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A rich palette of Bible use
The aim of this study is to gain empirical knowledge about how the Bible functions in the context of Protestant Christian primary schools in the Netherlands. It presents the results of an empirical explorative and qualitative study on the perceptions of teachers and school administrators (directors and internal supervisors) on the goals of Bible use in Protestant primary education, as well as the roles of teachers and pupils, and how these can be understood in terms of religious pedagogical models and theories. Five small focus group interviews with teachers and six interviews with school administrators revealed a variety of goals teachers hold regarding Bible use in education and a variety of divisions of teacher–learner roles in this regard. The findings also show some particular characteristics when compared with secondary schools.
Bezieling en Professionaliteit | 01-03-2023Betrouwbaar partnerschap tussen religieuze organisaties en lokaal bestuur
Dit artikel presenteert een casestudy naar de samenwerking tussen religieuze organisaties en de gemeentelijke overheid in het sociaal domein. Vanwege transities in het sociaal domein zijn gemeenten sinds 2015 verantwoordelijk voor een heel aantal taken die voorheen onder de rijksoverheid en de provincie vielen. Daarmee betreden gemeenten nadrukkelijker het lokale ‘maatschappelijk middenveld’ met zijn religieuze veelkleurigheid. Hoe doen gemeenten dat?
Bezieling en Professionaliteit | 01-03-2023De nutteloosheid van rust
Een kleine tien jaar geleden publiceerde ik in Wapenveld mijn eerste beschouwing over de prestatiemaatschappij. Het was het begin van een decennium nadenken, schrijven en spreken over een thema dat mijzelf en vele tijdgenoten onder de huid zit: prestatiedruk, onrust en stress. Het artikel destijds was grotendeels een beschouwing van de maatschappelijke en culturele achtergronden en sloot af met het vermoeden dat de christelijke traditie remedies bevat en een radicaal perspectief geeft op ontspannen leven. In de jaren die volgden ben ik dat vermoeden verder gaan verkennen.
Bezieling en Professionaliteit | 01-02-2023L’Autre Rive, Gembloux / L’Autre Rive: uit de boot durven stappen
In de Waalse provinciestad Gembloux (België) startte Eric Zander samen met anderen een nieuwe geloofsgemeenschap. Na eerdere teleurstellingen wist hij dat allerlei klassieke patronen niet meer werken. De pionierende gemeenschap gooide het over een andere boeg en zo ontstond een weliswaar kleine, maar vitale en naar buiten gerichte geloofsgemeenschap. Zander schrijft erover en vervolgens reflecteren Nadine van Hierden en Sake Stoppels op deze nieuwe gemeenschap.
Zingeving in nieuwe geloofsgemeenschappen | 01-02-2023“Shared care” through instant messaging updates in youth care; an interaction analysis (Post-print)
In this paper we present an analysis of WhatsApp interactions in youth care. In family-style group care young people temporarily live in the family of professional foster parents (PFP), while they regularly visit their birth parents (BPs). Our data consist of instant messaging conversations between 11 pairs of PFPs and BPs during two months. Using Conversation Analysis (CA), we focused on the social interaction between BPs and PFPs, achieved in and through multi-modally constructed sequences of updates - responses. Updates are used by BPs in the context of the transfer from the child from/to the PFP to display responsibility towards the PFP and for the child. Also, PFPs use updates to provide BPs quasi primary access to the experiences of the child, centrally by sending images. Across these functions, we observe specific social actions of BPs and PFPs; while BPs work to display responsibility, PFPs subtly empower BPs as parents.
Pleeg- en Gezinshuiszorg | 22-12-2022Green Ganesha Chaturthi
With the world facing an ecological crisis, Hindus are challenged to reflect on the ways they impact their environment. The last few decades witnessed a rise of theological reflections on Hindu traditions—especially scriptures and concepts (not least by western scholars)—that advocate environmentally friendly perspectives. This stands in sharp contrast with the multiple examples of how Hindu ritual practices cause harm to the environment. Ganesha Chaturthi is a festival that due to the public element of immersion of Ganesha idols, has led to severe pollution of waterbodies. Because of the attention that has been paid to this lately, the festival now calls for ecofriendly alternatives. This article analyses how recently, environmental awareness is ritualized and materialized in the festival of Ganesha Chaturthi. For this, fieldwork was conducted during Ganesha Chaturthi in Chennai and Mumbai in 2022. The focus of the article lies on the ecofriendly material and ritual innovations of the festival—for instance the variety of Ganeshas made of biodegradable materials—and the dynamics of interaction with (alleged) traditions to validate a Green Hindu identity in general and the development of a Green Ganesha in particular.
Leefstijl en Gezondheidsbevordering | 22-12-2022A Twist to Apologetics
In their missionary endeavors, many Christians today may well experience a gap between articulating traditional beliefs (handed down ‘cognitive truths’) and a desire to live as a Christian in their ordinary, daily life, focusing on embodiment, practical action, or doing. This leads to resistance or insecurity with respect to engaging in apologetic dialogue or conversations about being a missionary church. Based on explorative systematic research and field work I propose six lessons for enhancing missional resilience, fitting for the times of transition in which churches in the secular West currently find themselves. This proposal is based on four background perspectives on changing epistemic paradigms and the emerging interest in ‘embodied knowing’ (by Bonnie Miller-McLemore, Stephen Toulmin, Alister McGrath and David Bosch), an epistemological perspective on ‘embodied knowing’ based on the Biblical covenant (by Esther Lightcap Meek), a liturgical perspective (by Nicholas Wolterstorff) and two pioneer perspectives (field research).
Zingeving in nieuwe geloofsgemeenschappen | 07-12-2022Ministers on Salvation: Soteriological Views of Pioneers and Pastors in the Protestant Church in the Netherlands
Missiology has always been inspired by soteriology, that is, Christian views of salvation. However, little is known about the actual soteriological beliefs of missionary practitioners. This article is an explorative qualitative study of soteriological beliefs among Dutch Protestant ministers who work in pioneer settings (N=20) and established churches (N=40). Our research shows that, contrary to what might be expected, these two groups (termed ‘pioneers’ and ‘pastors’) are very much alike with regard to their soteriological beliefs. The majority are convinced of the uniqueness of Jesus, and the connection of salvation with God and/or Jesus – even if this salvation is often expressed in immanent terms. Only two differences have been found between pastors and pioneers. Pioneers experience more challenges in communicating the uniqueness of Christianity and they are more likely to have traditional views of ‘eternal lostness’.
Zingeving in nieuwe geloofsgemeenschappen | 05-12-2022