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Work area
Research assistant in the empirical research on religiosity and spirituality.
Academic interests
Religious studies, Psychology of Culture and Religion
Religions, Rituals and cultures in the context of migration
Origin and development of religious and spiritual groups
Faith development of the individual
2010: Master of Arts (reseach oriented), Religious studies (Changes and developments in death rites of Hindus in The Netherlands), Radboud University Nijmegen
2009: Bachelor of Arts, Religious studies (Death and dying in Buddhism) Radboud University Nijmegen
2009: Master of Science, Psychology of Culture and Religion (Multicultural personality and acculturation of tibetan migrants in Europe) Radboud University Nijmegen
2007: Bachelor of Science, Psychology of Culture and Religion (Problems of turkish and kurdish women in the process of integration) Radboud University Nijmegen
2002: Abitur
Employment
since 2010 Research assistant at the project of ´Spirituality in Germany and USA´ at the University of Bielefeld
2009-2010 Student assistant at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences, Cologne
Articles and Book Chapters
Swhajor, A., Heessels, M., Velde, P. van de & Venbrux, H.J.M. (2010). 'Aan de Ganges in Twente'. Onderhandelen over vormgeven van hindoe-dodenrituelen in Nederland. Quotidian. Dutch Journal for the Study of Everyday Life, 2, 83-103.Download PDF
Abstracts and Papers
Swhajor, A., Ticu, D. & Luhmann, S. (2011). Self-rated atheists, highly religious and highly spiritual persons and their semantics regarding Religion and Spirituality. In G. Rossi & M. Aletti (Eds.), International Association for the Psychology of Religion. Congress 2011. 21st-25th August, Bari - Italy. Programme & Book of Abstracts (p. 81). Azzate/Varese: Arti Grafiche Tibiletti.
Klein, C., Swhajor, A., Keller, B., Silver, C. F., Hood, R. W. & Streib, H. (2011). Religion und/oder Spiritualität. Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede in der Wahrnehmung zweier Grundbegriffe der Religionsforschung in Deutschland und den USA. Vortrag im Rahmen der 2. Tagung des Arbeitskreises Quantitative Religionsforschung (AQR), 21.-22.10.2011, GESIS-Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Köln.
International Association for the Psychology of Religion (IAPR)
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