Building a Church Without Walls
The Focolare movement in Belfast is organising an evening on ‘Imagine a World Enriched by Diversity’ on Thursday 26 February, 8-10 pm, in the Duncairn Centre for Culture and Arts (174 Trust) in Belfast.
According to Focolare’s Irene Jovaras, the … Read more...
I have a new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog, reporting on the publication of the Open University’s ‘Religion, Security and Global Uncertainties’ Report.
The report is available in full.
OU’s Prof John Wolffe and Dr Gavin Moorhead … Read more...
The Churches’ Community Work Alliance is organising a conference on ‘Church and Community – Challenge and Change’ on Wednesday 24 September, 9.30 am-3.30 pm at the Jethro Centre in Lurgan.
It is billed as: A major rural conference focusing on … Read more...
Religion in Times of Crisis (Brill 2014) edited by myself, Heidemarie Winkel and Christophe Monnot, was unveiled last week at the Association for the Sociology of Religion (ASR) annual meeting in San Francisco.
The book is the 24th in … Read more...
Today Fr Charlie Burrows, an Irish priest with Oblate Mission Development based in Chilachap on Java’s southern coast, offers some reflections on the themes of Love, Freedom and Evolution.
Fr Burrows was featured in a 2011 Would you Believe documentary
I’m delighted to announce that I am now under contract for my next book, Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland. The book will be published by Oxford University Press in 2016.
So while that’s some time to wait, here’s a summary of the … Read more...
Over the last week, I’ve been reviewing Marie Keenan’s book, Child Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church (Oxford University Press, 2012).
I’ve been surprised that her book has not received greater attention since its publication, given the obvious relevance of … Read more...
On this island, the conventional wisdom south of the border has been that ‘sectarianism’ is a problem in Northern Ireland, but not in the Republic. I encountered this perspective during the five years that I lived in Dublin, where it … Read more...
What’s the point of studying religions? This is an apt question to be asking on the island of Ireland. Here, the academic study of religions is at an early stage in its development, particularly from social science or humanities perspectives, … Read more...
I have a new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog, a review of the new book by Joshua Searle, The Scarlet Woman and the Red Hand: Evangelical Apocalyptic Belief in the Northern Ireland Troubles (Pickwick Publications, 2014).
Church of Ireland Archbishop Michael Jackson’s recent comments about sectarianism and his unveiling (and critique) of the derogatory language of ‘Polyester Protestants’