Bio

Kees de Groot is Professor in Worldviews and Public Mental Health (KSGV Chair) at Tilburg University (Netherlands). He represents the Benelux at the council of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion and the Netherlands at COST Action Program "Connecting Theory and Practical Issues of Migration and Religious Diversity” (COREnet). He has published on Zygmunt Bauman, Catholicism, chaplaincy, mental health care, rituals, theatre, and comics in Social Compass, Implicit Religion and various volumes in and on the empirical study of religion. His latest monograph in English is The Liquidation of the Church (Routledge, 2018).  In 2023, Bloomsbury Academic published Comics, culture, and religion: Faith imagined a volume that he edited and contributed to chapters to. 

Expertise

Since September 2019, the KSGV has appointed me as a professor for sociology of worldviews and public mental health. I study the institutional dynamics of spiritual care and social work, and the, often implicit, role of religion and worldviews.

I  teach at the School of Catholic Theology and participate in the research program Religion and Practice. In 2023/2024 I am building a research collaboration on faith-based support to migrants. One project is a multiple case study project (The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden), another a reflective café with professionals (Tilburg, Rome, Zagreb).

Teaching

In 2023/2024 I  taught qualitative research methods at the University of Agder (Norway).

Collaboration

In  2021, I was a guest professor at  the University of Agder and appointed as a member of the Agder Academy of Sciences and Letters. 

In 2023, I was appointed as a member of the Management Committee of the COST Action Program "Connecting Theory and Practical Issues of Migration and Religious Diversity” (COREnet).

I am collaborating with VID University (Oslo) on an international research project focusing on faith-based social support to migrants in a secular context.  

In 2023/2024 I teach a module on qualitative methods in the Master Religion, Philosophy and Society at the Universiy of Agder.

Highlights

The Liquidation of the Church - 1st Edition - Kees de Groot - Routledg (routledge.com)

Comics, Culture, and Religion: Faith Imagined: Kees de Groot: Bloomsbury Academic

 

Recent publications

  1. Geert Wilders and the politics of hair - The Dutch right-wing politic…

    de Groot, K. (Author). (2024). Geert Wilders and the politics of hair: The Dutch right-wing politician's bleached blonde hair is part of his populist appeal. Web publication/site, University of Agder. https://democracy.uia.no/geert-wilders-hair/
  2. Geestelijke verzorging zu Hause - Der Erfolg der Seelsorge in der säk…

    de Groot, K. (2024). Geestelijke verzorging zu Hause: Der Erfolg der Seelsorge in der säkularen Welt. In U. Roth, C. Albrecht, & E. Hauschildt (Eds.), Praktische Theologie des Alltags (pp. 189-201). Kohlhammer Verlag GmbH. https://shop.kohlhammer.de/praktische-theologie-des-alltags-40056.html#147=19
  3. Comics and Religion in Liquid Modernity

    de Groot, K. (2023). Comics and Religion in Liquid Modernity. In K. de Groot (Ed.), Comics, Culture, and Religion: Faith Imagined (pp. 3-10). Bloomsbury Academic.
  4. Comics as a Way of Doing, Encountering, and Making Religion

    de Groot, K. (2023). Comics as a Way of Doing, Encountering, and Making Religion. In K. de Groot (Ed.), Comics, Culture, and Religion: Faith Imagined (pp. 239-246). Bloomsbury Academic.
  5. Comics, Culture, and Religion - Faith Imagined

    de Groot, K. (Ed.), Trysnes, I., Lundmark, E., Häger, A., Kauranen, R., Prince, M. J., GhaneaBassiri, K., Biano, I., MacWilliams, M., Sjö, S., Undheim, S., Reichelt Foereland, L., & Monnot, C. (2023). Comics, Culture, and Religion: Faith Imagined. Bloomsbury Academic. https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?docid=b-9781350321618

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