Mededelingen ‘I Said: Hymn 38!’ The theology of The White Cowboy 24 mrt 2023 Today, I published my article on The White Cowboy's episode ‘De Kerkgangers’ (‘The Churchgoers’). In this article, I argues that this episode is an excellent example of the contemporary reception…
Mededelingen CDAMM: Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West 21 mrt 2023 The Critical Dictionary of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements (CDAMM) is an online encyclopedia covering secular and religious expressions of apocalyptic and millenarian thinking throughout history and across cultures. Today Archibald van WIeringen…
Mededelingen CDAMM: Brink 21 mrt 2023 The Critical Dictionary of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements (CDAMM) is an online encyclopedia covering secular and religious expressions of apocalyptic and millenarian thinking throughout history and across cultures. Today Archibald van WIeringen…
Mededelingen CDAMM: Video Games 21 mrt 2023 The Critical Dictionary of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements (CDAMM) is an online encyclopedia covering secular and religious expressions of apocalyptic and millenarian thinking throughout history and across cultures. Today Archibald van WIeringen…
Mededelingen ‘Laser-like focus’ (review) 7 feb 20237 feb 2023 For Humanum, Matthew John Paul Tan reviewed my book Gaming and the Divine. And quite positively, I am happy to say. Frank Bosman’s Gaming and the Divine fills this gap…
Mededelingen The game is on. Videogames, jongeren en zingeving 21 dec 2022 Videogames zijn een onderdeel van onze cultuur geworden, net zo vanzelfsprekend als bordspellen, streamingdiensten of de bioscoop. Sinds de lancering van Pong in 1972, waarschijnlijk het eerste commerciële videospel ooit,…
Mededelingen There is no god, Summer 9 dec 2022 Today has been published Sceptical publics. From non-religious print media to digital atheism, edited by Jacob Copeman and Mascha Schulz. It is the first major study of the significance of…
Mededelingen NEW! Video games as art 15 nov 2022 Together with my friend and colleague Archibald van Wieringen, I have published a new academic monography with the title: Video Games as Art. A Communication-Oriented Perspective on the Relationship between…
Mededelingen To Touch or to be touched 7 jul 2022 Todat was published: 'To touch or to be touched. Doubting Thomas in the Bible, aprocryphal texts, and the arts. A literary perspective' in Perichoresis. In Christian tradition, the name of…
Mededelingen There is no order in which God calls us: Religion and Squid Game 16 mei 2022 The highly successful and also somewhat controversial Netflix series Squid Game takes a very critical stance on the – supposed – intimate relationship between South Korean Christianity and capitalism, especially…
Mededelingen Videocolleges opnemen 13 dec 2021 De Universiteit van Tilburg laat collega's videocolleges opnemen. Vandaag was ik aan de beurt met mijn college 101 Game Theology. De studio van First Impression was, nu ja, impressive. Het…
Mededelingen New: Finding Faith between the Sciences 30 sep 2021 Just published: ‘Finding faith between the sciences. The cases of The Outer Worlds and Mass Effect Andromeda’, in: Theologica 11/1 (2021), p. 145-191. Abstract. Science fiction, as a genre, has…
Mededelingen CfP: Paradise Lost 15 mei 2021 Presentations of Nostalgic Longing in Digital Games Call for papers - Journal of Religion, Film, and Media. Paradise Lost is not only the title of John Milton’s famous epic poem…
Mededelingen Book review: Gaming and the Divine 15 mei 2021 Prof.dr. Christian Wessely (Graz) has been so kind to review my monography Gaming and the Divine favourably: Bosman’s book [is] worth reading and what is more, a book worth buying.…
Mededelingen Reading The Book of Joseph in Far Cry 5 15 mei 2021 In the game Far Cry 5, a book called The Book of Joseph, plays an important role. It is the confession, autobiography and compilation of sermons written by Joseph Seed,…
Mededelingen Trouw geeft ‘Eeuwige nar’ 4 sterren 7 apr 2021 'De eeuwige nar is een prikkelend, uitdagend en lekker dwars essay over het kloosterleven,' zo omschrijft Trouw mijn nieuwste boek. 'Een smeuïg, speels en toch ook serieus essay. En prikkelend,…
Mededelingen Nieuw: De eeuwige nar 3 apr 2021 Het ooit zo bloeiende Nederlandse kloosterleven is naar de rand van de samenleving gedrukt. Hoewel mensen misschien wel als nooit tevoren snakken naar spiritualiteit en zingeving in een voortrazende en…
Mededelingen Adam Lay Ybounden. A Marian Felix Culpa 2 feb 2021 The 15th-century poem ‘Adam lay ybounden’ presents a ‘folk version’ of the paradoxical theology of the notion of felix culpa, Adam’s ‘happy fault’ by which the Incarnation of God in…
Mededelingen Nieuwe publicaties 2021 8 dec 20208 dec 2020 In 2021 komen (onder andere) twee nieuwe boeken van mij uit bij Berne (Heeswijk). In De eeuwige nar ga ik op zoek naar een nieuwe manier om naar het religieuze…