‘Wat betekent het om spiritueel te leven in een tijd waarin mensen niet meer naar de kerk gaan, geen lid meer zijn van een gemeenschap, en zich overweldigd voelen door alomtegen-woordige oppervlakkige media?’ Jos van Remundt verkent deze vraag aan de hand van vele religieuze, spirituele en culturele …

With the world facing an ecological crisis, Hindus are challenged to reflect on the ways they impact their environment. The last few decades witnessed a rise of theological reflections on Hindu traditions—especially scriptures and concepts (not least by western scholars)—that advocate environmentally …

At this critical moment in time, April 2020, when we are living with the cataclysmic event of Covid-19, television – a medium declared almost dead at the beginning of this millennium – has become a vital resource for solace, daydreaming, social ritual, knowledge and storytelling. In conditions of lockdown, …

De studie ‘Zin in elke dag’ beschrijft de aard en het karakter van het leven en samenleven van adolescenten die wonen in de vrijwillige residentiële jeugdhulp. Als onderzoeksmethode is gebruik gemaakt van participerende observatie. Het perspectief van waaruit het onderzoek plaatsvond is dat van de ritual …

In our network culture totally different and new spaces have developed. In cyberspace there are new forms of location-based communities. No communities based on membership, ideology or doctrine, but open spaces where people find each other in a shared interest: fluid communities, in jargon called ‘affinity …

The wide use of social media has facilitated new social practices that influence place meaning. This paper uses a double case study of two neighborhood blogs in gentrifying communities, to explore the role of social media in sharing place associations and community formation. Drawing on Collins’ theory …

”Landscape as House” is about animating my families landscape through a new form of topographic living: a frag-mented house embedded into forests, meadows and the village. This house creates a life constituted of movement through landscape, on the scale of a farmers ground, with rooms inhabiting its …

During the Middle Ages and early modern period, a dramatic culture of astonishing vitality developed in the Low Countries. Owing to the activities of organisations known as rederijkerskamers, or "chambers of rhetoric", drama became a central aspect of public life in the cities of the Netherlands. The …