A5057351439- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Religious Tourism and Spaces
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
- Asian Studies and History
- Religion and Society Interactions
- Religion, Society, and Development
- Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics
- Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
- Culinary Culture and Tourism
- Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies
- Mental Health via Writing
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
- Leadership, Courage, and Heroism Studies
- Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
- Philippine History and Culture
- Religion, Ecology, and Ethics
- Gender and Women's Rights
- Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
- Turkey's Politics and Society
Utrecht University
2018-2023
University of Groningen
2019-2022
Christiani
2020
Rijksmuseum
2020
Radboud University Nijmegen
2016-2018
Institute of Religious Studies
2018
In recent years, scholars from a wide variety of disciplines have engaged in the study urban religion. Taken together, these studies form paradigm that intertwines (1) politics belonging, (2) regimes space and territoriality, (3) materiality sensorial power (4) visibility. We argue while conceptualised aspects very nuanced ways, there is need to address more rigorous way immaterial dimensions encapsulate notion 'urban religious aspirations', meaning multiple ideational sources underpin...
We identify and analyse practices management regimes around burial handling of ashes across eight case study towns within six Northern European countries. cemeteries crematoria gardens, majority provision for minority communities, including various types, cremated remains, the re-use graves, costs interments. Comparative data is drawn from analysis national local regulations, interviews with stakeholders, observations at gardens. The findings show significant variation in regulations...
Cemeteries have been viewed in opposed ways as ritual spaces that either mirror society or present an idealized model of society. In this article, we propose analysis cemeteries spaces, focused on the case study municipal cemetery Tongerseweg Maastricht, among most important monumental still active use The Netherlands today. Drawing historical well interview material, spatial and studies, authors argue for a new “Arena Model” to understand dynamic spaces. do not only form ensemble are...
Critiques of ecologically harmful human activity in the Anthropocene extend beyond life and livelihoods to practices dying, death, disposal bodies. For members diffuse ‘New Death Movement’ operating post-secular West today, such environmental externalities are symptomatic a broader failure modern death care, what we refer here as ‘Death Industrial Complex’. According New advocates, its profit-driven, medicalised, de-ritualized patriarchal form, care fundamentally distorts humans’...
In descriptions of their religion, Hong Kong Catholics tend to emphasize the perceived universal character Catholic Church. this report I explore emphasis by analyzing what characteristic means for my informants. argue that universality Catholicism gives meaning in world which they live. As residents SAR and citizens PRC, “Hongkongers” are faced with an uncertain future. situation, search a stable anchor. The Church offers them this, giving sense belonging global family God. This thus...
In this paper, I present Hong Kong Buddhism as a construct of modernity, particularly in its emphasis on tradition. 'Modern Buddhism' shapes how Buddhists the city reflect their religion and being world. The latter is seen responded to 2014 Umbrella Movement. Although Movement was essence political movement seeking universal suffrage, it indirectly highlighted importance everyday lives middle-class residents. While some went protest sites, others stayed at home meditate, many decided...
Nucho, Joanne R. 2016. Everyday Sectarianism in Urban Lebanon: Infrastructures, Public Services, and Power . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 192 pp. Ebook: US$29.95. ISBN: 9781400883004. Schorch, Philipp, Martin Saxer Marlen Elders (eds.). 2020. Exploring Materiality Connectivity Anthropology Beyond London: UCL 282 Pb.: £20.00. 9781787357495. Cvajner, Martina. 2019. Soviet Signoras. Personal Collective Transformations East European Migration Chicago, IL: of Chicago 279 US$30.00....