P G A Versteeg
Biographic Data
| ID | 223439 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P G A Versteeg |
| GIVEN NAMES | P G A |
| FAMILY NAME | Versteeg |
| SIGNATURE | VERSTEEG P G A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9450-700X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Restoring the Past, Forging the Present: Scapegoating and Redemption in Calvaire and These Are The Names
This article is a comparison of two works of fiction, a film and a novel, that both address the question of how people deal with intense memories of tragic events from their past. Both works are characterized by crucial references to religious phenomena. In the Belgian cult horror film Calvaire and the bestselling Dutch novel These Are The Names, stories are told about the desire to restore what was lost. In order to deal with past realities, the…
God changes people: Modes of authentication in Evangelical conversion narratives
One of the distinguishing characteristics of Evangelicalism is the conversion story. In this article we focus on the conversion stories of interviewees within the setting of several related Evangelical television programs broadcast in the Netherlands since the 1980s. We argue that the conversion story is construed through a particular view on and practice of authenticity. Thus we see that, in the televised conversion story, modes of authenticatio…
Contextual responses to interreligious encounters online
Increasingly, interreligious encounters occur through internet communication. The debate on the influence of internet communication on interreligious encounters is characterized by a contradiction between the theory of cyber-balkanization on the one hand and the theory of networked religion on the other. However, neither theory is contextualized and neither can therefore explain why an interreligious encounter results in either interreligious con…
Inventing a Saint: Religious Fiction in Post-Communist Russia
This article deals with the narrative of a Russian Orthodox priest, Father Arseny—a Soviet era martyr in the eyes of his adherents—whose memories are said to be collected by some of his followers. However, the origins of the story (first published in the 1990s) remain controversial. Russian Orthodox supporters, in conjunction with the translator of Father Arseny's hagiography, have been at the forefront to give credibility to the memory of Father…
Contemporary Spirituality and the Making of Religious Experience: Studying the Social in an Individualized Religiosity
The ‘turn to experience’ has been described as one of the most defining characteristics of contemporary religion. Research on religion, and in particular on spirituality, therefore increasingly concentrates on the description of its experiential dimensions. The turn to experience, however, asks for something more than just the observation that a particular dimension (experience) has become of greater value for practitioners of religion. Dimension…
Can we dance in this place?”: Body Practices and Forms of Embodiment in Four Decades of Dutch Evangelical Youth Events
This article describes the developments of the EO Youth Day, a Dutch Christian mass event that attracts thousands of young people every year. It is argued that in the course of time, the EO Youth Day has changed from a modest and sober event characterized by a Calvinist outlook to an expressive 'hip' event with an evangelical swing. This change becomes especially visible when the first versions of the EO Youth Day in the 1970s are compared with m…
Why Participation Matters to Understand Ritual Experience
Two cases in which researchers take part in religious ritual show how being a participant enhances the researcher’s understanding of what is happening. Through these cases the authors attempt to shed light on the methodological problems concerning the “intersubjectivity” of research on ritual. Ritual goes beyond the verbal and pulls bodily sensations, emotion and gestures into the domain of intersubjectivity established through fieldwork. Experie…
Liminoid religion: Ritual practice in alternative spirituality in the Netherlands
Alternative spirituality can be seen as a particular form of religious practice related to processes of de-traditionalisation and deinstitutionalisation. Although often regarded as a western, secularised phenomenon, such alternative forms of spirituality are becoming increasingly popular among the middle classes worldwide and in the Netherlands in particular. In this article I look at the distinction between institutional religion and spiritualit…
L'évolution liturgique comme réponse à la sécularisation: Le cas de deux Églises protestantes aux Pays-Bas
L'auteur de l'article se penche sur les rapports entre la sécularisation et l'incertitude rituelle en comparant entre deux Églises protestantes néerlandaises. Il soutient que les liturgies ne sont pas nécessairement le reflet de processus sociaux plus larges et que leur forme résulte plutôt d'une dynamique ecclésiale interne. Par ailleurs, au niveau des croyances, l'incertitude provoquee par la contestation de la valeur de la foi chrétienne est u…
