Anneke Pons-De Wit
Biographic Data
| ID | 3601877 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anneke Pons-De Wit |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anneke Pons |
| FAMILY NAME | De Wit |
| SIGNATURE | DE WIT A P |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Building Faith
In this book, sociologists Robert Brenneman and Brian J. Miller share the results of their research on the many meanings of religious buildings to those that are related to them. Many well-chosen personal anecdotes from the builders, attenders, and people from the neighborhood certainly add to the readability of the book. The book’s central theme is the power of religious buildings to “shape lives and communities” (7). This theme is elaborated in…
Buildings and Bibles Between Profanization and Sacralization
Based on an ethnographic case study of three recently erected church buildings in the Dutch Bible Belt, this article demonstrates how orthodox Reformed congregations in the Netherlands define church buildings-especially the auditoria-and bibles as simultaneously profane and mediating the sacred. These at first glance ambivalent discourses are informed by a particular semiotic ideology, which maintains that material spaces and objects like these a…
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…
Buildings and Bibles Between Profanization and Sacralization
Based on an ethnographic case study of three recently erected church buildings in the Dutch Bible Belt, this article demonstrates how orthodox Reformed congregations in the Netherlands define church buildings-especially the auditoria-and bibles as simultaneously profane and mediating the sacred. These at first glance ambivalent discourses are informed by a particular semiotic ideology, which maintains that material spaces and objects like these a…
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…
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…
Buildings and Bibles Between Profanization and Sacralization
Based on an ethnographic case study of three recently erected church buildings in the Dutch Bible Belt, this article demonstrates how orthodox Reformed congregations in the Netherlands define church buildings-especially the auditoria-and bibles as simultaneously profane and mediating the sacred. These at first glance ambivalent discourses are informed by a particular semiotic ideology, which maintains that material spaces and objects like these a…
Building Faith
In this book, sociologists Robert Brenneman and Brian J. Miller share the results of their research on the many meanings of religious buildings to those that are related to them. Many well-chosen personal anecdotes from the builders, attenders, and people from the neighborhood certainly add to the readability of the book. The book’s central theme is the power of religious buildings to “shape lives and communities” (7). This theme is elaborated in…
Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works)