Patrick Pasture
Patrick Pasture is Full Professor of European and Global History and Co-Director of the master programme in European Studies: Transnational and Global Perspectives at KU Leuven. He is particularly interested in how religion transforms and shapes history, considered in a global and postcolonial perspective. He has published extensively about European labour, among which a standard history of the international Christian trade union movement (Histoire du syndicalisme chrétien international: La difficile recherché d’une troisième voie, L’Harmattan, 1999) as well as about diverse aspects of the social, political and cultural history of religion in a global perspective. His book Imagining European Unity since 1000 AD (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2015, pb 2017), which digs deep into the fundamentals of European thinking, has been called one of the ten stand-out books of 2015-16 (J.H.H. Weiler, European Journal of International Law, 2017). He has also published a history of Asia (in Dutch, transl. Encounters in the East: A Global History, 2019). He is currently working on a book entitled A History of Christendom: State, Church and Religious Freedom in the West, under contract with Bloomsbury.
He was the Project Leader of the H2020 project RETOPEA (Religious Toleration and Peace), which investigates how the experience with historical peacemaking processes can be made useful to promote religious toleration and peace in contemporary society, in particular among youth. RETOPEA has developed a methodology to stimulate tolerationby letting young people making a short vlog-like film called docutube: see zie Start · Home · Retopea.
Patrick has been a Visiting Fellow/ Scholar at the IISG (Amsterdam), the Centre d’histoire sociale du XXe siècle (Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), the University of Pennsylvania, Senior Research Fellow at the Leibniz-Institute for European History in Mainz (Germany), Visiting Professor at Kobe University (Japan), the European Program of Drew University (Brussels) and Peter Paul Rubens Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Patrick is Chair of the editorial board of Kadoc Studies in Religion, Culture and Society (book series, UPL) and member of the editorial boards of Ideas beyond Borders: Studies in Transnational Intellectual History (Routledge) and the International Journal for History, Culture, and Modernity (HCM, Brill). He is also member of the Expert Panel of the Flemish Academic Bibliographic Database for the Social Sciences and Humanities (VABB-SHW) - interuniversity Expertise Centre for Research and Development monitoring ECOOM), and a member of the Scientific Committee of the Cegesoma (General Archives of Belgium) in Brussels.
Phone: +32 16 32 49 73
Address: KU Leuven
Faculty of Arts
Department of History - MoSa
Blijde Inkomststraat 21 box 3307
B-3000 Leuven
https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/mosa
He was the Project Leader of the H2020 project RETOPEA (Religious Toleration and Peace), which investigates how the experience with historical peacemaking processes can be made useful to promote religious toleration and peace in contemporary society, in particular among youth. RETOPEA has developed a methodology to stimulate tolerationby letting young people making a short vlog-like film called docutube: see zie Start · Home · Retopea.
Patrick has been a Visiting Fellow/ Scholar at the IISG (Amsterdam), the Centre d’histoire sociale du XXe siècle (Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), the University of Pennsylvania, Senior Research Fellow at the Leibniz-Institute for European History in Mainz (Germany), Visiting Professor at Kobe University (Japan), the European Program of Drew University (Brussels) and Peter Paul Rubens Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Patrick is Chair of the editorial board of Kadoc Studies in Religion, Culture and Society (book series, UPL) and member of the editorial boards of Ideas beyond Borders: Studies in Transnational Intellectual History (Routledge) and the International Journal for History, Culture, and Modernity (HCM, Brill). He is also member of the Expert Panel of the Flemish Academic Bibliographic Database for the Social Sciences and Humanities (VABB-SHW) - interuniversity Expertise Centre for Research and Development monitoring ECOOM), and a member of the Scientific Committee of the Cegesoma (General Archives of Belgium) in Brussels.
Phone: +32 16 32 49 73
Address: KU Leuven
Faculty of Arts
Department of History - MoSa
Blijde Inkomststraat 21 box 3307
B-3000 Leuven
https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/mosa
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‘The Rise of the West’, de Europese dominantie op militair, wetenschappelijk en technologisch gebied sinds de late achttiende eeuw, wordt in dit boek in een ander daglicht gesteld. Patrick Pasture kijkt verder dan het gekende kolonisatieverhaal en legt de focus op de binnen-Aziatische interacties. Een van de meest verrassende conclusies is dat Aziatische goeroes al sinds het einde van de negentiende eeuw een Aziatische ‘missie’ naar het Westen organiseerden. In het algemeen wijst de auteur simpele dichotomieën als Oost/West en Noord/Zuid radicaal af, en legt hij de nadruk op de verscheidenheid van Azië.
'Ontmoetingen in het Oosten' is een boek voor wie bereid is zich open te stellen voor nieuwe inzichten, en zijn kennis van de wereldgeschiedenis en de Aziatische culturen wil verrijken.
https://www.pelckmanspro.be/ontmoetingen-in-het-oosten.html
This book does not tell the usual story of a growing European self-consciousness. Instead, it offers a multifaceted history that takes in account the ambivalences and,divergences of the European imagination in a global context.
This book does not tell the usual story of a growing European self-consciousness. Instead, it offers a multifaceted history that takes in account the ambivalences and divergences of the European imagination in a global context.
Edited books by Patrick Pasture
Topics include the findings from focus group interviews with teenagers in schools across Europe, the representation of minority religions in museums, migration and youth subculture.
This book focuses on the complex mutations the Christian churches in Western Europe have experienced since World War II. The authors offer a comparative exploration of the situations in several countries and describe the evolution (including the specific growth or decline) of the various Christian denominations.
