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亶 法荷
20102026

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Daan F. Oostveen (Eindhoven, 1985) has been an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion in the Philosophy and Humanism chair group since 2025. Oostveen studied philosophy and comparative literature at Ghent University. He obtained his PhD in 2020 from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam with a dissertation on multiple religious belonging, supervised by André van der Braak and Manuela Kalsky. As a PhD candidate, he spent time at the Department of Philosophy at the Renmin University in Beijing, China, in 2018. As a postdoctoral researcher, he is affiliated with the Faculty of Philosophy at National Taiwan University in 2025. Between 2019 and 2022, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Utrecht University with Rosi Braidotti on a research project on the New Humanities in the context of the World Humanities Report (UNESCO/Volkswagen Foundation). He also taught various courses in religious studies at the same university. He is currently editor-in-chief of the academic journal Future Humanities in Oxford.

Education/Academic qualification

PhD, Hermeneutical Exploration of Multiple Religious Belonging, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Award Date: 10 Sept 2020

Master, Comparative Literature, Ghent University

1 Sept 200917 Sept 2010

Award Date: 17 Sept 2010

Master, Philosophy, Ghent University

1 Sept 200712 Sept 2008

Award Date: 12 Sept 2008

External positions

Lecturer, University of Amsterdam

1 Jan 2025 → …

Editor in Chief academic journal Future Humanities, Wiley

1 Jan 2022 → …

Board member, Association for Interreligious/Interfaith Studies

Board member, European Society for Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies

Vice president, Libbrechtgenootschap

Keywords

  • posthumanism
  • Asian religion
  • Buddhism
  • daoism
  • Chinese philosophy
  • continental philosophy
  • religious diversity
  • psychedelics
  • new humanities
  • rhizomatic religion
  • spirituality

Research themes

  • Critical humanism in the 21st century
  • Justice, diversity and inclusion
  • Democracy, citizenship and education
  • Care, welfare and flourishing

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