Vroomheid van moslims is niet zo uitzonderlijk
Daan Beekers reageert op het recente SCP onderzoek moslims in Nederland. Laten we eens ophouden moslims steeds weer als de grote uitzondering te beschouwen.
Category: anthropology
Moslims Tellen: SCP rapport Moslim in Nederland 2012
Het SCP heeft een nieuw rapport uitgebracht: moslim in nederland 2012 geschreven door dr. Mieke Maliepaard en dr. Mérove Gijsberts. Het richt zich op de religieuze beleving van verschillende moslimgroepen in Nederland. De studie wil laten zien wat voor hen de betekenis is van de islam en hoe de religieuze participatie en beleving zich ontwikkelt. Met een kritische reflectie van Joep de Hart en Martijn de Koning.
Hearing Voices: Culture and Mental Experience
Tanya Luhrmann is concerned with the social construction of psychological experiences and how people experience their world. Her recent project compares the experience of hearing distressing voices in India, Ghana and in the United States.
Tijdschrift voor Theologie: Islamisering of Secularisering? De Kwestie van Islam in Europa
De redactie van het Tijdschrift voor Theologie heeft mij gevraagd een reviewessay te schrijven over het thema Islam in Europa. Dat is verschenen in het septembernummer.
Material Religion – Popularizing Islam: Muslims and Materiality
A short commentary of mine was published in the last issue of Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief: Styles of Salafi Activism: Escaping the Divide. This issue also contains a special issue: Popularizing Islam: Muslims and Materiality edited by prof. Annelies Moors who also invited me to write the comment.
Seminar: Aesthetics of religious leadership
On Friday the 21st of September 2012 the anthropological department of the VU University in Amsterdam, in cooperation with the Radboud University of Nijmegen organizes a one-day symposium on the ‘aesthetics of religious leadership’.
Public Seminar: Muslim Cultural Production in Europe
The research group ‘Living Islam’ at the University of Amsterdam focuses on artistic performances, popular music, and new styles of dress. On August 30, they present some of the outcomes of this research in a Public Seminar on Muslim Cultural Production in Europe.
On Social Construction
This is an interesting video and very useful for teaching purposes by Lisa Wade and Gwen Sharp of Sociologcial Images. They explain in a very concrete way the idea of social construction; a concept that refers to how people giving to the world.
Closing the week 27 – Featuring Public Religion
A weekly round up of writings on the Internet, some relevant for my research, some political, some funny but all of them interesting (Dutch/English). (As usual to a large extent based upon suggestions from Dutch, other European, American and Middle Eastern readers. Thank you all.)
Postcard from England
It has been a very rewarding two weeks in England. After participating in a seminar on Monday 11 June I stayed for two more weeks. I wanted to do a follow up on my last visit to London, Birmingham and Leicester when I spoke with Muslims from the Netherlands who migrated to these cities.