Dr J. Kregting (Joris)

Researcher - Empirical and practical religious studies
Researcher - KASKI

Contact

joris.kregting@ru.nl
024-3653531

Visiting address

Erasmusplein 1
6525 HT NIJMEGEN

Postal address

Postbus 9103
6500 HD NIJMEGEN

Working days Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Joris Kregting is a sociologist of religion and is working for Kaski, the center of applied research on religion, of the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies (Radboud University Nijmegen).
April 2016 he started his PhD-project 'Secularization in the Netherlands over the last fifty years'.

Tags: sociology of religion, church, secularization

Research theme

Center for Religion and Contemporary Society

Research group

Kaski, center of applied research on religion

Publications

Key publications

Kregting, J. & Wagenaar, W. (Eds.). (2025). Reflecties op god in Nederland 1966-2024 [Special issue]. Religie & Samenleving, 20(3). doi: 10.54195/RS.24961 Full text
Fortuin, N.P.M. & Kregting, J. (2026). Religion and health in the Netherlands: Disentangling underlying pathways. Archive for the Psychology of Religion, 48 (1), 46-67. doi: 10.1177/00846724251321011 Full text
Kregting, J., Van lieburg, F. & Vermeer, P.A.D.M. (2025). God in Nederland: 1966-2024. Amsterdam: HDC Centre for Religious History (VU Amsterdam) Full text
Kregting, J., Scheepers, P.L.H., Vermeer, P.A.D.M. & Eisinga, R.N. (2023). Explanations for individual secularization: Exploring the effects of life course events on religious decline in the Netherlands between 2009 and 2020. Review of Religious Research, 65 (4), 508-528. doi: 10.1177/0034673X231215275 Full text
Vermeer, P.A.D.M. & Kregting, J. (2022). Religion and COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage in the Netherlands between August 2021 and February 2022. NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion, 76 (3), 193-214. doi: 10.5117/NTT2022.3.002.VERM Full text
Vermeer, P.A.D.M. & Kregting, J. (2021). Religie en de verspreiding van COVID-19 in Nederland. Het begin van de tweede golf (6 juli - 2 november). Religie & Samenleving, 16 (1), 6-27. Full text
Vermeer, P.A.D.M. & Kregting, J. (2020). Religion and the Transmission of COVID-19 in The Netherlands. Religions, 11 (8):393. doi: 10.3390/rel11080393 Full text
Kregting, J. (2019, October 29). The persistent religious gender gap in the Netherlands in times of secularization, 1966-2015. Radboud University (162 pag.) (Munster: LIT Verlag) Supervisor(s): prof. dr. P.L.H. Scheepers, prof. dr. C.A.M. Hermans & dr. P. Vermeer. Full text
Kregting, J., Scheepers, P.L.H., Vermeer, P.A.D.M. & Hermans, C.A.M. (2019). Why Dutch women are still more religious than Dutch men: Explaining the persistent religious gender gap in the Netherlands using a multifactorial approach. Review of Religious Research, 61 (2), 81-108. doi: 10.1007/s13644-019-00364-3 Full text
Kregting, J., Scheepers, P.L.H., Vermeer, P.A.D.M. & Hermans, C.A.M. (2018). Why God has left the Netherlands: Explanations for the decline of institutional Christianity in the Netherlands between 1966 and 2015. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 57 (1), 58-79. doi: 10.1111/jssr.12499 Full text
Kregting, J., Bernts, A.P.J. & Berghuijs, J. (2016). God in Nederland 2015. DANS EASY [Dataset]. doi: 10.17026/dans-x9s-wc6h. Full text
Kregting, J. (2014). Het meten van kerkelijke betrokkenheid Een reactie op de religieuze kaart van Nederland van het CBS. Religie & Samenleving, 9 (3), 234-243. doi: 10.54195/RS.12562 Full text
Grotenhuis, H.F. te, Vermeer, P.A., Kregting, J. & Jansma, L.G. (Eds.). (2013-2013). Ontkerkelijking, nou en ...? Oorzaken en gevolgen van secularisatie in Nederland [Special issue]. Religie & Samenleving, 8(1). Full text
Kregting, J. & Sederel, C. (2013). Kerkelijke betrokkenheid in de 21ste eeuw. Religie & Samenleving, 8 (1), 41-62. doi: 10.54195/RS.12669 Full text
Kregting, J. & Aupers, S. (2013). Religie in Nederland: van verzuiling tot polarisatie. In J.W. Duyvendak e.a. (Ed.), Sociale kaart van Nederland. Over instituties en organisaties (pp. 67-81). Den Haag: Boom Lemma Full text
Koning, M.J.M. de, Dijk-Groeneboer, M. van, Kregting, J. & Roeland, J. (2010). Ze Geloven Het Wel. In M. Van Dijk - Groenteboer (Ed.), Handboek Jongeren en Religie. Katholieke, protestantse en islamitische jongeren in Nederland (pp. 25-88). Amsterdam: Parthenon Full text
Janssen, J.A.P.J., Kregting, J. & Bernts, A.P.J. (2007). Opvattingen over het maatschappelijk belang van religie. Religie & Samenleving, 1 (1), 42-59. doi: 10.54195/RS.11182 Full text

Dr J. Kregting (Joris)

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