Mathijssen, dr Brenda
Brenda Mathijssen is an associate professor at the Faculty Religion, Culture, and Society. She is Vice Dean and acting Director of Education. Mathijssen specializes in the geography and psychology of religion. Her research focuses on the significance of religion and meaning in everyday life, with a particular focus on the significance of death and rituals in society. ‘My interest is focused on how people give meaning to and in life. This includes major events like birth and death, for example, but also day-to-day life experiences like feeling at home somewhere or not at all, the sensation of being on the move, changes due to migration, and how we interact with the world around us.’
In her podcast De Podkist, Mathijssen speaks with various professionals working in the funeral industry. From coffin makers and ovenists, to cemetery administrators and funeral directors.
Previously in the news
2024
Mathijssen,
B., & Venhorst, C. (2024). Death's Ritual-Symbolic
Performance. In D. J. Davies (Ed.), A Cultural History
of Death (Vol. 6, pp. 79-97). (The Cultural Histories Series).
Bloomsbury.
Mathijssen,
B. (2024). De PodKist: Achter de schermen van de
uitvaartbranche. Digital or Visual Products https://podkist.com/
2023
Maddrell,
A., Mathijssen, B., Beebeejaun, Y., McClymont, K.,
& McNally, D. (2023). Hindu mobilities and cremation:
Minority, migrant and gendered dialogues and dialectics in English
and Welsh towns. In A. Maddrell, S. Kmec, T. Priya Uteng,
& M. Westendorp (Eds.), Mobilities in Life and Death :
Negotiating Room for Migrants and Minorities in European
Cemeteries (pp. 21-42). (IMISCOE Research Series). Springer.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28284-3_2
Mathijssen,
B. (2023). Ritual Worlding: Exploring the
Self-and-world-making Efficacy of Rituals.
Yearbook for Ritual and Liturgical Studies,
39, 20-44. https://doi.org/10.21827/YRLS.39.20-44
McClymont,
K., Beebeejaun, Y., Maddrell, A., Mathijssen, B.,
McNally, D., & Abid Dogra, S. (2023). Theres no place
like home: minority-majority dialogue, contestation, and ritual
negotiation in cemeteries and crematoria spaces. In D.
House, & M. Westendorp (Eds.), New Perspectives on Urban
Deathscapes (pp. 61-81). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802202397.00010
2022
Wojtkowiak,
J., & Mathijssen, B. (Eds.) (2022).
Birth and Death: Studying Ritual, Embodied Practices and
Spirituality at the Start and End of Life. (Religion;
Vol. 13, No. 820). MDPI AG. https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-0365-5416-7
Wojtkowiak,
J., & Mathijssen, B. (2022). Editorial:
Birth and Death: Studying Ritual, Embodied Practices and
Spirituality at the Start and End of Life.
Religions, 13(9), 1-6. Article 820.
https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13090820
Mathijssen,
B. (2022). Grenzen van de dood. SoAP
: Sociologisch Antropologisch Periodiek ,
2022(mei), 13-16. https://issuu.com/soapgroningen/docs/soap_2021-2022_editie_ii_alumni_over_mijn_lijk_iss
Mathijssen,
B. (2022). Plaatsen van betekenis, betekenissen van
plaats. De Begraafplaats : vakblad van de
Landelijke Organisatie van Begraafplaatsen,
2022(6).
Maddrell,
A., Beebeejaun, Y., McClymont, K., McNally, D., &
Mathijssen, B. (2022). Remembering, forgetting and
(dis)enfranchised grief in everyday settings in English and Welsh
towns: Migrants’ and minorities’ translocal and local
memories associated with funerary spaces and practices.
Emotion, Space and Society, 44,
Article 100895. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100895
Maddrell,
A., & Mathijssen, B. (2022). Situating the
Dead: Cemeteries as Material, Symbolic, and Relational
Space. In J. H. Kilde (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of
Religious Space (pp. 525-541). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190874988.013.28
Mathijssen,
B. (2022). Thisworldly afterlives: The religious,
biosocial and ecological sustainability of the deceased. In
R. McManus (Ed.), The sustainable dead: searching for the
intolerable (pp. 10-28). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Maddrell,
A., Bias, S., Aggarwal, N., Islam, F., & Mathijssen,
B. (2022). Why are there different funeral
rituals?. Digital or Visual Products
2021
Beebeejaun,
Y., McClymont, K., Maddrell, A., Mathijssen, B., &
McNally, D. (2024). Death in the Peripheries: Planning for
Minority Ethnic Groups beyond "the City". Journal
of planning education and research, 44(3),
1198-1211. https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X211043275
Mathijssen,
B., McNally, D., Dogra, S., Maddrell, A., Beebeejaun, Y.,
& McClymont, K. (2023). Diverse teams researching
diversity: Negotiating identity, place and embodiment in
qualitative research. Qualitative
Research, 23(1), 55-71. https://doi.org/10.1177/14687941211006004
Mathijssen,
B. (2023). The human corpse as
aesthetic-therapeutic. Mortality: Promoting the
interdisciplinary study of death and dying,
28(1), 37-53. https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2021.1876009
Mathijssen,
B. (2021). De rituele driehoek: Hoe handelingen,
voorwerpen en plaatsen helpen om te gaan met
levensgebeurtenissen. In S. Körver, E. Olsman, & S.
Rosie (Eds.), Met lichaam en geest: De rituele competentie van
geestelijk verzorgers (pp. 135-146). Eburon.
Visser-Nieraeth,
A., & Mathijssen, B. (2021). Hoe
werkt kwalitatief onderzoek? Grip op wetenschappelijk onderzoek
(2). Tijdschrift Geestelijke
Verzorging, 24(102), 22-31.
