Dag Øistein Endsjø


Dag Øistein Endsjø is a Norwegian professor in religious studies at the University of Oslo, Norway published in twelve languages.

Career

Endsjø research focuses on the continuity between traditional Greek and early Christian beliefs, on sex and religion, religion and human rights, and religion and popular culture. In his book Greek Resurrection Beliefs and the Success of Christianity, he demonstrated how Christian resurrection beliefs also connects to ancient Greek beliefs in resurrection and physical immortality. The book Primordial Landscapes, Incorruptible Bodies deals with the continuity of geography, asceticism, immortality between traditional Greek and early Christian worldviews.
Of his other books, Sex and Religion: Teachings and Taboos in the History of World Faiths has been published in eleven languages: Bulgarian, Chinese, English, Italian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Serbian,, Swedish., and Ukrainian, while The History of Immortality is published in Norwegian and Latvian.
Endsjø has published various texts on religion and human rights, religion and popular culture, and the cultural understanding of space in ancient Greek religion. He writes on a variety of political and popularized subjects in Norwegian media.
As an expert on human rights, Endsjø also contributed to change the Norwegian equal rights legislation more in accordance with international human rights, as well as the national debate on equal rights into a general discussion of human rights.
He is also the designer of the coat of arms of Fjord Municipality in Møre og Romsdal.

Books