Jedidja Boven, van

Jedidja van Boven, MA

MA

  • Warandelaan 2, Tias Building, room T 708

    5037 AB Tilburg

    Netherlands

Personal profile

Research interests

I have an interdisciplinary background in anthropology, sociology, and the study of religion in its societal context. As a PhD candidate, my research focuses on processes of self-sacralization in the self-help industry, particularly in the form of coaching in Christian and spiritual milieus. The concepts that animate my work include meaning-making, sacralization, (collective) identity formation, and the intersections between religion and modernity. 

Career

2022 - 2023 Project manager EMJM Religious Diversity in a Globalised World (ReD Global), Faculty of Religion, Culture, and Society, University of Groningen

2022 - 2023 Professional staff representative and co-chair Faculty Council, Faculty of Religion, Culture, and Society, University of Groningen

2021 - 2022 Vice-chair Programme Committee Euroculture and student representative Cluster Advisory Committee, Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen

2021 - 2022 Editor-in-Chief founding board Student Think Tank for Europe-Asia Relations

2018 - 2020 Editor and section editor Social Sciences at undergraduate research journal Ad Astra, University College Roosevelt 

2018 - 2021 Undergraduate research assistant, Department of Social Sciences, University College Roosevelt 

Education/Academic qualification

Sociology, Master’s Degree, EMJMD Euroculture - European Politics, Culture, and Society

20202022

Cultural anthropology, Bachelor’s Degree, Liberal Arts & Sciences - Anthropology, Politics, and Law, University College Roosevelt

20172020

Keywords

  • Sociology Of Religion
  • Anthropology
  • Self (The)
  • Self-Sacralization
  • Self Regulation
  • Meaning-making