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Researcher

Michiel Van Dam

  • Research Expertise:Intellectual historical research on the relation between anthropological mechanisms of "faire croire" and social imaginations of the civil body. My current research, which is part of the BOF-GOA-funded research project 'Solidarity and religion in a modernizing and post-secular context', involves an analysis of 19th-century sociology as a 'science of solidarity', with a focus on its conceptualization of the sacred-secular interactions making (im)possible the imagination of a societal solidarity.
  • Keywords:19TH CENTURY, SOLIDARITY, DIVERSITY, 17TH-18TH CENTURY, HISTORY OF (RELIGIOUS) CULTURE, INTELLECTUAL HISTORY, Political and social sciences
  • Disciplines:History of historical culture, Early modern history, Modern and contemporary history, Social and political philosophy, History of religions, churches and theology
  • Research techniques:Interdisciplinary research and discourse analysis
  • Users of research expertise:Historians of science