Research projects

Promotor

• Die Bedeutung spiritueller Influencer im Kontext gesellschaftlicher, religiöser und spiritueller Transformationsprozesse: eine religionswissenschaftliche Perspektive am Beispiel von David Steindl-Rast und Ayya Khema (01/10/2023 - 01/10/2027)
• Decolonizing African Theology: A Critical Reconstruction from the Relation between Faith and Culture in the Work of Bimwenyi Kweshi (01/10/2023 - 01/10/2027)
• The Virgin and the Rose: Dispossession as Feminine Political Theology in Simone Weil and Gillian Rose (01/10/2023 - 01/10/2027)
• To render unto whom? Post-imperial theology, memory and legacy in Bosnia and Herzegovina (01/03/2023 - 01/03/2027)
• The Decolonization of the Roman Catholic Church in the DRC / Zaire (01/10/2022 - 30/09/2026)
• Contextual Arabic Christian Theology in Egypt (01/10/2022 - 01/10/2026)
• You Will Know Them by Their Fruits: Theological Practice and Michel de Certeau (01/10/2022 - 01/10/2026)
• Decolonizing European Theology: Processes of reception and entanglements between Irish und German-speaking theology in the horizon of power-knowledge-correlations (01/10/2022 - 01/10/2026)
• Race and the Project of Distinction in the Study of Religion (01/10/2021 - 31/12/2022)
• The Synodal Church: a miracle solution from a contemporary perspective or not? (01/10/2021 - 31/10/2025)
• Dissenting Church. Developing a critical theological understanding of contestation around normative claims in the Roman Catholic Church and beyond. (01/01/2021 - 31/12/2024)
• Because We Need to Live: Exploring Healing at the Intersections of Trauma and Postcolonial Experience in the ‘War on Drugs’ in the Philippines (01/10/2020 - 01/10/2024)
• Holding to a “Complex” Theology: Rediscovering the Ambiguity of the Christian Tradition through United States Politics and Melchior Cano’s De Locis Theologicis (01/10/2019 - 01/10/2023)
• Constructing religious identity in intercultural Christian encounter Het opbouwen van een religieuze identiteit via interculturele christelijke 'encounters' (29/04/2019 - 14/06/2022)
• Dissenting Church. An Interdisciplinary Relecture of Roman Catholic Tradition as Contestation. (01/10/2017 - 30/09/2027)

Co-promotor

• Recognition and Acknowledgement of Injustice to Strenghten Equality (01/05/2023 - 30/04/2027)
• The Decolonization of the Roman Catholic Church in the DRC / Zaire, 1960s-2000s (01/11/2022 - 01/11/2026)
• Restricted Desire: Contemporary Christian Anthropology in the Light of Medieval Mystics’ Experience of Eucharistic Loss Restricted Desire: Contemporary Christian Anthropology in the Light of Medieval Mystics’ Experience of Eucharistic Loss Restricted Desire: Contemporary Christian Anthropology in the Light of Medieval Mystics' Experience of Eucharistic Loss Anthropology in the Light of Medieval Mystics’ Experience of Eucharistic Loss (01/10/2022 - 01/10/2026)
• Decolonization discourses and practices in the Society of Jesus: Belgian and Congolese Jesuits in the DRC, 1960-2000 (28/09/2020 - 28/09/2024)