Kees de Groot

Kees de Groot is Professor in Worldviews and Public Mental Health (KSGV Chair) at Tilburg University (Netherlands). He has published on Zygmunt Bauman, Catholicism, chaplaincy, mental health care, rituals, theatre, and comics in Social Compass, Implicit Religion and various volumes in and on the empirical study of religion. His latest monograph in English is The Liquidation of the Church (Routledge, 2018). In 2023, Bloomsbury Academic published Comics, culture, and religion: Faith imagined, a volume that he edited and contributed to chapters to.

He is also preparing research collaboration on faith-based support to migrants. One project is a multiple case study project (The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden), another a reflective café with professionals (Tilburg, Rome, Zagreb).