Ole Preben Riis

• Lund, Rolf Lyneborg; Jørgensen, Anja & Riis, Ole Preben (2019). Social Geographical Patterns in Membership of the Established Church in Denmark. Nordic Journal of Religion and Society. ISSN 0809-7291. 32(1), p. 55–70. doi: 10.18261/issn.1890-7008-2019-01-04.
• Riis, Ole Preben (2014). Gud og mammon, historisk og aktuelt. In Seland, Bjørg (Eds.), Gud og Mammon, religion og næringsliv. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISSN 9788202458997. p. 23–46.
• Balsnes, Anne Haugland & Riis, Ole Preben (2013). Performing Bach's Passion Music in a Late Modern Context. Journal of Contemporary Religion. ISSN 1353-7903. 28(1), p. 95–108. doi: 10.1080/13537903.2013.750844.
• Riis, Ole Preben (2013). Religion in Scandinavia in the beginning of the 21st century. In Harry, Frederique & Monique, Thomas (Ed.), Protestantisme en Europa du nord aux xx et xxi siecles. Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg. ISSN 9782868205704. p. 11–26.
• Riis, Ole Preben (2013). Ethical theory and popular ethics. In Zeller, jørg; Riis, Ole Preben & Nykanen, Hannes (Ed.), Theoretical and applied ethics. Aalborg Universitetsforlag. ISSN 978-87-7112-116-2. p. 95–114.
• Riis, Ole Preben (2013). Sociology and Complexity. In Rheinbacher, Gunnar Scott; Riis, Ole Preben & Zeller, Jörg (Ed.), The challenge of complexity. Aalborg Universitetsforlag. ISSN 978-87-7112-097-4. p. 27–46.
• Riis, Ole Preben & Balsnes, Anne Haugland (2013). Ikke bare vakkert. Påskemusikk med innhold og emosjonell kraft. In Repstad, Pål Steinar & Trysnes, Irene (Ed.), Fra forsakelse til feelgood. Musikk, sang og dans i religiøst liv. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISSN 978-82-7634-985-6. p. 225–243. Show summary

  En bok om aktuelle tendenser i norsk religiøst liv, med vekt på den trolig økte betydningen av estetikk og sanseorientering.

• Riis, Ole Preben (2012). Religion as a multicukltural marker in late modern society. In Beaman, Lori G. (Eds.), Reasonable accommodation. University of British Columbia Press. ISSN 9780774822657. p. 187–207.
• Riis, Ole Preben (2012). Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in the Sociology of Religion. In Riis, Ole Preben & Berzano, Luigi (Ed.), New Methods in the Sociology of Religion. Brill Academic Publishers. ISSN 9789004176034. p. 91–115.
• Riis, Ole Preben (2012). Religion as a multicultural marker in advanced modern society. In Beaman, Lori G. (Eds.), Reasonable Accomodation - Manging religious diversity. University of British Columbia Press. ISSN 9780774822763. p. 187–207.
• Riis, Ole Preben (2012). Meningen med Bachs passionmusik i vor tid. In Raunsmed, Ellen & Zeller, Jörg (Ed.), Intuition. Aalborg Universitetsforlag. ISSN 9788771120660.
• Riis, Ole Preben (2011). Religion. In Andersen, Heine (Eds.), Sociologi - en grundbog til et fag. Hans Reitzels Forlag. ISSN 978-87-412-5424-1. p. 341–359.
• Riis, Ole Preben (2011). Rejection of Religious Pluralism - the Danish Case. Nordic Journal of Religion and Society. ISSN 0809-7291. 1(24), p. 19–36. Show summary

  In Denmark, religion has for generations been a non-issue in public debates. However, as Islam has become the second largest religion over just one generation, religion has become a public issue (Hunter 2002). The rise of Islam is mostly due to immigration, and religious pluralism is therefore associated with integration (European Parliament 2007). Central opinion makers and politicians have reacted to the new challenge of religious pluralism by either trying to exclude religion from the public sphere or by proposing to insulate and expel religions which do not fit into the established model. Islamic identities have thus become suspect as spokespersons for the Danish majority either adhere to a policy of secularism or to a civil religious reference to the Denmark’s Christian heritage. This article presents the major cleavages in the Danish debates about religious pluralism. The study is based on Danish material, such as articles in newspapers, public reports, and web-site discussions.

