Projects
From Here and There: Speaking about Religion with Adolescents with Migration Experience to Europe KU Leuven
Interacting with both refugee and expatriate youth in three specific communities from around Europe, this qualitative project seeks to discover changes in religious belief and practice in response to the process of relocation. Whether forced or voluntary migrants, internationally mobile youth face pressures as they move daily between the home culture and the host culture. This research makes use of Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis to ...
RELIGION AND IMAGINATION: ISLAM AND CONTEMPORARY WORLD LITERATURE KU Leuven
Sabbatical Annemie Dillen: Practical theology and lived religion KU Leuven
During the sabbatical period I plan the following: (1) Working on a monograph on children, church and theology (series: Theology in Practice, Leiden, Brill), (2) Intensive supervision of the current research and doctoral projects (e.g. on migration, results in hospital chaplaincy,...). For students in the last or second year, we look for opportunities for new project applications. In the field of migration and theology, among other things, I ...
Film, religion and politics: the 'Office Catholique International du Cinéma' (OCIC) and Italy (1948-1970) KU Leuven
The perils of birth: obstetrics, religion and medical ethics in Belgium (ca. 1830-1914) KU Leuven
In this doctoral thesis, I examine the role of ideology and medical ethics in the scientific debates and medical practices of Belgian Catholic and liberal doctors from 1830 until 1914. The focus is on the question of difficult births. The brutal reality of labour complications, often resulting in maternal or foetal death, led Catholic and liberal physicians to reflect on their mission as doctors and on the religious and moral implications of ...
Apocryphical and apostolic modernism. Forgotten connections between religion and architectural modernism in the period 1945-1970. KU Leuven
INCO: Conference Rethinking Religion in India II: Rethinking Secularism, 10-13 January 2009, New Delhi, India Ghent University
This conference is part of a five-year cluster of conferences. The second conference, proceeded from the questions raised in the first: if the theoretical framework of religious studies is inadequate in the Indian context, then how should we understand certain conflicts and problems in India that are generally linked to 'religion'? The Platform sessions consisted of a sustained debate between two opposing camps on the question 'Is secularism ...
Research and cooperation in the anthropology of religion and ethnographic methods, especially the study of Orthodox Jewish communities in West-Europe and Israel Ghent University
Prof. El-Or aims to exchange and cooperate with colleagues at UGent on the anthropology of religion methods in anthropology and the study of Orthodox Jewish communities. An intensive cooperation will be intiated including the exchange and sharing of research agendas, data and results: the launch of a multinational and interdisciplinary research group the organisation of a congress panel joint publication.