Publications

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Book

Resonating Sacralities. Dynamics between Religion and the Arts in Postsecular Netherlands. Series: Religion & Society 80. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022.
Mary Magdalene – Chief Witness, Sinner, Feminist. (ed.) Zwolle, Utrecht: Waanders Uitgevers, Museum Catharijneconvent. 2021. Also available in Dutch: Maria Magdalena – Kroongetuige, Zondaar, Feminist. (red.) Zwolle, Utrecht: Waanders Uitgevers, Museum Catharijneconvent. 2021.
The Lamentation of the Dying Mary Magdalene. Melchior de la Mars (ca.1580-1650) and the Power of Emotion in the Counter Reformation. Antwerp: The Phoebus Foundation. 2021. Also available in Dutch: De Stervende Maria Magdalena. Melchior de la Mars (ca. 1580-1650) en de Kracht van Emotie in de Contrareformatie. Antwerpen: The Phoebus Foundation. 2021.
The Bible and Global Tourism. Edited with J.S. Bielo. London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2021. Series: The Bible in Contemporary Culture.
Piet Mondriaan. De man die alles veranderde. With B. Tempel, H. Janssen. Zwolle & The Hague: Waanders, Gemeentemuseum, 2017.
Making Sense through Music. Perceptions of the Sacred at Festival Musica Sacra Maastricht. PhD Dissertation, Tilburg University, 2016.

Article

‘Maria Magdalena in Utrecht: Van de middeleeuwen tot nu’. With A. Dijkema. Jaarboek Oud Utrecht 2020. 234-251
‘De Waalse Kerk als kruiswegstatie’, Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Kerkgeschiedenis 2020, 23 (3): 254-259.
‘Relocated Pilgrimage: An Artistic Via Dolorosa in the Heart of Amsterdam’. International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage 2020. 8(5):70-82 (article 7).
Beyond the Return of Religion: Art and the Postsecular’. Brill Research Perspectives in Religion and the Arts 2018, 2 (3).
‘Bringing Mondrian’s Lozenge Composition with Yellow Lines to The Netherlands.’ The Burlington Magazine 2018, 160 (February): 118-125.
‘Tarenskeen’s LUTHER: Allowing for new Forms of Sacrality.’ With M. Klomp. Yearbook for Ritual and Liturgical Studies 2014, 30: 243-259
‘The Last Supper. Marlene Dumas, Mary Beth Edelson and Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin.’ N.Paradoxa. International Feminist Art Journal 2014, 33: 48-56.
‘Religious Rituals as Festival Performances at Musica Sacra Maastricht.’ Yearbook for Ritual and Liturgical Studies 2013, 29: 99-111.

