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Dr. Martin Hoondert is an Associate Professor of Ritual Studies at Tilburg University's Department of Culture Studies, specializing in the intersection of music, religion, and ritual. He has held this position since 2007, focusing on death rituals, memorialization practices, and the role of music in socio-religious contexts. His research explores cremation rituals in Dutch society, changing death mentalities in Western cultures, and commemoration practices related to genocides such as Srebrenica and Rwanda. Currently, he leads projects on divorce rituals and a Handbook of Cremation Rituals. He is active in the COST Action program 'Cultural Victimology' and serves as editor for liturgical journals like Gregoriusblad.
- Education: Musicology and Theology
- Key Research Projects: Srebrenica Genocide Commemoration, Cremation Rituals in the Netherlands, Pandemic Death Mentalities
His work combines ritual studies, musicology, and memory studies to analyze how music functions in rituals of grief, memorialization, and social reconstruction. Recent publications (2023–2024) address pandemic-era attitudes toward death, ritual music performativity, and Dutch crematorium practices. He supervises PhD students in ritual studies and performance arts.
Labs/Teams: Part of the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences, collaborates internationally on memorialization projects with universities in Bath, Leuven, and San Sebastian.
