Selected publications
Cemeteries as Translocal Contact Zones: Navigating Regulations, Unwritten Rules and Divergent Expectations in Luxembourg-City
With Sonja Kmec
Adapting to 'One-Size-Fits-All': Constructing Appropriate Islamic Burial Spaces in Northwest Europe
With Danielle House, Vevila Dornelles, Helena Nordt, and Farjana Islam
Re-feminizing Death: Gender, Spirituality and Death Care in the Anthropocene
With Hannah Gould
Co-creating ritual spaces and communities: An analysis of municipal cemetery Tongerseweg, Maastricht, 1812–2020
With Christoph Jedan and Eric Venbrux
The Im-Materiality of Urban Religion: Towards an Ethnography of Urban Religious Aspirations
With Marian Burchardt
Individual Expressions of Familial Rituals: Buddhist and Anglican Ways of Paying Respect to Ancestors in Contemporary Hong Kong
Link to article
Belonging to a Global Family of God in Hong Kong: The Relevance of Religion in Facing an Uncertain Future
Link to article
Salvation and Rights in Hong Kong
Open access
Fixed Religious Mediations in a Dense Cityscape: Experiences of Catholic and Buddhist Spaces in Hong Kong
Link to bookComplete List of Publications
Books
Maddrell, A., Kmec, S., Uteng, T. & Westendorp, M. (Eds.). (2023). Mobilities in Life and Death: Negotiating Room for Migrants and Minorities in European Cemeteries. Springer. Open access: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-28284-3
House, D. & Westendorp, M. (with Madrell, A.). (2023). New Perspectives on Urban Deathscapes: Continuity, Change and Contestation. Edward Elgar. https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/new-perspectives-on-urban-deathscapes-9781802202380.html
Westendorp, M., Remmert, D. & Finnis, K. (Eds.). (2020). Aspirations of Young Adults in Urban Asia: Values, Family and Identity. Berghahn Books. https://berghahnbooks.com/title/WestendorpAspirations.
Boender, W., E. Dwarswaard, & M. Westendorp (2011). Religie en Ontwikkeling: Handreikingen voor de Praktijk. Kenniscentrum Religie en Ontwikkeling.
Book chapters
Westendorp, M. & S. Kmec. (2023). Cemeteries as Translocal Contact Zones: Navigating Regulations, Unwritten Rules and Divergent Expectations in Luxembourg-City. In A. Maddrell, S. Kmec, T. Priya Uteng & M. Westendorp (Eds.), Mobilities in Life and Death: Negotiating Room for Migrants and Minorities in European Cemeteries, 43-64. Springer. Open access: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-28284-3
Maddrell, A., S. Kmec, T. Priya Uteng, & M. Westendorp. (2023). Introduction: Migration, Death and Mobilities. In A. Maddrell, S. Kmec, T. Priya Uteng & M. Westendorp (Eds.), Mobilities in Life and Death: Negotiating Room for Migrants and Minorities in European Cemeteries, 1-17. Springer. Open access: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-28284-3
House, D., M. Westendorp, V. Dornelles, H. Nordh & F. Islam. (2023). Adapting to 'One-Size-Fits-All': Constructing Appropriate Islamic Burial Spaces in Northwest Europe. In D. House & M. Westendorp (Eds.), New Perspectives on Urban Deathscapes: Continuity, Change and Contestation, 124-143. Edward Elgar.
Westendorp, M., & D. House. (2023). Introduction: Continuity, Change and Contestation in Urban Deathscapes. In D. House & M. Westendorp (Eds.), New Perspectives on Urban Deathscapes: Continuity, Change and Contestation, 1-19. Edward Elgar.
Jedan, C., Westendorp, M., & Venbrux, E. (2023). The Arts of Inclusion and Exclusion: Funerary Art Taken from the Example of the Municipal Cemetery Tongerseweg Maastricht. In B. Lambrecht & M. Wendling (Eds.), Grief, Identity and the Arts: A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Expressions of Grief, 16-32. Brill.
Westendorp, M., D. Remmert, & K. Finis. (2020). Introduction: A Theoretical Framework for Exploring Aspirations of Youth in Urban Asia. In M. Westendorp, D. Remmert & K. Finis (Eds.), Aspirations of Young Adults in Urban Asia: Values, Family & Identity, 1-13. Berghahn Books.