Book chapter

‘Translating religion: Contemporary art through a postsecular lens.’ In Ronald Bernier   and Rachel Hostetter Smith (eds.), Religion and Contemporary Art. A Curious Accord. 2023. London: Routledge, 46-61.
‘Heilige Zeggingskracht: Verbeeldingen van Maria Magdalena in Eigentijdse Kunst,’ in Kunstenaars in Gods Spoor. Peilingen naar het Religieuze en Spirituele van Kunst in een Seculiere Wereld. Edited by Wessel Stoker en Frank G. Bosman, 2022. Almere: Parthenon. 88-101.
‘Her Body as Battle Ground: Femininity in the Conceptualisation of Mary Magdalene’, in: L. Wijnia (ed.) Mary Magdalene – Chief Witness, Sinner, Feminist. Zwolle, Utrecht: Waanders Uitgevers, Museum Catharijneconvent. 2021. 90-99. (also in Dutch).
‘A Seated Powerhouse. Is this the Mary Magdalene of the 21st century?’, in: L. Wijnia (ed.) Mary Magdalene – Chief Witness, Sinner, Feminist. Zwolle, Utrecht: Waanders Uitgevers, Museum Catharijneconvent. 2021. 126-131. (also in Dutch).
‘Music, Scripture, and the Sacred: Negotiating the Postsecular at a Dutch Arts Festival.‘ In: J.S. Bielo, L. Wijnia (eds). The Bible and Global Tourism. London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2021. Series: The Bible in Contemporary Culture. 221-241.
‘Piet Mondrian’s Abstraction as a Way of Seeing the Sacred.’ In: L. Child, A. Rosen (eds). Religion and Sight. Sheffield: Equinox, 2020. Series: Religion and the Senses. 143-159.
‘Framing Encounters, Performing Difference.’ In: A. Rosen (ed). Encounters. The Art of Interfaith Dialogue. Turnhout: Brepols, 2018. Series: Arts and the Sacred. 92-103.
‘Victimhood in Reverse: Art in the Age of Apology.’ In: M.J.M. Hoondert, W. Arfman, P. Mutsaers (eds). Cultural Practices of Victimhood. London: Routledge, 2018. Series: Victims, Culture, Society. 104-119.
‘Chronologie Piet Mondriaan, 1912-1919.’ In: Piet Mondriaan en Bart van der Leck: De Ontdekking van een Nieuwe Kunst. Exhibition Cat. Gemeentemuseum The Hague. Zwolle: WBooks, 2017. 11-53.B.
‘Wij hebben behoefte aan een nieuwe tijd: De oorlogsjaren van Anton en Helene Kröller-Müller.’ In: E. Koops, J. van Raan (eds). Gelderland en de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Soesterberg: Uitgeverij Aspekt/ Stichting Studiecentrum Eerste Wereldoorlog, 2016. 505-521.
‘’Doing it for the Right Reasons’: The Ritual Dimensions of Festival Musica Sacra Maastricht.’ In: P. Post, L. Sparks (eds). The Study of Culture through the Lens of Ritual. Groningen, Amsterdam, 2015. Series: Netherlands Studies in Ritual and Liturgy 15. 131-146.
‘Vanuit Nederland: De moderniteit en Parijs in drie stappen.’ In: Parijs 1900-1960: Hoofdstad van de Moderne Kunst. Exhibition Cat., Gemeentemuseum The Hague. Antwerp: Ludion, 2011. 14-23.

Encyclopedia entry

‘Noli Me Tangere.’ In: Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception 21. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2023. 720-724
‘Museums: Art Museums & Galleries.’ In: Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception 20. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2022. 198-202.
‘Piet Mondrian.’ In: James Crossley and Alastair Lockhart (eds.) Critical Dictionary of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements. 14 January 2022.
‘Millais, John Everett.’ In: Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception 19. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2021. 158-160.
‘Mimesis: Visual Arts.’ In: Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception 19. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2021. 199-201.
‘Modernism: Visual Arts.’ In: Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception 19. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2021. 629-633.
‘Medievalism: Visual Arts.’ In: Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception 18. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020. 406-410.
‘Manet, Édouard.’ In: Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception 17. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019. 729-730.
‘Maria Lactans: Visual Arts.’ In: Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception 17. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019. 899-901.
‘Mary – Nativity of: Visual Arts’ In: Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception 17. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019. 1134-1135.

