Religion and International Relations Theory
| Date: | 28 November 2013 |
| Author: | Religion Factor |
On Tuesday 26 November 2013, NGIZ Noord and the Centre for Religion, Conflict and the Public Domain at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies in Groningen co-hosted an evening devoted to a discussion of dominant approaches to religion in the study...
Sinterklaas, Zwarte Piet and the Ethics of Public Debate
| Date: | 15 November 2013 |
| Author: | Religion Factor |
Sinterklaas and his somewhat controversial helper Zwarte Piet arrive in the Netherlands tomorrow, marking the start of the festive season. In today’s post, Erik Meinema and Erin Wilson offer thoughts from both Dutch and non-Dutch perspectives on various...
Globalization, Religion and Humanity Beyond the Nation-State
| Date: | 05 November 2013 |
| Author: | Religion Factor |
Recent tragic drownings on migration routes to both Europe and Australia highlight more than ever the paradoxes of globalization – more open borders when it comes to trade and finance, tighter restrictions when it comes to people; immense wealth, privilege...
Dr James Noyes and the Politics of Iconoclasm
| Date: | 16 October 2013 |
| Author: | Christoph Grüll |
On the 17th of November, Dr James Noyes visited the Centre for Religion, Conflict and the Public Domain at the University of Groningen to give a lecture on his new book ‘Politics of Iconoclasm’, in which he examines the destruction of images of the sacred...
The Return of Religion in Contemporary Art
| Date: | 20 September 2013 |
| Author: | Religion Factor |
Religion has been out of fashion in many areas of public life, including the arts. However, this has not always been the case and indeed, with exhibitions such as Makoto Fujimura’s “The Four Holy Gospels” and Enrique Martinez Celaya’s exhibitions “The...
Tunisia's religious opposition
| Date: | 11 September 2013 |
| Author: | Religion Factor |
Is the ‘new’ religious engagement really all that new? The need for reflection on the underlying values and assumptions in the engagement with religion
| Date: | 19 August 2013 |
| Author: | Religion Factor |
In this post, Brenda Bartelink draws on her research on faith based development organisations in the Netherlands and Uganda, and Dutch initiatives to engage with religion to raise some critical points for reflection on the new US Office for Faith-Based...
What does “engaging religion” mean for religion?
| Date: | 14 August 2013 |
| Author: | Religion Factor |
Last week, the US State Department made the much-anticipated announcement that it is establishing a new “Office of Faith-Based Community Initiatives” whose mission, Secretary of State John Kerry said, is “to engage more closely with faith communities...
Summer Reading from The Religion Factor – Our Top Ten from 2012-2013
| Date: | 29 July 2013 |
Dear Readers,
Dead Sea scrolls on exhibition in Assen
| Date: | 16 July 2013 |
| Author: | Religion Factor |
Recently, a unique exhibition on the dead sea scrolls has opened in the Drents Museum in Assen, the Netherlands. The exhibition is curated by prof. Dr. Mladen Popovic, director of the Qumran institute in Groningen.