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
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g.andrejc rug.nl
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Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Religion
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a.f.bakker rug.nl
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Assistant Professor Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism
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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 supervise master students in their educational research (Lesson Study).
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subject teacher religion & philosophy of life, tutor
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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, ethics, NGOs and faith based organisations, health and prevention, youth care, education and foster care, international development, gender based violence, female leadership, women's agency and empowerment, sexuality education and sexual health programming, polarization and sexual nationalism.
I apply qualitative research methods, and have a particular interest in ethnographic and participatory research and creative (art-based) methodologies.
I have conducted research in and on The Netherlands and broader Western Europe, and in Sub Sahara Africa: Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, Ghana, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and South Africa
My work is always situated on the intersections of science and society and I have ample experience with knowledge valorisation, societal impact and applied research. In this I have a particular interest in how sound academic knowledge can empower and support marginalized people and communities.
Students who want to write their thesis on one of the themes mentioned above in relation to religion/ secularity and are interested in applying qualitative research methods may contact me.
My research projects include research on Christianity and Pentecostalism, secularity, ethics, NGOs and faith based organisations, health and prevention, youth care, education and foster care, international development, gender based violence, female leadership, women's agency and empowerment, sexuality education and sexual health programming, polarization and sexual nationalism.
I apply qualitative research methods, and have a particular interest in ethnographic and participatory research and creative (art-based) methodologies.
I have conducted research in and on The Netherlands and broader Western Europe, and in Sub Sahara Africa: Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, Ghana, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and South Africa
My work is always situated on the intersections of science and society and I have ample experience with knowledge valorisation, societal impact and applied research. In this I have a particular interest in how sound academic knowledge can empower and support marginalized people and communities.
Students who want to write their thesis on one of the themes mentioned above in relation to religion/ secularity and are interested in applying qualitative research methods may contact me.
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b.e.bartelink rug.nl
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Senior researcher / Assistant Professor
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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 Fellow
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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 Iberia)
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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 archival material and historic press in English, French, Arabic, and Hebrew, dating from the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century. My current research rethinks the connection between transnational solidarity organizations and empire. The focus is on the centrality and agency of non-European elites, thereby challenging assumptions about the center and the periphery within colonial networks.
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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; Art, Museums, and Religion; Digital Text Editing
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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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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
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r.m.johnston-white rug.nl
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Assistant Professor of Contemporary History
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Kim Knibbe is Associate Professor Anthropology and Sociology of Religion. She has recently completed the project "Sexuality, Religion and Secularism" with Rachel Spronk (funded by NWO). She is now developing new research on pregnancy. Previous research focused on Catholicism and spirituality in the Netherlands and on Nigerian Pentecostalism in Europe and the Netherlands. She has also published a series of theoretical and methodological reflections on studying religion. For students: I only accept supervision of projects that employ qualitative research methods. I particularly welcome students who wish to do research on contemporary spirituality, Catholicism or Pentecostalism related to questions of work and/or gender/sexuality/pregnancy and birth.
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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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* Ancient Curse Tablets and the New Testament
(literary, religio- and culture-historical approaches)
* Speech-ethics in the New Testament and the ancient context
* Theory of History and Historiography in Antiquity and New Testament
* Miracle stories in early Christianity (miracles of Jesus and
the apostles in canonical and apocryphal gospels and acts)
* Hermeneutics, Biblehermeneutics
* Texts: Gospel of Matthew, Gospel of John, Letter of
James and New Testament Apocrypha (gospels and acts)
(literary, religio- and culture-historical approaches)
* Speech-ethics in the New Testament and the ancient context
* Theory of History and Historiography in Antiquity and New Testament
* Miracle stories in early Christianity (miracles of Jesus and
the apostles in canonical and apocryphal gospels and acts)
* Hermeneutics, Biblehermeneutics
* Texts: Gospel of Matthew, Gospel of John, Letter of
James and New Testament Apocrypha (gospels and acts)
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Visiting Professor
Sociology of religion, secularism, governance of religious diversity, cities, governance networks, public institutions, contempotary Jewish communities, non-religion, apostasy
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Assistant Professor of Sociology of Religion
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, Jewish-Christian (and -Roman) relations to the emperor Julian.