Book review

‘Hoe God zijn lichaam verloor.’ De Nederlandse Boekengids (The Dutch Review of Books) 2023: 1
Religie en wetenschap eeuwige vijanden? Ontleding van een hardnekkig idee. De Nederlandse Boekengids (The Dutch Review of Books). October 2022.
Book review of David Morgan, The Thing About Religion: An Introduction to the Material Study of Religions (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021). Religion and Society: Advances in Research (2022) 13: 263-265
Een militante verkondiger van Gods woord: Huldrych Zwingli. De Nederlandse Boekengids (The Dutch Review of Books). April 2022.
Cyril Isnart, Natalie Cerezales (eds.), The Religious Heritage Complex. Legacy, Conservation, and Christianity. Journal of Contemporary Religion 36:2 (2021). 381-382.
Alena Alexandrova, Breaking Resemblance. The Role of Religious Motifs in Contemporary Art. Website Reading Religion, American Academy of Religion. March 2021.
Van wensdenken naar waarheid, en weer terug: Het Gospel van Jezus’ vrouw. De Nederlandse Boekengids (The Dutch Review of Books). Feb-March 2021. 28.
Hans Janssen, Michael White, Marek Wieczorek. Mondrian and De Stijl. Exhibition Catalogue, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid. The Burlington Magazine, 163 (Feb) 2021. 173-175.
Wessel Stoker, Marcel Barnard (eds). ‘God in hedendaagse kunst.’ NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion, 2020, 74 (1): 90-92.
TJ Clark, Heaven on Earth: Painting and the Life to Come. Website Reading Religion, American Academy of Religion. July 28, 2020.
Petra Carlsson Redell, ‘Foucault, Art, and Radical Theology. The Mystery of Things.’ Website Reading Religion, American Academy of Religion. 20 November 2019.
Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, ‘Religion and the Arts: History and Method.’ Website Reading Religion, American Academy of Religion. 21 January 2019.
Jacqueline van Paaschen, ‘Mondriaan en Steiner, Wegen naar Nieuwe Beelding.’ Material Religion. 2018, 14 (3): 560-561.
Helena Wulff (ed.) 2016. ‘The Anthropologist as Writer: Genres and Contexts in the Twenty-first Century.’ Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 2018, 27(2): 144-146.
Frank Burch Brown (ed). ‘The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the Arts.’ Website Reading Religion, American Academy of Religion. 5 July 2018.
‘Everything You Own in a Box to the Left: Reclaiming the Potential of the Sacred in Music.’ Marginalia Review of Books. 9 June 2015. Christopher Partridge. 2013. ‘The Lyre of Orpheus. Popular Museum, The Sacred, and the Profane’.
Petra van Langen, ‘Muziek en religie. Katholieke musici en de confessionalisering van het Nederlandse muziekleven, 1850-1948.’ Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 2015, 128 (2): 337-339.

Public scholarship/ other (selection)

‘1 Thessalonians 5.‘ The Visual Commentary on Scripture, King’s College London: 2022.
‘Wederopstanding van een gevallen vrouw. Maria Magdalena feministisch bezien.’ With Ann-Sophie Lehmann. Catharijne Magazine 39:2 (2021),18-20.
‘Maria Magdalena. De Tentoonstelling,’ Catharijne Magazine 39:2 (2021), 4-7.
‘Conservator in Coronatijd’, Catharijne Magazine, 39:1 (2021), 4-5.
‘The Current Crisis in Dutch Study of Religion and the Role of the NGG: A Short Rejoinder.’ With W. Arfman, S. Loukili, B. Meyer, J. Wiering, and E. Venbrux. NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion 2020, 74 (4): 315-318.
Religious Art, LSE Forum for Philosophy, online event. 09 December 2020: co-panelists Ben Quash and Mehreen Chida-Razvi. Also available as podcast.
‘Ik zat 28 uur in een kluis. Het was weldadig.‘ Nederlands Dagblad, Gulliver. 24 July 2020: 3. Also published on the website of Via Jacobi.
‘Proverbs 4.’ The Visual Commentary on Scripture, King’s College London: 2020.
‘De kunst van het wonder.’ With R. van der Houwen-Jelles. Catharijne Magazine. February 2020. 12-13.
‘Zonder dialoog geen toekomst voor religieus erfgoed.’ With T.H. Weir. Friesch Dagblad. 17 August 2019.
‘Art Stations of the Cross: Reflections on Artistic and Curatorial Interpretations of Suffering in Biblical and Contemporary Times’, Blog Religious Matters in an Entangled World, Utrecht University. 12 May 2019.