Assessing Phenomenology in Anthropology: Lessons from the Study of Religion and Experience
■ How did phenomenology inspire anthropology to re-evaluate its principal method: participant observation? This question is answered by exploring how phenomenology has contributed to the anthropological study of religion. The focus in this field is not only on the way people perceive but also how they experience the world. This allows for a view that does not treat experience of the world separately from cognition of the world. Religion can thus …
A Typology Of Domestication In Exorcism
In this article the authors develop a typology that maps the way in which contemporary exorcist practices become ‘domesticated’. The typology is based on a comparison of Dutch charismatic Christians and Brazilian Spiritists, two religious contexts in which dealing with evil spirits takes a central place. The typology makes clear that the discourses surrounding demons and exorcism, including the medical discourse, are made up of different practica…
The Study of Religion in Departament of Social and Cultural Anthropology Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
The authcrs of this artic analy the trajectory and the conterrporary moment of a group of profsors and reseamhers in Anthiopolcgy of Religion at the Departmmt of Social Anthropology at Free University of Amsterdam. They elabcrate a brief histcry of the constitution of the group in secord half of the Century in the decades of 1960 and 1970, the field resrch were devebped in different loca in the world, with theomtical marks also different. Nowaday…
O Estudo Da Religião No Departamento De Antropologia Social E Cultural Da Vrje Universiteit Em Amsterdã
Os autores neste artigo analisam a trajetó ria e o momento atual de um grupo de professores e pesquisadores em Antropologia da Religião radicado no departamento de Antropologia Social da Universidade Livre de Amsterdã . Fizeram uma breve Historia da constituição do grupo na segunda metade do século XX. Nas décadas de 1960 e 1970, as pesquisas de campo eram desenvolvidas em varias lugares do mundo, com marcos teóricos igualmente diversos. Atualmen…
A Prophetic Outsider: Experience and the Boundaries of Meaning in a Local Vineyard Church
Marginal Christian Spirituality: An Example from a Dutch Meditation Group
Spirituality is one of the forms of religion that seems to thrive in secularised Western societies. It has become an umbrella term for a variety of experience-oriented religious practices in Western societies. The popularity of spirituality is clearly visible within Christian settings, both inside and outside churches. This paper explores the nature of 'marginal' Christian spirituality, i.e. Christian spirituality outside the churches, through a …
Society for the Anthropology of Religion
Assessing Phenomenology in Anthropology: Lessons from the Study of Religion and Experience
■ How did phenomenology inspire anthropology to re-evaluate its principal method: participant observation? This question is answered by exploring how phenomenology has contributed to the anthropological study of religion. The focus in this field is not only on the way people perceive but also how they experience the world. This allows for a view that does not treat experience of the world separately from cognition of the world. Religion can thus …
Contemporary Spirituality and the Making of Religious Experience: Studying the Social in an Individualized Religiosity
The ‘turn to experience’ has been described as one of the most defining characteristics of contemporary religion. Research on religion, and in particular on spirituality, therefore increasingly concentrates on the description of its experiential dimensions. The turn to experience, however, asks for something more than just the observation that a particular dimension (experience) has become of greater value for practitioners of religion. Dimension…
Liminoid religion: Ritual practice in alternative spirituality in the Netherlands
Alternative spirituality can be seen as a particular form of religious practice related to processes of de-traditionalisation and deinstitutionalisation. Although often regarded as a western, secularised phenomenon, such alternative forms of spirituality are becoming increasingly popular among the middle classes worldwide and in the Netherlands in particular. In this article I look at the distinction between institutional religion and spiritualit…
Marginal Christian Spirituality: An Example from a Dutch Meditation Group
Spirituality is one of the forms of religion that seems to thrive in secularised Western societies. It has become an umbrella term for a variety of experience-oriented religious practices in Western societies. The popularity of spirituality is clearly visible within Christian settings, both inside and outside churches. This paper explores the nature of 'marginal' Christian spirituality, i.e. Christian spirituality outside the churches, through a …
God changes people: Modes of authentication in Evangelical conversion narratives
