About

Dr. Daan F. Oostveen is a philosopher and a scholar of religion working at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies of the Faculty of Humanities of Utrecht University. They graduated from Ghent University with M.A. degrees in both Philosophy and Comparative Literature. Their PhD was awarded by the Faculty of Religion and Theology of VU Amsterdam, with a doctoral dissertation on multiple religious belonging. For their doctoral research, they spent a year as a research fellow at the People’s University of China in Beijing to study contemporary Chinese religious diversity in 2018. They are a founding member of the New European Humanities in the 21st Century Network, which works on connecting innovative research on the humanities in Europe for the World Humanities Report and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Future Humanities. Their research interests include the new humanities, comparative religion, and posthumanism.