Westendorp, M. (2020). Transcending Aspirations: Buddhism and the Quest for Belonging in Urban Hong Kong. In M. Westendorp, D. Remmert & K. Finis (Eds.), Aspirations of Young Adults in Urban Asia: Values, Family & Identity, 1-13. Berghahn Books.
Westendorp, M. (2019). De Stad: Broedplaats voor Religie. In J. Wagemakers & L. Van Liere (Eds.), Wie is er Bang voor Religie: Waarom Kennis van Religie Belangrijk is, 93-100. Parthenon.
Westendorp, M. (2019). Veganisme als Nieuwe Vorm van Religie? In J. Wagemakers & L. Van Liere (Eds.), Wie is er Bang voor Religie: Waarom Kennis van Religie Belangrijk is, 160-167. Parthenon.
Westendorp, M. (2019). Moderne Religie in Politiek Hong Kong. In J. Wagemakers & L. Van Liere (Eds.), Wie is er Bang voor Religie: Waarom Kennis van Religie Belangrijk is, 174-180 Parthenon.
Westendorp, M. (2017). Salvation and Rights in Hong Kong. In C. Kuo (Ed.), Religion and Nationalism in Chinese Societies, 397-421. Amsterdam University Press.
Westendorp, M. (2017). Fixed Religious Mediations in a Dense Cityscape: Experiences of Catholic and Buddhist Spaces in Hong Kong. In P. Margry & V. Hegner (Eds.), Spiritualizing the City: Agency and Resilience of the Urbanesque Habitat, 102-114. Routledge.
Peer-reviewed articles
Westendorp, M. & H. Gould. (2021). Re-feminizing Death: Gender, Spirituality and Death Care in the Anthropocene. Religions. https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/12/8/667.
Westendorp, M. (2020). Doing Good: Local and Global Understandings of Buddhism in Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement. Journal of Global Buddhism (special issue: Bad Buddhism), 21, 223-239. http://www.globalbuddhism.org/jgb/index.php/jgb/.
Jedan, C., Kmec, S., Kolnberger, T., Venbrux, E. and Westendorp, M. (2020). Co-Creating Ritual Spaces and Communities: An Analysis of Municipal Cemetery Tongerseweg, Maastricht, 1812–2020. Religions (special issue: Exploring ritual fields today), 11(9). https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/11/9/435/htm.
Burchardt, M., Westendorp, M. (2018). The Im-Materiality of Urban Religion: Towards an Ethnography of Urban Religious Aspirations. Culture and Religion, 19(2), 160-176.
Westendorp, M. (2018). Individual Expressions of Familial Rituals: Buddhist and Anglican Ways of Paying Respect to Ancestors in Contemporary Hong Kong. Journal of Ritual Studies, 32(2), 43-54.
Westendorp, M. (2017). Belonging to a Global Family of God in Hong Kong: The Relevance of Religion in Facing an Uncertain Future. Asian Anthropology, 16(2), 116-132.
Kleuskens, E., F. School, S. Thijs, E. Venbrux & M. Westendorp (2010). A Spiritual Contact Zone: Re-Inventing Ritual Space in the Netherlands. Jaarboek voor Liturgie-Onderzoek, 13(26), 43-57.
Book reviews
Westendorp, M. (2023). Schorch, Philipp, Martin Saxer and Marlen Elders: Exploring Materiality and Connectivity in Anthropology and Beyond. Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, 31(3), 118-120.
Westendorp, M. (2023). David Morgan: The Thing About Religion: An Introduction to the Material Study of Religions. Reading Religion. The Thing about Religion - Reading Religion.
Westendorp, M. (2022). Yuhang Li: Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China. Reading Religion. Becoming Guanyin - Reading Religion.
Westendorp, M. (2021). Andrea Marion Pinkney and John Whalen-Bridge: Religious Journeys in India: Pilgrims, Tourists, and Travellers. Tulasi Srinivas: The Cow in the Elevator: An Anthropology of Wonder. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 27(1), 168-170.
Westendorp, M. (2021). Understanding Indian Religion on Its Own Terms. Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute. https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-9655.13431.
Westendorp, M. (2021). Julia Cassaniti: Remembering the Present: Mindfulness in Buddhist Asia. Reading Religion. https://readingreligion.org/books/remembering-present.