One of the distinguishing characteristics of Evangelicalism is the conversion story. In this article we focus on the conversion stories of interviewees within the setting of several related Evangelical television programs broadcast in the Netherlands since the 1980s. We argue that the conversion story is construed through a particular view on and practice of authenticity. Thus we see that, in the televised conversion story, modes of authenticatio…
A Typology Of Domestication In Exorcism
In this article the authors develop a typology that maps the way in which contemporary exorcist practices become ‘domesticated’. The typology is based on a comparison of Dutch charismatic Christians and Brazilian Spiritists, two religious contexts in which dealing with evil spirits takes a central place. The typology makes clear that the discourses surrounding demons and exorcism, including the medical discourse, are made up of different practica…
Can we dance in this place?”: Body Practices and Forms of Embodiment in Four Decades of Dutch Evangelical Youth Events
This article describes the developments of the EO Youth Day, a Dutch Christian mass event that attracts thousands of young people every year. It is argued that in the course of time, the EO Youth Day has changed from a modest and sober event characterized by a Calvinist outlook to an expressive 'hip' event with an evangelical swing. This change becomes especially visible when the first versions of the EO Youth Day in the 1970s are compared with m…
Why Participation Matters to Understand Ritual Experience
Two cases in which researchers take part in religious ritual show how being a participant enhances the researcher’s understanding of what is happening. Through these cases the authors attempt to shed light on the methodological problems concerning the “intersubjectivity” of research on ritual. Ritual goes beyond the verbal and pulls bodily sensations, emotion and gestures into the domain of intersubjectivity established through fieldwork. Experie…
Contextual responses to interreligious encounters online
Increasingly, interreligious encounters occur through internet communication. The debate on the influence of internet communication on interreligious encounters is characterized by a contradiction between the theory of cyber-balkanization on the one hand and the theory of networked religion on the other. However, neither theory is contextualized and neither can therefore explain why an interreligious encounter results in either interreligious con…
Society for the Anthropology of Religion
A Prophetic Outsider: Experience and the Boundaries of Meaning in a Local Vineyard Church
Marginal Christian Spirituality: An Example from a Dutch Meditation Group
Spirituality is one of the forms of religion that seems to thrive in secularised Western societies. It has become an umbrella term for a variety of experience-oriented religious practices in Western societies. The popularity of spirituality is clearly visible within Christian settings, both inside and outside churches. This paper explores the nature of 'marginal' Christian spirituality, i.e. Christian spirituality outside the churches, through a …
A Typology Of Domestication In Exorcism
In this article the authors develop a typology that maps the way in which contemporary exorcist practices become ‘domesticated’. The typology is based on a comparison of Dutch charismatic Christians and Brazilian Spiritists, two religious contexts in which dealing with evil spirits takes a central place. The typology makes clear that the discourses surrounding demons and exorcism, including the medical discourse, are made up of different practica…
The Study of Religion in Departament of Social and Cultural Anthropology Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
The authcrs of this artic analy the trajectory and the conterrporary moment of a group of profsors and reseamhers in Anthiopolcgy of Religion at the Departmmt of Social Anthropology at Free University of Amsterdam. They elabcrate a brief histcry of the constitution of the group in secord half of the Century in the decades of 1960 and 1970, the field resrch were devebped in different loca in the world, with theomtical marks also different. Nowaday…
O Estudo Da Religião No Departamento De Antropologia Social E Cultural Da Vrje Universiteit Em Amsterdã
Os autores neste artigo analisam a trajetó ria e o momento atual de um grupo de professores e pesquisadores em Antropologia da Religião radicado no departamento de Antropologia Social da Universidade Livre de Amsterdã . Fizeram uma breve Historia da constituição do grupo na segunda metade do século XX. Nas décadas de 1960 e 1970, as pesquisas de campo eram desenvolvidas em varias lugares do mundo, com marcos teóricos igualmente diversos. Atualmen…
L'évolution liturgique comme réponse à la sécularisation: Le cas de deux Églises protestantes aux Pays-Bas
