Projects
Investigation of the construction of integrating world views Vrije Universiteit Brussel
(1) The construction of a model of the world: research ...
Lived Religion and intimate partner violence: A qualitative empirical study of the practice of spirituality and connected world views of partners in relation to intimate partner violence against Thai women in Belgium. KU Leuven
From Chaos to Order - the Creation of the World. New Views on the Reception of Platonic Cosmogony in Later Greek Thought, Pagan and Christian. KU Leuven
Research on the reception of Platonic Cosmogony in Later Greek Thought, Pagan and in Christian comments on Genesis 1 - 3.
Social change in Southeast Europe after the Second World War: The view from the periphery Ghent University
The political economies of the states of Southeast Europe after the Second World War were shaped by the doctrine of development. In the long term and from a global perspective, development politics failed to advance the global position of the states of the region and to undo inequality within the region. Notwithstanding these failures, the social and spatial dynamics generated by the doctrine of development are essential to explain some ...
Lugones and Vasconcelos: a Neo-Hellenistic view on the New World? The influence of the classical Greek tradition on Spanish-American identity creation Ghent University
The range of thought of the authors Leopoldo Lugones en José Vasconcelos is characterized by an unremitting search for a continental (Spanish-American) and national (Argentinian/Mexican) identity. This comparative research intends to examine whether the authors' shared fascination for the classic Greek culture can explain the similarities in their ideas related to the formation of nationalities from a political-ideological, philosophical and ...
A comparative study of the views regarding palliative sedation in Indian religions KU Leuven
Though palliative sedation has been the object of often heated societal and academic debates since the nineties of the previous century, so far little attention has been given to the specific views and attitudes of world religions regarding this topic. Given the fact that these religions can influence the attitudes of palliative patients and their families and of caregivers regarding this practice, it is essential to know what these ...
A comparative study of the views regarding palliative sedation in Christian traditions KU Leuven
Though palliative sedation has been the been the object of often heated societal and academic debates since the nineties of the previous century, so far little attention has been given to the specific views and attitudes of world religions regarding this topic. Given the fact that these religions can, even in a very important way, influence the attitudes of palliative patients and their families and of caregivers regarding this practice, it ...
A comparative study of the normative views regarding palliative sedation in Christian and Indian religious traditions KU Leuven
Views on Women in Medieval Islamic Philosophy: Ibn Rushd in context. Ghent University
This project aims to deliver the first comprehensive study on the characterisation of women in Medieval Islamic philosophical texts. The study will primarily focus on Ibn Rushd (Latin: Averroes),
but will involve al-Ghazali, al-Farabi and Ibn Arabi as well. Ibn Rushd is best known for his commentaries on Aristotle. He played a decisive role in the Islamic world as an advocate for Greek philosophy and his belief in reason as superior to ...