Honorary doctorate prof. José Casanova

The profile of the Groningen Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies centres on the intertwining of religion and culture. Professor Casanova’s work is an important point of reference across the faculty. A particularly close match of research interests exists with two of the faculty’s departments:

• Department ‘Comparative Study of Religion’
  

The joint work of the department centres on the theme ‘Religion on the Ground: Practices and Discourses in Social Transformation’ with a focus on the concrete, lived, and socially embedded aspects of religion. It investigates how religion is co-constitutive to creating individual and collective identities and practices.

• Department ‘Christianity and the History of Ideas’