Hans Schilderman
Biographic Data
| ID | 6516766 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hans Schilderman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hans |
| FAMILY NAME | Schilderman |
| SIGNATURE | SCHILDERMAN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0504-0645 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Covid-19, Meaning and Mental Health in Higher Education
The impact of the COVID -19 pandemic is studied among Dutch and German university students and staff, at the inception of the pandemic in April 2020. The effects of conditions of study and work are studied on mental health, while taking into account the adaptive function of meaning and controlling for relevant demographic characteristics. Results indicate that negative experiences of study and work affect various dimensions of mental health and d…
Henk de Roest, Collaborative Practical Theology
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
The search for meaning in later life
Older adults’ life stories are often connected with religious stories. In-depth interviews with 26 older Dutch adults indicate three groups of religious narratives (experiential, ontological, and critical narratives) and three master narratives of aging (active aging, decline, and inner growth). The narrative of aging as inner growth, which strives for a balance between opposites, offers a way out of the polarity between active aging and aging as…
Worldview commitment and narrative foreclosure among older Dutch adults
n Contains fulltext :\n 195694.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Religion and fear of death among older Dutch adults
A qualitative study based on in-depth interviews with 26 older Dutch participants was performed to elucidate the complex relationship between religion and death anxiety. Whereas participants expressed seven types of lived religion (lacking, lost, liminal, loose, learned, lasting, and liquid religion), only participants with loose or lost religion expressed death anxiety. This supports previous research indicating that moderately religious people …
Determining the end of life
In Dutch discourses euthanasia has consecutively been viewed as murder, as mercy offered by medical doctors and as a self-chosen right for older people. This seems to reflect decreasing religious authority over death. Therefore, 26 interviews with Dutch adults aged 79–100 were carried out to evaluate the relationship between religion and attitudes towards euthanasia. Qualitative analysis indicates three groups of participants. Participants in the…
Interpretation and timing of death
Decreasing religious authority and increasing medical interventions at the end-of-life emphasize the importance of the interpretation and timing of death. Therefore, the three-dimensional interpretation of death scale (evaluating religious, rational, and personal interpretation of death) and the three-dimensional attitudes toward medical interventions in the timing of death scale (evaluating euthanasia, life prolongation and nonintervention) were…
Exploring Single and Multiple Religious Belonging
This contribution studies the notion of single and multiple religious belonging in a sample of 265 Dutch respondents. We will first focus on modalities of religious belonging and subsequently compare those who claim to draw from just one religion (the monoreligious) with those who indicate that they combine elements from different religious traditions (the multireligious) in terms of their intensities and styles of belonging, loyalty and mobility…
Death and the search for meaning
The bafflement, suffering and moral paradox that often surround death fuel the human search for meaning. Whereas traditionally religions provided meaning in the face of death, due to secularisation and rationalisation this search for meaning has increasingly become an individual project. We argue that in this process, people derive meaning from death-related cultural affordances. We define these as the opportunities for perception and action that…
Religion as Concept and Measure
This contribution offers an introduction to the volume. The definition and operationalisation of religion is described as a multidisciplinary issue in the changing landscape of academia. One of the problems that theology is confronted with, concerns the fact that religion is being studied from various universes of interpretation that result in a variety of definitions with strong historical roots. While this offers a rich palette for research, it…
Defining Religion A Humanities Perspective
This contribution aims to address the opportunities for empirical theologians to deal with the definitions of religious texts, beliefs, and practices from a humanities perspective. After pinpointing the issue of definition as one, in which interpretation is constitutive, three paragraphs elaborate the discussion of such a humanities approach to religion. Firstly, it is made clear that semiotic analysis offers a method to clarify the significance …
Believing and Belonging in Europe
In this study, we examine which narratives were put forward by key figures of the Dutch reformed pietist community during the COVID-19 pandemic. We analyse sermons and news articles from the period March-November 2020. We find, as expected, a dominant narrative of COVID-19 as God's judgment, a calling to repentance and an event which emphasizes the need for prayer. Although the pandemic was seen as a call by God, the systematic origin of the viru…
Believing and Belonging in Europe
