Staff members with discipline Religion
Academia develops at the interface of different fields. This is one reason why the University of Groningen is home to a wide range of fields, each with a great number of subject specialists. The overview below, which is based on a standard categorization of fields, will help you find the right expert for each field. If you cannot find the expert you are looking for in this list, try searching via a related field or faculty; you may find him or her there.
Dead Sea Scrolls; Ancient History of the Near East; Ancient Judaism
Ancient biographical literature with a special focus on the Hellenistic period and its epigrammatic sources. Religious aspects of ancient funerary literature. Reception and canonization of the classical legacy. Biographical narratives about the death and... read more
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g.andrejc rug.nl
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Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Religion
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I provide the lectures in professional didactics in philosophy of life and religion in the educational minor and in the master teacher preparatory higher education (LVHO). I also supervise students in their internships in primary & secondary education and... read more
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subject teacher religion & philosophy of life, tutor
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l.n.bakker rug.nl
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PhD candidate
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My expertise is situated in the intersections of care and religious diversity, with a strong focus on gender, sexuality and the dynamics of religion and secularity.
My research projects include research on Christianity and Pentecostalism, secularity,... read more
My research projects include research on Christianity and Pentecostalism, secularity,... read more
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b.e.bartelink rug.nl
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Senior researcher / Assistant Professor
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socio-cultural anthropology, India (esp. Odisha)
theory and history of anthropology; anthropology of religion; indigenous religions; in relation to the aforementioned areas mainly the following topics: values, cosmology, ritual, food, death, cultural and... read more
theory and history of anthropology; anthropology of religion; indigenous religions; in relation to the aforementioned areas mainly the following topics: values, cosmology, ritual, food, death, cultural and... read more
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p.berger rug.nl
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Associate Professor of Indian Religions and the Anthropology of Religion
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Greek, Roman, Early Christian and Contemporary Religion; History of Scholarship
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Emeritus Professor of Science of Religion and Comparative Religious Studies
Anthropology of Islam, everyday religion, pilgrimage studies, migration & Identity, Muslims in diaspora, Dialogical Self Theory, biographical Research
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Professor of Contemporary Islam
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m.carpenedo.rodrigues rug.nl
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Assistant Professor and Marie Curie Felow
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Premodern and Early Modern Iberian Peninsula, Islam, Religious Minorities, Muslim-Christian-Jewish Polemics, Arabic and Aljamiado Manuscripts, Literary and Cultural production of Muslims in Christian Spain (Mudejars and Moriscos), and al-Andalus (Muslim... read more
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m.colominas.aparicio rug.nl
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VENI Researcher, Rosalind Franklin Fellow
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l.r.draaisma rug.nl
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PhD candidate
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As a researcher, my primary interest is the modern history of Jewish communities in the Islamic world and their responses to modernity. From a methodological standpoint I consider myself a historian, and as such the majority of my research is based on... read more
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s.r.goldstein rug.nl
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Assistant Professor
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Cultural History of the Middle Ages; Liturgy and Ritual; Manuscript Studies. Areas of Specialization: Medieval Liturgy (History, Theology, Practice); Codicology; the Distichs of Cato. Areas of Competence: Material Culture Theory; Critical Heritage Studies;... lees meer
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a.j.m.irving rug.nl
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Assistant Professor of Religion and Heritage
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History of ideas, interaction religion - philosophy; practical philosophy (ethics, political philosophy); history of death, dying and bereavement; history of grief therapy; heritage and cemetery studies
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Professor of Ethics and Comparative Philosophy of Religion
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Dr Seyfeddin Kara is an Assistant Professor of Islamic Origins at the University of Groningen. He holds a PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Durham. Dr Kara’s academic journey includes a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Fellowship, with research... read more
Kim Knibbe is Associate Professor Anthropology and Sociology of Religion. Grounding her work in ethnographic research, she theorize the ways religion is a factor in contemporary societies and interacts with secularity, particularly around the themes... read more
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Associate Professor Sociology and Anthropology of Religion
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f.kwiatkowski rug.nl
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PhD student
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Early modern history; Intellectual history; Muslim-Christian relations
Dr. Joshua J. Little is a Research Fellow at the Department of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Origins at the University of Groningen. He received an MPhil in Islamic Studies & History and a DPhil in Asian & Middle Eastern Studies from the University of... read more
Elizabeth Marteijn is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies of the University of Groningen specializing in het modern history of Middle Eastern Christianity. Her research and teaching interests include World Christianity,... read more
Sociology of religion, secularism, governance of religious diversity, cities, governance networks, public institutions, contempotary Jewish communities, non-religion, apostasy
Pilgrimage studies, Religious Tourism, Local Policy
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a.anwar.masduki rug.nl
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PhD student
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Eastern Roman Empire, Provincial administration, Hellenistic-Roman Judaea (society and life), Hasmonean Revolt and Rule, Jewish Wars against Rome, Judaean expatriate communities (Diaspora), works of Flavius Josephus, ancient historiography and rhetoric,... read more
Death Studies, Ritual Studies, Geography of Religion, Psychology of Religion. I am available to supervise PhD students in these fields.
