Jos De Kock
Biographic Data
| ID | 166700 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jos De Kock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jos |
| FAMILY NAME | De Kock |
| SIGNATURE | DE KOCK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Evangelical Theological Faculty |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4784-2788 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Religion and Spiritual Development in Youth Care: A Literature Review
Currently, there is a lack of sufficient research regarding spirituality in the lives of young people in youth care contexts. In this study, youth care refers to various forms of either voluntary or mandatory support and care for young people (children and teenagers) and their educators for growing-up problems, parenting problems, and psychological, psychosocial, and behavioral problems or intellectual disabilities. The available research is not …
Christian Digital Faith Formation Among Young Adults: A Literature Review
This report presents the results of a systematic literature review study on the main theories at the basis of practices of digital faith formation among young adults (aged 18–25) and the outcomes that might be expected from digital faith formation strategies. The review is based on scholarly works in peer-reviewed journals regarding the main subject published from 1994 to 2024. Twenty-two journal articles were selected for review, and the discuss…
A rich palette of Bible use: A theoretical and empirical contribution from the context of Protestant Christian primary schools in the Netherlands
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…
Leadership in Theological Education in the Time of Coronavirus
This contribution offers a reflection on the theme of religious educational leadership (REL) at a time when the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is gripping society. The main question that guides the contribution is: How does one practice REL in theological education during COVID-19 and its accompanying measures? In answering this question, the author reflects on his own experiences as a rector on a theological faculty in Belgium and brings these …
‘It is never good. Really, it’s just never good’: A dominant theme in the life story accounts of strictly Reformed-raised emerging adults about their religious identity development
This article presents a striking finding of our research into the religious identity commitments and process of religious identity development of emerging adults who grew up in strictly Reformed contexts in the Netherlands. We observed a recurrent theme in the life story accounts we studied. Almost all the participants expressed that they feel or felt not good enough for God or believers within strictly Reformed contexts. In this article, we expl…
A rich palette of Bible use: A theoretical and empirical contribution from the context of Protestant Christian secondary schools in the Netherlands
How the Bible functions in (Christian) education in the international discourse on religious education, particularly in the Dutch context, has rarely been empirically investigated. The purpose of this article is to gain insight into how the Bible is functioning in the context of Protestant secondary schools in the Netherlands. In addition to providing a theoretical account, it presents the results of an empirical, explorative, and qualitative stu…
Influencing Contextual Factors in the Religious Identity Development of Strict Reformed-Raised Emerging Adults in The Netherlands
Religious identity development is highly influenced by contexts. This influence is even more powerful for young people who grew up in strict religious contexts because of the prominence of orthodox beliefs and practices in everyday life. This article presents which contextual factors were influential on the religious identity development of 18 emerging adults who grew up in strict Reformed contexts in the Netherlands. Moreover, it presents charac…
Religious identity commitments of emerging adults raised in strictly Reformed contexts in the Netherlands
This qualitative study examines the religious identity commitments of 18 emerging adults who grew up in strictly Reformed contexts in the Netherlands. During in-depth narrative interviews with photo elicitation, the participants reflected on who they are and the meaning of religion to their identity. Our thematic data analysis reveals that the participants’ religious identity commitments are diverse and diffuse, although they all were religiously…
Sounds of Children in Worship: Materiality and Liturgical-Ritual Spaces
Bringing together concepts from the fields of material religion and liturgical studies, this article explores how adults and children manage sound-related affordances during worship. The concept of affordances—the possibilities an environment offers a person—is made sensitive to socialization and is related to the concept of liturgical-ritual space. Liturgical-ritual space comes into being through people’s participation in an environment and is t…
Learning in Encounter and Addressing Normativity in Religious Education Faculties/Programs
Working with normative considerations is an important part of empirical research in religious education (RE) and in the formation of practical theologians, in general, and of religious educators in RE faculties/programs, in particular. What does sufficient reflection on normativity look like in teaching religious educators? From a practical theological perspective, directions for working with normativity in RE faculties/programs are provided and …
Learning in encounter and spiritual development in stressful times: A reflection from the perspective of protestant evangelical youth ministry practices in Flanders
This article explains why learning in encounter is a promising approach for current youth ministry practices. In particular, learning in encounter in relationship to spiritual development in the practices of youth ministry in Protestant evangelical faith communities in Flanders (Belgium) is explored focusing on two layers of normativity: (1) the layer of discourses in these practices and (2) the layer of professional theories in these practices. …
Setting the stage for children’s participation in worship practices
How children participate in worship practices is largely determined by adults. Adults set the stage; they shape the physical environment and determine the subject matter. Adults design the format for children’s participation in various forms of worship and the roles adults perform influence the interactions with children. Many different intentions inform these design choices and roles: Intentions revolving around faith, liturgy, community, and ex…
Being Young and Strictly Religious: A Review of the Literature on the Religious Identity Development of Strictly Religious Adolescents
Strictly religious adolescents grow up in highly religious contexts with orthodox beliefs and practices that usually contrast with those of pluralist and secularized societies that can be perceived as promoting unhealthy religious identity development. For these adolescents, religious identity development may be a challenge; however, there seems to be a lack of theoretical and empirical understanding of how these adolescents develop their religio…