The cult of domesticity has often been linked to the privatization of religion and the idealisation of the motherly ideal of the ‘angel in the house’. This book revisits the Christian home of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and sheds new light on the stereotypical distinction between the private and public spheres and their inhabitants. Emphasizing the importance of patriarchal domesticity during the period and the frequent blurring of boundaries between the Christian home and modern society, the case studies included in this volume call for a more nuanced understanding of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Christian ideas on family, religion, and the home.
more info: http://upers.kuleuven.be/en/book/9789462700185
‘The Rise of the West’, de Europese dominantie op militair, wetenschappelijk en technologisch gebied sinds de late achttiende eeuw, wordt in dit boek in een ander daglicht gesteld. Patrick Pasture kijkt verder dan het gekende kolonisatieverhaal en legt de focus op de binnen-Aziatische interacties. Een van de meest verrassende conclusies is dat Aziatische goeroes al sinds het einde van de negentiende eeuw een Aziatische ‘missie’ naar het Westen organiseerden. In het algemeen wijst de auteur simpele dichotomieën als Oost/West en Noord/Zuid radicaal af, en legt hij de nadruk op de verscheidenheid van Azië.
'Ontmoetingen in het Oosten' is een boek voor wie bereid is zich open te stellen voor nieuwe inzichten, en zijn kennis van de wereldgeschiedenis en de Aziatische culturen wil verrijken.
https://www.pelckmanspro.be/ontmoetingen-in-het-oosten.html
This book does not tell the usual story of a growing European self-consciousness. Instead, it offers a multifaceted history that takes in account the ambivalences and,divergences of the European imagination in a global context.
This book does not tell the usual story of a growing European self-consciousness. Instead, it offers a multifaceted history that takes in account the ambivalences and divergences of the European imagination in a global context.
Topics include the findings from focus group interviews with teenagers in schools across Europe, the representation of minority religions in museums, migration and youth subculture.
This book focuses on the complex mutations the Christian churches in Western Europe have experienced since World War II. The authors offer a comparative exploration of the situations in several countries and describe the evolution (including the specific growth or decline) of the various Christian denominations.
The cult of domesticity has often been linked to the privatization of religion and the idealisation of the motherly ideal of the ‘angel in the house’. This book revisits the Christian home of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and sheds new light on the stereotypical distinction between the private and public spheres and their inhabitants. Emphasizing the importance of patriarchal domesticity during the period and the frequent blurring of boundaries between the Christian home and modern society, the case studies included in this volume call for a more nuanced understanding of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Christian ideas on family, religion, and the home.
more info: http://upers.kuleuven.be/en/book/9789462700185
"It is learned, impressively so, without being boring for even a single page, and it is subversive since it shows the dark sides of the noble quest for peace – an inbuilt tendency of the integration project to suppress diversity and to dominate. The current circumstance of Europe gives it a particularly sharp edge"
famous speech ‘I have a dream’ from August 1963.2
The speech and those
words evocate all what the sixties stand for – but also some of the dilemmas and paradoxes of the historiography of the period. The religious
dimension in the speech is evident. However, there is virtually no room
for religion in the general (political, social and cultural) historiography
of the 1960s,3
and insofar it does speak specif ically about religion, it
usually does so in terms of crisis, decline, and secularization – the ‘death
of God’ –, while Church and religious history rather explore the variety
of ecclesiastical reactions and particularly forms of religious renewal
(sometimes, as in many histories of Vatican II, rather disconnected from
society at large).4
Freedom is mainly associated with sexual liberation,
1 An earlier (and shorter) version of this article was initially delivered as a keynote for the
Trajecta Conference on ‘Religion and revolution. The Sixties and the History of Religion in the
Low Countries’, 2 July 2021. I wish to thank the anonymous reviewers for useful suggestions on an
earlier draft.
2 The text of the speech at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3170387.stm. The words ‘Free
at last’, however, constitute a quote from an old African American spiritual.
3 A few examples: Marwick, The Sixties; Brown, Sixties Europe; Buelens, De jaren zestig. Neither
The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties or Chaplin and Pieper Mooney, The Global 1960s
include an entry on religion. A remarkable exception, though to a limited extent, is Berman, A
Tale of Two Utopias. For the Low Countries see apart from Buelens, De jaren zestig, Hans Righart’s
standard De eindeloze jaren zestig, even though the latter author was a specialist in religious
history. Interestingly, James Kennedy’s Nieuw Babylon does pay a lot of attention to religion,
but almost exclusively in terms of decline and reaction against this decline.
4 Among the most notable historical works on decline and crisis see the different works of
Callum Brown, Gerd-Rainer Horn (e.g. The Spirit) as well as Hugh McLeod. For a discussion of
the literature on transformation and renewal see Pasture, ‘Questioning Secularization’. Sengers,
The Dutch, Van Dam, Kennedy and Wielenga (eds), Achter de zuilen and Van Rooden, Religieuze
regimes offer excellent overviews that adopt more complex approaches about The Netherlands.
TRAJECTA. RELIGION, CULTURE AND SOCIETY IN THE LOW COUNTRIES 31.2 (2022) 578-628
https://doi.org/10.5117/TRA2022.2.002.PAST
© Patrick Pasture
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the CC BY-NC 4.0 license
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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‘Free at last!’
not exactly what King intended. It is therefore striking that almost
exclusively ‘white’ men and women dominate the debate. I’m one of those
too, but try to take a slightly different, ‘decentralized’ perspective to
reflect upon the uses of ‘freedom’ with regard to religion in the sixties,
taking in consideration the complexities of the changing context of the
time. King’s freedom incidentally did not focus on religious freedom
either, which dominates the debate on freedom and religion today,
especially in the US.
dimension. This article first recalls this largely forgotten history, asking why and how it could be erased from memory. It then explores ways in which the EU and its predecessors constituted a new postcolonial identity and how colonial legacies somehow reappear in policies and representations.
Deadline 15 April 2019