Death Studies, Ritual Studies, Psychology of Religion, Geography of Religion
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brenda.mathijssen rug.nl
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Assistant Professor; Interim Vice Dean and Director of Education
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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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Professor of the History of Christianity; Professor 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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Assistant 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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PhD student
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Jewish Studies; Midrash; Culture and Cognition; Cognitive Science of religion; Cultural study of Emotions
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Assistant Professor Culture and Cognition
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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
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 Theology and Religious Studies
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Manuscript Studies; Book Studies; Monasticism. Areas of specialisation: Codicology; Palaeography; Bookbinding Studies; Patristics; Patrology.
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n.pouls rug.nl
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PhD student
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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 from the Middle East. I am particularly interested in engaging with multilateral transnational connections, still understudied in favour of national historiographies and periodisation.
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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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PhD Student
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Working in international and interdisciplinary scholarly teams and networks; experience in leading groups inside and outside the university; experience in publishing professional journals and book series; commitment to teaching.
Scholarly focus of interest:
European cultural history from antiquity through today, with a focus on religion in diverse cultural settings; Diversity of knowledge systems; Method and theory in the study of religion; Discursive study of religion; Esoteric discourses in European culture, with special emphasis on astrology and kabbalah; Religion, philosophy, and nature; Religion and secularity
Scholarly focus of interest:
European cultural history from antiquity through today, with a focus on religion in diverse cultural settings; Diversity of knowledge systems; Method and theory in the study of religion; Discursive study of religion; Esoteric discourses in European culture, with special emphasis on astrology and kabbalah; Religion, philosophy, and nature; Religion and secularity
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c.k.m.von.stuckrad rug.nl
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Professor of Religious Studies
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Comparative Philosophy of Religion, Islamic Philosophy
Religion, Conflict, Peacebuilding and Reconciliation; Religion and Politics; Religion and Human Security; Climate Change, Conflict, Peace and Security; Community Development; Civil Society and Social Movements;
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j.tarusarira rug.nl
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Assistant Professor of Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding
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Sociology of Religion
Religiestudies, geschiedenis van de westerse esoterie
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Head of User Services
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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; Transnational History of Religion and Secularism; History of modern worldviews.
Secularism, the Secular, Sexuality, Gender, New forms of religiosity, Materiality, Western Buddhism Publications:
Schrijvers, L. L., & Wiering, J. (2018). Religious/secular discourses and practices of good sex. Culture and Religion , 1-21.
Wiering, J. (2017). There is a Sexular Body: Introducing a Material Approach to the Secular. Secularism and Nonreligion, 6 (8). http://doi.org/10.5334/snr.78
Wiering, J. (2016). “Others Think I am Airy-fairy”: Practicing Navayana Buddhism in a Dutch Secular Climate. Contemporary Buddhism, 17(2), 369-389. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14639947.2016.1234751
Schrijvers, L. L., & Wiering, J. (2018). Religious/secular discourses and practices of good sex. Culture and Religion , 1-21.
Wiering, J. (2017). There is a Sexular Body: Introducing a Material Approach to the Secular. Secularism and Nonreligion, 6 (8). http://doi.org/10.5334/snr.78
Wiering, J. (2016). “Others Think I am Airy-fairy”: Practicing Navayana Buddhism in a Dutch Secular Climate. Contemporary Buddhism, 17(2), 369-389. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14639947.2016.1234751
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j.o.wiering 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; Vice Dean and Director of Education
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Relational Psychoanalysis; Identity Theory; Art, I magination and Religion; Spiritual Care
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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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