IAHR Executive Committee Members 2005-2010
General Secretary: Tim Jensen, Denmark
Born 1950; 1981 Magister Artium, History of Religions, University of Copenhagen (1981) with a dissertation on the concept of ‘hybris’ in the Homeric epics; 1981-95 Senior teacher in Religion and Ancient Greek Civilisation at Christianshavns Gymnasium, Copenhagen; 1986-88 Assistant Lecturer, the Department of the History of Religions, University of Copenhagen; 1995-98 Assistant Professor at the Department for the Study of Religions, University of Southern Denmark; 1998- Associate Professor, Institute of Philosophy, Education, and the Study of Religions, University of Southern Denmark.
1980–1990 Chair of Religionshistorisk Forening, University of Copenhagen, and co-founder and member of editorial board of CHAOS, Danish- Norwegian Periodical for Studies in the History of Religions. 1991-93 Chair of Association for Teachers in Religious Education in the Gymnasium. 1997-2005 President of DAHR, the Danish Association for the History of Religions, affiliated to IAHR. 2000-2005 Chair of NORREL, the Nordic Committee for the History of Religions. 2000-2004 General Secretary of EASR, the European Association for the Study of Religions. 2002-2004 Chair at the Intitute of Philosophy and the Study of Religions, and 1999- Head of the Department of the Study of Religions.
Member of editorial and advisory boards of CHAOS, Religionsvidenskabelig Skriftserie, Temenos, British Journal of Religious Education, Anaquel de estudios árabes.
