{"title":"“Wilt u alstublieft mijn gasten zijn?” (Gn 18,3)","authors":"Jeroen Hendrickx","doi":"10.54195/rs.13314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54195/rs.13314","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past decades, Flemish society has evolved from a homogeneous Christian to a post-secular and post-Christian society, characterised by (non-)religious diversity. The growing presence of Islam is probably the most visible example of this evolution. Because the number of Muslim students in Catholic schools, as in state schools, has increased over the past decades, important (pedagogical) questions come to the fore. How can Catholic schools deal with increasing diversity in society, and with the presence of Islam in particular? How can Catholic schools as well as the school subject of Catholic religious education, without giving up their Catholic identity, be hospitable places for staff and pupils from other (non-)religious backgrounds, such as Muslims? The Catholic Dialogue School project and the updated curriculum of Catholic religious education try to formulate an answer to these questions by entering into dialogue with others from the perspective of their Catholic commitment. Respect for identity, the courage to accept and to respect differences, and adopting a hospitable attitude are key words in this endeavour. Both projects, however, are not self-evident, but require a large dose of vigour and creativity, to which everyone can contribute from one’s own (non-)religious commitment. In times of growing polarisation, tension and conflict, the willingness of all involved – Christians, Muslims, atheists... – to open up to a diversity of worldviews and show the will to enter into dialogue with the other in a hospitable manner, is the only way towards a peaceful and tolerant society.","PeriodicalId":286339,"journal":{"name":"Religie & Samenleving","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122969520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Als je moslim bent op een christelijke school...","authors":"Marcel Elsenaar","doi":"10.54195/rs.13315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54195/rs.13315","url":null,"abstract":"In this contribution, the author contemplates his own experiences with ‘teaching about Islam in the classroom’, both as a religious education teacher in protestant-Christian secondary schools and as a consultant of this kind of secondary schools. His experiences lead to insights into the questions rising when more and more students appear to be religious. Does he know enough about Islam? Is he aware of the way knowledge of Islam is presented? What is the purpose of protestant-Christian religious education (RE) in a superdiverse society, and how do the religious background of the school and of the teacher influence this? What knowledge and wisdom can help Muslim students to develop their personal identity and to find their own way in society? From the practical point of view, the curriculum for protestant-Christian RE is developed and adapted to changing circumstances by teachers on a step by step way in schools. However, some more fundamental questions also ask for a new approach of teaching about Islam specifically, and for teaching RE and worldview in general. Three topics are central in the author’s view: (1) the way knowledge is positioned in the curriculum, (2) the idea that students should be seen as subject of learning activities, and (3) the creation of space and safety for a peaceful dialogue about existential questions in a polarised world. In order to further develop a national curriculum in which this kind of topics will be addressed, the cooperation of researchers, teacher-trainers and teachers is required.","PeriodicalId":286339,"journal":{"name":"Religie & Samenleving","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123609189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"De kerkelijke Laeyendecker","authors":"Brian Heffernan","doi":"10.54195/rs.12438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54195/rs.12438","url":null,"abstract":"Leo Laeyendecker was not just a renowned sociologist, he was also a prominent voice in late-twentieth-century Dutch Catholicism, first as an Augustinian priest and then as a progressive public intellectual. This article offers a biographical sketch of the Catholic Laeyendecker, and focuses specifically on his performance of the roles of priest-scientist and Catholic public intellectual. He became a sociologist at the behest of his superiors, who hoped he would be able to assist church leadership with scientifically sound policy advice. But once he had completed his training, his objective as a priest-scientist was to use sociological analyses to convince his fellow friars and Catholics that the realities of modernity militated for church renewal. As a public intellectual, he continued to advocate a progressive agenda in an era in which church leaders were retreating from the specific reformist stance of their predecessors. This new context prompted another change of role, from that of a voice within the wider church community to that of theorist of its progressive wing.","PeriodicalId":286339,"journal":{"name":"Religie & Samenleving","volume":"5 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130433978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bert Laeyendecker als maatschappijcriticus","authors":"H. Noordegraaf","doi":"10.54195/rs.12439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54195/rs.12439","url":null,"abstract":"In the first stage of his scholarly career Bert Laeyendecker was involved in sociology of religion and church. However from the seventies he also directed himself towards a critical study of society. In this article his main writings in this field are described and analysed. In these writings he focused himself on a macro-sociological analysis of modernisation and modernity. He used two methodological approaches, a historical sociological approach that was strongly influenced by Max Weber and an analysis that was rooted in the social system approach of Niklas Luhmann. According to Luhmann, modernisation and modernity are characterized by differentiation of segments of society such as science, economy and technology. These subsystems got a dynamic with their own orientation and goals. This complex of differentiated subsystems has made an improvement of life in Western society possible, but has a one-sidedness that causes problems like destruction of environment and social inequality. For that reason a fundamental adjustment is necessary. However, that dynamic can hardly be influenced because systems for a great part have a life of their own. Laeyendecker was pessimistic about the possibilities of fundamental changes, but because of the calling for human responsibility