This paper investigates (trends and determinants of) individual combinations of religious believing and belonging in Europe from a cross-national and longitudinal perspective. Individual level data for the period 1981–2007 in 42 countries derived from the European Values Survey and the European Social Survey are harmonised and enriched with contextual characteristics, constituting a more comprehensive data base for Europe than any previous resear…
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…
The Role of Religiosity for Formal and Informal Volunteering in the Netherlands
This paper deals with the question: To what extent do individual religious characteristics, in addition to collective religious characteristics, contribute to the explanation of formal and informal volunteering in the Netherlands at the beginning of the 21st century? To answer this research question, we used the SOCON 2005–2006 dataset. Our main finding concerns informal volunteering: we found that spirituality increases the likelihood of informa…
Salvation goods and religious markets. Theory and applications
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…
Religion
Pastoral Supervision Assessment
This article presents a technique for assessing the pastoral supervision process. First we interpret supervision analytically and clarify its relevance by highlighting a typical problem in pastoral supervision, namely role tension. We then present the self-confrontation method, based on valuation theory, as a means of supervision assessment. Subsequently we illustrate its use by describing a case study of supervision that was analysed using this …
Religion and Emotion
85 HANS SCHILDERMAN RELIGION AND EMOTION Notes on their Relationship Introduction What is the relationship between religion and emotion? I will try to clarify this question while addressing an interesting research report that validates the hypothesis that transcendent religion tends to be associated with positive moods and emotions whereas a literal approach to religion is more often asso- ciated with negative moods and emotions.' Why do distinct…
Professionalising the Shepherds
In this article, we present some results of a survey among Dutch Catholic pastors about their attitudes toward the church and professionalisation. After clarifying attitudes based on theological concepts like authority, apostolicity and local leadership, we examine attitudes towards aims and responsibilities of professionalisation policies. Then we interpret the relationship of the two groups of concepts as a theological legitimation of pastoral …
The Role of Religiosity for Formal and Informal Volunteering in the Netherlands
This paper deals with the question: To what extent do individual religious characteristics, in addition to collective religious characteristics, contribute to the explanation of formal and informal volunteering in the Netherlands at the beginning of the 21st century? To answer this research question, we used the SOCON 2005–2006 dataset. Our main finding concerns informal volunteering: we found that spirituality increases the likelihood of informa…
Believing and Belonging in Europe
This paper investigates (trends and determinants of) individual combinations of religious believing and belonging in Europe from a cross-national and longitudinal perspective. Individual level data for the period 1981–2007 in 42 countries derived from the European Values Survey and the European Social Survey are harmonised and enriched with contextual characteristics, constituting a more comprehensive data base for Europe than any previous resear…
Professionalising the Shepherds
In this article, we present some results of a survey among Dutch Catholic pastors about their attitudes toward the church and professionalisation. After clarifying attitudes based on theological concepts like authority, apostolicity and local leadership, we examine attitudes towards aims and responsibilities of professionalisation policies. Then we interpret the relationship of the two groups of concepts as a theological legitimation of pastoral …
Religion and Emotion
85 HANS SCHILDERMAN RELIGION AND EMOTION Notes on their Relationship Introduction What is the relationship between religion and emotion? I will try to clarify this question while addressing an interesting research report that validates the hypothesis that transcendent religion tends to be associated with positive moods and emotions whereas a literal approach to religion is more often asso- ciated with negative moods and emotions.' Why do distinct…
Pastoral Supervision Assessment
This article presents a technique for assessing the pastoral supervision process. First we interpret supervision analytically and clarify its relevance by highlighting a typical problem in pastoral supervision, namely role tension. We then present the self-confrontation method, based on valuation theory, as a means of supervision assessment. Subsequently we illustrate its use by describing a case study of supervision that was analysed using this …
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…
Religion
Salvation goods and religious markets. Theory and applications
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…
The Role of Religiosity for Formal and Informal Volunteering in the Netherlands
This paper deals with the question: To what extent do individual religious characteristics, in addition to collective religious characteristics, contribute to the explanation of formal and informal volunteering in the Netherlands at the beginning of the 21st century? To answer this research question, we used the SOCON 2005–2006 dataset. Our main finding concerns informal volunteering: we found that spirituality increases the likelihood of informa…
Believing and Belonging in Europe
