Experts & Expertise

• Comparative religious studies
• Dialogue muslims - christians
• Empiric religion studies
• Inter-religious communication
• Islam in indonesia
• Islam in morocco
• Islam in the netherlands
• Muslims - christians dialogue
• Religion
• Religion studies
• Religions; phenomenology
• Religious fundamentalism
• Religious pluralism and identity

The research of Beck, a member of Babylon, Centre for Studies of the Multicultural Society, is focused on Islam and religious pluralism; Islam and multiculturalism; inter-religious dialogue Islam and Christianity. He is a specialist in the field of Islam in Indonesia, Islam in Morocco, and Islam in the Netherlands.At this moment his research considers the question whether increased diversity of Islam in the Netherlands would be reflected in a shift in the importance attributed to Islam for the individual identity and for the identity of the individual as a member of the Islamic community.

H.L. Beck teaches the following subjects:

• Organisation of Cultural Diversity (440811) Further information
• History of Religion: Islam (991103) Further information
• Sources of Authority: Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism (991202) Further information
• Revelation and Reason in Christianity and Islam (992101) Further information
• Culture and Islam in the Netherlands (992102) Further information
• Ritual and Spiritual Life in Islam (T47203) Further information
• (T80017) Further information
• (T80019) Further information

- Head of the Department of Religious Studies and Theology, Faculty of Humanities, Tilburg University

- Member of the Board of the Centre for Intercultural Ethics 

- Member of the Board Centre IIMO

- Member of the International Committee Centre for Islam in Europae, Gent (Belgium)

- Member of the editorial Board of Studies in Theology and Religion. (STAR) Edited on behalf of the Netherlands School for Advanced Studies in Theology and Religion. Leiden - Boston: Brill

- Member of Teylers Godgeleerd Genootschap 

- Member of the American Academy of Religion

- Member of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft

- Member of the European Association for the Study of Religions

- Member of the International Association for the History of Religions

- Member of the Koninklijk Instituut Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde

- Member of the Vereniging Midden-Oosten- en Islam-Studies

- Member of the Dutch Association for the History of Religion

- Senior researcher of the Nederlandse Onderzoeksschool voor Theologie en Religiewetenschap

- Member of the Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamologues

- Member of the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen

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