In the Netherlands, traditional churches and religious institutions are losing ground, as is the case in the rest of western Europe. Religion changes and traditional religious forms migrate to other realms, sometimes to return to ecclesial contexts again. In this article, we present a research project on ritual-musical appropriations of psalms in contemporary Dutch culture….
Tag: power relations
‘Look, Peter, this is our people!’
Wim Helsen’s Bij Mij Zijt Ge Veilig as a Role-playing Game and Enacted Ideology[1] Wim Helsen’s (1968) stand-up comedy is often characterized as absurd, confusing, transgressive or Dadaist.[2] One could not categorize him as just a gagman, although he sometimes explicitly inserts moments for the telling of jokes. These jokes, however, often seem to be…
Towards a Celestial Panopticon…
JERUZALEM, MIJN VADERSTAD Jeruzalem, mijn vaderstad, mijn moederhuis, wanneer zal ik u zien zoals ge zijt, de bruid van onze Heer? Daar is geen pijn en geen verdriet, geen afgunst en geen nijd, en angst en armoe zijn er niet maar altijd vrolijkheid. […] David is daar met harp en al, koormeester van de stad,…
