10 november, 2018
New Book: Art and Sacrificial Love
My book Art and Sacrificial Love containing conversations between me and Michael D. O’Brien is now published at Justin Press.
6 december, 2017
Biography of Michael O’Brien now available in French
11 april, 2017
Article in Swedish Catholic magazine 2017
My article “The Post-Christian Sweden in Numbers” (in Swedish) was published in Signum 2017 no.2, pages 13-18. It is a reflection on data from polls performed by the SOM institute in Gothenburg in relation to Rodney Stark’s book The Triumph of Faith, which is based on data from the World Gallup Polls.
12 oktober, 2015
Review of my book Ritualization and Human Interiority
A review of my book Ritualization and Human Interiority has been published in Religious Studies Review (September 2015).
Blum, J. (2015), Ritualization and Human Interiority. By . Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2013. Pp. 130. $15.00.. Relig Stud Rev, 41: 101–102. doi:10.1111/rsr.12225
29 juni, 2015
Article “The Ritual Person”
A chapter that I removed from my book Ritualization and Human Interiority before publication (2013) has now (2015) been published in India in the journal Anvikshiki (connected to the philosophy and religion department at BHU in Varanasi) as “The Ritual Person”. At the time, I felt it necessary to deal in some length with the notion of ‘person’ as a background for the discussion of interiorization, but decided to cut it out to make the book more focused. I have put the article here in XPS format as the journal is available only in print and not, to my knowledge, to any great extent spread outside of India.
26 maj, 2015
A reflection on the relation between Catholic theology and religious studies
A presentation that I did in 2013 at the Pontificia Università San Tommaso as part of the workshop Scandinavian Theologians Teaching Catholic Theology is now published in a Festschrift (in Swedish) as ”Reflektion över relationen mellan katolsk teologi och religionsvetenskap” [A reflection on the relation between Catholic theology and religious studies] in Den trogne arbetaren i vingården: Festskrift till Bo Claesson, ed. Staffan Olofsson. LIR.skrifter.varia: Göteborg, pages 109–118.
25 mars, 2015
Publication on Easternization
An article on Hinduism, I wrote together with professor Åke Sander has just been published in a mammoth 4000 pages multi-volume work at Springer. I must say I didn’t envy the editing done by Stan Brunner. And the price tag is quite substantial 1200 $.