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 |
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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.
Humanities: down to business?
| Date: | 05 July 2013 |
| Author: | Religion Factor |
In this post, Elske Kroondijk and Erik Meinema consider the increasing influence of market discourses on academic practice, and reflect on the question how scholars and students in the Humanities can engage with this development.
Koran & Bijbel weg uit de Tweede Kamer? De misvattingen rondom de Scheiding tussen Kerk en Staat uitgelicht.
| Date: | 04 July 2013 |
| Author: | Religion Factor |
Naar aanleiding van de ophef omtrent het verzoek van Tweede Kamer voorzitter Van Miltenburg om de Heilige Geschriften uit de Kamer te laten verwijderen, licht Carine Nijenhuis enkele misvattingen uit rondom de Scheiding tussen Kerk en Staat.
Allergic Reaction to “The Religious Other” or just a Neurobiological Fact?
| Date: | 25 June 2013 |
| Author: | Religion Factor |
Neurobiology, Social influence and its impact on our capacity to empathize.