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Ritual in SocietyMaster’s information evening 23 March 2017
Janieke Bruin-Mollenhorst, PhD candidate &
Marlies Arts, student Ritual in Society
Outline presentation
• General theme: ritual dynamics
• Curriculum: premaster
• Curriculum: master
• Career perspectives
• Practical matters
• The experiences of Marlies
Ritual Studies
• Ritual
• Repertoires
• Dynamics
• Emerging ritual
• Meanings
• …
• Theory & practices
• Multi-/interdisciplinary podium
• Ritual to study culture
Program in Tilburg
Ritual dynamics in current Europe
Topical issues:
• tradition and innovation/transformation
• public and private sphere
• Majority and minority
• (Super)diversity
• Identity and pluralism
Broad and open perspective
• Religion
• In public domain
• Collective and individual memorial culture
• Performative arts
• Leisure culture
• Healing
Premasterprogram 10 courses 60 ECTS
Unit 1 Unit 2
Cultural History I: The Sources of
Europe (6 ECTS)
Cultural History II: Modern Europe
(6 ECTS)
Cultural History III: The Loss of
Heaven. Europe in the Twentieth
Century (V) (6 ECTS)
The Ceremonial Society
(6 ECTS)
Life writing, ritual and memory
(6 ECTS)
Globalization and religious diversity
(6 ECTS)
Language, culture and globalization
(6 ECTS)
Media, globalization and Popular
Culture (6 ECTS)
Doing research 2.1
(6 ECTS)
Doing Research 2.2
(6 ECTS)
Masterprogram
Unit 1 Unit 2
Civil Religion and Civil Ritual
(6 ECTS)
Religious Diversity and Space
(6 ECTS)
Ritual Studies: Patterns and Persons
(6 ECTS)
Research Skills: Ethnographic
Research (3 ECTS)
Choose one of the following courses:
Research Skills: Hermeneutical
Research of Discourse and Visual
Images (3 ECTS)
Or
Research Skills: Research Interview
and Narrative Analysis
(3 ECTS)
Choose one course:
For example:
Cultural Diversity Management
(6 ECTS)
Masterprogram
Unit 3 Unit 4
Ritual and Performativity
(6 ECTS)
Masterthesis
(15 ECTS)
Ritual and Recreation
(6 ECTS)
Research Skills: Anthropology and
Fieldwork
(3 ECTS)
Masterthesis (examples)
• Eindeloos verdriet?
Rouwrituelen als spiegel van de hedendaagse
Nederlandse cultuur (mourning rituals in Dutch culture)
• Sinti pilgrimage
• Crematoria architecture
• Exorcism
• Music in the hospice
• Two minutes silence during the national commemoration
On top
• Language courses
• International Entrepreneurship Program
• Summer School
• Lectures Academic Forum
• Seminars etc. Research Group Ritual in Society
• Camino Academie
• Funeraire Academie
• Institute for Ritual and Liturgical Studies
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Master/premaster program online
Course descriptions and info:
www.tilburguniversity.edu/master/ritual-in-society
You Tube: https://youtu.be/pLR5dGd3Hr0
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Research Group Ritual in Society: projects
• Disaster ritual
• Postponed monuments
• Ritual in eldery homes
• Ritual repertoires in the suburb Leidsche Rijn
• Prison ritual
• Hadj on Internet
• Cyber ritual
• Modern pilgrim
• Musica sacra between art and ritual
• Music during cremation rituals
Career perspectives
Research
• PhD
• researcher
Journalism and culture sector
• culture policy expert / advisor
Career
Commercial sector
• ritual advisor or expert
• congress or organisation office
• museum, memorial culture centres
• publisher, editor on field of ritual religion, ethics, culture
• tourism (religious and cultural travels)
• expert multicultural / multireligious HRM
• ritual coach (funeral, other rituals)
Study trajectory
General study outline
• academic year : 4 units
• course 6 ects = 168 hours (incl. courses)
• total study input: ca. 40h a week
Parttime trajectory
• fulltime and parttime programme are the same
• organize your own tempo and programme in contact with your study
advisor