Dag Øistein Endsjø is a Norwegian professor

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 in religious studies

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  at the University of Bergen

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, Norway

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. and a human rights activist. He is primarily known for having contributed to change the Norwegian debate on equal rights into a general discussion of human rights.

As a religious scholar, Endsjø specializes in Greek religion, early Christianity, human rights and religion, and, sex and religion.

Since 2004, Endsjø has been the leader of Menneskerettsalliansen, the Norwegian Human Rights Alliance.

Books

• Sex and Religion: Teachings and Taboos in the History of World Faiths
  Sex and Religion (book)
  Sex and Religion, subtitled in English Teachings and Taboos in the History of World Faiths, is an extensively translated book on the historical and contemporary relationship between sex and religion written by scholar of religion Dag Øistein Endsjø. It was originally released in Norway in 2009,...
  
  , Reaktion Books 2011. ISBN 9781861898159
• Greek Resurrection Beliefs and the Success of Christianity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2009.
• Primordial Landscapes, Incorruptible Bodies. New York: Peter Lang 2008.
• Naturlig sex. Seksualitet og kjønn i den kristne antikken (co-editor with Halvor Moxnes
  Halvor Moxnes
  Halvor Moxnes is a Norwegian theologian.He was born in Stokke. He took the dr.theol. degree in 1978 with the thesis Theology in Conflict: Studies in Paul's Understanding of God in Romans, and was appointed as a professor of the New Testament at the University of Oslo in 1984...
  
   and Jostein Børtnes). Oslo: Gyldendal Akademisk 2002.
• Lei av kjønn? Nær-kjønn-opplevelser og andre beretninger fra virkeligheten (co-editor with Helge Svare). Oslo: Cappelen Akademisk Forlag 2001.

Other publications (selection)

• “Immortal bodies, Before Christ. Bodily continuity in ancient Greece and 1 Corinthians”. Journal for the Study of the New Testament 30, 2008: 417-36.
• “The queer periphery. Sexual deviancy and the cultural understanding of space” i Journal of Homosexuality, vol. 54, 2008: 9-20.
• “Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights and the religious relativism of human rights”. Human Rights Review, 6:2, 2005: 102-10.
• “To control death. Sacrifice and space in classical Greece”. Religion, vol. 33/4, 2003: 323-340.
• “To lock up Eleusis. A question of liminal space”. Numen, vol. 47, 2000: 351-86.
• “‘ ...and knowledge shall be encreased’. Newton, millenniet og den opprinnelige kunnskap” Chaos. Dansk-norsk tidsskrift for religionshistoriske studier, vol. 34, 2000: 67-79.
• “Placing the Unplaceable. The Making of Apollonius’s Argonautic Geography”. Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies. Vol 38. 1997: 373-85.