Hamas was given a deadline by Israel: all hostages must be released before Ramadan. Islamologist Joas Wagemakers explains the dilemma in which Hamas (and Israel) finds itself.
This handbook, edited by, among others, Pooyan Tamimi Arab, places objects and bodies at the centre of scholarly studies of religious life and practice.
Emeritus Professor Bob Becking recently published this new examination of the 33rd book of the Hebrew Bible, which offers a new theory of its composition history.
Erik Meinema has received the dissertation award of the Dutch Association for the Study of Religion (NGG) for his dissertation Regulating Religious Coexistence.
Marcel Verweij has been appointed professor of Philosophical Ethics. He investigates what philosophical issues of today can mean for ethical theory and vice versa.