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Dear Readers, The Religion Factor will be taking a break over the Northern summer and we'll be back in early September with lots more on the intriguing ways religion intersects with politics and public life from all over the world. In the meantime, we thought we'd leave you with our top ten most popular articles …
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Recently, a unique exhibition on the dead sea scrolls has opened in the Drents Museum in Assen, the Netherlands. The exhibition is curated by prof. Dr. Mladen Popovic, director of the Qumran institute in Groningen. The Dead Sea scrolls very rarely travel outside Israel, but they represent one of the major archeological discoveries of the …
In this post, Elske Kroondijk and Erik Meinema consider the increasing influence of market discourses on academic practice, and reflect on the question how scholars and students in the Humanities can engage with this development. On June 25, professor Martha Nussbaum gave a public lecture at the University of Groningen to critically discuss global trends …
Naar aanleiding van de ophef omtrent het verzoek van Tweede Kamer voorzitter Van Miltenburg om de Heilige Geschriften uit de Kamer te laten verwijderen, licht Carine Nijenhuis enkele misvattingen uit rondom de Scheiding tussen Kerk en Staat. Het debat rondom ‘het verwijderen van de religieuze boeken’ uit de Tweede Kamer heeft heel wat stof doen opwaaien afgelopen …
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