Publications
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Books / special journal issues
- (2026),The Hunt for Real Reality: The Myth of Disenchantment and the Romantic Turn (in progress).
- (2025), Understanding Cultural Sociology, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (submitted for publication; under contract).
- (2025), New Religious Movements and the Romantic Spirit of Modernity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (submitted for publication; under contract; with Stef Aupers and Galen Watts).
- (2024), The Shape of Spirituality: The Public Significance of a New Religious Formation, New York: Columbia University Press (edited with Galen Watts). [Book info]
- (2021), Science under Siege: Contesting the Secular Religion of Scientism, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 242 pp. (edited with Stef Aupers and Rudi Laermans). [Cover]
- (2017), Weber, Amsterdam: Boom, 156 pp. (with Rudi Laermans). [Info]
- (2012),Things: Religion and the Question of Materiality, New York: Fordham University Press, 474 pp. (edited with Birgit Meyer).
- (2012) (first edition 2008), Farewell to the Leftist Working Class, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 144 pp. (with Peter Achterberg and Anton Derks).
- (2011), Paradoxes of Individualization: Social Control and Social Conflict in Contemporary Modernity, Aldershot: Ashgate, 196 pp. (with Stef Aupers and Willem de Koster). [PDF introductory chapter] [Info] [Flyer]
- (2010), Authenticiteit: De culturele obsessie met echt en onecht, special issue Sociologie, vol. 6, no. 2, 128 pp. (edited with Johan Roeland and Stef Aupers).
- (2010), Religions of Modernity: Relocating the Sacred to the Self and the Digital, Leiden: Brill, 276 pp. (edited with Stef Aupers). [PDF]
- (2010), J.A.A. van Doorn en de Nederlandse sociologie: De erfenis, het debat en de toekomst, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 200 pp. (edited with Jacques van Hoof, Peter Mascini, René Moelker and Sjo Soeters). [PDF]
- (2009) (first edition 2003), Class and Politics in Contemporary Social Science: ‘Marxism Lite’ and Its Blind Spot for Culture, New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 196 pp. [PDF]
- (2008), Op jacht naar de echte werkelijkheid: Dromen over authenticiteit in een wereld zonder fundamenten, Amsterdam: Pallas Publications, 48 pp. [PDF]
- (2008), Farewell to the Leftist Working Class, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction (with Peter Achterberg and Anton Derks), 144 pp.
- (2004), 50 jaar Sociologische Gids (1953-2003): Een terugblik en een blik vooruit, 249 pp.(edited with Stef Aupers and Erik Snel).
- (2003), Class and Politics in Contemporary Social Science: ‘Marxism Lite’ and Its Blind Spot for Culture, New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 196 pp. [PDF]
- (2003), Cultuur telt: Sociologische opstellen voor Leo d’Anjou, Maastricht: Shaker, 212 pp. (edited with Bram Steijn and John van Male).
- (2003), Omstreden instituties, special issue Sociologische Gids, vol. 50, no. 2, 114 pp. (edited with Marc Hooghe).
- (2000), Een blinde vlek voor cultuur: Sociologen over cultureel conservatisme, klassen en moderniteit, Assen: Van Gorcum, 173 pp.
- (2000), Een onttovering van de wereld?, special issue Sociologische Gids, vol. 47, no. 5, 89 pp. (edited with Anneke van Otterloo).
- (1994), Werkloosheid en sociale rechtvaardigheid: Oordelen over de rechten en plichten van werklozen, Amsterdam: Boom, 255 pp.
- (1994), De vanzelfsprekendheid van vooruitgang: Over technologie, rationaliteit en sociale ongelijkheid, Amsterdam: Boom, 211 pp. (co-edited with Bram Steijn and Marco de Witte).
Articles / book chapters (non-Dutch)
- (2024), ‘The Good, the Bad, and the Unsustainable: Evaluations of Red Meat Alternatives in Italy’ (submitted for publication; with Maddalena Simeon).
- (2024), ‘The Specter of Scientism: What’s Wrong with Post-Truth Discourse?’ (in progress; with Jaron Harambam and Jolan Urkens).
- (2024), ‘The Subjectivation Thesis and the New Age Gender Puzzle’ (submitted for publication; with Paul Tromp and Galen Watts).
- (2024), ‘The Bearable Lightness of Being: Ironic Meaning-Making among the Non-Religious’ (submitted for publication; with Julia Peters, Julian Schaap and Stef Aupers).
- (2024), ‘New Left, New Right, and Religious Decline: “New” Cultural Voting in Western Europe (1990-2017)’ (submitted for publication; with Anna Pless).
- (2024), ‘Escaping the Grid: Modernity and Romanticism in the Early Twenty-First Century’ (submitted for publication; with Francesco Cerchiaro).
- (2024), ‘Salvaging Cultural Wheat from Institutional Chaff: Anti-Institutionalism in Religion, Politics and Science’, in: American Journal of Cultural Sociology (under revision; with Rudi Laermans and Massimiliano Simons).
- (2024), ‘The Specter of Authenticity: Sociology after the Deconstruction of Romanticism’, in: History of the Human Sciences (with Galen Watts). [Online First]
- (2024), ‘A Startling Alliance? Spirituality, Populism, and Antivaccination Protest’, in: Dick Houtman and Galen Watts (eds), The Shape of Spirituality: The Public Significance of a New Religious Formation, New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 241-265 (with Stef Aupers).
- (2024), ‘Introduction: Spirituality - Privatized Pseudo-Religion?’, in: Dick Houtman and Galen Watts (eds), The Shape of Spirituality: The Public Significance of a New Religious Formation, New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 1-37 (with Galen Watts).
