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

(Pre)Masterprogram

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

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)

Some practical issues

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

Coda

For general information:

www.tilburguniversity.edu/studiegids

For specific questions:

Study Advisor: Cathy de Waele

013-466 2579 / 2580

Questions?

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