Westendorp, M. (2020). Brenda Mathijssen and Claudia Venhorst: Funerary Practices in the Netherlands. Mortality. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13576275.2020.1865296.
Westendorp, M. (2020). Adam Kaul and Jonathan Skinner: Leisure and Death: An Anthropological Tour of Risk, Death and Dying. Anthropology Book Forum. https://www.anthropology-news.org/?book-review=leisurely-enjoying-death.
Westendorp, M. (2020). Roy Amore, Amir Hussain and Willard Oxtoby: World Religions: Eastern Traditions. Reading Religion https://readingreligion.org/books/world-religions-eastern-traditions.
Westendorp, M. (2019). Laura Grillo, Adriaan van Klinken and Hassan Ndzovu: Religions in Contemporary Africa: An Introduction. Reading Religion. https://readingsreligion.org/books/religions-contemporary-africa.
Westendorp, M. (2019). James Bielo: Materializing the Bible (Digital Project). Religion and Society, 10: 171.
Westendorp, M. (2019). Barbara Graham: Death, Materiality and Mediation: An Ethnography of Remembrance in Ireland. Reading Religion. http://readingreligion.org/books/death-materiality-and-mediation.
Westendorp, M. (2019). Bernardo Brown & Brenda Yeoh (Eds.): Asian Migrants and Religious Experience: Journeys to Labor Mobility. Reading Religion. http://www.readingreligion.org/books/asian-migrants-and-religiousexperience.
Westendorp, M. (2018). James Bielo: Ark Encounter: The Making of a Creationist Theme Park. Reading Religion. http://readingreligion.org/books/ark-encounter.
Westendorp, M. (2018). Vanessa Reimer (ed.): Angels on Earth: Mothering, Religion, and Spirituality. Religion & Gender, 8(1), 140-142.
Westendorp, M. (2018). Justin Tse, Jonathan Tan (Eds.): Theological Reflections on the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement. Reading Religion. http://readingreligion.org/books/theological-reflections-hong-kong-umbrella-movement.
Westendorp, M. (2017). Sarah-Jane Page, Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip: Understanding Young Buddhists: Living out Ethical Journeys. Reading Religion. http://readingreligion.org/books/understanding-young-buddhists.
Westendorp, M. (2016). Peter van der Veer (Ed.): Handbook of Religion and the Asian City: Aspiration and Urbanization in the Twenty-First Century. Review of Religious Research, 58(4), 579-580.
Other
Westendorp, M. (2020). Islamitisch Begraven op Riyad Al Jannah, Zuidlaren. Terebinth december 2020, 23-24.
Westendorp, M. & E. Venbrux. (2020). Het Molukse Gedeelte op Begraafplaats Heer. Terebinth september 2020, 23-24.
Westendorp, M. & C. Jedan. (2020). Het Behouden Waard: Islamitische Ggraven in Maastricht. Terebinth, maart 2020, 26-27.
Mathijssen, B., M. Hoondert, N. Lemos Dekker, Y. Van der Pijl, M. Westendorp, C. Klaufus, J. Bruin-Molenhorst, J. Arfman, W. Collin & R. Visser. (2020). In de Greep van de Dood: Sterven en Afscheid in Tijden van Corona. Bij Nader Inzien. https://bijnaderinzien.com/2020/04/28/inde-greep-van-de-dood-sterven-en-afscheid-in-tijden-van-corona/.
Westendorp, M. & E. Venbrux. (2019). Introductie HERA-Project: Onderzoek naar Funerair Erfgoed van Migranten. Terebinth december 2019, 24.
Walles, B. & M. Westendorp. (2019). Museum Park Orientalis. https://www.materializingthebible.com/museum-park-orientalis.html.
Westendorp, M. (2017). Van Voedende Oppergodin tot Moeder Gods: Maria ligt al eeuwen in ons DNA verscholen. Volzin juni 2017, 18-20.
Westendorp, M. (2017). Hongkong: Hopen op Meer Democratie. Geografie. https://geografie.nl/artikel/hongkong-hopen-op-meer-democratie.
Westendorp, M. (2015). Socially Engaged Religion and the Umbrella Movement: Buddhist and Christian Interpretations of the Hong Kong Protests. http://www.aaanet.org/sections/seaa/2015/06/buddhist-and-christian-interpretations-ofthe-hong-kong-protests/.