- (2024), ‘Do “Spiritual” Self-identifications Signify Affinity with New Age Religion? Survey Evidence from The Netherlands’, in: Journal of Contemporary Religion, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 49-67 (with Paul Tromp and Anna Kulkova). [PDF] [LINK]
- (2023), ‘Prophets, Puppets, and Pinheads: Contesting the Authority of Science in the COVID-19 Era,’ Public Understanding of Science, vol. 32, no. 7, pp. 820-834 (with Jolan Urkens). [PDF]
- (2023), ‘Toward Electoral (Ir)relevance of Moral Traditionalism? Religious Decline and Voting in Western Europe (1981-2017)’, in: Politics and Religion, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 324-325 (with Anna Pless and Paul Tromp). [PDF]
- (2023), ‘Purification or Pollution? The Debate over “Workplace Spirituality,”’ in: Cultural Sociology, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 439-456 (with Galen Watts). [PDF]
- (2023), ‘The Spiritual Turn and the Disenchantment of the World: Max Weber, Peter Berger and the Religion-Science Conflict’, in: The Sociological Review, vol. 71, no. 1, pp. 261-279 (with Galen Watts). [PDF]
- (2023), ‘Religious and Secular Value Divides in Western Europe: A Cross-National Comparison (1981-2008)’, in: International Political Science Review, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 178-194 (with Anna Pless and Paul Tromp). [PDF]
- (2022), ‘A Smaller Pie with a Different Taste: The Evolution of the Western-European Religious Landscape (European Values Study, 1981-2017)’, in: Review of Religious Research, vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 127-144 (with Paul Tromp and Anna Pless). [PDF]
- (2021), ‘How Can Big Data Shape the Field of Non-Religion Studies? And Why Does It Matter?’, in: Patterns, vol. 2, no. 6 (with Dominik Balazka and Bruno Lepri). [PDF]
- (2021), ‘Stage Fright and Romanticism in Il Giro del Mondo’, in: Annals of Tourism Research, vol. 89 (July): 103201 (with Francesco Cerchiaro). [PDF]
- (2021), ‘Moral Traditionalism and Authoritarianism in Post-Communist Eastern Europe: Converging Cultural Value Divides?’, in: Elżbieta Hałas and Nicolas Maslowski (eds), Politics of Symbolization across Central and Eastern Europe, Berlin: Peter Lang, pp. 187-204 (with Anna Pless). [PDF]
- (2021), ‘Introduction: A Cultural Sociology of the Authority of Science’, in: Dick Houtman, Stef Aupers and Rudi Laermans (eds), Science under Siege: Contesting the Secular Religion of Scientism, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-34 (with Stef Aupers and Rudi Laermans). [PDF]
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(2021), ‘The Disenchantment of the World and the Authority of Sociology: How the Queen of the Sciences Lost Her Throne’, in: Dick Houtman, Stef Aupers and Rudi Laermans (eds), Science under Siege: Contesting the Secular Religion of Scientism, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 37-63. [PDF]
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(2021), ‘Chapter 3: The Post-Christian Spirituality Scale (PCSS): Misconceptions, Obstacles, Prospects’, in: Amy L. Ai, Paul Wink, Ray F. Paloutzian and Kevin A. Harris (eds), Assessing Spirituality in a Diverse World, Cham, Switzerland: Springer International, pp. 35-57 (with Paul Tromp). [PDF]
- (2021), ‘The Dark Side of the Welfare State: The Universal Basic Income between Citizenship and Social Justice’, in: Tijs Laenen, Bart Meuleman, Adeline Otto, Femke Roosma, and Wim Van Lancker (eds), Leading Social Policy Analysis from the Front: Essays in Honour of Wim van Oorschot, Leuven: Acco, pp. 169-180. [PDF]
- (2020), ‘After Secularization: Unbelief in Europe’, Religious Studies Project. [PDF]
- (2020), ‘The “New” Cultural Cleavage in Western Europe: A Coalescence of Religious and Secular Value Divides?’, in: Politics and Religion, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 445-464 (with Anna Pless and Paul Tromp). [PDF]
- (2020), ‘Class’, in: Adam Possamai and Anthony J.Blasi (eds), The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Religion (Volume 1), London: Sage, pp. 141-143. [PDF]
- (2020), ‘Socialization’, in: Adam Possamai and Anthony J. Blasi (eds), The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Religion (Volume 2), London: Sage, pp. 787-788. [PDF]
- (2020), ‘Pillarization’, in: Adam Possamai and Anthony J. Blasi (eds), The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Religion (Volume 2), London: Sage, pp. 579-581. [PDF]
- (2020), ‘Reenchantment and Disenchantment’, in: Adam Possamai and Anthony J. Blasi (eds), The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Religion (Volume 2), London: Sage, pp. 664-665. [PDF]
- (2020), ‘Quantitative Research’, in: Adam Possamai and Anthony J. Blasi (eds), The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Religion (Volume 2), London: Sage, pp. 649-652. [PDF]
- (2020), ‘New Age Movement’, in: Adam Possamai and Anthony J. Blasi (eds), The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Religion (Volume 2), London: Sage, pp. 534-536. [PDF]
- (2020), ‘“Believing without Belonging” in Twenty European Countries (1981-2008): De-Institutionalization of Christianity or Spiritualization of Religion?’, in: Review of Religious Research, vol. 62 (4), pp. 509-531 (with Paul Tromp and Anna Pless). [PDF]
- (2020), ‘Religion and Solidarity: The Vicissitudes of Protestantism’, in: Ine van Hoyweghen, Valeria Pulignano and Gert Meyers (eds), Shifting Solidarities: Trends and Developments in European Societies, London: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 229-249 (with Anneke Pons and Rudi Laermans). [PDF]
- (2019), ‘Buildings and Bibles between Profanization and Sacralization: Semiotic Ambivalence in the Protestant Dutch Bible Belt’, in: Material Religion, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 1-26 (with Anneke Pons, John Exalto, Johan Roeland, Fred van Lieburg and Maarten Wisse). [PDF]
- (2018), ‘Religious Polarization: Contesting Religion in Secularized Western European Countries’, in: Journal of Contemporary Religion, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 209-227 (with Egbert Ribberink and Peter Achterberg). [PDF]
- (2018), ‘Why There Is Less Supportive Evidence for Contact Theory Than They Say There Is: A Quantitative Cultural-Sociological Critique’, in: American Journal of Cultural Sociology, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 296-321 (with Katerina Manevska and Peter Achterberg). [PDF]
- (2018), ‘The Naked Truth: Mindfulness and the Purification of Religion’, Journal of Contemporary Religion, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 303-317 (with Liza Cortois and Stef Aupers). [PDF]
- (2017), ‘A Post-Secular Turn in Attitudes towards Religion? Anti-Religiosity and Anti-Muslim Sentiment in Western Europe’, in: Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, vol. 58, no. 4, pp. 803-830 (with Egbert Ribberink and Peter Achterberg). [PDF]
- (2017), ‘Secular Tolerance? Anti-Muslim Sentiment in Western Europe’, in: Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 259-276 (with Egbert Ribberink and Peter Achterberg). [PDF]
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(2016), ‘ВСЕ ЛИ СОЦИАЛИСТЫ АНТИРЕЛИГИОЗНЫ? АНТИРЕЛИГИОЗНОСТЬ И «ЛЕВЫЕ» В 21 СТРАНЕ ЗАПАДНОЙ ЕВРОПЫ (1990-2008 ГГ.)’, in: RUDN Journal of Political Science 2016 (4) (with Egbert Ribberink and Peter Achterberg). [PDF]
- (2016), ‘Quantitative Analysis in Cultural Sociology: Why It Should Be Done, How It Can Be Done’, in: David Inglis and Anna-Mari Almila (eds), Sage Handbook of Cultural Sociology. London: Sage, pp. 225-236 (with Peter Achterberg). [PDF]
- (2016), ‘A Necessary Evil that Does Not “Really” Cure Disease: The Domestication of Biomedicine by Dutch Holistic General Practitioners’, in: Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 242-257 (with Nadine Raaphorst). [PDF]
- (2016), ‘Pure Religion, Real Sacrality: The Cultural Logic of an Anti-Institutional Religious Tradition’, in: Robert Hefner, Christiane Timmerman, Luc Braeckmans and Sara Mels (eds), Religion and Culture in a Globalized World: New Paradigms and Research, Berlin: Peter Lang (forthcoming). [PDF]
- (2015), ‘Are All Socialists Anti-religious? Anti-Religiosity and the Socialist Left in 21 Western European Countries (1990-2008)’, in: Journal of Contemporary Religion, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 433-450 (with Egbert Ribberink and Peter Achterberg). [PDF]
- (2015), ‘Christian-Muslim Couples in the Veneto Region, Northeastern Italy: Dealing with Religious Pluralism in Everyday Family Life’, in: Social Compass, vol. 62, no. 1, pp. 43-60 (with Francesco Cerchiaro and Stef Aupers). [PDF]
- (2015), ‘State of Disgrace: Popular Political Discontents about the Dutch State in the 2000s’, in: Parliamentary Affairs, vol. 68, no. 3, pp. 476-493 (with Roy Kemmers, Stef Aupers and Jeroen van der Waal). [PDF]
- (2015), ‘Spirituality’, in: Robert A. Segal and Kocku von Stuckrad (eds), Vocabulary for the Study of Religion (Volume Three), Leiden: Brill, pp. 394-399 (with Paul Heelas).
