Christoph Jedan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1097426 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christoph Jedan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christoph |
| FAMILY NAME | Jedan |
| SIGNATURE | JEDAN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1562-951X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Funerary Justice
The article uses the case study of funerary provisions for migrants and minorities in mid-sized towns in Northern Europe to argue for a stronger social-ethical agenda in theorizing the postsecular, supplementing the dominant emphasis on descriptive sociological analysis. The article highlights the vulnerability of migrant and minority groups in the exercise of their freedom of funerary ritual expression and representation, and with it threats to …
AI-Inclusivity in Healthcare
This paper motivates institutional epistemic trust as an important ethical consideration informing the responsible development and implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies (or AI-inclusivity) in healthcare. Drawing on recent literature on epistemic trust and public trust in science, we start by examining the conditions under which we can have institutional epistemic trust in AI-inclusive healthcare systems and their members as …
How (not) to let go? Exploring the current ritual repertoire around euthanasia in the Netherlands
Euthanasia is often considered an individual choice, yet the process and the status passages are embedded in three dimensions-medico-legal, ritual, and personal-which are intertwined. This paper explores how individuals and their social circles manage and frame these dimensions and passages with ritual behavior. Using interviews and observations, this study explores the current ritual repertoire in the Netherlands surrounding euthanasia trajector…
Introduction
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
Age-Adapted Wellbeing in a Consolation for Old Age
As part of NTT JTSR’s series on Key Texts, the present article discusses Cicero’s dialogue Cato Maior De Senectute (44 bce). Over the longue durée of western cultural history, the dialogue has been a key cultural reference. Even today, after the rise of modern gerontology, it is frequently cited. However, prevailing interpretations are hard-pressed to offer an even-handed and plausible view of the text. On the one hand, Cicero is presented uncrit…
Proportionate Universalism and Public Health
The article analyses the public health policy brief From Disparity to Potential by the Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR). It argues that the WRR brief presents a distinctive and novel brand of proportionate universalism, a theory proposed by Sir Michael Marmot (2010). The article situates the brief in the wider debate on proportionate universalism and offers an evaluation from an ethical perspective. It argues that the WRR’s ve…
Rules, Norms and Practices – A Comparative Study Exploring Disposal Practices and Facilities in Northern Europe
We identify and analyse practices and management regimes around burial and handling of ashes across eight case study towns within six Northern European countries. We analyse management of cemeteries and crematoria gardens, majority practices and provision for minority communities, including various burial types, cremated remains, the re-use of graves, and costs for interments. Comparative data is drawn from analysis of national and local regulati…
Co-Creating Ritual Spaces and Communities
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 an analysis of cemeteries as ritual spaces, focused on the case study of municipal cemetery Tongerseweg in Maastricht, among the most important monumental cemeteries still in active use in The Netherlands today. Drawing on historical as well as interview material, spatial and ritual studies,…
A New Model of Consolation
This article presents a new model of consolation that identifies five key themes: (1) an appeal to the inner strength of the consoland; (2) the regulation of emotion; (3) the attempt to preserve, re-write, and perfect the life of the deceased or, more generally, a person undergoing a radical psycho-social transition; (4) a 'healing' worldview, in which death has a legitimate place; and (5) reconnection with the community at the different levels o…
Consolationscapes in the Face of Loss
Philosophische Anthropologie in der Antike
Metaphors of Closeness
It is often assumed that a single, diachronically persistent motif of imitating god can be identified in Ancient philosophy and early Christianity. The present article takes issue with this assumption and seeks to establish the conceptual framework for a more sophisticated discussion of homoiôsis . The article identifies eight crucial junctures at which homoiôsis stories can diverge. For all the variance of homoiôsis narratives, the category of i…
Law, natural
“Natural law” denotes a family of theories stemming from Greek and Roman philosophy. Allusions to natural law were included in Roman law as well as in Christian theology. Natural law theories have found considerable resonance in early modern and modern times (historical survey).
Exploring the Postsecular
Contributors Include: Justin Beaumont, James A. Beckford, Luke Bretherton, Paul Cloke, Candice Dias, Wilhelm Grab, Maaike de Haardt, Jason Hackworth, Christoph Jedan, Kim Knott, Michiel Leezenberg, Bernice Martin, David Martin, Gregor McLennan, Arie L. Molendijk, Nihan Ozdemir Sonmez, Martijn Oosterbaan, Andy F. Sanders, Anke Schuster, Hetty Zock.
