prof. dr. C.J.A. Sterkens (Carl)

Hoogleraar - Faculteit der Filosofie, Theologie en Religiewetenschappen
Hoogleraar - Empirische en praktische religiewetenschap

Leeropdracht : Empirische Religiewetenschap en Pastoraaltheologie (in het bijzonder empirische theologie)

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carl.sterkens@ru.nl

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Thomas van Aquinostraat 4
6525 GD Nijmegen

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Postbus 9104
6500 HE Nijmegen

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Carl Sterkens is professor of Practical Theology and Empirical Religious Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies of Radboud University. He lectures pastoral theology, empirical research methodology, psychology of religion, and master seminars on religion, cohesion and conflict. He also lectures the national PhD course Empirical Religious Studies on behalf of the Netherlands School for Advanced Study in Religion and Theology (NOSTER). He has been lecturing regularly at different theological faculties in Indonesia, and was guest lecturer in different Universities in Europe.
His research focuses on interreligious relationships, the consequences of religiosity for latent and manifest conflicts (versus societal cohesion), and the relation between religion and human rights attitudes. He has published on empirical studies on these subjects in different contexts: the Netherlands, Belgium, India, Indonesia, the Philippines and Palestine.

Trefwoorden: pastoraaltheologie, godsdienstpsychologie, religie en geweld, mensenrechten