- (2014), ‘Advertising Real Beer: Authenticity Claims beyond Truth and Falsity’, in: European Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 17, no. 5, pp. 585-601 (with Carly O’Neill and Stef Aupers). [PDF]
- (2013), ‘Neoliberalism and Work-Related Risks: Individual or Collective Responsibilization?’, in: Journal of Risk Research, vol. 16, no. 10, pp. 1209-1224 (with Peter Mascini and Peter Achterberg). [PDF]
- (2013), ‘Chapter 11: Beyond the Spiritual Supermarket: The Social and Public Significance of New Age Spirituality’, in: Steven J. Sutcliffe and Ingvild Saelid Gilhus (eds), New Age Spirituality: Rethinking Religion, Durham: Acumen, pp. 174-196 (with Stef Aupers).
- (2013), ‘Deprivatization of Disbelief? Non-Religiosity and Anti-Religiosity in 14 Western European Countries’, in: Politics & Religion, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 101-120 (with Egbert Ribberink and Peter Achterberg). [PDF]
- (2013), ‘The Contentious Gap: From Digital Divide to Cultural Beliefs about Online Interactions’, in: Information, Communication & Society, vol. 16, no. 7, pp. 1093-1114 (with Jaron Harambam and Stef Aupers). [PDF]
- (2012), ‘Beyond the Domestication of Nature? Restructuring the Relationship between Nature and Technology in Car Commercials’, in: European Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 3-18 (with Stef Aupers, Peter Achterberg, Willem de Koster, Peter Mascini, Johan Roeland and Jeroen van der Waal). [PDF]
- (2012), ‘Trajectories to the New Age: The Spiritual Turn of the First Generation of Dutch New Age Teachers’, in: Social Compass, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 239-256 (with Anneke van Otterloo and Stef Aupers). [PDF]
- (2012), ‘Counting Spirituality? Survey Methodology after the Spiritual Turn’, in: Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion - Volume Three: New Methods in the Sociology of Religion, pp. 25-44 (with Paul Heelas and Peter Achterberg). [PDF]
- (2012), ‘Introduction: Material Religion – How Things Matter’, in: Dick Houtman and Birgit Meyer (eds), Things: Religion and the Question of Materiality, New York: Fordham University Press, pp. 1-23 (with Birgit Meyer).
- (2012), ‘In Their Own Image? Catholic, Protestant and Holistic Spiritual Appropriations of the Internet’, in: Dick Houtman and Birgit Meyer (eds), Things: Religion and the Question of Materiality, New York: Fordham University Press, pp. 379-392 (with Ineke Noomen and Stef Aupers).
- (2012), ‘Fantasy, Conspiracy and the Romantic Legacy: Max Weber and the Spirit of Contemporary Popular Culture’, in: Adam Possamai (ed.), Handbook of Hyper-Real Religions, Leiden: Brill, pp. 401-422 (with Johan Roeland and Stef Aupers).
- (2012), ‘RAMP Findings and Making Sense of the “God Within Each Person, Rather than Out There”’, in: Paul Heelas (ed.), Spirituality in the Modern World: Within Religious Tradition and Beyond (Volume One), London: Routledge, pp. 371-389 (with Paul Heelas).
- (2012), ‘The Spiritual Turn and the Decline of Tradition: The Spread of Post-Christian Spirituality in 14 Western Countries, 1981-2000’, in: Paul Heelas (ed.), Spirituality in the Modern World: Within Religious Tradition and Beyond (Volume One), London: Routledge, pp. 390-412 (with Stef Aupers).
- (2012), ‘Christian Religiosity and New Age Spirituality: A Cross-Cultural Comparison’, in: Paul Heelas (ed.), Spirituality in the Modern World: Within Religious Tradition and Beyond (Volume One), London: Routledge, pp. 435-437 (with Stef Aupers and Paul Heelas).
- (2012), ‘Beyond the Spiritual Supermarket: The Social and Public Significance of New Age Spirituality’, in: Paul Heelas (ed.), Spirituality in the Modern World: Within Religious Tradition and Beyond (Volume Three), London: Routledge, pp. 3-28 (with Stef Aupers).
- (2012), ‘Spirituality and Environmental Consciousness in the Netherlands: A Comparison of Holistic Spirituality and Christian Dualism’, in: Paul Heelas (ed.), Spirituality in the Modern World: Within Religious Tradition and Beyond (Volume Four), London: Routledge, pp. 164-182 (with Samira van Bohemen, Peter Achterberg and Katerina Manevska). [PDF]
- (2012), ‘Why do Churches become Empty, while New Age Grows? Secularization and Religious Change in the Netherlands’, in: Paul Heelas (ed.), Spirituality in the Modern World: Within Religious Tradition and Beyond (Volume Four), London: Routledge. pp. 308-333 (with Peter Mascini).
- (2012), ‘Amsterdam’, in: Mark Juergensmeyer and Wade Clark Roof (eds), Encyclopedia of Global Religion, Newbury Park: Sage, pp. 30-31 (with Jeroen van der Waal). [PDF]
- (2011), ‘In Their Own Image? Catholic, Protestant and Holistic Spiritual Appropriations of the Internet’, in: Information, Communication and Society, vol. 14, no. 8, pp. 1097-1117 (with Ineke Noomen and Stef Aupers). [PDF]
- (2011), ‘Two of a Kind? An Empirical Investigation of Anti-Welfarism and Economic Egalitarianism’, in: Public Opinion Quarterly , vol. 75, no. 4, pp. 748-760 (with Peter Achterberg and Anton Derks). [PDF]
- (2011), ‘Tolerance in the Postindustrial City: Assessing the Ethnocentrism of Less-Educated Natives in 22 Dutch Cities’, in: Urban Affairs Review, vol. 47, no. 5, pp. 642-671 (with Jeroen van der Waal). [PDF]
- (2011), ‘Resisting Administrative Tolerance in the Netherlands: A Rightist Backlash?’, in: British Journal of Criminology, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 690-706 (with Peter Mascini). [PDF]
- (2011), ‘Game Over? Negotiating Modern Capitalism in Online Game Worlds’, in: European Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 299-320 (with Jaron Harambam and Stef Aupers). [PDF]
- (2011), ‘A Cultural Globalization of Popular Music? American, Dutch, French, and German Popular Music Charts (1965 to 2005)’, in: American Behavioral Scientist, vol. 55, no. 5, pp. 589-608 (with Peter Achterberg, Johan Heilbron and Stef Aupers). [PDF]
- (2011), ‘Christian Religion in the West: Privatization or Public Revitalization?’, in: Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion - Volume Two: Religion and Politics, pp. 119-134 (with Johan Roeland, Peter Achterberg, Stef Aupers, Willem de Koster, Peter Mascini and Jeroen van der Waal).
