Today is the first day of the annual world-wide Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, 18-25 January, which is book-ended by the octave of Saints Peter and Paul.
This year’s theme, chosen by the Latvian churches, is ‘Salt of … Read more...
Category: Religion in Britain
SSSR’s Distinguished Book Award for The Deconstructed Church
I’m pleased to share that my latest book, co-authored with Gerardo Marti, The Deconstructed Church: Understanding Emerging Christianity (Oxford, 2014) has been awarded the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion’s 2015 Distinguished Book Award. The announcement was made at … Read more...
Review of The Deconstructed Church in Journal of Contemporary Religion by Matthew Guest
My latest book, The Deconstructed Church: Understanding Emerging Christianity, co-authored with Gerardo Marti, has been reviewed by Matthew Guest in the academic publication Journal of Contemporary Religion (October 2015, pp. 544-546).
You can read the review in full on academia.edu,… Read more...
The Deconstructed Church Reviewed by James Spickard in American Journal of Sociology
My latest book, co-authored with Gerardo Marti, The Deconstructed Church: Understanding Emerging Christianity (Oxford 2014) has been reviewed by James Spickard in the American Journal of Sociology.
You can read the full review on my academia.edu profile. There are … Read more...
My Radical Theology Sermon for Peter Rollins’ Tricks of the Light
Peter Rollins has begun posting a series of videos of radical theology ‘sermons,’ and this week he features a talk I gave at his ‘Tricks of the Light’ event in Belfast in April.
As a sociologist I am not sure … Read more...
The Deconstructed Church Reviewed in Religion by Stephen Fouse
There’s been another review of my latest book, co-authored with Gerardo Marti, The Deconstructed Church: Understanding Emerging Christianity (Oxford 2014), written by Stephen Fouse of Missouri State University and published in the academic journal Religion.
I reproduce some excerpts from … Read more...
Grace Davie – Religion in Britain: A Persistent Paradox, Book Review
Grace Davie’s 1994 book, Religion in Britain since 1994: Believing without Belonging, has become a classic in the sociology of religion and its memorable subtitle has even filtered into the popular consciousness. I’ve heard clerics and Christian activists use … Read more...
The Deconstructed Church Reviewed in Sociology of Religion, by Josh Packard
The Deconstructed Church: Understanding Emerging Christianity (Oxford 2014), which I co-authored with Gerardo Marti, has been reviewed by Josh Packard from the University of Northern Colorado in the academic journal Sociology of Religion (you can read the full review on … Read more...
Religion in Scotland Conference in Belfast, 28-29 May
The Scottish Religious Cultures Network will host a conference in Belfast on ‘Religion in Scotland: At Home and Abroad,’ 28-29 May at Queen’s University.
The conference features a range of keynote addresses and panels by academics from a variety of … Read more...
The Deconstructed Church: Understanding Emerging Christianity – Seminar 14 May at Queen’s
I will be giving a seminar on my latest book, co-authored with Gerardo Marti, The Deconstructed Church: Understanding Emerging Christianity, in the Religious Studies Research Forum at Queen’s on Thursday 14 May at 4.15 pm in the Newark Room.… Read more...
Rowan Williams Speaks Tonight on Fundamentalism at St George’s, Belfast
Lord Rowan Williams will speak tonight (24 April) on ‘Fundamentalism, Christian and Non-Christian’, at the second annual lecture to mark the bicentenary celebrations of St George’s Parish Church, High Street, Belfast, at 7.30pm .
Lord Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury, … Read more...