Mariecke Van Den Berg
Biographic Data
| ID | 3811887 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mariecke Van Den Berg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mariecke Van Den |
| FAMILY NAME | Berg |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DEN BERG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud Universiteit en Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9734-7497 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Roundtable
In Religion and Gender ’s fifteenth year, this roundtable piece by the editors reflects on our history and the times in which we are working. The piece responds to three questions: 1) How has the scholarly field developed during the first fifteen years of Religion and Gender ? 2) How can we respond to the current economic and political context? 3) What challenges and opportunities does the future hold for religion and gender scholarship, and for …
Yawning in the face of God
Although the potential of boredom has been part of the Christian tradition from its very beginning, the experience of boredom among adult believers has often been stigmatized or silenced. In this paper I explore the ‘politics of boredom’, suggesting that the experience of boredom within faith communities may be a form of minority stress, indicating that sub-groups do not find themselves represented in the shared narrative and practice. I argue th…
Scripting Religious and Gender Transformation in the Media
Contains fulltext : 308623.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)
Producing Authenticity, Difference and Extremism
In this article, we explore the framing of religious converts by Dutch and Flemish newspapers in the period 1991–2017. We focus on the differences and commonalities in ways of talking about religious conversions to Christianity and Islam. Our approach is to probe the ‘figure’ of the convert: How is the religious convert framed and understood? We present a typology of figures of the religious convert emerging from our material, including the ‘auth…
Ondertussen in de schuilhut
This article is a slightly revised version of the author’s inaugural lecture, held on 12 November 2021 at Radboud University in Nijmegen, upon accepting the chair of Feminism and Christianity (Catharina Halkes Chair). It uses the shelter as a metaphor to think about the position of gendered, sexual, and racial minorities within Christian traditions. The argument departs from a seemingly off-hand remark in a church report on the position of LGBTIQ…
Public Discourses About Homosexuality and Religion in Europe and Beyond
Advancing an understanding of the body amid transition from a military life
In this article, we explore the process of transitions from a military life to a civilian life. Making use of the concepts offered by Dialogical Self Theory, we explore how individuals negotiate the acquisition of new, civilian identities by integrating different, sometimes conflicting, cultural I-positions. Moreover, in this article, we explore how this narrative process is reflected through embodied processes of becoming civilian. We do so by p…
Indecent Calvinists and Vanilla Secularism
Using Althaus-Reid’s Indecent Theology as a methodology, this article contributes to reflections on the contextuality and physical dimension of Dutch theology: its relation to the Protestant white (mostly male) bodies of its practitioners and its support of and contributions to colonial power and colonial racializing discourse. We do this in a context of a ‘return to decency’ in political discourse in which ‘our’ Calvinist roots are evoked to con…
Religion, Gender, and Body Politics
n Contains fulltext :\n 203144.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n \n Contains fulltext :\n 203144pub.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Pride Parades and/or Prayer Processions
In post-Yugoslav countries, national identity seems to be increasingly defined by the formulation of a traditional discourse on sexuality and gender, culminating in a growing interference of religious institutions with national debates and policies on lgbt -rights. In this paper we aim to gain more insight into the discursive effects of such sexual nationalist discourse by exploring responses of the Serbian Orthodox Church to the 2014 Belgrade Pr…
Producing Authenticity, Difference and Extremism
In this article, we explore the framing of religious converts by Dutch and Flemish newspapers in the period 1991–2017. We focus on the differences and commonalities in ways of talking about religious conversions to Christianity and Islam. Our approach is to probe the ‘figure’ of the convert: How is the religious convert framed and understood? We present a typology of figures of the religious convert emerging from our material, including the ‘auth…
Pride Parades and/or Prayer Processions
In post-Yugoslav countries, national identity seems to be increasingly defined by the formulation of a traditional discourse on sexuality and gender, culminating in a growing interference of religious institutions with national debates and policies on lgbt -rights. In this paper we aim to gain more insight into the discursive effects of such sexual nationalist discourse by exploring responses of the Serbian Orthodox Church to the 2014 Belgrade Pr…
Religion, Gender, and Body Politics
n Contains fulltext :\n 203144.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n \n Contains fulltext :\n 203144pub.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Indecent Calvinists and Vanilla Secularism
Using Althaus-Reid’s Indecent Theology as a methodology, this article contributes to reflections on the contextuality and physical dimension of Dutch theology: its relation to the Protestant white (mostly male) bodies of its practitioners and its support of and contributions to colonial power and colonial racializing discourse. We do this in a context of a ‘return to decency’ in political discourse in which ‘our’ Calvinist roots are evoked to con…
Advancing an understanding of the body amid transition from a military life
In this article, we explore the process of transitions from a military life to a civilian life. Making use of the concepts offered by Dialogical Self Theory, we explore how individuals negotiate the acquisition of new, civilian identities by integrating different, sometimes conflicting, cultural I-positions. Moreover, in this article, we explore how this narrative process is reflected through embodied processes of becoming civilian. We do so by p…
Public Discourses About Homosexuality and Religion in Europe and Beyond
Ondertussen in de schuilhut
This article is a slightly revised version of the author’s inaugural lecture, held on 12 November 2021 at Radboud University in Nijmegen, upon accepting the chair of Feminism and Christianity (Catharina Halkes Chair). It uses the shelter as a metaphor to think about the position of gendered, sexual, and racial minorities within Christian traditions. The argument departs from a seemingly off-hand remark in a church report on the position of LGBTIQ…
Producing Authenticity, Difference and Extremism
In this article, we explore the framing of religious converts by Dutch and Flemish newspapers in the period 1991–2017. We focus on the differences and commonalities in ways of talking about religious conversions to Christianity and Islam. Our approach is to probe the ‘figure’ of the convert: How is the religious convert framed and understood? We present a typology of figures of the religious convert emerging from our material, including the ‘auth…
Yawning in the face of God
Although the potential of boredom has been part of the Christian tradition from its very beginning, the experience of boredom among adult believers has often been stigmatized or silenced. In this paper I explore the ‘politics of boredom’, suggesting that the experience of boredom within faith communities may be a form of minority stress, indicating that sub-groups do not find themselves represented in the shared narrative and practice. I argue th…
Scripting Religious and Gender Transformation in the Media
Contains fulltext : 308623.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)
Roundtable
In Religion and Gender ’s fifteenth year, this roundtable piece by the editors reflects on our history and the times in which we are working. The piece responds to three questions: 1) How has the scholarly field developed during the first fifteen years of Religion and Gender ? 2) How can we respond to the current economic and political context? 3) What challenges and opportunities does the future hold for religion and gender scholarship, and for …
Sociology (9 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Sociology of religion (4 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (3 works) · Religious studies (3 works)