Doeko Bosscher, born in Heiloo, the Netherlands, in 1949. Ph.D. from the University of Groningen. Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Groningen.
Fellow (1 January 1992 – 30 June 1992)
The main question I focused on during my research period at NIAS was ‘why Europeans who in so many other fields were eager to adopt phenomena of American mass culture showed little interest in the mass culture of American religious life’. In order to answer this question, I investigated general frameworks of cultural transmission and reception.