• Riis, Ole Preben (2011). Normativity in empircal social studies. In Henriksen, Jan-Olav (Eds.), Difficult normativity : normative dimensions in research on religion and theology. Peter Lang Publishing Group. ISSN 978-3-631-61993-3. p. 109–129.
• Riis, Ole Preben (2010). Religion, Sociologi - en grundbog til et fag. Hans Reitzels Forlag. ISSN 9788741254241. p. 341–360.
• Riis, Ole Preben (2009). The Choice of Methodology for an Empirical Project in the Sociology of Religion. Religioni e Società-Rivista di scienze sociali della religione. ISSN 0394-9397. xxxiv(63).
• Riis, Ole Preben (2008). Methodology in sociology of religion, The sociology of religion. Oxford University Press. p. 229–244.
• Riis, Ole Preben (2008). Le dilemme nordique. Det nordiske dilemma, Religion(s) et identité(s) en Europe. Sciences Po. Show summary

  Les pays nordiques combinent les caracteristiques d'une societe industrielle avancee avec la presence persistente des eglises traditionelles et le pluraisme religieux. De nordiske lande kombinerer trekk ved avanceret industrielle samfund med på den ene side traditionelle lutherske kirker med stærk tilknytning til kongedømmet og på den anden en stadig mere udpræget religiøs pluralisme.

• Riis, Ole Preben (2007). Religion, Pluralism in 9 local and global Perspective: Image of the Prohet Mohammed seen in a Danish and global perspective, Religion, Globalization, and Culture. Brill Academic Publishers.
• Riis, Ole Preben & Woodhead, Linda (2007). Religion and emotion, Religion in late modernity : essays in honor of Pål Repstad / edited by Inger Furseth and Paul Leer-Salvesen. Tapir Akademisk Forlag. p. 153–170.
• Riis, Ole Preben (2007). Modes of Religious Pluralism under Conditions of Globalization, Democracy and Human Rights in Multicultural Societies. Ashgate.
• Riis, Ole Preben (2005). The sociology of religion in Denmark. Nordic Journal of Religion and Society. ISSN 0809-7291. 18(Vol. 18, no. 2), p. 177–194.
• Riis, Ole Preben (2005). Le poids de luthéranisme dans l'enseignement religieux au Danemark, Des maitres et des dieux - ecoles et religions en Europe. Red. Jean-Paul Willaime & Sévérine Mathieu. Belin. p. 83–96.

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• Riis, Ole Preben (2017). Sociologi En nøgle til samfundet. Hans Reitzels Forlag. ISBN 9788741267098. 267 p.
• Zeller, jørg; Riis, Ole Preben & Nykanen, Hannes (2013). Theoretical and applied ethics. Aalborg Universitetsforlag. ISBN 978-87-7112-116-2. 278 p.
• Rheinbacher, Gunnar Scott; Riis, Ole Preben & Zeller, Jörg (2013). The challenge of complexity. Aalborg Universitetsforlag. ISBN 978-87-7112-097-4. 134 p.
• Riis, Ole Preben (2012). Åbne vinduer. Forlaget Alfa. ISBN 9788771150582. 178 p.
• Riis, Ole Preben & Berzano, Luigi (2012). New Methods in the Sociology of Religion. Brill Academic Publishers. ISBN 9789004176034. 3(3). 291 p.
• Riis, Ole Preben & Woodhead, Linda (2010). A Sociology of Religious Emotion. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-956760-7. 270 p. Show summary

  Against the view that religous emotion is a purely private matter, this book offers a new framewrok which shows how religious emotions arise in the varied interactions between human agents and religous communities, human agents and objects of devotion, and communities and sacred symbols. It sheds new light on the power of religion to shape fundamental human orientations and motivations.

• Riis, Ole Preben (2005). Samfundsvidenskab i praksis. Introduktion til anvendt metode. Hans Reitzels Forlag. ISBN 8741203631. 228 p.