Co-Creating Ritual Spaces and Communities
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 an analysis of cemeteries as ritual spaces, focused on the case study of municipal cemetery Tongerseweg in Maastricht, among the most important monumental cemeteries still in active use in The Netherlands today. Drawing on historical as well as interview material, spatial and ritual studies,…
Metaphors of Closeness
It is often assumed that a single, diachronically persistent motif of imitating god can be identified in Ancient philosophy and early Christianity. The present article takes issue with this assumption and seeks to establish the conceptual framework for a more sophisticated discussion of homoiôsis . The article identifies eight crucial junctures at which homoiôsis stories can diverge. For all the variance of homoiôsis narratives, the category of i…
Exploring the Postsecular
Contributors Include: Justin Beaumont, James A. Beckford, Luke Bretherton, Paul Cloke, Candice Dias, Wilhelm Grab, Maaike de Haardt, Jason Hackworth, Christoph Jedan, Kim Knott, Michiel Leezenberg, Bernice Martin, David Martin, Gregor McLennan, Arie L. Molendijk, Nihan Ozdemir Sonmez, Martijn Oosterbaan, Andy F. Sanders, Anke Schuster, Hetty Zock.
Law, natural
“Natural law” denotes a family of theories stemming from Greek and Roman philosophy. Allusions to natural law were included in Roman law as well as in Christian theology. Natural law theories have found considerable resonance in early modern and modern times (historical survey).
Philosophische Anthropologie in der Antike
Metaphors of Closeness
It is often assumed that a single, diachronically persistent motif of imitating god can be identified in Ancient philosophy and early Christianity. The present article takes issue with this assumption and seeks to establish the conceptual framework for a more sophisticated discussion of homoiôsis . The article identifies eight crucial junctures at which homoiôsis stories can diverge. For all the variance of homoiôsis narratives, the category of i…
Consolationscapes in the Face of Loss
Co-Creating Ritual Spaces and Communities
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 an analysis of cemeteries as ritual spaces, focused on the case study of municipal cemetery Tongerseweg in Maastricht, among the most important monumental cemeteries still in active use in The Netherlands today. Drawing on historical as well as interview material, spatial and ritual studies,…
A New Model of Consolation
This article presents a new model of consolation that identifies five key themes: (1) an appeal to the inner strength of the consoland; (2) the regulation of emotion; (3) the attempt to preserve, re-write, and perfect the life of the deceased or, more generally, a person undergoing a radical psycho-social transition; (4) a 'healing' worldview, in which death has a legitimate place; and (5) reconnection with the community at the different levels o…
Introduction
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
Age-Adapted Wellbeing in a Consolation for Old Age
As part of NTT JTSR’s series on Key Texts, the present article discusses Cicero’s dialogue Cato Maior De Senectute (44 bce). Over the longue durée of western cultural history, the dialogue has been a key cultural reference. Even today, after the rise of modern gerontology, it is frequently cited. However, prevailing interpretations are hard-pressed to offer an even-handed and plausible view of the text. On the one hand, Cicero is presented uncrit…
Proportionate Universalism and Public Health
The article analyses the public health policy brief From Disparity to Potential by the Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR). It argues that the WRR brief presents a distinctive and novel brand of proportionate universalism, a theory proposed by Sir Michael Marmot (2010). The article situates the brief in the wider debate on proportionate universalism and offers an evaluation from an ethical perspective. It argues that the WRR’s ve…
Rules, Norms and Practices – A Comparative Study Exploring Disposal Practices and Facilities in Northern Europe
We identify and analyse practices and management regimes around burial and handling of ashes across eight case study towns within six Northern European countries. We analyse management of cemeteries and crematoria gardens, majority practices and provision for minority communities, including various burial types, cremated remains, the re-use of graves, and costs for interments. Comparative data is drawn from analysis of national and local regulati…
Funerary Justice
The article uses the case study of funerary provisions for migrants and minorities in mid-sized towns in Northern Europe to argue for a stronger social-ethical agenda in theorizing the postsecular, supplementing the dominant emphasis on descriptive sociological analysis. The article highlights the vulnerability of migrant and minority groups in the exercise of their freedom of funerary ritual expression and representation, and with it threats to …
AI-Inclusivity in Healthcare
This paper motivates institutional epistemic trust as an important ethical consideration informing the responsible development and implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies (or AI-inclusivity) in healthcare. Drawing on recent literature on epistemic trust and public trust in science, we start by examining the conditions under which we can have institutional epistemic trust in AI-inclusive healthcare systems and their members as …
How (not) to let go? Exploring the current ritual repertoire around euthanasia in the Netherlands
Euthanasia is often considered an individual choice, yet the process and the status passages are embedded in three dimensions-medico-legal, ritual, and personal-which are intertwined. This paper explores how individuals and their social circles manage and frame these dimensions and passages with ritual behavior. Using interviews and observations, this study explores the current ritual repertoire in the Netherlands surrounding euthanasia trajector…
Law (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · History (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (4 works) · Politics (4 works)