Projects
Current and completed research projects, from survey-based studies of religiosity to computational analysis of religious language in public debate.
Religion, Islam and environmental discourse in Europe
A fellowship project at the Center for Religion in the Public Sphere on how religious and Islamic language enters public debate on the environment.
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Elite and Popular Religiosity: a revised edition
A revised and updated edition of the 2018 Leiden doctoral study, written for a broader academic readership.
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Religion as data
Quantitative and computational studies that treat sermons, social media posts and survey responses as data.
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Religion and Climate Change in the Netherlands
Religious and apocalyptic vocabularies in Dutch climate discourse, studied with large-scale social media data.
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CommUnity Project
Lived religion, Islamic communities in Europe, religious diversity and social cohesion.
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MiRaS: Mitigating Radicalization through Self-Empowerment
A project on prevention and self-empowerment among young people.
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Elite and Popular Religiosity among Dutch-Turkish Muslims
A mixed-methods study of the forms and motivations of religiosity, based on fieldwork and a survey of 1,165 respondents.
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