publications & downloads

articles and book chapters

Het zelf in christelijke religiositeit. Discoursen van het zelf in hedendaagse vormen van christelijke religiositeit. In de Marge 14 (2005), no. 1:22-30.

‘You are the song inside my heart’. Over reli-pop en christelijke kunst. In de Marge 14 (2005), no. 4:22-32.

Het religieuze sentiment van de Mattheuspassie. Streven 74 (2007), no. 4:300-306.

Tussen verveling en sensatie. Neo-evangelicale revitalisering. In de Marge 16 (2007), no. 3:32-39.

God is a dj. Evangelicalisme en popular culture. Praktische Theologie 34 (2007), no. 2:194-206.

‘Geloof wordt vervangen door gevoel’ (interview met Paul Heelas). Volzin 6 (2007), no. 8:6-9.

God in Nederland: afscheid of terugkeer? CV Koers (May 2007):22-23 (with Marten van der Meulen).

Tijd voor creatieve vernieuwing. Nederlands Dagblad (1 December 2007).

Brood, wijn en glasvezels. Christendom in Second Life. Nederlands Dagblad (1 March 2008) (with Sietske van der Pol).

Acceptation religieuse du moi: l’identité chez les jeunes néo-évangélistes. Social Compass 55 (2008), no. 1:33-43 (English version).

De religieuze acceptatie van het zelf. Identiteit bij neo-evangelicale jongeren. Bert Musschenga & Bettine Siertsema (eds.), De utopie van de maakbaarheid. Kampen: Ten Have, 2008, 115-135.

Een zwaluw maakt nog geen zomer. Een pleidooi voor een prudente authenticiteit. Christendemocratische Verkenningen (Lente 2009): 106-112 (with Jonathan Soeharno).

Geef ons heden ons internet. Tussenruimte 2 (2009), no. 2: 17-21 (with Martijn de Koning).

The Search for Religious Purity in New Age, Evangelicalism and Islam: Religious Renditions of Dutch Youth and the Luckmann Legacy. Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion, special issue Youth and Religion (2009) (forthcoming) (with Stef Aupers, Dick Houtman, Martijn de Koning en Ineke Noomen).

Sex, Fun, Rock ‘n Roll: Evangelicalisme en Moraliteit. Monique van Dijk (ed.), Jeugd en Religie. Utrecht: Utrecht University (forthcoming).

l’Europe, c’est nous? Bespiegelingen over ‘het geseculariseerde’ Europa. In: Theologisch Debat 6 (2009), no. 4: 28-33 (with Hendrie van Maanen).

Protestantisme in beweging. Evangelisch en reformatorisch in vijf vergelijkingen (forthcoming) (with Miranda Klaver).

Transformations of Mainline Protestantism: The Rise of Experiential Religiosity (submitted for publication) (with Peter Versteeg).

Contemporary spirituality and the making of religious experience: Studying the social in an individualized religiosity (submitted for publication) (with Peter Versteeg).

Fantasy, Conspiracy and the Legacy of the Counterculture: Max Weber and the Spirit of Contemporary Popular Culture. In: Adam Possamai (ed.), Handbook of Hyper-real Religions. Boston [etc.]: Brill (submitted for publication) (with Dick Houtman and Stef Aupers).

Authenticiteit (special issue Sociologie) (in progress) (with Dick Houtman and Stef Aupers).

Zoeken naar zuiverheid. Religieuze purificatie onder jonge New Agers, evangelicals en moslims (in progress) (with Dick Houtman, Stef Aupers, Ineke Noomen and Martijn de Koning).

Beyond the Domestication of Nature? The Articulation of Nature in Car Commercials (submitted for publication) (with Stef Aupers, Peter Achterberg, Dick Houtman, Willem de Koster, Peter Mascini and Jeroen van der Waal).

Christian religion in the West: Privatization or public revitalization? (forthcoming) (with Peter Achterberg and Dick Houtman).

Jezelf zijn of jezelf worden? Over authenticiteit en prudentie (in progress) (with Pieter Vos and Jonathan Soeharno).

Het divinatorisch karakter van evangelical worship (in progress) (with Peter Versteeg).

‘God is everywhere’: Religious Revival and Conflicts in Dutch Society (in progress) (with Martijn de Koning en Thijl Sunier).

Beyond individualization: Sociality and the re-configuration of authority among young Christians (forthcoming) (with Jos de Kock).

The face of Jesus in my soup  and the name of Allah in the clouds: Pareidolia and playful animism in Islam and evangelicalism (in progress) (with Martijn de Koning)

I teach you how to dance: Dutch evangelical youth events in four decades (in progress) (with Miranda Klaver, Marten van der Meulen, Remco van Mulligen, Hijme Stoffels and Peter Versteeg).

The re-configuration of sociality and authority in Dutch Christianity: implications for youth work and education (in progress) (with Jos de Kock and Pieter Vos).

Dutch Christian youngsters and effervescence sociality: Events and festivals as religious sites (in progress) (with Ton Zondervan).

books

Playful Religion. Challenges for the Study of Religion. Delft: Eburon, 2006 (ed. with Anton van Harskamp, Miranda Klaver and Peter Versteeg).

Selfation. Dutch Evangelical Youth Between Subjectivization and Subjection. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press/Pallas, 2009.

Ze geloven het wel. Jongeren en religie in de 21ste eeuw (in progress) (with Monique van Dijk, Martijn de Koning and Joris Kregting).

Jong: Mores en Sores van jongeren van nu (in progress) (ed. with Anneke van Laar, Jos de Kock and Pieter Vos) Amsterdam: Buijten & Schpperheijn.

God is in the house: theologische essays (in progress).

papers

(Un)doing your own thing? On subjectivization among young Dutch christians. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Portland [Oregon], October 21 2006.

Signification between concept and experience. Paper presented at the BSA Sociology of religion study group annual conference, Oxford (UK), April 3 2007 (with Peter Versteeg).

Selfation: Exploring the Evangelical Third Way. Paper presented at the expert meeting on inner-life spirituality, organized by Paul Heelas and Dick Houtman, Windermere (UK), June 4 2008.

The doctrine of religions of the heart. Paper presented at the NWO The Future of the Religious Past conference on Words, Groningen (Netherlands), June 16 2009.

In and out of experiential religiosity: Implications for participatory fieldwork. Paper presented at the European Social Science History Conference, Ghent (Belgium), April 13 2010 (with Peter Versteeg)

lectures

Op zoek naar authenticiteit. De invloed van de hedendaagse cultuur op de religieuze identiteit van jongeren. Lezing studiedag On speaking Terms, Driestart Educatief, 14 november 2007

interviews

Jong en evangelisch in Houten. Nederlands Dagblad (9 December 2006)

Entourage, esthetiek, emotie. Reformatorisch Dagblad (15 September 2009)

Vrijheid in ‘happy clappy’ christendom is schijn. Trouw (11 September 2009)