- (2011), ‘Religious Revitalization in the West’, in: Giovanni Maria Ruggiero, Sandra Sassaroli, Yael Latzer and Sonia Suchday (eds), Perspectives on Immigration and Terrorism, Amsterdam: IOS Press, pp. 6-16 (with Peter Achterberg and Johan Roeland).
- (2010), ‘“Some Are More Equal than Others”: Economic Egalitarianism and Welfare Chauvinism in the Netherlands’, in: Journal of European Social Policy, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 350-363 (with Jeroen van der Waal, Peter Achterberg, Willem de Koster and Katerina Manevska). [PDF]
- (2010), ‘Unknowing but Supportive? Predispositions, Knowledge, and Support for Hydrogen Technology in the Netherlands’, in: International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, vol. 35, no. 12, pp. 6075-6083 (with Peter Achterberg, Samira van Bohemen and Katerina Manevska). [PDF]
- (2010), ‘Deux gauches, deux droites: Vote de classe et vote culturel aux Pays-Bas, 2002 [Two Lefts and Two Rights: Class Voting and Cultural Voting in the Netherlands, 2002]’, in: Sociologie, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 61-76 (with Peter Achterberg). [PDF]
- (2010), ‘Religions of Modernity: Relocating the Sacred to the Self and the Digital’, in: Stef Aupers and Dick Houtman (eds), Religions of Modernity: Relocating the Sacred to the Self and the Digital, Leiden: Brill, pp. 1-29 (with Stef Aupers).
- (2010), ‘Beyond the Spiritual Supermarket: The Social and Public Significance of New Age Spirituality’, in: Stef Aupers and Dick Houtman (eds), Religions of Modernity: Relocating the Sacred to the Self and the Digital, Leiden: Brill, pp. 135-160 (with Stef Aupers).
- (2010), ‘Chapter 18: New Age Ethics’, in: Mel Gray and Stephen Webb (eds), Ethics and Value Perspectives in Social Work, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 207-218 (with Stef Aupers).
- (2010), ‘The Quest for Religious Purity in New Age, Evangelicalism and Islam: Religious Renditions of Dutch Youth and the Luckmann Legacy’, in: Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion, Volume 1: Youth and Religion, pp. 289-306 (with Stef Aupers, Martijn de Koning, Ineke Noomen and Johan Roeland). [PDF]
- (2009), ‘A Christian Cancellation of the Secularist Truce? Waning Christian Religiosity and Waxing Religious Deprivatization in the West’, in: Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, vol. 48, no. 4, pp. 687-701 (with Peter Achterberg, Stef Aupers, Willem de Koster, Peter Mascini and Jeroen van der Waal). [PDF]
- (2009), ‘Ideologically “Illogical”? Why Do the Lower-Educated Dutch Display so Little Value Coherence?’, in: Social Forces, vol. 87, no. 3, pp. 1649-1670 (with Peter Achterberg). [PDF]
- (2009), ‘Christian Religiosity and New Age Spirituality: A Cross-Cultural Comparison’, in: Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 169-178 (with Stef Aupers and Paul Heelas). [PDF]
- (2009), ‘RAMP Findings and Making Sense of the “God Within each Person, Rather than Out There”‘, in: Journal of Contemporary Religion, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 83-98 (with Paul Heelas). [PDF]
- (2008), ‘The Rise of the Penal State: Neo-Liberalization or New Political Culture?’, in: British Journal of Criminology, vol. 48, no. 6, pp. 720-734 (with Peter Achterberg, Willem de Koster, and Jeroen van der Waal). [PDF]
- (2008), ‘“Stormfront Is Like a Second Home to Me”: On Virtual Community Formation by Right-Wing Extremists’, in: Information, Communication and Society, vol. 11, no. 8, pp. 1153-1175 (with Willem de Koster). [PDF]
- (2008), ‘The Spiritual Revolution and the New Age Gender Puzzle: The Sacralisation of the Self in Late Modernity (1980-2000)’, in: Giselle Vincett, Sonya Sharma en Kristin Aune (eds), Women and Religion in the West: Challenging Secularization, Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 99-118 (with Stef Aupers).
- (2008), ‘The Sacralization of the Self: Relocating the Sacred on the Ruins of Tradition’, in: Hent de Vries (ed.), Religion: Beyond a Concept, New York: Fordham University Press, pp. 798-812 (with Stef Aupers). [PDF]
- (2008), ‘Cybergnosis: Technology, Religion and the Secular’, in: Hent de Vries (ed.), Religion: Beyond a Concept, New York: Fordham University Press, p. 687-703 (with Stef Aupers and Peter Pels).[PDF]
- (2007), ‘Class Is Not Dead – It Has Been Buried Alive: Class Voting and Cultural Voting in Postwar Western Societies (1956-1990)’, in: World Political Science Review, vol. 3, no. 4, art. 3 (with Jeroen van der Waal and Peter Achterberg; available at https://www.bepress.com/wpsr/vol3/iss4/art3).
- (2007), ‘The Spiritual Turn and the Decline of Tradition: The Spread of Post-Christian Spirituality in 14 Western Countries, 1981-2000’, in: Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 305-320 (with Stef Aupers). [PDF]
- (2007), ‘Class Is Not Dead – It Has Been Buried Alive: Class Voting and Cultural Voting in Postwar Western Societies (1956-1990)’, in: Politics and Society, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 403-426 (with Jeroen van der Waal and Peter Achterberg). [PDF]
- (2006), ‘Oriental Religion in the Secular West: Globalization, New Age, and the Reenchantment of the World’, in: Sanjeev Mahajan (ed.), Globalization and Social Change, New Delhi: Lotus Press, pp. 82-105 (with Stef Aupers). [PDF]
- (2006), ‘Rehabilitation and Repression: Reassessing Their Ideological Embeddedness’, in: British Journal of Criminology, vol. 46, no. 5, pp. 822-836 (with Peter Mascini). [PDF]
- (2006), ‘Beyond the Spiritual Supermarket: The Social and Public Significance of New Age Spirituality’, in: Journal of Contemporary Religion, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 201-222 (with Stef Aupers). [PDF]
- (2006), ‘Soul-Searching in Cyberspace: Christianity and New Age on the Internet’, in: Kristu Jyoti Journal: Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 93-107 (with Ineke Noomen and Stef Aupers).
