In 2005, Bobby Henderson announced the existence of an, until then, unknown phenomenon: the church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Is it just satire, or a true religion?
Churches close down because of the small number of parishioners and this tendency is an important marker for the position of religion in Western Europe. What happens when churches do not attract the same numbers of believers anymore?
The Berlin Ibn Rushd-Goethe Mosque opened in the summer of 2017. The intention of its feminist leader, Seyran Ates, is to create an atmosphere for a peaceful and democratic Islam. Odile Heynders praises Ates as an excellent public intellectual.
A social movement in Brazil accuses teachers of public institutions of imposing their political beliefs on students, and defends that schools should be ideologically neutral environments. However, is neutrality in education possible?
In deze paper wordt onderzocht, aan de hand van de optredens van de metalband Rammstein, hoe religie en beroemdheid samenkomen in een metalperformance. De tegenstelling tussen deze twee werelden blijkt minder vanzelfsprekend dan gedacht.
