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Margit Warburg
Margit Warburg (born 15 February 1952 in Copenhagen) is a Danish Sociology of religion, sociologist of religion. Since 2004, she has been Academic ranks in Denmark#Professorship, professor of Sociology of Religion in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen. She was an associate professor at the same university from 1979 to 2004. Academic career Margit Warburg received the University of Copenhagen's 1976 gold medal for answering an economic problem in Christian studies. She received her Magister (degree), Magister (PhD) degree in sociology of religion from the University of Copenhagen in 1979, and her Doctor Philosophiae (Danish and Norwegian degree), Dr.Phil. (DLitt) degree in 2007 with a monographic dissertation on the Baháʼí Faith titled ''Citizens of the World: A History and Sociology of the Baháʼís from a Globalisation Perspective''. Following her Magister's degree, Warburg was employed at the University of Copenhagen as an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Copenhagen
The University of Copenhagen ( da, Københavns Universitet, KU) is a prestigious public university, public research university in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in Scandinavia after Uppsala University, and ranks as one of the top universities in the Nordic countries, Europe and the world. Its establishment sanctioned by Pope Sixtus IV, the University of Copenhagen was founded by Christian I of Denmark as a Catholic teaching institution with a predominantly Theology, theological focus. In 1537, it was re-established by King Christian III as part of the Lutheran Reformation. Up until the 18th century, the university was primarily concerned with educating clergymen. Through various reforms in the 18th and 19th century, the University of Copenhagen was transformed into a modern, Secularism, secular university, with science and the humanities replacing theology as the main subjects studied and taught. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baháʼí Faith In Denmark
The Baháʼí Faith in Denmark began in 1925, but it was more than 20 years before the Baháʼí community in Denmark began to grow after the arrival of American Baháʼí pioneers in 1946. Following that period of growth, the community established its Baháʼí National Spiritual Assembly in 1962. In 2002, Baháʼí sources indicate about 300 Baháʼís, including both Iranian Baháʼí refugees and Danish converts. The Association of Religion Data Archives (relying mostly on the World Christian Encyclopedia) estimated some 1,200 Baháʼís in 2005. Early history ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's Tablets of the Divine Plan ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, the son of the founder of the religion, wrote a series of letters, or tablets, to the followers of the religion in the United States in 1916–1917; these letters were compiled together in the book titled Tablets of the Divine Plan. The seventh of the tablets was the first to mention several countries in Europe including beyond where ʻAbdu'l-Bahá had visit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