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• Riis, Ole Preben (2011). Epistemology and research design in the sociology of religion.
• Riis, Ole Preben (2011). Om opførelse af Bachs Matthæuspassion i vor tid.
• Riis, Ole Preben (2011). Kirke. In Kryger Pedersen, Inge (Eds.), Sociologisk Leksikon. Hans Reitzels Forlag. ISSN 978-87-412-0351-5.
• Riis, Ole Preben (2011). New Age. In Kryger Pedersen, Inge (Eds.), Sociologisk Leksikon. Hans Reitzels Forlag. ISSN 978-87-412-0351-5.
• Riis, Ole Preben (2011). Tro. In Kryger Pedersen, Inge (Eds.), Sociologisk Leksikon. Hans Reitzels Forlag. ISSN 978-87-412-0351-5.
• Riis, Ole Preben (2011). scientisme. In Kryger Pedersen, Inge (Eds.), Sociologisk Leksikon. Hans Reitzels Forlag. ISSN 978-87-412-0351-5.
• Riis, Ole Preben (2011). Religionssociologi. In Kryger Pedersen, Inge (Eds.), Sociologisk Leksikon. Hans Reitzels Forlag. ISSN 978-87-412-0351-5.
• Riis, Ole Preben (2011). Religion. In Kryger Pedersen, Inge (Eds.), Sociologisk Leksikon. Hans Reitzels Forlag. ISSN 978-87-412-0351-5.
• Inntjore, Hilde & Riis, Ole Preben (2011). Mennesker møtes - multikulturalismens muligheter. Fædrelandsvennen. ISSN 0805-3790.
• Riis, Ole Preben (2009). Kompleksitet som videnskabsteoretisk udfordring. Show summary

  Opplegg til seminar om Kompleksitet ved forskerseminat,

• Riis, Ole Preben (2009). Sociology of Religious Emotions. Show summary

  Religious emotions in a sociological perspecitive

• Riis, Ole Preben (2009). Religious Pluralism. Show summary

  Theories and empirical findings about religious pluralism

• Riis, Ole Preben (2009). Methodological Problems in the Sociology of Religion. Show summary

  Quantitative and Qualitative and Combined Methods.

• Riis, Ole Preben (2009). Epistemological Problems in the Sociology of Religion. Show summary

  Contribution to double workshop at ISSR Conference santiago di Compostela, Spain,

• Riis, Ole Preben (2008). Max Weber's methodology. Show summary

  An overview and discussion of Max Webers methodology and its relevance for sociology today.

• Hoel, Caroline & Riis, Ole Preben (2010). Morphogenetic approaches to religion: Understanding religion from the perspective of Margaret Archer. Universitetet i Agder. Show summary

  The general theory and methodology offered by Margaret Archer under the name of “the morphogenetic approach” represents the major developments within critical realist social theory. Archer combines the critical realist ontology of stratified reality and complex causality with emergence- and interest theory in an innovative framework for social-scientific analysis. By taking this framework to the sociology of religion this thesis sheds light on familiar topics from a novel angle. The morphogenetic approach has as its key feature an analytically dualistic view of structure and agency. A stratified model of social agency highlights how the causal potential of humans must be understood in relation to in what respect they are acting: As individual, organised collectivity or within a role structure. Social structures are granted objective influence on interaction by shaping action contexts. By differentiating these levels in sociological explanation Archer maintains that the interplay of causal influences between structure and agency can be apprehended. Morphogenetic analyses trace historical trajectories of such interplays. Religion becomes subject to different mechanisms and has different causal potentials depending on the aspect of analysis. In the morphogenetic perspective religion can be viewed as a system of meaning, as a repository of rational reasons to guide one’s action, as an ultimate concern which shapes our identity and perception of the world, as a powerful resource in collective struggles for upward mobility and as a force to be reckoned with in public social life and decision making. Religious interaction is guided by interests vested in the group’s position in the cultural and material domain. Religious change (morphogenesis) or stability (morphostasis) occurs as the result of the relative influence of religious agents within their cultural and structural action contexts. This thesis finds that there may be significant advantages for the sociology of religion by taking a morphogenetic approach in practical study. The advantages are primary related to instances of change, and particularly at the levels of group interaction. Archer also offers an exciting, if controversial, view on the importance of religious belief and experience in identity formation that could be an interesting point of departure for future research.

• Riis, Ole Preben (2006). Religionssociologiske rids. Forelæsninger og arbejdspapirer om religionssociologi fra 2005. Universitetet i Agder. ISSN 8271175815.

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