humanity has a task to try to accomplish as much as possible. In the course of the article Laeyendeckers view on the sense of utopian thinking, on postmodernity and on the position of university and churches are dealt with.","PeriodicalId":286339,"journal":{"name":"Religie & Samenleving","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126538767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bert Laeyendecker als docent","authors":"G. Engbersen","doi":"10.54195/rs.12442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54195/rs.12442","url":null,"abstract":"In this article the author deals with Laeyendecker as teacher at the Sociological Institute Leiden. He studied in that time at that institute. Laeyendecker was an outstanding teacher who was able to explain the richness of sociology’s theoretical pluralism, and to show convincingly that sociology is a thoroughly social phenomenon. He was a very gifted orator with which he could enchant the audience of students.","PeriodicalId":286339,"journal":{"name":"Religie & Samenleving","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133804601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bert Laeyendecker als vriend","authors":"D. Koelega","doi":"10.54195/rs.12443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54195/rs.12443","url":null,"abstract":"In this contribution the author gives some impressions of Bert Laeyendecker as friend. These are connected with a period of nearly forty years. In the first period (the eighties) the author was living in Laeyendecker’s apartment at Leiden and so he met him regularly. In the second period, in the nineties, he was working at the MCKS (Multidisciplinair Centrum voor Kerk en Samenleving) of which Laeyendecker was director (1989-1991). Laeyendecker was also his co-promotor when writing on his dissertation and they both were member of a commission for advise on biotechnology. The third period was the last period of Laeyendeckers life (2002- 2020) in which there were more informal relations of friendship.","PeriodicalId":286339,"journal":{"name":"Religie & Samenleving","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121283063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In het teken van verandering en kritiek","authors":"S. Hellemans","doi":"10.54195/rs.12437","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54195/rs.12437","url":null,"abstract":"The work of the Dutch sociologist Leo Laeyendecker (1930-2020), centered as it is on the critical analysis of change, can be seen as exemplary for the generation which came to dominate sociology for several decades from the 1960s onwards. Laeyendecker wrote extensively on many topics, mostly in Dutch. In his theoretical sociology, he pleaded for theories of conflict and social change and concluded that a genuine pluralism of theories and paradigms was unavoidable – see, in particular, Sociale Verandering (1984a). In his essayistic work, he advocated a critical theory of modernity and modernization. In his sociology of religion, especially in his early major work Religie en conflict (1967a), he stressed the need for intra-church pluralism and the internal regulation of conflicts between divergent ecclesiastical groups. Later on, while this did not happen in the Catholic church, he sharply criticized its authoritarian, ‘anti-modern’ stance, which, according to Laeyendecker, is responsible for the steep decline of the Church and the alienation of the Catholic rank and file – see here, among others, Om de beheersing van het charisma (1993). In a time of flowering sociology, Laeyendecker believed in its power to disclose the inner dynamics of society and the Catholic church and to help change them for the better.","PeriodicalId":286339,"journal":{"name":"Religie & Samenleving","volume":"137 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133043930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Met hart en ziel. Socioloog én katholiek","authors":"M. A. Thung","doi":"10.54195/rs.12440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54195/rs.12440","url":null,"abstract":"Author, Mady Thung, reflects on work and life of her husband Bert Laeyendecker. Laeyendecker was for a long time a leading sociologist in the Netherlands. Not only was he productive in the field of general sociology and sociology of religion, but also in broader subjects such as: modernity, modern culture, science and technology. Furthermore he was active in scientific associations, editorial boards and assessment committees. Because of this broad range of interest, after having described the first stages of his life and his active involvement in critical movements aiming at renewal of the Roman Catholic Church and his work as a professor in general sociology, she concentrates on his research projects dated from the period when they both participated in the work of the Multidisciplinair Centrum voor Kerk en Samenleving (the Multidisciplinary Center for Church and Society). Central themes of research, resulting in many publications, were (among others) critical analyses of the Western culture, and the concept of progress. Next to that Laeyendecker also published about the (mostly inadequate) reactions of the churches in the Netherlands (in particular the Roman Catholic Church) on changes in society after World War II and new religious consciousness. Although Laeyendecker noted that the Christian tradition has lost significant credibility, especially in its presentday rigid Roman Catholic form, the historical origin of that tradition remained important to him.\u0000*Oorspronkelijk verschenen in de vriendenbundel Homo Prudens. Religie, cultuur en wetenschap in de moderne samenleving. Redactie André Köbben, Karel Dobbelaere, Joep de Hart en Lambert van Gelder, Leende 2000, 210-225.","PeriodicalId":286339,"journal":{"name":"Religie & Samenleving","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121048827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evolvi, Julia. 2019. Blogging My Religion. Secular, Muslim, and Catholic Media Spaces in Europe.","authors":"F. Bosman","doi":"10.54195/rs.11790","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54195/rs.11790","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":286339,"journal":{"name":"Religie & Samenleving","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132257305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Klomp, Mirella. 2020. Playing On. Restaging the Passion after the Death of God.","authors":"S. Gärtner","doi":"10.54195/rs.11794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54195/rs.11794","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":286339,"journal":{"name":"Religie & Samenleving","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117199583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}