Since the beginning of December 2010, I have served as Senior Research Professor in the Sociology of Contemporary Spirituality at Erasmus University Rotterdam. I have been fortunate enough to be appointed to the Department of Sociology, specifically the research group CROCUS (Centre for Rotterdam Cultural Sociology), where there are many wonderful people; outstanding researchers. The aim is to continue developing the study of spirituality, value-politics, and religion in a distinctive way, amounting to the world class. It is perhaps fitting to contribute to the sociological, cultural study of spirituality – not least as a vehicle of change for a more humanistic and expressivistic world – at a University named after Erasmus.

Information about CROCUS can readily be found at http://www.eur.nl/fsw/research/crocus/home/

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I can be contacted by two email addresses: p.heelas@googlemail.com and heelas@fsw.eur.nl

Contact for the press: Marjolein Kooistra, Press officer Erasmus University Rotterdam, Faculty of Social Sciences, 00 31 10 408 2135, kooistra@fsw.eur.nl