Publicaties

Belangrijke publicaties

Essabane, K., Sterkens, C.J.A. & Vermeer, P.A.D.M. (2023). The Relationship between Islamic Religious Education and Citizenship Education in Liberal Democracies. Religious Education. doi: 10.1080/00344087.2023.2262888 Volledige tekst
Sterkens, C.J.A. (2023). Hebzucht. Niemand kan twee heren dienen. In C. Sterkens & C. Hübenthal (Eds.), Zeven hoofdzonden en een paar deugden. Theologische inzichten voor het alledaagse leven (pp. 36-61). Nijmegen: Radboud University Press doi: 10.54195/QCMX7065_CH03 Volledige tekst
Sterkens, C.J.A. & Hübenthal, C.H. (Ed.). (2023). Zeven hoofdzonden en een paar deugden. Nijmegen: Radboud University Press doi: 10.54195/QCMX7065 Volledige tekst
Essabane, K., Vermeer, P.A.D.M. & Sterkens, C.J.A. (2022). Islamic Religious Education and Citizenship Education: Their Relationship According to Practitioners of Primary Islamic Religious Education in the Netherlands. Religions, 13 (9):826. doi: 10.3390/rel13090826 Volledige tekst
Kanas, A.M., Scheepers, P.L.H. & Sterkens, C.J.A. (2022). Ethno-religious identification and support for interreligious violence: A study of Muslim and Christian students in Indonesia and the Philippines. Politics and Religion, 15 (2), 344-373. doi: 10.1017/S1755048321000146 Volledige tekst
Setiawan, T., Jong, E.B.P. de, Scheepers, P.L.H. & Sterkens, C.J.A. (2021). Support for interreligious conflict in Indonesia: Tests of theories on interethnic threat and distrust versus contact. Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology, 15:1834490921993295. doi: 10.1177/1834490921993295 Volledige tekst
Anthony, F. & Sterkens, C.J.A. (2020). Religion and Socioeconomic Wellbeing-Empirical Study of the Impact of Religion on Socioeconomic Rights in the Pluralistic and Democratic Context of Tamil Nadu, India. Religions, 11 (9):454. doi: 10.3390/rel11090454 Volledige tekst
Jans, J., Bijsterveld, S.C. van, Sterkens, C.J.A. & Venbrux, H.J.M. (2020). Are religious people intolerant? An empirical study of the perceptions of committed religious and humanist youth in the Netherlands and Flanders. NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion, 74 (1), 39-65. doi: 10.5117/NTT2020.1.003.JANS Volledige tekst
Setiawan, T., Scheepers, P.L.H. & Sterkens, C.J.A. (2020). Applicability of the social identity model of collective action in predicting support for interreligious violence in Indonesia. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 23 (3), 278-292. doi: 10.1111/ajsp.12397 Volledige tekst
Setiawan, T., Jong, E.B.P. de, Scheepers, P.L.H. & Sterkens, C.J.A. (2020). The relation between religiosity dimensions and support for interreligious conflict in Indonesia. Archive for the Psychology of Religion, 42 (2), 244-261. doi: 10.1177/0084672419878824 Volledige tekst
Anthony, F. & Sterkens, C.J.A. (2019). Religion and the right to (dispose of) life: A study of the attitude of Christian, Muslim and Hindu students in India concerning death penalty, euthanasia and abortion. In H. Ziebertz & F Zaccaria (Eds.), Euthanasia, abortion, death penalty and religion. The rights to life and its limitations (Religion and Human Rights, 4) (pp. 13-63). Cham: Springer doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-98773-6_2 Volledige tekst
Anthony, F. & Sterkens, C.J.A. (2019). Religion’s impact on judicial rights. An empirical study in the multi-religious context of Indian democracy. In U. Riegel & S. Heil (Eds.), Understanding religion. Empirical perspectives in practical theology (Research on Religious and Spiritual Education, 13) (pp. 111-137). Münster / New York: Waxmann Volledige tekst
Sterkens, C.J.A., Isharianto, R. & Vermeer, P.A.D.M. (2019). Religion and Inclusive Society: Attitudes towards the Poor among Christian and Muslim Students in Surabaya. Journal of Empirical Theology, 32 (1), 36-69. doi: 10.1163/15709256-12341386 Volledige tekst
Zaccaria, F., Anthony, F. & Sterkens, C.J.A. (2019). The impact of religion on attitudes towards abortion and euthanasia. An empirical study among Italian students. In H.-G. Ziebertz & F. Zaccaria (Eds.), Euthanasia, abortion, death penalty and religion. The rights to life and its limitations (Religion and Human Rights, 4) (pp. 105-137). Cham: Springer doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-98773-6_5 Volledige tekst
Anthony, F. & Sterkens, C.J.A. (2018). Extending political rights to immigrants and refugees. Empirical study among Christian, Muslim and Hindu students in the context of Indian secularism and the politics of inclusion. In C.J.A. Sterkens & H.-G. Ziebertz (Eds.), Political and judicial rights through the prism of religious belief (Religion and Human Rights, 3) (pp. 145-183). Cham: Springer doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-77353-7_7 Volledige tekst
Jans, J. & Sterkens, C.J.A. (2018). Opvattingen van Nederlandse en Vlaamse jongeren over de gewenste verhouding tussen levensbeschouwing en overheid. Levensbeschouwelijke predictoren en consequenties voor de rol van levensbeschouwing op school. Religie & Samenleving, 13 (3), 323-353. Volledige tekst
Sterkens, C.J.A. & Ziebertz, H.G. (Ed.). (2018). Political and judicial rights through the prism of religious beliefs (Religion and Human Rights, 3). Cham: Springer doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-77353-7 Volledige tekst
Zaccaria, F., Anthony, F. & Sterkens, C.J.A. (2018). Religion for the political rights of immigrants and refugees? An empirical exploration among Italian students. In C. Sterkens & H.-G. Ziebertz (Eds.), Political and judicial rights through the prism of religious belief (Religion and Human Rights, 3) (pp. 45-70). Cham: Springer doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-77353-7_3 Volledige tekst
Fumbo, C. & Sterkens, C.J.A. (2017). Advancing civil human rights culture in Tanzania. In H.-G. Ziebertz & C. Sterkens (Eds.), Religion and Human Rights in Empirical perspective Vol. 2. Religion and Human Rights (pp. 215-229). Cham: Springer doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-59285-5_9 Volledige tekst
Kanas, A.M., Scheepers, P.L.H. & Sterkens, C.J.A. (2017). Positive and negative contact and attitudes towards the religious out-group: Testing the contact hypothesis in conflict and non-conflict regions of Indonesia and the Philippines. Social Science Research, 63, 95-110. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2016.09.019 Volledige tekst
Sterkens, C.J.A., Camacho, A.Z. & Scheepers, P.L.H. (2017). Ethno-religious identification and latent conflict: Support of violence among Muslim and Christian Filipino children and youth. In C. Harker, K. Hörschelmann & T. Skelton (Eds.), Conflict, violence and peace (Geographies of Children and Young People, 11) (pp. 35-50). Singapore: Springer doi: 10.1007/978-981-4585-98-9_12-1 Volledige tekst
Zaccaria, F., Anthony, F. & Sterkens, C.J.A. (2017). Religion and civil rights in Italy: An empirical exploration among secondary school students. In H.-G. Ziebertz & C. Sterkens (Eds.), Religion and civil human rights in empirical perspective (Religion and Human Rights, 2) (pp. 91-119). Cham: Springer doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-59285-5_4 Volledige tekst
Ziebertz, H.G. & Sterkens, C.J.A. (Ed.). (2017). Religion and civil human rights in empirical perspective (Religion and Human Rights, 2). Cham: Springer doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-59285-5
Anthony, F. & Sterkens, C.J.A. (2016). The impact of religion on civil human rights: an empirical-theological study. In C.E. Wolfteich & A. Dillen (Eds.), Catholic approaches in practical theology. International and interdisciplinary perspectives (Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensum, CCLXXXVI) (pp. 225-252). Leuven: Peeters Volledige tekst
Kanas, A.M., Scheepers, P.L.H. & Sterkens, C.J.A. (2016). Religious identification and interreligious contact in Indonesia and the Philippines: Testing the mediating roles of perceived group threat and social dominance orientation and the moderating role of context. European Journal of Social Psychology, 46 (6), 700-715. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.2212 Volledige tekst
Sterkens, C.J.A. & Hadiwitanto, H. (2016). Empirical models of the relationship between religion and state in Indonesia. How religious beliefs define the relation between religion and state. In H.-G. Ziebertz & E. Hirsch Ballin (Eds.), Freedom of religion in the 21st Century. A human rights perspective on the relation between politics and religion (Empirical Research in Religion and Human Rights) (pp. 162-206). Leiden: Brill doi: 10.1163/9789004304390_009 Volledige tekst
Sterkens, C.J.A. & Vermeer, P.A. (Ed.). (2015). Religion, migration and conflict (Nijmegen Studies in Development and Cultural Change, 51). Zürich: Lit Verlag
Hermans, C.A.M. & Sterkens, C.J.A. (2014). Comparison in religion: a methodological contribution. Journal of Empirical Theology, 27 (1), 130-153. doi: 10.1163/15709256-12341295 Volledige tekst
Yusuf, M. & Sterkens, C.J.A. (2014). Religious education in religiously affiliated schools and the influence of the state and religious community on school politics. In V. Küster & R. Setio (Eds.), Muslim Christian relations observed. Comparative studies from Indonesia and the Netherlands (pp. 47-71). Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt

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