Silje Lyngar Einarsen
Postdoctoral Fellow
- Study of Religion
- Silje.L.Einarsen@mf.no
- Office: 478A
- Phone number: 22590579
Professional competence areas:
- South Asia
- Sanskrit, Hindi
- Hindu nationalism
- Shaktism, yoga, tantra
- Festival culture
- Hindu myths
- Ethnographic methods
Silje Lyngar Einarsen is a postdoctoral fellow on the project Mythopolitics in South Asia. She works at the intersection of classical Indology and contemporary South Asia studies. She is interested in the relationship between textual worldviews and lived religion and the role of Sanskrit in India historically and today. Her research interests also include Hindu Goddess traditions and the history of yoga, which she has worked extensively on as co-manager of the Shakta Traditions research programme at the Oxford Center for Hindu Studies. She is co-author of a Danish standard introduction to Hinduism and an upcoming new translation of the Hathapradipika.
Selected publications
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- Einarsen, S. L. (2020). Glorification of the Goddess in Text and Ritual: Text, Paratext and Practice of the Devīmāhātmya in contemporary Varanasi
- Aukland, K. & Breidlid, H. & Brekke, T. & Brekke, Ø. & Hammer, A. & Kvalvaag, R. W. & Lyngar Einarsen, S. & Schanke, Å. J. & Tømmerås, H. H. & Aas, P. A. (2019). Debatt: Legitimering av KRLE-faget, Religion og livssyn : Tidsskrift for religionslærerforeningen i Norge, s. 4 - 15. ISSN: 0802-8214
- Wernicke-Olesen, B. & Einarsen, S. L. (2018). Übungswissen in Yoga, Tantra und Asketismus des frühen indischen Mittelalters, Übungswissen in Religion und Philosophie. Produktion, Weitergabe, Wandel,, LIT Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-643-13222-2
- Lyngar Einarsen, S. (2018). Navarātri in Benares: Narrative Structures and Social Realities, Nine Nights of the Goddess: The Navaratri Festival in South Asia,, SUNY Press, ISBN: 978-1-4384-7069-6
- Lyngar Einarsen, S. (2017). Hinduismen, Minoritetsreligioner i barnehagen
- Toft Ravn Pedersen, J. & Einarsen, S. L. & Wernicke-Olesen, B. (2015). Varanasi - Hinduismens brændpunkt, ISBN: 978-87-616-5800-5
Latest academic publications
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- Einarsen, S. L. & Wernicke-Olesen, B. (2022). Haṭhayoga i et nyt lys, Hovedværket om haṭhayoga: Svātmārāmas Haṭhapradīpikā.,, Forlaget Univers, ISBN: 9788791668630
- Einarsen, S. L. & Wernicke-Olesen, B. (2022). Hovedværket om haṭhayoga: Svātmārāmas Haṭhapradīpikā., Forlaget Univers, ISBN: 9788791668630
- Wernicke-Olesen, B. & Einarsen, S. L. (2018). Übungswissen in Yoga, Tantra und Asketismus des frühen indischen Mittelalters, Übungswissen in Religion und Philosophie. Produktion, Weitergabe, Wandel,, LIT Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-643-13222-2
- Lyngar Einarsen, S. (2018). Navarātri in Benares: Narrative Structures and Social Realities, Nine Nights of the Goddess: The Navaratri Festival in South Asia,, SUNY Press, ISBN: 978-1-4384-7069-6