Moved by the Spirit: Sensing the Divine in a Dutch Pentecostal Church

God is disappearing from the Netherlands, according to a 2016 survey. But this is misleading. New religious movements such as Pentecostalism are growing worldwide. For my MA, I made a film about 3 months’ fieldwork in a Dutch Pentecostal community.

Annelise Reid • March 31, 2017

Dinner Time at the ‘Vulture Restaurant’

Feeding vultures with carcasses of dead cows is an innovative way out of two perceived problems in Nepal: how to get rid of unproductive, but still sacred cows, and how to help the endangered vultures to prevent them from going extinct.

Gerard Persoon and Babu Ram Lamichhane • March 21, 2017 • 2 comments

Humour: a threat to society?

The more you think about humour, the more complex it becomes. Humour can be both insulting and complimentary, both escalating and de-escalating, both relaxed and tense. It exploits stereotypes and sweeps them aside. Is humour a potential threat to society?

Kim Molenaar • January 29, 2016 • 1 comment

Beards and holy sites: Competing over True Islam in Kyrgyzstan

Who has the right to wear a beard? Which holy sites are fit for worship? Competition over religious symbols in Kyrgyzstan is deeply intertwined with the political and economic turmoil that has swept the country since the breakdown of the Soviet Union.

Nienke van der Heide • September 08, 2015 • 2 comments

Rock Art in Panna - What does it mean to the people who live there?

Rock art is widely found in caves and along shady parts of the rocky Vindhya hills of Central India, where the Panna Tiger Reserve is located. These are truly beautiful paintings, but what is their significance to the present local community?

Shekhar Kolipaka • July 01, 2015 • 6 comments

All of one place: A Muslim saint, a converted Hindu princess, and a Hindu deity

Ethnic and religious antagonisms are not givens, but the outcome of historical and political processes. Borders, as human-made conveyors of state-oriented conceptual frameworks, play a central role in shaping these.

Erik de Maaker • May 06, 2015 • 1 comment

Pope Francis´ visit to the Philippines: “I have looked into the eyes of God"

No doubt about it: Pope Francis is a superstar. At least in the Philippines. Watching the marching crowds in a country that lacks a strong sense of national identity, it is clear that the visit was a life changing experience for many Filipinos.

Gerard Persoon • January 29, 2015

January: Fieldwork Month

January is traditionally known as the leatherworking month or wolf month, but I spent this January involved in the anthropological tradition of fieldwork, by supervising four groups of students carrying out field research on De Veluwe.

Henrike Florusbosch • February 06, 2014

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