Practical theology - forms of practice and communication in Church and Christianity.

The Folk Church as a cultural institution. A comprehensive outline of the result form the cross disciplinary Project 2014-19: What Money Can’t Buy.

Introduction to N.F.S. Grundtvig and his contributions to a worldwide understanding of the interaction between church and society.

The Danish Parish Pastor – From the reformation to 21st Century with special, emphasize on collected memoires from pastors.

Folk Church-ness in the Danish Folk Church - history of ecclesiology and ecclesiality in Denmark. 

Hans Raun Iversen

Born June 27 ,1948

Education:

Master in Theology (cand. theol.) with Gold Medal for Prize Essay in Theology (1976) from University of Århus, Denmark

 Dr. theol. h.c. from University of Uppsala (2012)

Employment:

Assistant Professor and Holder of Research Stipends (kandidat- og seniorstipendiat) at the Institute of Missiology and Ecumenical Theology, University of Aarhus  1974-1982

Associate Professor in Practical Theology, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen 1982-2018.

 Academic carrier and experiences:

Research Associate at Department of Sociology, University of Dar es Salaam 1977-78

Director of Department of Systematic Theology 1987-89, 1991-99, and 2002-2003

Leader of the Research Project Danish Church Sociology 1983-1986

Leader of the Research Project Folk and Church in Copenhagen 1986-1991

Leader of the Nordic Research Project Rites of Ordination and Commitment in the Churches of the Nordic Countries (1998-2004)

Leader of the Research Project Studies of the Significance of Religious and Cultural Encounters in Denmark 2000-2004

Chair of University of Copenhagen's Interfaculty Priority Area in Research in Religion in the 21st Century 2003-2007

Member of Steering Committee for Interdisciplinary Network for Research in Faith and Health 2007

Leader of the cross disciplinary project What Money can’t Buy.

Advisor for 16 completed PhD-thesis and 1 ongoing.

Member of numerous academic and editorial boards and university and church committees at national and international levels

Selected Publications

Ånd og livsform. Husliv. Folkeliv og kirkeliv hos Grundtvig og sidenhen, København: Anis, 1987

(Spirit and Life-form. The Home, the People, and the Church in Grundtvig and Today)
Pratisk teologi, 1995 (Major textbook in Practical Theology together with Eberhard Harbsmeier).
Five Recent Papers on Church and Culture in Denmark, Faculty of Theology, Copenhagen University, 1998

Leaving the Distant Church. The Danish Experience, Bar-Lev, Mordechai and Shaffir, William (eds.): Leaving Religion and Religious Life, Jai Press Inc, Greenwich Connecticut, 1998, s. 139-158

Dåb og medlemskab i folkekirken, ed., København: Anis, 2000 (Baptism and Membership in the National Church of Denmark

It began in Copenhagen. Junctions in 300 years Indian-Danish Relations in Christian Mission.  Edited with George Oommen, New Dehli: SPCK, 2005.

Gudstro i Danmark, ed. with Morten Højsgaard, København: Anis, 2005 (Faith in God in Denmark)
Rites of Ordination and Commitment in the Churches of the Nordic Countries, ed., Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Forlag, 2006

Secular Religion and Religious Secularism, A profile of religious development in Denmark since 1968, Nordic Journal of Religion and Society, Nr 2, 2006, Volume 119, p. 75-92 

Vekselvirkninger. Grundtvig, folkekirke og mission. 26 praktisk teologiske tekster fra tre artier. Copenhagen: Anis 2008 (Interplays. Grundvig, Folk Church and Mission. 26 Practical Theological Texts from three Decades).

Religion in the 21^st Century. Transformations and Challenges. Ed. with others.  2008

“Theology of Creation as Position of Strength in an old National Church in Modern Society”. Cultivating Misional Change. The Future of Missional Churches. Coenie Burger m.fl. eds. Wellington, SA: Biblecor, 320-335.

 “Secularization, Secularity and Secularism”. Encyclopedia of Science and Religions. Springer Verlag, 2013, p. 2016-2120.

Hans Raun Iversen m.fl. (eds.). Individualization, marketization, and social capital in a cultural institution. The Case of the Danish Folk Church, Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2019

 Mangefoldet tro og sjælesorg. Multiplicitet som vilkår for mennesker, møder og samtaler. Ed. by Christine Tind Johannessen-Henry og Hans Raun Iversen. København: Eksistensen Akademisk 2019.