Maddrell,
A., McNally, D., McClymont, K., Beebeejaun, Y., &
Mathijssen, B. (2021). Intersections of
(infra)structural violence and cultural inclusion: the geopolitics
of minority cemeteries and crematoria provision.
Transactions of the Institute of British
Geographers, 46(3), 675-688. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12437
Mathijssen,
B. (2021). Leestafel: Visser I. Sterven. Tijd voor een
ander verhaal. Tijdschrift voor Gezondheidszorg
& Ethiek (TGE), 31(3), 91.
Roos-ten
Napel, N., Mathijssen, B., Smeets, W., &
Zock, H. (2021). Non-Denominational Spiritual Care
Givers and the Development of their Spirituality.
Health and Social Care Chaplaincy,
9(1), 60-79. https://doi.org/10.1558/hscc.40706
Mathijssen,
B. (2021). Springlevend begraafplaatsgevoel.
Terebinth, tijdschrift voor funeraire
cultuur, 2021(1), 21.
2020
Mathijssen,
B. (2021). Technologies of the human corpse by John
Troyer, Cambridge and London, The MIT Press, 2020.
Mortality: Promoting the interdisciplinary study of death
and dying, 26(2), 223-224. https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2020.1808602
Mathijssen,
B. (2020). Advies toelaatbaarheid nieuwe vormen
van lijkbezorging. http://www.gezondheidsraad.nl
2019
Mathijssen,
B., & Venhorst, C. (2019). Funerary Practices
in the Netherlands. (Funerary International). Emerald
Group Publishing Limited.
Mathijssen,
B. (2019). Gespreksnotitie Rondetafelgesprek
Wijziging Wet op de Lijkbezorging.
Mathijssen,
B. (2019). Verlieservaringen als bron van
troost. Terebinth, tijdschrift voor funeraire
cultuur, 25(2), 25.
2018
Maddrell,
A., Beebeejaun, Y., McClymont, K., McNally, D., Mathijssen,
B., & Dogra, S. (2018). Deathscapes and diversity
in England and Wales: Setting an agenda. La
Revista d’Etnologia de Catalunya, 43,
39-53.
Maddrell,
A., McClymont, K., Beebeejaun, Y., McNally, D., Mathijssen,
B., & Abid Dogra, S. (2018). Diversity-ready
cemeteries and crematoria in England and Wales: Briefing
Report. University of Reading.
Maddrell,
A., McClymont, K., Beebeejaun, Y., Mathijssen, B.,
McNally, D., & Abid Dogra, S. (2018). Diversity-ready
cemeteries and crematoria in England and Wales: Briefing
Note. University of Reading.
Mathijssen,
B. (2018). Op de grens van leven en dood.
Speling, tijdschrift voor bezinning,
1.
2017
Mathijssen,
B. (2018). Transforming bonds: Ritualising post-mortem
relationships in the Netherlands. Mortality:
Promoting the interdisciplinary study of death and
dying, 23(3), 215-230. https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2017.1364228
Rotar,
M., & Mathijssen, B. (Eds.) (2017). Death in
a Broader Perspective: Historical, Anthropological, and
Sociological Contributions. Death
Studies, 41(1). https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/udst20/41/1?nav=tocList
Venhorst,
C., & Mathijssen, B. (2017). Dood:
Wegwijs in de Nederlandse uitvaartcultuur.
Parthenon.
Mathijssen,
B. (2017). Making sense of death: Ritual practices
and situational beliefs of the recently bereaved in the
Netherlands. (Death Studies; Vol. 5). Lit Verlag.
Mathijssen,
B. (2017). Op zoek naar onsterfelijkheid.
Laetare. Tijdschrift voor liturgie en
kerkmuziek, 33(5).
Mathijssen,
B. (2017). The ambiguity of human ashes: Exploring
encounters with cremated remains in the Netherlands.
Death Studies, 41(1), 34-41. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2016.1257882
Mathijssen,
B. (2017). Zin- en vormgeven aan de dood: Rituele
praktijken en situationele geloofsvoorstellingen van nabestaanden
in Nederland. Yearbook for Ritual and Liturgical
Studies, 33, 92-104. https://doi.org/10.21827/5a2e429a7419d
2015
Mathijssen,
B. (2015). DoodZaak. Web publication/site,
Centre for Thanatology.
2014
Mathijssen,
B. (2014). Eschatologische hoop: Moderne doodsbeleving
en theologie in dialoog. NTT: Journal for Theology
and the Study of Religion, 68(1&2),
132-150.
2013
Venbrux,
E., Quartier, T., Venhorst, C., & Mathijssen, B.
(Eds.) (2013). Changing European Death Ways.
(Death Studies; Vol. 1). Lit Verlag.
Mathijssen,
B. (2013). Pastors and relatives: Enacting Protestant
and Catholic funeral liturgies in the Netherlands. In E.
Venbrux, T. Quartier, C. Venhorst, & B. Mathijssen (Eds.),
Changing European Death Ways (pp. 213-239). (Death
Studies; Vol. 1). Lit Verlag.
Mathijssen,
B. (2013). Religiosity in ecclesial and non-ecclesial
funeral rites: Exploring Whitehouse’s modes of
religiosity. Yearbook for Ritual and Liturgical
Studies, 29, 149-171.
Mathijssen,
B. (2013). Rollen, behoeften en uitdagingen in
katholieke en protestantse uitvaartliturgieën. In H.
Kienhorst, & M. Pel (Eds.), Brilliant assistants:
Presentatie onderzoeksresultaten 2011-2012 (pp. 105-120).
Radboud University Nijmegen.
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