Following the death of American evangelist Billy Graham last week, I took part in a conversation about his life and legacy on Radio Ulster’s Sunday Sequence. You can listen to it here as the first item on the BBC’s Everyday … Read more...
Category: Sociology of Religion
Blessed are the Peacemakers – New Post on Slugger O’Toole
I have a new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog about the Blessed are the Peacemakers event at the 4 Corners Festival, ‘On behalf of churches, let me say sorry for the times we said to victims, “you must forgive.”’ … Read more...
Review of Emmanuel Katongole’s The Journey of Reconciliation on Catholic Books Review
My review of Emmanuel Katongole’s latest book, The Journey of Reconciliation: Groaning for a New Creation in Africa (Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2017), has been published on the ‘Catholic Books Review’ website.
50% off ‘Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland’ in Oxford’s Christmas Sale
I’ve long lamented the high price of academic books, so I’m pleased to announce that my latest book, Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland: Religious Practice in Late Modernity, is featured in Oxford University Press’ 50% off Christmas Sale.
That means you can … Read more...
Listen to Prof John Brewer on Theology and Sociology
I posted last week about an event that was to take place in the Queen’s University Religious Studies Forum, a lecture by Prof John Brewer on Theology and Sociology. I’ve just received a comment on my post from ‘a … Read more...
QUB Religious Studies Forum Thurs 23 Nov: Responding to John Brewer on ‘Theology & Sociology’
I am looking forward to serving as the respondent to a lecture by Prof John Brewer on ‘Theology and Sociology’ this Thursday, 23 Nov, in the Queen’s University Religious Studies Forum Series on ‘Religion and the Disciplines.’ The event starts … Read more...
Bowdoin Report on How Some (But Only Some) Church Leaders Helped Build Peace in Northern Ireland
There is a report on the Bowdoin College (Brunswick, Maine, USA) webpage about a public lecture I gave there last month, ‘How Some (But Only Some) Church Leaders Helped Build Peace in Northern Ireland.’
Bowdoin College is the alma mater … Read more...
Review of Maher and O’Brien’s ‘Tracing the Cultural Legacy of Irish Catholicism’
Tom Inglis Reviews ‘Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland’: an ‘insightful & intelligent book’
Tom Inglis, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at University College Dublin, has reviewed my latest book, Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland: Religious Practice in Late Modernity (Oxford, 2016) in the academic journal Journal of Contemporary Religion, V32(3) September 2017.
I have reproduced portions … Read more...
Clerical Voices from Irish Catholicism on Trial – Flannery, Hederman & Claffey
Last week’s conference on ‘Irish Catholicism on Trial’ at the Institute of Technology, Tallaght, in Dublin provided a platform for a variety of voices. Among them was a panel of ‘clerical voices,’ whose critiques of the Irish Catholic Church provided … Read more...
How Religion Still Matters in a Post-Catholic Ireland – Text of Keynote
Last week I had the opportunity to give a keynote address at a conference on ‘Irish Catholicism on Trial,’ a multidisciplinary event at the Institute of Technology, Tallaght. The title of my lecture was ‘Understanding Post-Catholic Ireland: Does Religion … Read more...