- (2006), ‘Why Do So Many People Vote “Unnaturally”? A Cultural Explanation for Voting Behavior’, in: European Journal of Political Research, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 75-92 (with Peter Achterberg). [PDF]
- (2006), ‘La Spiritualità Come Concetto Sociologico’, in Giuseppe Giordan (ed.), Tra Religione e Spiritualità: Il Rapporto con il Sacro nell’Epoca del Pluralismo, Milano: Franco Angeli, pp. 48-70 (with Stef Aupers).
- (2005), ‘“Reality Sucks”: On Alienation and Cybergnosis’, in: Erik Borgman, Stephan van Erp, and Hille Haker (eds), Cyber Space - Cyber Ethics - Cyber Theology, special issue Concilium: International Journal of Theology, no. 1, pp. 81-89 (also published in the Spanish, German, Italian, and Portuguese editions of Concilium as, respectively, ‘“Chupadas reales”: Sobre alienación y cibergnosis’, ‘“Realität ist voll ätzend”: Entfremdung und Cybergnosis’, “‘La realtà fa schifo”: Sull’alienazione e la cybergnosi’, and ‘“A realidade suga”: Sobre alienação e cibergnose’, with Stef Aupers). [PDF]
- (2004), ‘Lipset and “Working-Class” Authoritarianism’, in: Irving Louis Horowitz (ed.), Civil Society and Class Politics: Essays on the Political Sociology of Seymour Martin Lipset, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, pp. 131-160.
- (2003), ‘Oriental Religion in the Secular West: Globalization, New Age, and the Reenchantment of the World’, in: Journal of National Development, vol. 16, nos. 1&2, pp. 67-86 (with Stef Aupers). [PDF]
- (2003), ‘Lipset and “Working-Class” Authoritarianism’, in: American Sociologist, special issue in honor of Seymour Martin Lipset, vol. 34, Spring/Summer, pp. 86-105. [PDF]
- (2002), ‘Why Do Churches Become Empty, While New Age Grows? Secularization and Religious Change in the Netherlands’, in: Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 455-473 (with Peter Mascini). [PDF]
- (2001), ‘Class, Culture, and Conservatism: Reassessing Education as a Variable in Political Sociology’, in: Terry Nichols Clark and Seymour Martin Lipset (eds), The Breakdown of Class Politics: A Debate on Post-Industrial Stratification, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 161-195.
- (2000), ‘The Working Class and the Welfare State: Support for Economic Redistribution, Tolerance for Nonconformity, and the Conditionality of Solidarity with the Unemployed’, in: Netherlands’ Journal of Social Sciences, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 37-55. [PDF]
- (1998), ‘Proletarianization of the Dutch Middle Class: Fact or Fiction?’, in: Bram Steijn, Jan Berting, and Mart-Jan de Jong (eds), Economic Restructuring and the Growing Uncertainty of the Middle Class, Dordrecht: Kluwer, pp. 73-92 (with Bram Steijn).
- (1997), ‘Contested Conceptions of Citizenship: Judgments on the Rights and Obligations of the Unemployed’, in: Mart-Jan de Jong and Anton Zijderveld (eds), The Gift of Society, Nijkerk: Enzo Press, pp. 113-132.
- (1997), ‘Welfare State, Unemployment, and Social Justice: Judgments on the Rights and Obligations of the Unemployed’, in: Social Justice Research, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 267-288. [PDF]
- (1996), ‘Science, Religion, and Modernity: Values and Lifestyles of University Professors’, in: Darshana International, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 63-84.
- (1992), ‘Citizenship and Social Justice’, in: Social Justice Research, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 195-212 (with Ton Bernts and Leo d’Anjou). [PDF]
Articles / book chapters (Dutch)
- (2022), ‘In de schaduw van de secularisering: Over godsdienstsociologie, spiritualiteit en romantiek’, in: Jurre van den Berg, Marcel Ham, Rie Bosman, and Godfried Engbersen (eds), Raadselen van de maatschappij: Honderd jaar sociologie in Nederland, Amsterdam: Van Gennep, pp. 33-47. [PDF]
- (2022), ‘Sociologische theorie’, in: RL in 51.826 woorden. Lokeren: PRESENTFUTURE. [PDF]
- (2020), ‘Dagcrème voor mannen, bier voor vrouwen: Voorbij genderstereotypen in reclame?’, Sociale Vraagstukken, January 2020 (with Dagmar Bicqué). [Link]
- (2019), ‘Dagcrème voor mannen, bier voor vrouwen: Voorbij genderstereotypen in reclame?’, in: Sociologie, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 149-173 (with Dagmar Bicqué). [PDF]
- (2018), ‘Waarom er minder empirisch bewijs bestaat voor de contacttheorie dan velen beweren: Een kwantitatieve cultuursociologische kritiek’, in: Sociologie, vol. 14, no. 2/3, pp. 147-176 (with Katerina Manevska and Peter Achterberg). [PDF]
- (2018), ‘Feiten? Welke feiten?! Over fact-based en fact-free politics’, in: Christen Democratische Verkenningen, vol. 2018, Spring, pp. 99-103. [PDF]
- (2016), ‘Staat van ongenade: Politiek onbehagen over de Nederlandse staat in de jaren 2000’, in: Res Publica, vol. 58, no. 6, pp. 511-513 (with Roy Kemmers, Stef Aupers and Jeroen van der Waal). [PDF]
- (2014), ‘Sociologie en levensbeschouwing: De onttovering van de wereld en de blinde vlek van de sociologie’, in: Sociologos: Tijdschrift voor Sociologie, vol. 35, no. 1/2, pp. 107-114. [PDF]
- (2014), ‘Authenticiteit: Over bloedworst, wildernis en sociologie’, in: Karakter: Tijdschrift van Wetenschap, no. 48. [LINK] [PDF]
- (2013), ‘Als de dingen nog slechts “zijn” en “gebeuren”: Naar een onttoverde experimentele cultuursociologie’, in: Tijdschrift voor Sociologie, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 197-226 (with Peter Achterberg and Katerina Manevska). [PDF]
- (2013), ‘Werken in vrijheid?’, in: Tijdschrift voor Arbeidsvraagstukken, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 87-89 (with Fabian Dekker). [PDF]
- (2013), ‘De gevolgen van politieke personalisering’, in: Remieg Aerts and Peter de Goede (ed.), Omstreden democratie: Over de problemen van een succesverhaal, Amsterdam: Boom, pp. 187-206 (with Peter Achterberg).
- (2012), ‘De experimentele nagel en de cultuursociologische doodskist: Op jacht naar een bunkerharde cultuursociologie’, in: Ignace Glorieux, Jessy Siongers and Wendy Smits (eds), Mark Elchardus: Cultuursociologie buiten de lijnen, Tielt: Lannoo, pp. 386-410 (with Peter Achterberg). [PDF]
- (2012), ‘Het zijn net mensen: Politieke personalisering en haar gevolgen’, in: Sociologie Magazine, vol. 20, no. 2 (with Peter Achterberg).
