Rima Nasrallah van Saane is the Associate Professor of Practical Theology. She has an MA in Living Reformed Theology as well as an MPhil with a focus on ethnography and theology both from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She holds a PhD in Liturgical-Ritual studies from the Protestant Theological University (PThU), Amsterdam. Her academic interests include Contemporary Eastern Christian studies as well as the study of Christianity in Late Modernity. Her focus is the empirical study of lived theology and the practices of faith in the everyday life. She gives special attention to gender, context, performance, and the arts. Nasrallah van Saane teaches courses in Pastoral Theology, Worship and Liturgy, Preaching, and Eastern Christianity.  

Select Publications:

‘Itinerant Feasting: Eastern Christian Women Negotiating (Physical) Presence in the Celebration of Easter’ in Exchange: A Journal for Missiological and Ecumenical Research, 42 (2013) 319-342.

‘Kinetics of Healing: Protestant Women Pledging Baptism in Saydnaya Orthodox Monastery’ in Studia Liturgica, 42/1-2, 2012, pp.270-284.