Margit Warburg

---

title: "Margit Warburg" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["danish-sociologists", "danish-women-sociologists", "sociologists-of-religion", "researchers-of-new-religious-movements-and-cults", "1952-births", "living-people"] description: "Danish sociologist of religion" topic_path: "society/religion" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margit_Warburg" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Danish sociologist of religion ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox person"]

Field	Value
name	Margit Warburg
image	warburg.jpg
alt	photograph of a woman speaking into a microphone
birth_date
birth_place	Copenhagen, Denmark
alma_mater	University of Copenhagen
occupation	Sociologist, author, professor
years_active	1979–present
::

| name = Margit Warburg | image = warburg.jpg | alt = photograph of a woman speaking into a microphone | caption = | birth_date = | birth_place = Copenhagen, Denmark | alma_mater = University of Copenhagen | occupation = Sociologist, author, professor | years_active = 1979–present Margit Warburg (born 15 February 1952) is a Danish sociologist of religion. Since 2004, she has been professor of Sociology of Religion in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen. She was an associate professor at the same university from 1979 to 2004.

Academic career

Margit Warburg received the University of Copenhagen's 1976 gold medal for answering an economic problem in Christian studies. She received her Magister (PhD) degree in sociology of religion from the University of Copenhagen in 1979, and her Dr.Phil. (DLitt) degree in 2007 with a monographic dissertation on the Baháʼí Faith titled Citizens of the World: A History and Sociology of the Baháʼís from a Globalisation Perspective.

Following her Magister's degree, Warburg was employed at the University of Copenhagen as an associate professor. She became professor of Sociology of Religion in the university's Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies in 2004. Her inaugural lecture was entitled Sociology of Religion and the globalization (). She helped create the University of Copenhagen's inter-faculty research project "Religion in the 21st Century" (2003–2007), co-chaired its steering group, and has headed the Department of Religious History.

She has authored, co-authored, and edited books and articles dealing with the study and sociology of religion. With Eileen Barker, she co-edited New Religions and New Religiosity in 1998 (Aarhus University Press). She also did extensive archival work and fieldwork on the Baháʼí religion in Denmark, the U.S., Israel, and Iran. This led in 2003 to publication of Baháʼí (Signature Books).

One focus of Warburg's research is the effect on Danish society and identity of increasing religious diversity. She has written about civil religion, and presented about mixed marriages as a part of the "Religion Report" show on Danmarks Radio Program 1.

Warburg is a member of the Advisory Committee on Religious Denominations which reports to Denmark's Ministry of Ecclesiastical Affairs, and she has co-chaired the Research Network on New Religions (RENNER).

Selected bibliography

• Barker, Eileen; Warburg, Margit (editors). 1998. New Religions and New Religiosity. Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus University Press.

References

References

1. "Margit Warburg – Staff".
2. "Margit Warburg – Københavns Universitet". Faculty of Religion, Copenhagen University.
3. (2005). "Religion and Cyberspace". Psychology Press.
4. Margit Warburg. (2006). "Citizens of the World: A History and Sociology of the Baháʼís from a Globalisation Perspective". Brill.
5. Bente Clausen. (17 January 2007). "En menneskealder med baha'ier". Kristeligt Dagblad.
6. "Professor Margit Warburgs doktorafhandling". Baháʼí-samfundet i Danmark.
7. Anthony Lee. (28 October 2011). "The Baháʼí Faith in Africa: Establishing a New Religious Movement, 1952–1962.". BRILL.
8. (7 May 2009). "The World's Religions: Continuities and Transformations". Taylor & Francis.
9. Margit Warburg. (2006). "Religionssociologien og globaliseringen". Museum Tusculanum Press.
10. Højsgaard, Morten Thomsen. (3 March 2010). "Margit Warburg – fra baha'i til burka". [[Kristeligt Dagblad]].
11. Eileen Barker. (2010). "The Centrality of Religion in Social Life: Essays in Honour of James A. Beckford". Ashgate Publishing, Ltd..
12. (28 June 2013). "Religion in the 21st Century: Challenges and Transformations". Ashgate Publishing, Ltd..
13. (10 October 2014). "Qualitative Analysis in the Making". Taylor & Francis.
14. Margit Warburg. (1985). "Iranske dokumenter: forfølgelsen af bahá'íerne i Iran". Rhodos.
15. Margit Warburg. (1995). "Kompendium til undervisning i babisme og baha'i". Institut for Religionshistorie, Københavns Universitet.
16. Peter Gundelach. (2011). "Små og store forandringer: danskernes værdier siden 1981". Hans Reitzels Forlag.
17. "Bør vi beholde blasfemiparagraffen?".
18. (3 January 2007). "Civilreligion ubevidst religion for folket". Kristeligt Dagblad.
19. "Gud bevare Danmark". Kristendom.dk.
20. (4 July 2011). "To religioner – dobbelt så mange udfordringer". DR P1.
21. (2 September 2003). "Challenging Religion". Routledge.
22. Københavns universitet. (1997). "Aarbog for københavns Universitet, kommunitetet og den Polytekniske læreanstalt, Danmarks tekniske højskole". Universitetet.
23. (2004). "New Religious Movements in the Twenty-first Century: Legal, Political, and Social Challenges in Global Perspective". Psychology Press.

::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::