Tim Rudbøg

• Chair and director of Copenhagen Center for the Study of Theosophy and Esotericism (CCSTE)
• Head of education for the Study of Religions
• Study board representative for the Study of Religions
• Head of Scandinavian Network for the Academic Study of Western Esotericism (SNASWE) 
• Coordinator of the Research Cluster Nature and Spirituality
• Co-president Society of Fellows

Tim Rudbøg is a professional historian of religions who has taught many courses and published widely on an array of topics within the field. Rudbøg has a particular interest in the study of esotericism, Helena P. Blavatsky and The Theosophical Society and directs the Copenhagen Centre for the Study of Theosophy and Esotericism. Rudbøg was elected into the UCPH-Forward talent programme 2020 and has been accepted into the full professor promotion programme at the University of Copenhagen. Currently, Rudbøg is the head of education for the Study of Religions and and the study board representative for the Study of Religions at the University of Copenhagen.

More recent books include the educational handbook The Academic Study of Western Esotericism: Foundational Theories and Methods (H.E.R.M.E.S.' Academic Press, 2022) and the co-edited volumes Imagining the East: The Early Theosophical Society (Oxford University Press, 2020) and Innovation in Esotericism from the Renaissance to the Present (Palgrave, 2021), Esotericism and Deviance (Brill, 2023).

Educational background:

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in History (Western esotericism) from the University of Exeter, UK (Thesis on H. P. Blavatsky's Theosophy in Context: The Construction of Meaning in Modern Esotericism supervised by Prof. Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke and Richard Noakes)
• University teacher training (adjunktpedagogikum)
• Research Master of Arts (MA) in The History of Religions with Philosophy from the University of Copenhagen (Thesis:  Constructing Kabbalah: From Jewish Mysticism to Western Esotericism, supervised by Prof. Catharina Raudvere)
• Bachelor of Arts (BA) in The Science of Religion with Philosophy from the University of Copenhagen (project being a comparison between Hegel and Blavatsky's understandings of religion)

• (1) The history of esotericism (mysticism, magic and occultism)
• (2) H. P. Blavatsky and The Theosophical Society
• (3) Modern religions
• (4) Theory and Method in the Study of Religions
• (5) The History of Ideas
• (6) The relation between Religion, Science and Philosophy
• (7) Indian religions and the global exchange/change of ideas and practices

Editorships

Occasional Papers (Theosophical History)

Theosophical History Journal (new editor from 2023)

Pan-Sophia: a student journal

Den Store Danske (øvrig tro) Danish National Encyclopedia

Current research

H.P. Blavatsky's Theosophy

Esoteric Christianity

Nature and Spirituality

Ph.d.- supervision (2020-2024)

• Bjarke Stanley Nielsen (Theosophy and Global History)
• Samanta Viziale (Theosophy and Art) (co-supervised with prof. Massimo Leone, University of Torino)

Teaching:

Teaching 2025:

• Magic, Occultism and Esotericism in European Contexts

Teaching 2024:

• Nature, Humanity, and Global Perspectives in Modern Spirituality and Esotericism (with Bjarke S. Nielsen and Samanta Viziale)

 Teaching 2023:

• Religion, Culture and Society (with Morten Warmind)
• Philosophy of Science (religion with Simon Stjernholm)
• Nature, Humanity, and Global Perspectives in Modern Spirituality and Esotericism (with Kocku von Stuckrad and Bjarke S. Nielsen)

• Esoteric traditions: across religion, science and philosophy in European history
• Philosophy of Science (religion)
• Nature, Humanity, and Global Perspectives in Modern Spirituality and Esotericism (with Kocku von Stuckrad and Sierra Humbert)

 Teaching 2021:

• Esoteric traditions: across religion, science and philosophy in European history
• Philosophy of Science (religion)
• Nature, Humanity, and Global Perspectives in Modern Spirituality and Esotericism (with Kocku von Stuckrad and Bjarke Stanley Nielsen)

 Teaching 2020:

• Esoteric traditions: across religion, science and philosophy in European history
• Philosophy of Science (religion)

Teaching 2019: 

• Esoteric traditions: across religion, science and philosophy in European history
• Philosophy of Science (religion)
• Methods in the Study of Religions (with Brian Arly Jacobsen)

Teaching 2018: