 .
"En sikh som leder
skaper forsoning i India" ("A Sikh as leader creates reconciliation
in India"). Feature article (kronikk) Aftenposten,
June 15, 2004.
"Verdensreligioner
i Norge" ("World Religions in Norway"). Feature article
(kronikk) Aftenposten,
November 21, 2001.
"Seva, maitri og
karmayoga. " Tredje Verden
Magasinet X 6 (2001): 52.
"Templet: En
sentral institusjon for hinduismen i Tamil-kulturen i Norge"("The
temple: A Central Institution for Hinduism of the Tamil Culture in
Norway") Tamil Sangam i Norge
20 år, 41-43.
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