Biography
How can we create better futures for people? How can we live together and grow from differences? How can our fundamental values inform our work and life more fruitfully? These questions guide my career. I am the rector of the International Institute of Social Studies in Den Haag (part of Erasmus University Rotterdam) as well as professor of Lived Religion and Development. My aim is to support ISS in becoming even more visible, effective, and innovative as a leading center of expertise in development studies. Personally, I have a background in the study of religion, combining theology, religious studies, and social sciences. I have published on narrative approaches, trauma, sexuality, popular culture, and societal challenges. My research focuses on lived religion, how people shape their relationship to the sacred and how they relate to the tradition(s) from which they draw. Parallel to my academic career, I have worked in politics, church, and (hospitality) business.
International Institute of Social Studies
- ganzevoort@iss.nl
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
International Institute of Social Studies
- ganzevoort@iss.nl
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
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Work
- R. Ruard Ganzevoort (2022) - Cultural hermeneutics of religion - doi: 10.1515/9783110618150-048 - [link]
- Mariecke van den Berg, Sabrina Dinmohamed, RR Ganzevoort, Jeanine Klaver & Annemieke Mack (2021) - LHBTIās, bekeerlingen en religieverlaters in de opvang
- RR Ganzevoort, Srdjan Sremac & Teguh Wijaya Mulya (2021) - Why Do We See Him Naked?: Politicized, Spiritualizedan and Sexualized Gazes at Violence - [link]
- Lenneke Post, RR Ganzevoort & Irma Verdonck-de Leeuw (2020) - Transcending the suffering in Cancer: Impact of a spiritual life review intervention on spiritual re-evaluation, spiritual growth and psycho-spiritual wellbeing - Religions, 11 (3), 1-25 - doi: 10.3390/rel11030142 - [link]
- RR Ganzevoort (2020) - Close encounters of the fourth kind - doi: 10.18820/9781928424512 - [link]
- Annet Jansen, Marieke Van der Linden, Jan Jorrit Hasselaar & RR Ganzevoort (2019) - Spiritueel Kapitaal en Duurzame Ontwikkeling: Een onderzoek naar de bijdragen van religie en levensbeschouwing aan de duurzame ontwikkelingsdoelen in Nederland - [link]
- Srdjan Sremac & RR Ganzevoort (2016) - Trauma i Religia - [link]
- A. van Drie, R.R. Ganzevoort & M. Spiering (2014) - Anonymous pastoral care for problems pertaining to sexuality - Journal of Religion and Health, 53 (6), 1634-1652 - doi: 10.1007/s10943-013-9746-6
- Mariecke van den Berg, D.J. Bos, M. Derks, R.R. Ganzevoort, M. Jovanovic, A.J.A.C.M. Korte & S. Sremac (2014) - Religion, Homosexuality, and Contested Social Orders in the Netherlands, the Western Balkans, and Sweden
- R.R. Ganzevoort, M. Ajouaou, A. van der Braak, E.C.T. de Jongh & L. Minnema (2014) - Teaching Spiritual Care in an Interfaith Setting - Journal for the Academic Study of Religion, 27 (2), 178-197 - doi: 10.1558/jasr.v27i2.178
Oikocredit Nederland
- Start date approval
- September 2023
- End date approval
- September 2026
- Place
- UTRECHT
- Description
- Voorzitter Raad van Toezicht