This paper investigates (trends and determinants of) individual combinations of religious believing and belonging in Europe from a cross-national and longitudinal perspective. Individual level data for the period 1981–2007 in 42 countries derived from the European Values Survey and the European Social Survey are harmonised and enriched with contextual characteristics, constituting a more comprehensive data base for Europe than any previous resear…
Religion as Concept and Measure
This contribution offers an introduction to the volume. The definition and operationalisation of religion is described as a multidisciplinary issue in the changing landscape of academia. One of the problems that theology is confronted with, concerns the fact that religion is being studied from various universes of interpretation that result in a variety of definitions with strong historical roots. While this offers a rich palette for research, it…
Defining Religion A Humanities Perspective
This contribution aims to address the opportunities for empirical theologians to deal with the definitions of religious texts, beliefs, and practices from a humanities perspective. After pinpointing the issue of definition as one, in which interpretation is constitutive, three paragraphs elaborate the discussion of such a humanities approach to religion. Firstly, it is made clear that semiotic analysis offers a method to clarify the significance …
Believing and Belonging in Europe
In this study, we examine which narratives were put forward by key figures of the Dutch reformed pietist community during the COVID-19 pandemic. We analyse sermons and news articles from the period March-November 2020. We find, as expected, a dominant narrative of COVID-19 as God's judgment, a calling to repentance and an event which emphasizes the need for prayer. Although the pandemic was seen as a call by God, the systematic origin of the viru…
Death and the search for meaning
The bafflement, suffering and moral paradox that often surround death fuel the human search for meaning. Whereas traditionally religions provided meaning in the face of death, due to secularisation and rationalisation this search for meaning has increasingly become an individual project. We argue that in this process, people derive meaning from death-related cultural affordances. We define these as the opportunities for perception and action that…
Exploring Single and Multiple Religious Belonging
This contribution studies the notion of single and multiple religious belonging in a sample of 265 Dutch respondents. We will first focus on modalities of religious belonging and subsequently compare those who claim to draw from just one religion (the monoreligious) with those who indicate that they combine elements from different religious traditions (the multireligious) in terms of their intensities and styles of belonging, loyalty and mobility…
Worldview commitment and narrative foreclosure among older Dutch adults
n Contains fulltext :\n 195694.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Religion and fear of death among older Dutch adults
A qualitative study based on in-depth interviews with 26 older Dutch participants was performed to elucidate the complex relationship between religion and death anxiety. Whereas participants expressed seven types of lived religion (lacking, lost, liminal, loose, learned, lasting, and liquid religion), only participants with loose or lost religion expressed death anxiety. This supports previous research indicating that moderately religious people …
Determining the end of life
In Dutch discourses euthanasia has consecutively been viewed as murder, as mercy offered by medical doctors and as a self-chosen right for older people. This seems to reflect decreasing religious authority over death. Therefore, 26 interviews with Dutch adults aged 79–100 were carried out to evaluate the relationship between religion and attitudes towards euthanasia. Qualitative analysis indicates three groups of participants. Participants in the…
Interpretation and timing of death
Decreasing religious authority and increasing medical interventions at the end-of-life emphasize the importance of the interpretation and timing of death. Therefore, the three-dimensional interpretation of death scale (evaluating religious, rational, and personal interpretation of death) and the three-dimensional attitudes toward medical interventions in the timing of death scale (evaluating euthanasia, life prolongation and nonintervention) were…
The search for meaning in later life
Older adults’ life stories are often connected with religious stories. In-depth interviews with 26 older Dutch adults indicate three groups of religious narratives (experiential, ontological, and critical narratives) and three master narratives of aging (active aging, decline, and inner growth). The narrative of aging as inner growth, which strives for a balance between opposites, offers a way out of the polarity between active aging and aging as…
Henk de Roest, Collaborative Practical Theology
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
Covid-19, Meaning and Mental Health in Higher Education
The impact of the COVID -19 pandemic is studied among Dutch and German university students and staff, at the inception of the pandemic in April 2020. The effects of conditions of study and work are studied on mental health, while taking into account the adaptive function of meaning and controlling for relevant demographic characteristics. Results indicate that negative experiences of study and work affect various dimensions of mental health and d…
Sociology (20 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (10 works) · History of religions (9 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (9 works) · Religious studies (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Law (8 works)