dr. K.E. (Kim) Knibbe

Kim Knibbe is Associate Professor Anthropology and Sociology of Religion. Her curiosity is guided by the question of how people navigate between what they consider to be 'given'  and what they believe to be human-made and therefore subject to change. Her recent research has used anthropological approaches to examine the intersections of sexuality, religion, and secularism. Previous research has focused on Catholicism and spirituality in the Netherlands and Nigerian Pentecostalism in Europe and the Netherlands. She has also published a series of theoretical and methodological reflections on studying religion ethnographically. For students: I only accept supervision of projects that employ qualitative research methods. I particularly welcome students who wish to do research on contemporary spirituality, Catholicism or Pentecostalism related to questions of gender/sexuality/kinship/pregnancy and birth.

Member of the Board of the Catharina Halkesfonds
Secretary of the Wessel Ganzevoort fund
Treasurer European Association for the Study of Religions