- (2012), ‘Nostalgisch dromen over een echte werkelijkheid: Paul Kalma en de culturalisering van de politiek’, in: Socialisme & Democratie, vol. 69, no. 2, pp. 45-49 (with Peter Achterberg). [PDF]
- (2012), ‘De wedergeboorte van de fact-free politics: Fortuyns erfenis leeft voort’, Sociale Vraagstukken, vol. 66, no. 5/6, pp. 30-33 (with Peter Achterberg and Roy Kemmers).
- (2012), ‘Fortuyn en de wedergeboorte van de fact-free politics’, Sociale Vraagstukken, May 2012. [LINK]
- (2012), ‘De Haagse kaasstolp en de mensen in de samenleving: Populisme en personalisering in de Nederlandse politiek’, in: Bestuurskundige Berichten, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 6-9 (with Peter Achterberg).
- (2012), ‘De wedergeboorte van de fact-free politics: Pim Fortuyn en de nieuwe tegencultuur (2002-2012)’, in: Beleid & Maatschappij, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 179-193 (with Peter Achterberg and Roy Kemmers). [PDF]
- (2012), ‘Alledaags postmodernisme: De gezagscrisis van de hedendaagse wetenschap’, in: Beleidsonderzoek Online, vol. 1, no. 1 (with Stef Aupers and Peter Achterberg). [LINK] [PDF]
- (2012), ‘Religie, wetenschap en onsterfelijkheid in het Westen’, in: Sociologie Magazine, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 6-9 (with Stef Aupers). [PDF]
- (2012), ‘Naar hun eigen evenbeeld? Dilemma’s van Katholieke, Protestantse en holistisch-spirituele webdesigners’, in: Albert Benschop and Connie Menting (eds), Zinzoekers op het web: Internet en de verandering van geloofsbeleving, Vught: Skandalon, pp. 83-111 (with Ineke Noomen and Stef Aupers). [PDF]
- (2012), ‘Wetenschap, ook maar een mening? Over fact-free politics en alledaags postmodernisme’, in: Vic Veldheer (ed.), De gevolgen van ‘fact-free politics’ voor beleid en onderzoek, Den Haag/Nijmegen: SCP/NSV, pp. 17-21. [PDF]
- (2011), ‘Wetenschap, ook maar een mening?’, Waterstof, no. 59, www.waterlandstichting.nl, December 2011. [LINK] [PDF]
- (2011), ‘Wetenschap, ook maar een mening?’, Sociale Vraagstukken, December 15, 2011. [LINK]
- (2011), ‘Dromen over eeuwig leven: Vluchten voor de dood in een geseculariseerde samenleving’, in: Herman Paul and Wilke de Braal (eds), Dood voor onze ogen: Leven in het licht van de eeuwigheid, Utrecht: Kok, pp. 29-50 (with Stef Aupers and Joanna Wojtkowiak). [PDF]
- (2011), ‘Een verhaal om in te wonen’, in: De Groene Amsterdammer, April 19, 2011. [LINK]
- (2011), ‘Feiten, feiten... Wie maalt er nog om feiten?’, in: NRC-Handelsblad, katern Opinie & Debat, April 9-10, pp. 46-47 (with Peter Achterberg and Stef Aupers). [PDF]
- (2011), ‘Fantasy, paranoia en het romantisch erfgoed: Max Weber en de geest van de hedendaagse populaire cultuur’, in: Sociologie, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 3-20 (with Johan Roeland and Stef Aupers). [PDF]
- (2011), ‘Leven in een ervaringssamenleving: De hang naar beleving in het hedendaagse westen’, in: Speling, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 8-14. [PDF]
- (2011), ‘Zeg eens nee tegen een survey (II): Lekker rotzooien met relaties tussen variabelen’, in: Sociologie Magazine, vol. 19, no. 2 (with Peter Achterberg). [PDF]
- (2011), ‘Zeg eens nee tegen een survey (I): Lekker neuzen tellen?’, in: Sociologie Magazine, vol. 19, no. 1 (with Peter Achterberg). [PDF] [LINK]
- (2011), ‘Verzet tegen gedoogbeleid: Iets typisch rechts?’, in: Recht der werkelijkheid, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 7-25 (with Peter Mascini). [PDF]
- (2010), ‘“Te ongelovig om atheïst te zijn”: Over de-privatisering van ongeloof’, in: Religie & samenleving, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 209-226 (with Egbert Ribberink). [PDF]
- (2010), ‘Een volk wars van betutteling: De gevolgen van Wilders’ succes voor SP, GroenLinks en PvdA’, in: Spanning: Maandblad van het Wetenschappelijk Bureau van de SP, vol. 12, no. 11, pp. 8-12 (with Peter Achterberg). [PDF]
- (2010), ‘Authenticiteit: De culturele obsessie met echt en onecht’, in: Sociologisch Mokum, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 20-23 (with Stef Aupers and Johan Roeland). [PDF]
- (2010), ‘Van God los: Post-christelijk cultureel conflict in Nederland’, in: Sociologie, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 27-49 (with Willem de Koster, Peter Achterberg and Jeroen van der Waal). [PDF]
- (2010), ‘Tolerantie in de postindustriële stad: Het etnocentrisme van laagopgeleiden in 22 Nederlandse steden onderzocht’, in: Sociologie, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 74-97 (with Jeroen van der Waal). [PDF]
- (2010), ‘Yogho! Yogho!, bereid uit natuurlijke ingrediënten volgens eeuwenoude familietraditie? Constructie en deconstructie van authenticiteitsclaims in de reclame’, in: Sociologie, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 105-124 (with Stef Aupers and Vatan Hüzeir). [PDF]
- (2010), ‘Zoeken naar zuiverheid: Religieuze purificatie onder jonge new agers, evangelicalen en moslims’, in: Sociologie, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 11-29 (with Johan Roeland, Stef Aupers, Martijn de Koning and Ineke Noomen). [PDF]
- (2010), ‘Authenticiteit: De culturele obsessie met echt en onecht’, in: Sociologie, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 3-10 (with Stef Aupers and Johan Roeland). [PDF]
- (2010), ‘Methodologische nagels en statistische haren, of nogmaals: Wat is er mis met de Nederlandse sociologie? Antwoord aan Wittek en Bröer’, in: Sociologie, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 94-101. [PDF]
- (2010), ‘De Haagse kaasstolp en de mensen in de samenleving: Populisme en personalisering in de Nederlandse politiek’, in: Sociologie, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 102-111 (with Peter Achterberg). [PDF]
- (2010), ‘Sommigen zijn gelijker dan anderen’: Economisch egalitarisme en verzorgingsstaatschauvinisme in Nederland, in: Sociologie, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 3-25 (with Katerina Manevska, Jeroen van der Waal, Peter Achterberg and Willem de Koster). [PDF]
- (2010), ‘J.A.A. van Doorn en de moderne sociologie: Het einde van een intellectuele traditie’, in: Jacques van Hoof, Dick Houtman, Peter Mascini, René Moelker and Sjo Soeters (eds), J.A.A. van Doorn en de Nederlandse sociologie: De erfenis, het debat en de toekomst, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 155-176. [PDF]
- (2010), ‘Slotbeschouwing: Van Doorn en de toekomst van de sociologie’, in: Jacques van Hoof, Dick Houtman, Peter Mascini, René Moelker and Sjo Soeters (eds), J.A.A. van Doorn en de Nederlandse sociologie: De erfenis, het debat en de toekomst, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 177-191 (with Jacques van Hoof, Peter Mascini, René Moelker and Sjo Soeters).
