Dr Welmoet Boender
Islamic Studies and Cultural Anthropology

Welcome on the personal website of Welmoet Boender where you can find her list of publications and information about her research projects.

Special Issue of Religions: "Exploring New Assemblages of Islamic Higher Education in Western Europe", guest editors: Dr. Mieke Groeninck and Dr Welmoet Boender 
Please check 
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/islam_edu
My latest article is now added: "Professionalizing the Imam in Europe: Imam Training Programs as Sites of Deliberative Engagement", in Religions, 2021, 12 (5). Open access

Welmoet Boender's work concerns the development of Islam and Muslims in Europe, with a special focus on the Netherlands. She has built extensive expertise regarding the role of imams and female religious leadership in Dutch mosques, She currently finalizes a monograph and is guest editor of a Special Issue which explore the development of Islamic theology and imam training in Germany, the United Kingdom, Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands. 

Welmoet Boender is Assistant Professor Islam Studies and Director of the Bachelor programs of the Faculty of Religion and Theology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

She has lectured at the universities of Utrecht, Leiden and Amsterdam and was guest researcher at Ghent university (Belgium). After her PhD, she worked at the Dutch NGO Oikos Foundation, where she co-developed the Knowledge Centre Religion and Development (KCRD). Five years later, she returned to the university, first as an assistant professor at Utrecht University and then at her alma mater, where she was in the unique position to co-develop the Leiden Islam Academy. 

Welmoet Boender is affiliated member of the Erlangen Centre for Islam and Law (EZIRE) at the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nurnberg (Germany) and senior member of the Netherlands Interuniversity School of Islamic Studies (NISIS). She carried out her PhD studies at the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM). In the academic year 2017-18, she was fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS-KNAW).

Education
• PhD in Religious Studies, Leiden University (2007)
• BA-MA in Islamic Studies, Leiden University (1998)
• BA-MA in Cultural Anthropology, Leiden University (1997)
• Propaedeutics in Indonesian Languages and Cultures, Leiden University (1993)

Welmoet Boender holds a formal Senior Teaching Qualification for Dutch universities (SKO).  

Teachings
Welmoet Boender has taught a range of BA and MA courses at Utrecht University, University of Amsterdam, University College Utrecht, Leiden University, and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam:
*Introduction to Islam; *Fundamentalism in Christianity and Islam; *Sufism; *Sources of Islam; *Islam and Society; *Anthropology of Religion; *Sociology of Religion; *Anthropology of Islam; *Religions in the Public Domain; *Islam in Western-Europe; *Islam on the European Continent; *Islam and Transnationalism; *Interreligious Relations; *Theories and Methods in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies; *Thesis seminars; *Islamic Ethics; * Islamic Spiritual Care..




Areas of expertise

• Islam in the Netherlands

• Islam in Western-Europe

• Imams and mosques

• Islamic theology

• Muslim-Christian relations

• Religious authority

• Religion and development

• Pastoral care and populism

• Islam in Indonesia

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