Dorien Lanting joins project team

As of March 2018, Dorien Lanting joined the Blueprints of Hope project, adding a reflection on the Catholic blueprints of Europe. Previously, Dorien Lanting studied History and Middle Eastern studies (BA). She is currently involved in the Research Master program of Religion and Culture at the University of Groningen. She is particularly interested in the multivalent potential of religion to influence opinionmakers and authorities all over the world. Dorien specializes in Islam and Islamic and Christian encounters.

As a research assistant in the Blueprints of Hope project, her objective is to assess the Vatican outlook on Europe during the pontificate of Pius XII (1939-1958). More in particular, she will study processes of social construction in the papal encyclicals of Pius XII, examining the role of emotional vocabulary in the construction of beliefs.