IRILIS news
- Out now: Yearbook for Ritual and Liturgical Studies volume 40In December 2024, volume 40 (2024) of the Yearbook for Ritual and Liturgical Studies has appeared.
- Out now: Sing after God a new SongDr. Henk Vogel successfully defended his PhD thesis Sing after God a new song: Ritual-musical appropriations of Psalms in contemporary Dutch and Flemish culture on 28 November 2024.
- Out now: The Visuality of Texts in Calvinist Churches in the Dutch RepublicText panels, such as those depicting the Ten Commandments, are an equally characteristic as overlooked part of historic Dutch Protestant church interiors. This book by dr. Jacolien Wubs (academic coordinator IRiLiS) shows how, after iconoclasm in Dutch Calvinist churches, text decoration evolved into an innovative form of visual culture, and was used to transform church spaces to accommodate Reformed worship.
- Upcoming: Volume 33 Liturgia CondendaIn the course of this year, a new volume of our book series Liturgia Condenda will appear, authored by dr. Johan Bastubacka (University of Helsinki) and entitled: The Embodied Space of Worship. Liturgical Signs and Liturgical Bodies in Contemporary Finnish Orthodox Lay Worship. This book focusses on the active, bodily and nonverbal participation of lay people as a defining yet unexplored aspect of the Orthodox Divine Liturgy.
