Buildings and Bibles Between Profanization and Sacralization: Semiotic Ambivalence in the Protestant Dutch Bible Belt

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Biographical notes(1) Anneke Pons-de Wit is a PhD student in cultural sociology doing research into the formation of contemporary atheist, fundamentalist religious, and relativist religious identities. She has previously published in Social Compass (2015) on the religious use of new media.

Sounds of Children in Worship: Materiality and Liturgical-Ritual Spaces

“…Until now, child-related research in material religion has mainly focused on the production of religious objects and images for children, such as children's Bibles (Lindquist 2014), a cartoon figure used for evangelization (Bellotti 2010), and Sunday school pictures (Brewer 2005). Recent research on architecture and the arrangement of furniture for worship (Barnard et al 2014;Barnard and Post 2001;de Jonge 2002;Pons-de Wit et al 2019;Post 2010;Rijken et al 2016) hardly ever considers how children affect or are affected by worship spaces. Our research on children in places of worship aims to extend childhood studies and child geography research, which mainly focus on educational settings, the home, and the urban environment (Nairn et al 2016, 4).…”