Curriculum Vitae – Dr Gladys Ganiel
Current Position:
Lecturer and Coordinator of the Reconciliation Studies Programme,
Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin
Address: Irish School of Ecumenics,
Trinity College Dublin,
683 Antrim Road,
Belfast,
Northern Ireland,
BT15 4EG,
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0) 28 9037 3988
Email: gganiel@tcd.ie
Previous Positions:
- Visiting Post-doctoral Scholar, Dept. of Political Studies, University of Cape Town (July-Dec. 2005)
- Visiting Scholar, Department of Religious Studies, University of Zimbabwe (Feb.-April 2007)
Education
Ph.D. Politics (2005) University College Dublin, Ireland.
Dissertation title: Finding Their Place in the Kingdom: Evangelical Protestants and the Shaping of Northern Irish Civil Society After the Belfast Agreement
M.A. Politics (2001) University College Dublin, Ireland. First Class Honours
Dissertation title: Conserving or Changing? The Theology and Politics of Northern Irish Fundamentalist and Evangelical Protestants After the Good Friday Agreement
B.A. Political Science (1999) Providence College, Rhode Island, USA. 3.98 GPA (4.0 scale)
Research Interests
Ethno-religious conflict; sociology of the congregation; social identities; the conflict in Northern Ireland; ethnicity; religion and the life course; nationalism and conflict; the politics of transition in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Zimbabwe; civil society; qualitative research methods; comparative evangelical politics (Northern Ireland, USA and Canada)
Publications
Books:
Meet the Evangelicals: Journeys in a Northern Irish Religious Subculture, co-authored with Claire Mitchell, UCD Press: Dublin, forthcoming
Evangelicalism and Conflict in Northern Ireland, Contemporary Anthropology of Religion series, Palgrave: New York, 2008
Journal Articles (in print and in press):
“Visioning 21st Century Ecumenism: The View from the Pulpits, the View from the Pews,” (2010) Doctrine and Life, 60(5), pp. 31-46.
“Surveying Religion’s Public Role: Perspectives on Reconciliation, Diversity and Ecumenism in Northern Ireland,” (2010) Shared Space, Issue 9, pp. 53-68.
“Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity in South Africa & Zimbabwe: A Review,” (2010) Religion Compass, Vol. 5, pp. 130-143, available here.
“Ethno-religious Change in Northern Ireland & Zimbabwe: A Comparative Study of How Religious Havens can have Ethnic Significance,” (2010) special issue of Ethnopolitics, edited by Joseph Ruane and Jennifer Todd, 9(1), pp. 103-120
“Spiritual Capital and Democratization in Zimbabwe: A Case Study of a Progressive Charismatic Congregation,” (2009) special issue of Democratization, edited by Jeff Haynes, 16(6), pp. 1172-1193
“Battling in Brussels: the DUP in the EU, 1979-2009,” (2009) special issue of Irish Political Studies, edited by Mary Murphy and Katy Hayward, 24(4), pp. 575-588
“Beyond Pietism and Prosperity: Religious Resources for Reconstruction and Reconciliation in Zimbabwe,” The Africa Peace and Conflict Network Occasional Paper Series, (2008), paper no. 1, available at: http://www.africaworkinggroup.org/files/Ganiel.pdf
“Explaining New Forms of Evangelical Activism in Northern Ireland: Comparative Perspectives from the USA and Canada,” (2008) Journal of Church and State, 50: pp. 475-493
“DUP Discourses about Violence and their impact on the Northern Ireland Peace Process,” with Amber Rankin, (2008) Peace and Conflict Studies, 15(1): pp. 115-135, available at: http://shss.nova.edu/pcs/journalsPDF/Summer_2008_PCS.pdf
“Is the Multiracial Congregation an Answer to the Problem of Race? Comparative Perspectives from South Africa and the USA,” (2008) Journal of Religion in Africa, 38: pp. 263-283
“Religion in Northern Ireland: Rethinking Fundamentalism and the Possibilities for Conflict Transformation,” (2008) with Paul Dixon, Journal of Peace Research, 45(3): pp. 421-438
“Preaching to the Choir? An Analysis of DUP Discourses about the Northern Ireland Peace Process,” (2007) Irish Political Studies, 22(3): pp. 303-320
“Religion and Transformation in South Africa?: Institutional and Discursive Change in a Charismatic Congregation,” (2007) Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa, 63, pp. 1-22
“Race, Religion and Identity in South Africa: A Case Study of a Charismatic Congregation,” (2006), Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 12(304), pp. 555-576
“Turning the Categories Inside-Out: Complex Identifications and Multiple Interactions in Religious Ethnography,” (2006), with Claire Mitchell, Sociology of Religion, 67(1), pp. 3-21
“Ulster Says Maybe: The Restructuring of Evangelical Politics in Northern Ireland,” (2006), Irish Political Studies, 21(2), pp. 137-155
“Emerging from the Evangelical Subculture in Northern Ireland: A Case Study of the Zero28 and ikon Community,” (2006), International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church, 6 (1), pp. 38-48
“Scandal and Political Candidate Image,” (Dec. 2000), with James Carlson and Mark S. Hyde, Southeastern Political Review, V28, N4, p747-757
Book Chapters:
“A New Framework for Understanding Religion in Northern Irish Civil Society,” in Christopher Farrington, ed., Global Change, Civil Society and the Northern Ireland Peace Process: Implementing the Political Settlement, Palgrave, forthcoming 2008
“Religious Dissent and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland,” in John O’Grady and Peter Scherle, eds., Ecumenics from the Rim: Explorations in Honour of John D’Arcy May, Berlin: LIT Verlag, pp. 379-386, 2007
Book Reviews:
Steve Bruce’s Paisley: Religion and Politics in Northern Ireland and Ed Moloney’s Paisley: From Demagogue to Democrat? , in British Journal of Sociology, 2009, Vol. 60, No.1, pp. 191-193
Claire Mitchell’s Religion, Identity and Politics in Northern Ireland, in Sociological Research On-Line, 12(4), 31/07/2007, at: http://www.socresonline.org.uk/12/4/reviews/ganiel.html
Peter Rollins’ How (Not) to Speak of God, in Lion and Lamb, Spring 2007, forthcoming
Claire Mitchell’s Religion, Identity and Politics in Northern Ireland, in Lion and Lamb, Summer 2006
Working Papers:
“No Exit? Opting out of Religious and Ethnic Group Identities in Northern Ireland,” (2009) with Sara Templer and Claire Mitchell, Politics and Identity Discussion Paper Series, No. 6, Institute for British Irish Studies: UCD, Dublin
“Everyday Evangelicals: Life in a Religious Subculture after the Belfast Agreement,” (2009) with Claire Mitchell, Working Papers in British Irish Studies, No. 86, Institute for British Irish Studies: UCD, Dublin, available at: http://www.ucd.ie/ibis/filestore/wp2009/86_ganiel%20rev%201.pdf
“Evangelical Political Identity in Transition: Mapping the Intersections of Religion, Politics, and Change in Post-Belfast Agreement Northern Ireland,” (2004), Institute for the Study of Social Change, Dublin, working paper 2004/1 (http://www.ucd.ie/~issc)
“The Politics of Religious Dissent in Northern Ireland,” (2003), Institute for British Irish Studies, Dublin, No. 32 working paper series
“Conserving or Changing? The Theology and Politics of Northern Irish Fundamentalist and Evangelical Protestants After the Good Friday Agreement,” (2002), Institute for British Irish Studies, Dublin, No. 20 working paper series
Research Notes
“Reflections on Surveying Religion Online: Perils and Promise?” posted on British Religion in Numbers, May 11, 2010
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