Chris A M Hermans
Biographic Data
| ID | 4224842 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris A M Hermans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris A M |
| FAMILY NAME | Hermans |
| SIGNATURE | HERMANS C A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Why God Has Left the Netherlands
Why has the Netherlands witnessed such a strong process of secularization? This article examines this process very extensively. Based on modernization theory, it follows several social cultural developments in Dutch society over the last 50 years and distinguishes between effects on the individual level as well as on the level of society. We are able to do so because of rich data availability, derived from micro-level longitudinal surveys (God in…
Comparison in Religion
How do we build theory on religion in cross-religious research? This article deals with four methodological issues in answering this question. What are the goals of cross-religious comparison? What is the object of cross-religious research? What kind of definition of religion is used in cross-religious comparison? And finally, how can we asses similar phenomena across different religious traditions? The last question is specified by the distincti…
Coming together
According to Charles Taylor, secularisation makes belief in God one option among others, providing people with an immanent frame in which they can understand their lives. In this contribution we explore notions about the origin of bridal couples' relationships from the angle of participants in church marriage rituals. Following Taylor and adopting the time and memory philosophy of Halbwachs and Assman, we come to a conception of temporal perspect…
Citizenship education in religious schools
The question explored in this article is whether religious schools can contribute to the formation of the civic virtues in pupils by means of citizenship education. It is commonly agreed that civic virtues are needed in pluriform Western societies to promote social cohesion and reduce hostile attitudes. However, some argue that religious schools cannot further this process: in such schools pupils do not learn to deal with people from other religi…
Promoting Authoring in Interreligious Classroom Communication
What opportunities are students offered to author themselves as religious persons in interreligious classroom communication? There are two conditions for authoring: (1) allowing for a variety of voices of religion, and (2) stimulating interaction between different voices of religion. Scope for diverse voices of religion depends on the view of religion adopted when promoting the expression of different voices: a canonical, a critical or a global v…
Affected by Ritual. Predictors of Agreement with Church Marriage Rites in The Netherlands
Why do couples opt for a church wedding ritual living in a modern secularized society. Based on the ritual form hypothesis of Lawson and McCauley, the authors identify the specific church wedding rites as special agent rituals and the rites that form the ritual framework of every eucharist or prayer (and communion) services (eucharistic rites) as special instrument rituals. The participants not only distinguished the church wedding rites from the…
Interpreting Religious Pluralism
How do Christians, Muslims and Hindus interpret religions other than their own? The theoretical framework of the research is models of religious pluralism developed by scholars in the field of theology of religions, especially Knitter. The authors pay special attention to pluralistic models, which have so far remained rather unclear. Special attention is paid to gender as a factor influencing levels of agreement with models of religious pluralism…
Towards a Typology of General Aims of Christian Adult Education
This article deals with the variety of general aims of Christian adult education in a pluralist society. The authors propose a theoretical framework of possible aims to Christian adult education. This framework consists of two dimensions: a formal dimension consisting of the goals or orientations of Christian adult education, and a material dimension that concerns the content of the (religious) identity formed by the education process. Based on t…
Remembrance and Hope in Roman Catholic Funeral Rites
In this article the authors focus on Roman Catholic funeral rites, and investigate how the past and future of the deceased are reflected in the attitudes of participants at these funerals. The main question of the article is: In what sense are past and future of the deceased represented in Roman Catholic funerals today, as reflected in the attitudes of participants? Past and future are aspects of memory. According to Jan Assman, rituals have a un…
Children's Interpretation of Biblical Narratives
The understanding of religious language has seldom been an object of empirical research. Only Goldman's research from over 30 years is well known. However, his investigation has been criticised for several reasons. This article presents a proposal for a research design which aims to examine problems which previous endeavours faced. Its empirical verification is provided in the last sections of the paper on the basis of the data collected in a pil…
Why God Has Left the Netherlands