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brenda.mathijssen rug.nl
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Associate Professor Geography and Psychology of Religion; Vice Dean and Director of Education
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History of religion & politics; history of Europe in the twentieth century, especially France; human rights; modern & contemporary Christianity, especially dissident forms of Catholicism and Protestantism; history of warfare and war atrocities;... read more
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r.m.johnston-white rug.nl
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Assistant Professor of Contemporary History
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History of Nineteenth- & Twentieth-century German and Dutch Theology and Religious Studies; Ernst Troeltsch (1865-1923); History of Liberal Protestantism; Religion & Society; Material Christianity; Religion in the Public Domain
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Emeritus professor of the History of Christianity and of the Philosophy of Religion
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Middle East
Conflicts, terrorism, jihadism
Religion and violence
Media and propaganda
Conflicts, terrorism, jihadism
Religion and violence
Media and propaganda
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p.g.t.nanninga rug.nl
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Associate Professor Middle Eastern Studies
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Hagiography; History of Christian knowledge (1300-1725); History of Christian spirituality and mysticism; Catholic Reformation.
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g.j.nijboer rug.nl
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GSH and ReMa Front office / History PhD candidate
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Old Testament - Book of Joshua - Hermeneutics - Archaeology of Palestine- History of reception
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Professor em. of Ancient Hebrew Literature and the History of Religion of Ancient Israel
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Liability law; rent law; religion & law, in particular on the verge of religious communion and private law
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Professor by religion & law and Faculty of Religion, Culture and Society
Hebrew Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls, Artificial Intelligence and palaeography, Judaism in the Graeco-Roman period, archaeology, ancient sciences, astrology, physiognomics and magic
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m.popovic rug.nl
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Dean of the Faculty of Religion, Culture and Society
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New Testament and Early Christianity
Nag Hammadi codices and Gnosticism
Early Christian Apocrypha
Religion and Philosophy in Late Antiquity
Plutarch of Chaeronea
Nag Hammadi codices and Gnosticism
Early Christian Apocrypha
Religion and Philosophy in Late Antiquity
Plutarch of Chaeronea
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f.l.roig.lanzillotta rug.nl
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Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Studies
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I am a historian of the Modern Middle East. My research and teaching interests include Christian Arab communities of and in the Middle East Middle East, a relational cultural and social history of Ottoman and Mandate Palestine, and minorities in/ diaspora... read more
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karene.sanchez rug.nl
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Professor and Chair Middle Eastern studies
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place attachment, spiritual and cultural tourism, well-being, spiritualities and sacred sites in Japan, critical research methods
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j.schmidt rug.nl
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Research Officer Manual Publishing; PhD Student
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Kocku von Stuckrad is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Groningen. He has published extensively on topics related to the history of religion, science, and philosophy in Europe and North America. Professor von Stuckrad served as President... read more
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c.k.m.von.stuckrad rug.nl
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Professor of Religious Studies
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Comparative Study of Religion; Interreligious dialogue; Philosophy of Religion; History of Religions; Comparative Philosophy; Theology.
History of Islamic Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy of Religion
Religion, Conflict, Peacebuilding and Reconciliation; Climate Change, Conflict, Peace and Security; Religion and Politics; Religion and Human Security; Community Development; Civil Society and Social Movements;
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j.tarusarira rug.nl
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Associate Professor
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Sociology of Religion
Religiestudies, geschiedenis van de westerse esoterie
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Deputy Director
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Religion and popular culture; ritual studies; fan studies; digital ethnography; cultural heritage.
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w.f.wagenaar rug.nl
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PhD student
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Cultural and Intellectual History of Modern Germany and Europe; Religion and Heritage, Transnational History of Religion and Secularism; History of Modern Worldviews
urbanism, built environment, lived religion, pilgrimage, travel, networks, epigraphy, gender, Late Antiquity, Anchoring Innovation
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m.e.s.whiting rug.nl
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Postdoctoral Researcher
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Religion and diplomacy, secularism, refugees and forced migration, human rights, development, global justice, globalization, climate change
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e.k.wilson rug.nl
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Professor of Politics and Religion
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Relational Psychoanalysis; Identity Theory; Art, I magination and Religion; Spiritual Care
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Emeritus Professor of Religion and Mental Health, in particular in the domain of Spiritual Care (Special chair of the KSGV, Study Centre for Religion and Mental Health, sponsored by the VVP, Association of Dutch Liberal Protestants)
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