The ‘Religion Factor’ blog has published two reviews of a new book by Joram Tarusarira, Reconciliation and Religio-Political Non-Conformism in Zimbabwe (Routledge, 2016). Tarusarira is Assistant Professor in Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.… Read more...
Category: Victims
New Post on Slugger O’Toole: CRC Award for Fr Gary Donegan & Reconciliation Reframed by Rev Norman Hamilton
I have a new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog, ‘CRC Award for Fr Gary Donegan & Reconciliation Reframed by Rev Norman Hamilton.’
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Ireland as a Post-Catholic Religious Market? The Church in a Pluralist Society Conference
Last week I presented a paper, ‘Ireland as a Post-Catholic Religious Market? The Role of Extra-Institutional Religion,’ at a conference on ‘The Church in a Pluralist Society,’ hosted by the Loyola Institute in Trinity College Dublin.
The talk was based … Read more...
Peter Steinfels on the Media and the Catholic Sex Abuse Scandal: Conference on The Church in a Pluralist Society
The speakers include Terry Eagleton, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Hans Joas, William … Read more...
Bertie Ahern: Reflections on Peace in a Changed Ireland – New Post on Slugger O’Toole
I have a new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog about Bertie Ahern’s ‘Reflections on Peace in a Changed Ireland.’ It is based on Ahern’s closing lecture in the Spring Festival of the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation … Read more...
Hunger Striking as Political Resistance: Then & Now – New Post on Slugger O’Toole
I have a new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog, ‘Hunger Striking as Political Resistance: Then & Now.’ It reviews a panel discussion on hunger striking at Queen’s Institute for Conflict Transformation and Social Justice’s Spring Festival of Events, which … Read more...
Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland – Author Meets Critics Session
My latest book, Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland: Religious Practice in Late Modernity (Oxford 2016) was launched Tuesday at the Irish School of Ecumenics (ISE), Trinity College Dublin, with an ‘author meets critics’ session.
Brian Conway (NUI Maynooth), Siobhán Garrigan … Read more...
Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland: Book Launch and Author Meets Critics Session on 12 April in Dublin
I’m delighted to announce that the launch of my new book, Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland: Religious Practice in Late Modernity (Oxford, 2016) will be marked with an Author Meets Critics session at the Irish School of Ecumenics in Dublin on 12 … Read more...
Reflection on Up Standing: Stories of Courage from Northern Ireland
A Fresh Listen to the Parable of the Prodigal Son: The Rostrevor Benedictines, the Prodigal Girl, and Acknowledging the Abuses in the Catholic Church in Ireland
In the Catholic liturgical calendar, the gospel reading this past Sunday was the parable of the prodigal son. This parable is so well-known, and its meaning so widely assumed, that I suspect many find it difficult to hear the story … Read more...