- (2010), ‘Woord vooraf’ (with Jacques van Hoof, Peter Mascini, René Moelker and Sjo Soeters), in: Jacques van Hoof, Dick Houtman, Peter Mascini, René Moelker and Sjo Soeters (eds), J.A.A. van Doorn en de Nederlandse sociologie: De erfenis, het debat en de toekomst, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 9-13.
- (2010), ‘Populisme in de polder: Stemmen en mopperen in een post-confessionele politieke cultuur’, in: Kritiek: Jaarboek voor socialistische discussie en analyse , Amsterdam: Aksant, pp. 11-31 (with Peter Achterberg). [PDF]
- (2010), ‘Verzorgingsstaatschauvinisme in Nederland’, in: Ronald Batenburg, Paul de Beer, Jos Mevissen and Kea Tijdens, (ed.), Arbeid in crisis?, Den Haag: Boom Lemma, pp. 131-142 (with Peter Achterberg, Willem de Koster, Katerina Manevska and Jeroen van der Waal),
- (2009), ‘Een halve eeuw na Moderne Sociologie (1959): J.A.A. van Doorn is dood en de sociologie voelt zich niet zo lekker’, in Sociologie, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 521-539.[PDF]
- (2009), ‘Wetenschap, religie en emotie in een onttoverende wereld’, in: Gevoel voor kennis: Jaarboek Kennissamenleving - Deel 5, Amsterdam: Aksant, pp. 49-66. [PDF]
- (2009), ‘De onttovering van de wereld: Over religie, wetenschap en postmoderne cultuur’, in: Pieter Beunder, Willem Lock, Robert van Putten and Gert Weerheim (eds), Postmodern gereformeerd: Naar een visie op christen-zijn in de hedendaagse belevingscultuur, Amsterdam: Buijten en Schipperheijn, pp. 22-39. [PDF]
- (2009), ‘Dialectiek van secularisering: Hoe de afname van Christelijke religiositeit leidt tot haar wederopstanding in 18 westerse landen’, in: Sociologie, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 324-342 (with Peter Achterberg, Willem de Koster, Stef Aupers, Peter Mascini, and Jeroen van der Waal). [PDF]
- (2009), ‘Arbeiders en schoolmeesters: Een huwelijk in crisis’, in: Socialisme & Democratie, vol. 66, no. 6, pp. 22-27 (with Peter Achterberg). [PDF]
- (2009), ‘Op jacht naar het ultieme spel: World of Warcraft, Second Life en de commercialisering van virtuele spelwerelden’, in: Sociologie, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 27-47 (with Jaron Harambam and Stef Aupers). [PDF]
- (2009), ‘“Gewoon jezelf zijn”: Jongerencultuur veertig jaar na mei 1968’, in: Paul van Geest, Shekufeh Jalali Manesh, Jan Prij and Andrea van de Velde (eds), Tegengif in crisistijd, Amsterdam: Boom, pp. 48-56 (with Stef Aupers and Peter Achterberg). [PDF]
- (2009), ‘Boerka’s, boerkini’s en belastingcenten: Culturele en politieke polarisatie in een post-Christelijke samenleving’, in: Raad voor Maatschappelijke Ontwikkeling (ed.), Polarisatie: Bedreigend en verrijkend, Amsterdam: SWP Publishers, pp. 102-119 (with Jan Willem Duyvendak). [PDF]
- (2009), ‘“Gewoon jezelf zijn”: Jongerencultuur veertig jaar na mei 1968’, in: Christen Democratische Verkeningen, Lente, pp. 48-56 (with Stef Aupers and Peter Achterberg). [PDF]
- (2008), ‘De opkomst van de strafstaat: Neo-liberalisering of een nieuwe politieke cultuur?’ in: Sociologie, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 311-325 (with Willem de Koster, Jeroen van der Waal and Peter Achterberg). [PDF]
- (2008), ‘Hoofdstuk 10. New Age: Post-Christelijke religie in het geseculariseerde westen’, in: Meerten ter Borg, Erik Borgman, Marjo Buitelaar, Yme Kuiper and Rob Plum (eds), Handboek religie in Nederland: Perspectief - overzicht - debat, Zoetermeer: Meinema, pp. 282-300 (with Stef Aupers).
- (2008), ‘Een olifant in de porseleinkast’, in: Sociologie, vol. 4, no. 2-3, pp. 222-224. [PDF]
- (2008), ‘God in Nederland 1996-2006: Enkele godsdienstsociologische routines ter discussie, in: Religie & samenleving, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 17-35. [PDF]
- (2008), ‘De vermeende politieke losbandigheid van de middenklasse’, in: Marcel ten Hooven, Peter Cuyvers, Martijn Lampert and Jan Prij (eds), Benauwd in het midden, Amsterdam: Boom, pp. 121-128 (with Peter Achterberg). [PDF]
- (2008), ‘De verhitte politieke cultuur van een ontzuilde samenleving’, in: Bart Snels and Noortje Thijssen (eds), De grote kloof: Verhitte politiek in tijden van verwarring, Amsterdam: Boom, pp. 61-80 (with Peter Achterberg and Jan Willem Duyvendak).
- (2007), ‘Klasse is niet dood - Zij is levend begraven: Klassengebonden stemgedrag en cultureel stemgedrag sinds de Tweede Wereldoorlog (1956-1990)’, in: Res Publica, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 559-576 (with Jeroen van der Waal and Peter Achterberg). [PDF]
- (2006), ‘Toevluchtsoord voor een bedreigde soort: Over virtuele gemeenschapsvorming door rechts-extremisten’, in: Sociologie, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 232-248 (with Willem de Koster). [PDF]
- (2006), ‘Op de ruïnes van de traditie: Individualisering, culturele verandering en de de toekomst van de sociologie’, in: Godfried Engbersen and Jos de Haan (eds), Balans en toekomst van de sociologie, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 211-223. [PDF]
- (2004), ‘Posttraditionele identiteiten tussen essentialisme en relativisme: Over identiteitspolitiek, nieuwe sociale bewegingen en het spook van het postmodernisme’, in: Marc Hooghe and Jaak Billiet (eds), Historische en sociologische benaderingen van nieuwe sociale bewegingen, Gent: ODIS, pp. 485-507. Reprint of [PDF]
- (2004), ‘50 jaar Sociologische Gids (1953-2003): Een terugblik en een blik vooruit’ (redactionele inleiding), in: Sociologische Gids, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 309-317 (with Stef Aupers and Erik Snel). [PDF]
- (2004), ‘Posttraditionele identiteiten tussen essentialisme en relativisme: Over identiteitspolitiek, nieuwe sociale bewegingen en het spook van het postmodernisme’, in: Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Nieuwste Geschiedenis, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 485-507. [PDF]
- (2003), ‘De onttovering van de wereld en de crisis van de sociologie: Hoe de sociologen van God’s schoot zijn getuimeld’, in: Dick Houtman, Bram Steijn, and John van Male (eds), Cultuur telt: Sociologische opstellen voor Leo d’Anjou’, Maastricht: Shaker, pp. 35-57. [PDF]
- (2003), ‘Arbeidssatisfactie: Een aanpassingsfenomeen?’, in: Tijdschrift voor Arbeidsvraagstukken, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 214-228 (with Peter Achterberg and Bert Jetten). [PDF]
- (2003), ‘Omstreden instituties: Instellingen in een geïndividualiseerde samenleving’, in: Sociologische Gids, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 115-130 (with Marc Hooghe). [PDF]
- (2003), ‘“Gewoon worden wie je bent”: Over authenticiteit en anti-institutionalisme’, in: Sociologische Gids, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 203-223 (with Stef Aupers and Inge van der Tak). [PDF]
- (2003), ‘Het spook van de rechtse arbeidersklasse: Een culturele verklaring voor “tegennatuurlijk” stemgedrag’, in: Sociologische Gids, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 8-25 (with Peter Achterberg). [PDF]
- (2002), ‘Resocialisatie als tegenpool van repressie: Een springlevend criminologisch misverstand’, in: Tijdschrift voor Criminologie, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 25-45 (with Peter Mascini). [PDF]
- (2002), ‘Echte wetenschap’, in: Sociologische Gids, vol. 49, no.1, pp. 5-8.
