Telephone number:	+31 (0)71 527 2584
E-Mail:	e.p.den.boer@religion.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department:	Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Leids Instituut Godsdienstwetenschappen
Office Address:	Witte Singel-complex Matthias de Vrieshof 1 2311 BZ Leiden Room number 103C
Personal Homepage:	www.hum.leiden.edu/​religion/​organisation/​institute-staff/​epdenboer.html

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Elizabeth den Boer studied Comparative Religion and Psychology of Religion in Leiden, and obtained her Ph.D. under guidance of Prof. Dr. AP. Borsboom of the Radboud University in Nijmegen in 2005 with a study on the transitional function of dreams of the indigenous people of Suriname and Australia. She has conducted fieldwork in Suriname, The Netherlands and India. She has been teaching at Leiden University, the Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Anton de Kom University of Suriname and the University of New Delhi. Her research and publications concern the indigenous people of Suriname and Australia, religion and dreams. Her current research is on the descendants of the British Indian contract laborers in Suriname and the Netherlands. She is particularly interested in modernity of Hinduism and Buddhism in the Netherlands and the reconstruction of pagan traditions in Europe.

Selected publications

• Contributions to Kahe Gaile Bides. Why did you go overseas? KIT Publishers, Amsterdam, 2010  
• ‘Kastenbewustzijn in Suriname’ (Caste consciousness in Suriname), OSO, (Journal for Suriname Studies), 2009    
• ‘Indian Religions in the Netherlands’, In 'Changing Images; lasting visions'. Embassy of India, The Hague, 2008
• Ed. Arya Samaj in Suriname en Nederland in de 20ste eeuw (Arya Samaj in Suriname and the Netherlands in the twentieth century), Stichting Prasne: Den Haag, 2009.
• Dreams in Surinamese Amerindian Cosmology’. In: Kacike: Journal of Caribbean Amerindian History and Anthropology (www.kacike.org, 2007  
• ‘Kari’na dromen in Suriname’. In: Noticia (www.noticias.nl, 2007)
• ‘Dromen in het Surinaams Inheemse Wereldbeeld’. In OSO (Tijdschrift voor Surinamistiek, jaargang 25, vol. 2: 27-42, 2006)
• ‘Dreaming and spirituality beyond religion’. In Sanskriti Sangam, (vol. 2. Bensalem, USA, ICCS, 2006)  
• ‘Hoe de dingen zijn ontstaan: over taboes en dood in Aboriginal Australië.’ In In de ban van het Kwaad, pp.270-277 (Zoetermeer: Uitgeverij Meinema, 2005) 
• ‘Als je niet goed luistert … de gemiste kans op eeuwig leven.’ In In de Ban van het Kwaad, pp. 303-312 (Zoetermeer: Uitgeverij Meinema, 2005)
• Dreams and Transitions. The Royal Road to Surinamese and Australian Indigenous Society.( Ph.D. Thesis. ISBN90-9010315-4, 2005)
• --- & T. H. Zock, ‘Dreams of Passage. An Object-Relational Perspective on a Case of Hindu Death Ritual’. In Religion, vol. 34 (2004)