I Have Dutch Nationality, But Others Do Not See Me as a Dutchman, of Course”
This interview study examines the attitudes of orthoprax young Muslim adults in the Netherlands toward their context, by distinguishing their perceptions of society and their participation in society. In this study, we discover that orthoprax young Muslim adults oppose themselves to Dutch society and do not feel really connected to it. However, most of the time, they participate in society by having jobs, studying and having friends. We also see …
Being a Church through Religious Learning at the Street Level
How can religious learning-processes found in the missionary context of youth work and the guidance of these learning processes be understood religious-pedagogically? To answer this question, the results of fieldwork carried out in two Dutch cases of Christian youth work outside the church are presented and given religious pedagogical reflection. Religious learning processes appear to be situated in the encounter between youngster and youth worke…
What About Learning in Practical Theological Studies? Toward More Conceptual Clarity
Because learning is an important concept in the reflection on young people in faith practices, practical theological studies on the theme of learning profit from a clarification of the concept of learning. Therefore, current (empirical) research projects conducted by the Dutch Research Centre for Youth, Church, and Culture and educational and religious education literature on learning have been analyzed. The results provide an overview of utilize…
Sources for Religious Identity Development of Orthoprax Muslim Adolescents in the Netherlands
This interview study examines sources for the religious exploration of orthoprax Muslim adolescents in the Netherlands. We use the term sources to emphasize that we are also interested in sources other than parents and other persons. By using our interview guidelines, we succeeded in discovering sources other than persons: for example, specific events and opinions of others in the societal context of the Netherlands. This study also gives insight…
Beyond individualisation: Neo-evangelical lessons for religious socialisation
Young Christians may be less individualised than some widely shared reflections in the literature suggest. Even though their faith may no longer be exclusively or primarily nourished in the traditional institutional contexts of family, school and church, they often prefer their faith being lived and expressed in new forms of sociality such as festivals and virtual communities. The authors describe one particular current in contemporary Christiani…
New learning and choices of secondary school teachers when arranging learning environments
De L'Intérêt des Données Quantitatives ou de L'Emploi du Passé Composé en Espagnol
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New learning and choices of secondary school teachers when arranging learning environments
Sounds of Children in Worship: Materiality and Liturgical-Ritual Spaces
Bringing together concepts from the fields of material religion and liturgical studies, this article explores how adults and children manage sound-related affordances during worship. The concept of affordances—the possibilities an environment offers a person—is made sensitive to socialization and is related to the concept of liturgical-ritual space. Liturgical-ritual space comes into being through people’s participation in an environment and is t…
Sources for Religious Identity Development of Orthoprax Muslim Adolescents in the Netherlands
This interview study examines sources for the religious exploration of orthoprax Muslim adolescents in the Netherlands. We use the term sources to emphasize that we are also interested in sources other than parents and other persons. By using our interview guidelines, we succeeded in discovering sources other than persons: for example, specific events and opinions of others in the societal context of the Netherlands. This study also gives insight…
De L'Intérêt des Données Quantitatives ou de L'Emploi du Passé Composé en Espagnol
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New learning and choices of secondary school teachers when arranging learning environments
Beyond individualisation: Neo-evangelical lessons for religious socialisation
Young Christians may be less individualised than some widely shared reflections in the literature suggest. Even though their faith may no longer be exclusively or primarily nourished in the traditional institutional contexts of family, school and church, they often prefer their faith being lived and expressed in new forms of sociality such as festivals and virtual communities. The authors describe one particular current in contemporary Christiani…
Being a Church through Religious Learning at the Street Level
How can religious learning-processes found in the missionary context of youth work and the guidance of these learning processes be understood religious-pedagogically? To answer this question, the results of fieldwork carried out in two Dutch cases of Christian youth work outside the church are presented and given religious pedagogical reflection. Religious learning processes appear to be situated in the encounter between youngster and youth worke…
What About Learning in Practical Theological Studies? Toward More Conceptual Clarity
Because learning is an important concept in the reflection on young people in faith practices, practical theological studies on the theme of learning profit from a clarification of the concept of learning. Therefore, current (empirical) research projects conducted by the Dutch Research Centre for Youth, Church, and Culture and educational and religious education literature on learning have been analyzed. The results provide an overview of utilize…
Sources for Religious Identity Development of Orthoprax Muslim Adolescents in the Netherlands
This interview study examines sources for the religious exploration of orthoprax Muslim adolescents in the Netherlands. We use the term sources to emphasize that we are also interested in sources other than parents and other persons. By using our interview guidelines, we succeeded in discovering sources other than persons: for example, specific events and opinions of others in the societal context of the Netherlands. This study also gives insight…
I Have Dutch Nationality, But Others Do Not See Me as a Dutchman, of Course”
This interview study examines the attitudes of orthoprax young Muslim adults in the Netherlands toward their context, by distinguishing their perceptions of society and their participation in society. In this study, we discover that orthoprax young Muslim adults oppose themselves to Dutch society and do not feel really connected to it. However, most of the time, they participate in society by having jobs, studying and having friends. We also see …
Setting the stage for children’s participation in worship practices
