About our student-in-residence Sam Kailani

Sam’s curiosity for the different ways people give meaning to their lives brought him to the field of Religion Sciences. It was within this field, he started to understand how difficult it actually is to define religion. He noticed how the public had this old fashioned idea of what it entails, but he also noticed how self-proclaimed secular people were part of social groups that had certain rituals, even dogma’s, and he asked himself: isn’t this just a new form of religion? It fuelled the idea for this programme series wherein he wants to investigate the broadness of the spectrum of religion and spirituality and he hopes the series can serve as a mirror for people to reflect on their own spirituality. Sam is currently doing his Bachelor Religious Studies at the University of Amsterdam.