L'auteur de l'article se penche sur les rapports entre la sécularisation et l'incertitude rituelle en comparant entre deux Églises protestantes néerlandaises. Il soutient que les liturgies ne sont pas nécessairement le reflet de processus sociaux plus larges et que leur forme résulte plutôt d'une dynamique ecclésiale interne. Par ailleurs, au niveau des croyances, l'incertitude provoquee par la contestation de la valeur de la foi chrétienne est u…
Assessing Phenomenology in Anthropology: Lessons from the Study of Religion and Experience
■ How did phenomenology inspire anthropology to re-evaluate its principal method: participant observation? This question is answered by exploring how phenomenology has contributed to the anthropological study of religion. The focus in this field is not only on the way people perceive but also how they experience the world. This allows for a view that does not treat experience of the world separately from cognition of the world. Religion can thus …
Liminoid religion: Ritual practice in alternative spirituality in the Netherlands
Alternative spirituality can be seen as a particular form of religious practice related to processes of de-traditionalisation and deinstitutionalisation. Although often regarded as a western, secularised phenomenon, such alternative forms of spirituality are becoming increasingly popular among the middle classes worldwide and in the Netherlands in particular. In this article I look at the distinction between institutional religion and spiritualit…
Contemporary Spirituality and the Making of Religious Experience: Studying the Social in an Individualized Religiosity
The ‘turn to experience’ has been described as one of the most defining characteristics of contemporary religion. Research on religion, and in particular on spirituality, therefore increasingly concentrates on the description of its experiential dimensions. The turn to experience, however, asks for something more than just the observation that a particular dimension (experience) has become of greater value for practitioners of religion. Dimension…
Can we dance in this place?”: Body Practices and Forms of Embodiment in Four Decades of Dutch Evangelical Youth Events
This article describes the developments of the EO Youth Day, a Dutch Christian mass event that attracts thousands of young people every year. It is argued that in the course of time, the EO Youth Day has changed from a modest and sober event characterized by a Calvinist outlook to an expressive 'hip' event with an evangelical swing. This change becomes especially visible when the first versions of the EO Youth Day in the 1970s are compared with m…
Why Participation Matters to Understand Ritual Experience
Two cases in which researchers take part in religious ritual show how being a participant enhances the researcher’s understanding of what is happening. Through these cases the authors attempt to shed light on the methodological problems concerning the “intersubjectivity” of research on ritual. Ritual goes beyond the verbal and pulls bodily sensations, emotion and gestures into the domain of intersubjectivity established through fieldwork. Experie…
Inventing a Saint: Religious Fiction in Post-Communist Russia
This article deals with the narrative of a Russian Orthodox priest, Father Arseny—a Soviet era martyr in the eyes of his adherents—whose memories are said to be collected by some of his followers. However, the origins of the story (first published in the 1990s) remain controversial. Russian Orthodox supporters, in conjunction with the translator of Father Arseny's hagiography, have been at the forefront to give credibility to the memory of Father…
Contextual responses to interreligious encounters online
Increasingly, interreligious encounters occur through internet communication. The debate on the influence of internet communication on interreligious encounters is characterized by a contradiction between the theory of cyber-balkanization on the one hand and the theory of networked religion on the other. However, neither theory is contextualized and neither can therefore explain why an interreligious encounter results in either interreligious con…
God changes people: Modes of authentication in Evangelical conversion narratives
One of the distinguishing characteristics of Evangelicalism is the conversion story. In this article we focus on the conversion stories of interviewees within the setting of several related Evangelical television programs broadcast in the Netherlands since the 1980s. We argue that the conversion story is construed through a particular view on and practice of authenticity. Thus we see that, in the televised conversion story, modes of authenticatio…
Restoring the Past, Forging the Present: Scapegoating and Redemption in Calvaire and These Are The Names
This article is a comparison of two works of fiction, a film and a novel, that both address the question of how people deal with intense memories of tragic events from their past. Both works are characterized by crucial references to religious phenomena. In the Belgian cult horror film Calvaire and the bestselling Dutch novel These Are The Names, stories are told about the desire to restore what was lost. In order to deal with past realities, the…
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