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This chapter uses the concepts of trauma and nostalgia to analyze the portrayal of PTSD in homeco... more This chapter uses the concepts of trauma and nostalgia to analyze the portrayal of PTSD in homecoming films. Nostalgia, integral to the study of battle’s psychological effects, has evolved in cultural studies to scrutinize power dynamics in depictions of “home.” This chapter scrutinizes how films depict the relationship between trauma and home. Drawing from Svetlana Boym’s distinction between restorative and reflective nostalgia, the former emphasizes national continuity, while the latter acknowledges gaps and inconsistencies in the concept of “home.” The chapter contends that reflective nostalgia provides a more realistic representation of people with PTSD and offers a more promising portrayal of their path toward “redemption,” wherein veterans navigate their enduring wounds.
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Religie & Samenleving
This article analyzes the photo-exhibition Ecce Homo (1998) by Swedish artist Elisabeth Ohlson Wa... more This article analyzes the photo-exhibition Ecce Homo (1998) by Swedish artist Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin. In Ecce Homo, which depicts twelve moments from the life of Jesus Christ, traditional church art is mixed with the themes and symbols of contemporary LGBT-culture. In the article it is investigated, through a queer focus, whether Ecce Homo has the potential to destabilize the rather strict oppositional pairing of religion and homosexuality in contemporary debates in post-secular societies like Sweden. Based on a discussion of three works (The Annunciation, Palm Sunday and Calvary) it is argued that Ecce Homo connects traditional Christian motives such as the love for one’s neighbor, (self)sacrifice and charity to queer concepts such as the instability of gender and sexuality and the destabilizing potential of ‘darkness’ as an aesthetic theme. As queer and Christian concepts inform each other they are given meaning in relation to each other, thus indeed (for the most part) suggestin...
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Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS), Mar 1, 2018
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The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Gender and Society, 2021
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This thesis deals with the strategies by which lesbian women in the (Calvinist Protestant) Reform... more This thesis deals with the strategies by which lesbian women in the (Calvinist Protestant) Reformed Churches deal with the seemingly contradictory identity of being both Christian and homosexual. From a feminist cultural studies perspective, this thesis is an ethnographic study of the lives and contexts of these women. It deals, first, with the theological discourses that have introduced within the context of Reformed theology a general norm by which homosexual identity is accepted, but homosexual behaviour is condemned. Secondly, through a series of interviews this thesis brings to the fore the often creative ways by which lesbian women negotiate their position within a religious environment that often restricts and disciplines their (sexual) freedom, and that is often characterised by a strong focus on male (homo)sexuality and experience. Within this thesis theoretical approaches and methods are used from gender studies, queer studies and - theology and gay and lesbian studies and - theology
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Religion in Times of Crisis, 2014
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Wondermooi, zoals U mij gemaakt hebt. Handreiking voor gelovige transgender personen en werkers in de kerk, 2019
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Religious and Sexual Nationalisms in Central and Eastern Europe, 2015
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Religious and Sexual Nationalisms in Central and Eastern Europe, 2015
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Religion and Gender
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Transforming Bodies and Religions
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Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies
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Using Althaus-Reid’s Indecent Theology as a methodology, this article contributes to reflections ... more 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 construct a ‘shared’ past. Using two case studies, we analyse how the in/decent is constructed in the Netherlands. As secularism is more ‘vanilla’ and Calvinism more indecent than is usually assumed, engagement with indecent texts and untidy roots of Calvinism is needed to re-member both the violent character of Calvinist hermeneutics, as well as its potential for indecent readings.
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Journal of Empirical Theology, Nov 24, 2015
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This volume is the outcome of the intensive collaboration of the authors, who for years have been meeting regularly in Utrecht, the Netherlands, to discuss themes related to religion and ‘the challenge of difference’, with an added afterword by Prof. Pamela Klassen from the University of Toronto. The book is divided in three subsections that focus on particular types of embodiment: body politics in governmental and NGO organisations; the role of the body in literary and/or autobiographical narratives; and ethnographic case studies of bodies in daily life.
Doing so, it provides an innovative exploration of contemporary religion and the body. It will, therefore, be of great interest to scholars of Religious Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Post-Colonial Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Theology, and Philosophy.