Prof. M.A.C. de Haardt (Maaike)

Maaike de Haardt studies the interaction between religion, culture and gender in the broadest sense of the word. She investigates to what extent religious or spiritual motives, questions and dimensions can be recognized in human activities and forms of expression (from cooking to art) and if and how these can be related to religion, notably to central images and concepts from the Christian tradition, such as immanence-transcendence, God,presence, incarnation, Mary. This theology of everyday life can be considered as a form of public theology in which the notions post-colonialism, post-secular, cosmopolitanism and urbanization are important theoretical frames.