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Evangelical Journeys Book Launch – Glenn Jordan on Honouring Evangelicals’ Stories

Claire Mitchell and I were delighted with the launch of our new book, Evangelical Journeys: Choice and Change in a Northern Irish Religious Subculture (UCD Press, 2011) on Tuesday 1 November at East Belfast Mission. Glenn Jordan, director of the Skainos Project at EBM, shared his reflections on the book. Glenn is the author of [...]

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Art, Culture and Conflict at the Hugh Lane Thursday 3 November

I will be presenting at a seminar on ‘Art, Culture and Conflict’ at the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin on Thursday 3 November at 6.30 pm. My talk is titled ‘Surveying Religion’s Public Role: Perspectives on Diversity, Reconciliation and Ecumenism.’ It will draw on some of the research conducted for my School’s Visioning 21st Century [...]

Against Remembrance? New Post on Slugger O’Toole

I have a new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog, ‘Against Remembrance: Seminar and Book by David Rieff.’ It includes my reflections on Rieff’s seminar, given last week at Trinity College Dublin.

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Evangelical Journeys Book Launch – Tuesday 1 November in East Belfast Mission

Claire Mitchell and I are happy to announce the launch of our new book, Evangelical Journeys: Choice and Change in a Northern Irish Religious Subculture, on Tuesday 1 November at 6 pm at East Belfast Mission, 239 Newtownards Road, Belfast. Tea/coffee, nibbles and live traditional music will feature from 6 pm. At around 6.45 Glenn [...]

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Ecumenical Matters: Talk at Queen’s on Thursday 20 October and Visioning 21st Century Ecumenism Seminar Series Starts Sat 22 October

As regular readers of this blog may know, I’m giving a lecture at Queen’s University Belfast on Thursday 20 October titled, ‘The End of Irish Catholicism?: Exploring Extra-Institutional Spaces for Faith.’ The talk kicks off at 5.15 pm in the Peter Froggart Centre and is the first event in Queen’s new Religious Studies Research Forum. [...]

Assembly Wants All-Party Talks on Dealing with the Past – New Post on Slugger O’Toole

I have a new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog, ‘Assembly Wants All-Party Talks on Dealing with the Past.’

Debating the Past in the Northern Ireland Assembly – New Post on Slugger O’Toole

I have a new post on the Slugger O’Toole blog, ‘Debating the Past in the Northern Ireland Assembly?’

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Speaking About Faith: Lessons from Northern Ireland’s Faith Minorities

On Wednesday the Irish School of Ecumenics (Trinity College Dublin at Belfast), where I work, hosted a meeting of the Northern Ireland Inter Faith Forum. I was the guest speaker, and presented some results from our Visioning 21st Century Ecumenism research project. This project, while focusing primarily on Christianity, has also included some research into [...]

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The Experiences of Faith Minorities in Northern Ireland–Talk on Wednesday 5 October for the NI Inter Faith Forum

On Wednesday I’ll be presenting research from my School’s Visioning 21st Century Ecumenism project at a talk for the Northern Ireland Inter Faith Forum titled, ‘Living Religion in Northern Ireland: Experiences of People of Minority Faiths in a Christian Majority Landscape.’ It will be held at the Irish School of Ecumenics, 683 Antrim Road, Belfast, [...]

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Thursday 29 September in Belfast – Looking for an Evening Out? Spoiled for Choice

There are four events scheduled for Thursday 29 September in Belfast that are of great interest to me, and therefore also potentially of interest to readers of this blog. The biggest problem is how to choose where to go! Concerned citizens of Belfast and beyond can choose from the following: A Screening of ‘Unheard Voices’ [...]