Publications

Books:

  • In preparation, with Caroline Vander Stichele (eds.). Geloven in tijden van stijgende zeeën [Believing in Times of Rising Waters]. Tilburg: Tilburg University Press.
  • 2024. Kus de aarde met je voeten: wandelen als klimaatzingeving [Kiss the Earth with Your Feet: Walking as Meaning-Making in Times of Climate Change]. Utrecht: Eburon. (Bookproject funded by Thijmgenootschap.)
  • 2022. “Ravanisation”: The Revitalisation of Ravana among Sinhalese Buddhists in Post-War Sri Lanka. Münster: LIT Verlag. (Commercial edition PhD Thesis.)
  • 2021. The Many Faces of Ravana. Ravanisation: The Revitalisation of Ravana among Sinhalese Buddhists in Post-War Sri LankaTilburg University. https://research.tilburguniversity.edu/en/publications/the-many-faces-of-ravana-iravanisationi-the-revitalisation-of-rav

 

Peer-Reviewed Articles/Book-Chapters:

  • 2024, with Frank Bosman. ‘Neem mijn ei, eet ervan en vergeet mij niet’: De inclusief-ecologische voorstelling “Herinner Ons” als casus van de relevantie van interperformativiteit en intertekstualiteit in klimaatperformancekunst [‘Take My Egg, Eat It and Do Not Forget Me’: The Inclusive-Ecological Performance “Remember Us” as a Case Study of the Relevance of Interperformativity and Intertextuality in Climate Performance Art]. Religie en Samenleving 19, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.54195/RS.18297
  • 2022. Green Ganesha Chaturthi: The Ritualising and Materialising of a Green Hindu Identity and the Emerging of an Alternative Representation of Ganesha. Religions 14:1, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14010022
  • 2018. The Ritualizing of the Martial and Benevolent Side of Ravana in Two Annual Rituals at the Sri Devram Maha Viharaya in Pannipitiya, Sri Lanka. Religions 9, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel9090250
  • 2017. De revitalisering van Ravana: Een verkennend onderzoek naar hedendaagse voorstellingen van Ravana onder Sinhalezen in Sri Lanka. [The Revitalization of Ravana: An Exploratory Study of Contemporary Representations of Ravana among Sinhalese in Sri Lanka]. NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion 71:3, 257–276.
  • 2014. ‘Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue: een analyse van cultureel-religieuze aspecten in een Bollywood-film, een Indiase religieuze animatiefilm en een verkenning van de rol van films in het cultureel-religieuze socialisatieproces van hindoestaanse kinderen in Nederland’ [Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue: An Analysis of Cultural-Religious Aspects in a Bollywood Film, an Indian Religious Animation Film, and an Exploration of the Role of Films in the Cultural-Religious Socialization Process of Hindustani Children in the Netherlands]. OSO Tijdschrift voor Surinamistiek en het Caraïbisch Gebied 33:2, 185–198.

 

Other Academic Publications:

  • 2024. De Jatakas: Watde Boeddha leerde – heden en verleden [The Jatakas: What the Buddha Taught – Past and Present]. In: Eric Ottenheijm, Nikki Spoelstra & Martijn Stoutjesdijk. Parels van Wijsheid – Parabels, fabels en gelijkenissen in de wereldliteratuur. Leeuwarden: Adveniat.
  • 2021. Book review of Stasik, D. (ed.). Oral-Written-Performed: The Ramayana Narratives in Indian Literature and Arts (2020). For the International Institute for Asian Studies. https://www.iias.asia/the-review/changing-ramayana-characters-andin-changing-contexts
  • 2021. De rituele rijkdom van het hindoeïsme [The Ritual Wealth of Hinduism]. In: Sjaak Körver, Erik Olsman & Sujin Rosie (eds.). Met lichaam en geest: De rituele competentie van geestelijk verzorgers. Delft: Eburon, 122–123.
  • 2019. Book Review of Freek L. Bakker, Hindus in the Netherlands (2018). NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion 73:3, 249–250.
  • 2018. Mythevorming en sociale media bij groeiende anti-moslimsentimenten in Sri Lanka [Myth-Making and Social Media in Growing Anti-Muslim Sentiment in Sri Lanka]. Diggit Magazine: https://www.diggitmagazine.com/articles/mythevorming-en-sociale-media-bij-groeiende-anti-moslimsentimenten-sri-lanka (peer-reviewed).
  • 2017. Ravana: Once a Demon, Always a Demon? Considering Ravana from a Different Perspective. Diggit Magazine: https://www.diggitmagazine.com/academic-papers/ravana-once-demon-always-demon (peer-reviewed).

 

GENERAL PUBLICATIONS

Publications for a General Audience: