IRILIS news
- Research Project on Religion and Climate Change in the NetherlandsA new research project at Tilburg School of Theology aims to provide insights into the religious vocabularies used in climate change discourse in the Netherlands and abroad.
- New publication in Netherlands Studies in Ritual and Liturgy on genocide commemoration and reconciliation in Rwanda.On 14 March Célestin Nsengimana defended his thesis: Genocide Commemoration and Reconciliation in Rwanda from a Liturgical Ritual Perspective.
- Call for Papers Yearbook for Ritual and Liturgical StudiesYou are kindly invited to submit a manuscript for publication in the online journal Yearbook for Ritual and Liturgical Studies. The deadline for submitting articles is 1 May.
- PhD Candidate: Ritualisation of EuthanasiaDo you want to improve the theoretical grasp of the design of best ritual practices, to facilitate a 'good death'? Do you want to gain empirical insight into the actual ritual practices surrounding euthanasia in The Netherlands? If so, you have a part to play! Radboud University is looking for a PhD candidate Ritualization of Euthanasia.
- An Invisible MonumentRecently, I was in Vlissingen, the Netherlands, and took a walk along the “Green Boulevard.” This walking and cycling route goes along the Westerschelde from the train station to the center of Vlissingen. Along the way, there are several monuments that recall the Battle of the Schelde that took place there in 1944. I was not looking for war monuments, however, but for a certain environmental monument.
- PhD scholarship ritualization of megalithic monumentsThe Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies (both at the University of Groningen, NL) offer a four year studentship to complete a PhD on present-day ritual activities that take place at the megalithic tombs in the Netherlands (Hunebedden).
- Spring meeting Assocation for Liturgical StudiesSpring meeting of the Association for Liturgical Studies on the mystery of liturgy. More information on our Dutch page.
- Inclusive rituals?Rituals are both inclusive and exclusive. How can we fruitfully think about the inclusivety of rituals?
- Reinventing pilgrimage in Europe: Camino Cahier 6A en 6B verschenenIn maart 2022 is van de hand van Paul Post een afsluitend Camino Cahier verschenen (bestaande uit twee delen) van het project ‘Reinventing pilgrimage in Europe‘. Het project richtte zich op actuele ontwikkelingen op het gebied van pelgrimages in Europa.
- Handbook of Disaster Ritual available open accessThanks to a generous contribution of the Protestant Theological University the Handbook of Disaster Ritual is now available open access!
- Call for Papers: Special Issue on Divorce RitualsThe aim of this Special Issue is to collect descriptions, analyses and evaluations of divorce and end-of-relation rituals from various cultures and religions.
- Ritual, technology, and ritual techniquesCulture moves beyond text. That at least is what the Berlin philosopher Sybille Krämer and the Berlin art historian Horst Bredekamp argued in their 2003 German article, later translated as ‘Culture, technology, cultural techniques: Moving beyond text’. When I reread this article on the occasion of IRiLiS’ thirtieth anniversary, my attention fell mainly on the word ‘technology’ in the title.
- Job opening in Liturgical/Ritual Studies in BernThe Faculty of Theology at the University of Bern has a job opening in the field of Liturgical and Ritual Studies. You can find the vacancy text (in German) below.
- Call for Papers Jubilee Edition Yearbook for Ritual and Liturgical StudiesTo celebrate the thirty-year anniversary of the Institute for Ritual and Liturgical Studies in 2022, there will be a jubilee edition of the Yearbook for Ritual and Liturgical Studies on the topic of Ritual Techniques: New Openings in Ritual and Liturgical Studies. Contrary to our regular edition, the jubilee edition will appear in print! We invite you to contribute an article to this special jubilee edition. Deadline is 1 April.
- Call for Papers Yearbook for Ritual and Liturgical studiesYou are kindly invited to submit a manuscript for publication in the online journal Yearbook for Ritual and Liturgical Studies. The deadline for submitting articles is 1 May.
- Forthcoming: Handbook of Disaster RitualThe Handbook of Disaster Ritual presents an overview of relevant literature, perspectives, methods, concepts, as well as a selection of topical themes in relation to current disaster rituals. The handbook has been compiled from multi-disciplinary and geographically diverse perspectives and works with broad definitions of the concepts of both disaster and ritual.
- Paul Peeters (1965-2021), Managing Director of Peeters Publishers, has passed awayWe received word from Peeters Publishers in Leuven that managing editor Mr. Paul Peeters has passed away unexpectedly on March 22, 2021 at the age of 55.
- Forthcoming: Handbook of Disaster RitualIn a few months, this book will be published: Martin Hoondert, Paul Post, Mirella Klomp and Marcel Barnard (eds.), Handbook of Disaster Ritual. Multidisciplinary perspectives, cases and themes. Leuven, Paris, Bristol CT: Peeters Publishers (forthcoming).
- Call for articles: Special Issue Religion: Birth and DeathBirth and death are fundamental human experiences. Both life-transitions are meaningful and profound but can also lead to ambiguous feelings, negotiated in embodied, cultural, spiritual and symbolic practices (Hallam et al., 1999; Kaufman and Morgan, 2005; Mathijssen, 2018; Wojtkowiak, 2020). The study of birth and death as existential transitions, comparing and contrasting these two life-events from a ritual and embodied perspective, can reveal novel insights into spirituality and religiosity. In this Special Issue of Religions, we want to unravel these questions and explore new theoretical and empirical research on birth and death from multidisciplinary perspectives, such as cultural anthropology, religious studies, chaplaincy studies, medical and cultural psychology and psychology of religion and related disciplines.
- Defense PhD thesis by Jasper Bosman (with livestream)On September 18, 2020, at 10.30 AM, Jasper Bosman will defend his PhD thesis Celebrating the Lord’s Supper in the Netherlands. A Study of Liturgical Ritual Practice in Dutch Reformed Churches at Kampen Theological University. Jasper Bosman, who currently works as a pastor in the city of Hilversum, was accepted to the PhD program at Kampen Theological University in 2015. His study is the result of a PhD project supervised by prof. dr. Hans Schaeffer and prof. dr. Marcel Barnard.