How children participate in worship practices is largely determined by adults. Adults set the stage; they shape the physical environment and determine the subject matter. Adults design the format for children’s participation in various forms of worship and the roles adults perform influence the interactions with children. Many different intentions inform these design choices and roles: Intentions revolving around faith, liturgy, community, and ex…
Being Young and Strictly Religious: A Review of the Literature on the Religious Identity Development of Strictly Religious Adolescents
Strictly religious adolescents grow up in highly religious contexts with orthodox beliefs and practices that usually contrast with those of pluralist and secularized societies that can be perceived as promoting unhealthy religious identity development. For these adolescents, religious identity development may be a challenge; however, there seems to be a lack of theoretical and empirical understanding of how these adolescents develop their religio…
Learning in Encounter and Addressing Normativity in Religious Education Faculties/Programs
Working with normative considerations is an important part of empirical research in religious education (RE) and in the formation of practical theologians, in general, and of religious educators in RE faculties/programs, in particular. What does sufficient reflection on normativity look like in teaching religious educators? From a practical theological perspective, directions for working with normativity in RE faculties/programs are provided and …
Learning in encounter and spiritual development in stressful times: A reflection from the perspective of protestant evangelical youth ministry practices in Flanders
This article explains why learning in encounter is a promising approach for current youth ministry practices. In particular, learning in encounter in relationship to spiritual development in the practices of youth ministry in Protestant evangelical faith communities in Flanders (Belgium) is explored focusing on two layers of normativity: (1) the layer of discourses in these practices and (2) the layer of professional theories in these practices. …
A rich palette of Bible use: A theoretical and empirical contribution from the context of Protestant Christian secondary schools in the Netherlands
How the Bible functions in (Christian) education in the international discourse on religious education, particularly in the Dutch context, has rarely been empirically investigated. The purpose of this article is to gain insight into how the Bible is functioning in the context of Protestant secondary schools in the Netherlands. In addition to providing a theoretical account, it presents the results of an empirical, explorative, and qualitative stu…
Influencing Contextual Factors in the Religious Identity Development of Strict Reformed-Raised Emerging Adults in The Netherlands
Religious identity development is highly influenced by contexts. This influence is even more powerful for young people who grew up in strict religious contexts because of the prominence of orthodox beliefs and practices in everyday life. This article presents which contextual factors were influential on the religious identity development of 18 emerging adults who grew up in strict Reformed contexts in the Netherlands. Moreover, it presents charac…
Religious identity commitments of emerging adults raised in strictly Reformed contexts in the Netherlands
This qualitative study examines the religious identity commitments of 18 emerging adults who grew up in strictly Reformed contexts in the Netherlands. During in-depth narrative interviews with photo elicitation, the participants reflected on who they are and the meaning of religion to their identity. Our thematic data analysis reveals that the participants’ religious identity commitments are diverse and diffuse, although they all were religiously…
Sounds of Children in Worship: Materiality and Liturgical-Ritual Spaces
Bringing together concepts from the fields of material religion and liturgical studies, this article explores how adults and children manage sound-related affordances during worship. The concept of affordances—the possibilities an environment offers a person—is made sensitive to socialization and is related to the concept of liturgical-ritual space. Liturgical-ritual space comes into being through people’s participation in an environment and is t…
‘It is never good. Really, it’s just never good’: A dominant theme in the life story accounts of strictly Reformed-raised emerging adults about their religious identity development
This article presents a striking finding of our research into the religious identity commitments and process of religious identity development of emerging adults who grew up in strictly Reformed contexts in the Netherlands. We observed a recurrent theme in the life story accounts we studied. Almost all the participants expressed that they feel or felt not good enough for God or believers within strictly Reformed contexts. In this article, we expl…
A rich palette of Bible use: A theoretical and empirical contribution from the context of Protestant Christian primary schools in the Netherlands
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…
Leadership in Theological Education in the Time of Coronavirus
This contribution offers a reflection on the theme of religious educational leadership (REL) at a time when the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is gripping society. The main question that guides the contribution is: How does one practice REL in theological education during COVID-19 and its accompanying measures? In answering this question, the author reflects on his own experiences as a rector on a theological faculty in Belgium and brings these …
Christian Digital Faith Formation Among Young Adults: A Literature Review
This report presents the results of a systematic literature review study on the main theories at the basis of practices of digital faith formation among young adults (aged 18–25) and the outcomes that might be expected from digital faith formation strategies. The review is based on scholarly works in peer-reviewed journals regarding the main subject published from 1994 to 2024. Twenty-two journal articles were selected for review, and the discuss…
Religion and Spiritual Development in Youth Care: A Literature Review
Currently, there is a lack of sufficient research regarding spirituality in the lives of young people in youth care contexts. In this study, youth care refers to various forms of either voluntary or mandatory support and care for young people (children and teenagers) and their educators for growing-up problems, parenting problems, and psychological, psychosocial, and behavioral problems or intellectual disabilities. The available research is not …
Sociology (15 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Religious Education and Schools (13 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (12 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Pedagogy (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Political science (6 works)