Current research is concerned with:
- Food and meals in theological and ritual perspective (in the context of sustainable development)
- Gender, in particular masculinities, from the point of view of religious studies and theological perspective
- Church and society in the Second World War, with particular attention to the Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands
- The history and theology of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (Philippines)
- The Second Vatican Council, in particular the participation of the Old Catholic observers
- History and (ecumenical) theology of the Old Catholic Churches of the Union of Utrecht
Current PhD research
Jorrit Steehouders, Economic Blueprints for Europe,1930-1963 (Blueprints of Hope project - NWO) (mede promotor)
Clemens van den Berg, Spiritual Blueprints of Europe (Blueprints of Hope project - NWO)
Jutta Eilander - van Maaren, Polyphony in Ecclesiology. A practical-theological research on ‘being church’ in the Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands
Christian Bultinck, Inmates at the Lord’s Table. An investigationon the Lord’s Supper in Protestant worship services in the Flemish part of the Belgian Prison System
Roel Aalbersberg, 'The Lost Supper' - A Study of the Question How and Why the Eucharist Lost its Proper Meal Character.
Richard de Beer, Liturgical Vestments in the Northern Netherlands 1580-1650
Also the postdoc project of Dr. Genji Yasuhira, ‘Dutch Catholics in the Age of Enlightenment: A Transborder Social History
Through Immigrants and Refugees’ is affiliated with the chair.
Completed Projects
Project
Blueprints of Hope: Designing Post-War Europe. Ideas, Emotions, Networks and Negotiations (1930-1963)
01.09.2016
to 28.02.2022
General project description
Since its inception, the European integration project has been contested. This interdisciplinary research project analyzes the different blueprints for Europe that were present in the period 1930-1963, thereby aiming to show why some blueprints set their stamps on the institutional start-up of European integration, while other blueprints were rejected. Going beyond a state-centric analysis in order to achieve this, the research project focuses on transnational political, clerical and economic networks. By including a wider range of actors, the project expands the existing historiography of the EU’s “early” integration. Moreover, such a new understanding of the diversity of ideas of “what is Europe” in these early years of European integration may help to elucidate the driving forces and institutional dynamics in today’s EU.
Role
Researcher
Funding
NWO grant NWO Free Competition Grant
External project members
- Mathieu Segers