Why has the Netherlands witnessed such a strong process of secularization? This article examines this process very extensively. Based on modernization theory, it follows several social cultural developments in Dutch society over the last 50 years and distinguishes between effects on the individual level as well as on the level of society. We are able to do so because of rich data availability, derived from micro-level longitudinal surveys (God in…
Children's Interpretation of Biblical Narratives
The understanding of religious language has seldom been an object of empirical research. Only Goldman's research from over 30 years is well known. However, his investigation has been criticised for several reasons. This article presents a proposal for a research design which aims to examine problems which previous endeavours faced. Its empirical verification is provided in the last sections of the paper on the basis of the data collected in a pil…
Remembrance and Hope in Roman Catholic Funeral Rites
In this article the authors focus on Roman Catholic funeral rites, and investigate how the past and future of the deceased are reflected in the attitudes of participants at these funerals. The main question of the article is: In what sense are past and future of the deceased represented in Roman Catholic funerals today, as reflected in the attitudes of participants? Past and future are aspects of memory. According to Jan Assman, rituals have a un…
Interpreting Religious Pluralism
How do Christians, Muslims and Hindus interpret religions other than their own? The theoretical framework of the research is models of religious pluralism developed by scholars in the field of theology of religions, especially Knitter. The authors pay special attention to pluralistic models, which have so far remained rather unclear. Special attention is paid to gender as a factor influencing levels of agreement with models of religious pluralism…
Towards a Typology of General Aims of Christian Adult Education
This article deals with the variety of general aims of Christian adult education in a pluralist society. The authors propose a theoretical framework of possible aims to Christian adult education. This framework consists of two dimensions: a formal dimension consisting of the goals or orientations of Christian adult education, and a material dimension that concerns the content of the (religious) identity formed by the education process. Based on t…
Affected by Ritual. Predictors of Agreement with Church Marriage Rites in The Netherlands
Why do couples opt for a church wedding ritual living in a modern secularized society. Based on the ritual form hypothesis of Lawson and McCauley, the authors identify the specific church wedding rites as special agent rituals and the rites that form the ritual framework of every eucharist or prayer (and communion) services (eucharistic rites) as special instrument rituals. The participants not only distinguished the church wedding rites from the…
Coming together
According to Charles Taylor, secularisation makes belief in God one option among others, providing people with an immanent frame in which they can understand their lives. In this contribution we explore notions about the origin of bridal couples' relationships from the angle of participants in church marriage rituals. Following Taylor and adopting the time and memory philosophy of Halbwachs and Assman, we come to a conception of temporal perspect…
Citizenship education in religious schools
The question explored in this article is whether religious schools can contribute to the formation of the civic virtues in pupils by means of citizenship education. It is commonly agreed that civic virtues are needed in pluriform Western societies to promote social cohesion and reduce hostile attitudes. However, some argue that religious schools cannot further this process: in such schools pupils do not learn to deal with people from other religi…
Promoting Authoring in Interreligious Classroom Communication
What opportunities are students offered to author themselves as religious persons in interreligious classroom communication? There are two conditions for authoring: (1) allowing for a variety of voices of religion, and (2) stimulating interaction between different voices of religion. Scope for diverse voices of religion depends on the view of religion adopted when promoting the expression of different voices: a canonical, a critical or a global v…
Comparison in Religion
How do we build theory on religion in cross-religious research? This article deals with four methodological issues in answering this question. What are the goals of cross-religious comparison? What is the object of cross-religious research? What kind of definition of religion is used in cross-religious comparison? And finally, how can we asses similar phenomena across different religious traditions? The last question is specified by the distincti…
Why God Has Left the Netherlands
Why has the Netherlands witnessed such a strong process of secularization? This article examines this process very extensively. Based on modernization theory, it follows several social cultural developments in Dutch society over the last 50 years and distinguishes between effects on the individual level as well as on the level of society. We are able to do so because of rich data availability, derived from micro-level longitudinal surveys (God in…
Sociology (10 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (5 works) · Religious Education and Schools (5 works) · Religious studies (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)