- (2002), ‘Subjectivering, neo-gnosticisme en postmodern relativisme: Anton Zijderveld en de analyse van de moderne cultuur’, in: Hans van de Braak and Ton Bevers (eds), De waarde van instituties: Essays voor Anton Zijderveld, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 140-164.
- (2000), ‘Waarom lopen de kerken leeg, maar groeit New Age? Over individualisering, secularisering en religieuze verandering’, in: Amsterdams Sociologisch Tijdschrift, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 477-508 (with Peter Mascini and Marieke Gels).
- (2000), ‘De moderne cultuur en de onttovering van de wereld: Moreel relativisme en instrumenteel rationalisme in Nederland’, in: Sociologische Gids, vol. 47, no. 5, pp. 366-386 (with Peter Mascini). [PDF]
- (2000), ‘Inleiding: Een onttovering van de wereld?’, in: Sociologische Gids, vol. 47, no. 5, 326-329 (with Anneke van Otterloo).
- (2000), ‘Controversen over risico’s in een chemische fabriek: De culturele theorie nader bezien’, in: Beleidswetenschap, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 127-151 (with Peter Mascini and Kurt Braafhart).
- (2000), ‘Max Weber, Alvin Gouldner en Zygmunt Bauman over kennis en cultuur’, in Sociologische Gids, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 36-39.
- (1999), ‘Reizigers en cultuurrelativisme: Verslag van een onderzoek naar de reizigerscultuur’, in: Sociale Wetenschappen, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 1-23 (with Frank Dirks).
- (1999), ‘Welvaart, moderniteit en cultureel conservatisme in internationaal vergelijkend perspectief’, in: Sociologische Gids, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 24-50 (with Jacques F.A. Braster, Manu Busschots, and Maria del Mar del Pozo-Andres).
- (1999), ‘Hoofdstuk 10: Elementaire kwantitatieve data-analyse’, in: Jo Segers, Methoden voor de maatschappijwetenschappen, Assen: Van Gorcum, pp. 303-337 (Second Edition 2002) (with Jo Segers).
- (1999), ‘Hoofdstuk 9: Data-ordening (operationaliseren 5)’, in: Jo Segers, Methoden voor de maatschappijwetenschappen, Assen: Van Gorcum, pp. 275-300 (Second Edition 2002) (with Jo Segers).
- (1999), ‘Onderzoeksvoorbeeld 1: Werkloosheid en sociale rechtvaardigheid’, in: Jo Segers, Methoden voor de maatschappijwetenschappen, Assen: Van Gorcum, pp. 13-29 (Second Edition 2002).
- (1998), ‘Melvin Kohn, Ronald Inglehart en de verklaring van cultureel conservatisme: Een empirisch-theoretische kritiek’, in: Mens en Maatschappij, vol. 73, no. 3, pp. 259-276.
- (1998), ‘Cultuur, industrialisme en moderniteit: Maatschappelijke achtergronden van weerstanden tegen rationalisering’, in: Sociale Wetenschappen, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 49-69.
- (1998), ‘Miskenning van cultuur: Antwoord aan De Graaf en Kraaykamp’, in: Sociologische Gids, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 56-63.
- (1997), ‘Relativisme en fundamentalisme in wetenschap en samenleving: Politieke opvattingen en kerkelijkheid van Amerikaanse wetenschapsbeoefenaren’, in: Jan Berting, Leo d’Anjou, and Bram Steijn (eds), De tirannie van het beeld: Collectieve voorstellingen en handelen, Amsterdam: Boom, pp. 129-152.[PDF]
- (1997), ‘Klassepositie, conservatisme en progressiviteit: Theoretische problemen rond empirische samenhangen’, in: Tijdschrift voor Sociologie, vol. 18, no. 1-2, pp. 79-102.
- (1996), ‘Cultureel kapitaal, sociale stratificatie en onderwijsoriëntatie’, in: Sociologische Gids, vol. 43, no. 6, pp. 413-434.
- (1996), ‘De sociale constructie van werkloosheid: Rechtvaardigheidsoordelen over sociale zekerheid’, in: Sociologische Gids, vol. 43, no. 5, pp. 328-348. [PDF]
- (1995), ‘De ambiguïteit van “beroepsklasse”: Over de economische progressiviteit en het cultureel conservatisme van “de arbeidersklasse”‘, in: Sociologische Gids, vol. 42, no. 6, pp. 426-444.
- (1995), ‘Tussen oorzaak en betekenis: Hoofdlijnen in de sociologie van Jan Berting’, in: Jan Berting, De toekomst is altijd anders: Bijdragen aan de sociologie, Amsterdam: Boom, pp. 9-36 (with Bram Steijn and Marco de Witte).
- (1995), ‘Moderniteit, technologie en individuele vrijheid: Een hertovering van de wereld?’, in: Jacintha van Beveren and Peter van der Parre (eds), In werkelijkheid is ‘t anders: Sociologische opstellen voor Jan Berting, Amsterdam: SISWO, pp. 79-97. [PDF]
- (1994), ‘Kennis is macht: Over wetenschap, rationaliteit en beleid’, in: Dick Houtman, Bram Steijn, and Marco de Witte (eds), De vanzelfsprekendheid van vooruitgang: Over technologie, rationaliteit en sociale ongelijkheid, Amsterdam: Boom, pp. 59-82.
- (1994), ‘Inleiding: De vanzelfsprekendheid van vooruitgang’, in: Dick Houtman, Bram Steijn, and Marco de Witte (eds), De vanzelfsprekendheid van vooruitgang: Over technologie, rationaliteit en sociale ongelijkheid, Amsterdam: Boom, pp. 7-15 (with Bram Steijn and Marco de Witte).
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