Next week I will be speaking at three different universities on the East Coast of the United States on ‘Religion and the Conflict in Northern Ireland: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?’ All the events are free … Read more...
Category: Sociology of Religion
‘Irish Catholicism on Trial’: Keynote Lecture on ‘Does Religion Still Matter in a Post-Catholic Ireland?’, 6-7 Oct, Dublin
I am one of the keynote speakers at a conference next week on ‘Irish Catholicism on Trial,’ at IT Tallaght in Dublin. My address is titled, ‘Does Religion Still Matter in a Post-Catholic Ireland?’ It is scheduled for 4-5 pm … Read more...
Patrick Mitchel: Questions for the Churches from ‘Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland’
Sometimes you stumble upon something online that you really wish you had read a year ago.
That was the case for me when an internet search for something else turned up a post on Patrick Mitchel’s thoughtful ‘Faith in Ireland’ … Read more...
How Evangelical Religion Contributed to Peace in N Ireland – New Post on LSE’s Religion Blog
I have a post on LSE’s Religion and the Public Sphere blog, ‘How Evangelical Religion Contributed to Peace in Northern Ireland – and What we can Learn from it.’
Review of The Deconstructed Church in Church History by Randall Reed – ‘a masterful explanation of a potentially important movement’
The Deconstructed Church: Understanding Emerging Christianity (Oxford University Press), my 2014 book co-authored with Gerardo Marti, has been reviewed in Church History (March 2017) by Dr Randall Reed, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Appalachian State University.
Gerardo … Read more...
The Future of Irish Catholicism: Special Issue of Studies
The Spring 2017 edition of Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, is a special issue on ‘The Future of Irish Catholicism.’ My article on ‘Ireland as a Post-Catholic Religious Market?’ is one among eight contributions that reflect on the current religious … Read more...
Book Review: KS Moody’s Radical Theology and Emerging Christianity – A Must-Read
If you are interested in the Emerging Church Movement (ECM) and haven’t yet had a chance to read Katharine Sarah Moody’s Radical Theology and Emerging Christianity: Deconstruction, Materialism and Religious Practices (Ashgate, 2015), you should definitely add it to your … Read more...
And No Religion Too … Selected Insights from Workshop on Nones in Selected Countries
Last week I presented a paper at a workshop on ‘Nones in Selected Countries in Western and Eastern Europe and the US – a Comparison,’ at the Religion and Politics Cluster of Excellence at the University of Muenster, Germany.
My … Read more...
Review of Embodied Peacebuilding by Leah Robinson: New Post on Slugger O’Toole
‘Nones’ in Ireland, North and South: Has the End of Ethno-Religious Violence and Institutional Abuse Contributed to the Rise of ‘No Religion’?
I presented a paper today on “‘Nones’ in Ireland, North and South: Has the End of Ethno-Religious Violence and Institutional Abuse Contributed to the Rise of ‘No Religion’?” It was part of a workshop on “ ‘Nones’ in selected … Read more...
Workshop on Nones in Selected Countries, Muenster, 4-5 May
I’m in Muenster today and tomorrow for a workshop on ‘Nones’ in selected countries in Western and Eastern Europe and the US: A Comparison. It’s hosted by the ‘Religion and Politics’ Cluster of Excellence at Muenster University.
I’m presenting my … Read more...