Building a Church Without Walls
My latest book, Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland: Religious Practice in Late Modernity, is due to be published in a few weeks by Oxford University Press (OUP).
OUP has made the first chapter available for free on their website – click … Read more...
I’m pleased to share that my latest book, co-authored with Gerardo Marti, The Deconstructed Church: Understanding Emerging Christianity (Oxford, 2014) has been awarded the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion’s 2015 Distinguished Book Award. The announcement was made at … Read more...
Grace Davie’s 1994 book, Religion in Britain since 1994: Believing without Belonging, has become a classic in the sociology of religion and its memorable subtitle has even filtered into the popular consciousness. I’ve heard clerics and Christian activists use … Read more...
Fr Martin Magill joined Hope International Christian Fellowship on Great Victoria Street in Belfast for his ecumenical tithing this Sunday evening. He found some common ground in prayers for those in mission, and a commitment to the Belfast Street Pastors.… Read more...
The Scottish Religious Cultures Network will host a conference on ‘Scotland’s Religious Traditions at Home and Abroad,’ 28–29 May 2015 at Queen’s University Belfast. The conference also will include an emphasis on religion in Ulster.
The conference is open to … Read more...
Previously I have shared reviews from academic journals of my book, co-authored with Claire Mitchell, Evangelical Journeys: Choice and Change in a Northern Irish Religious Subculture (UCD Press 2011). I have discovered another review, this one by Neil Southern, … Read more...
On Wednesday 26 November I’ll be giving a talk at the Jethro Centre, Flush Place, Lurgan at 8 pm on ‘Journeys of Faith on the island of Ireland: North & South.’ The talk will combine aspects of research from two … Read more...
I recently learned that there were a couple spare copies of my 2008 book, Evangelicalism and Conflict in Northern Ireland (Palgrave 2008), resting idle at the Irish School of Ecumenics at the Trinity College campus in Dublin, left over from … Read more...
Last week I took part in a question and discussion session at Fitzroy Presbyterian church with Rev Steve Stockman, as well as with some very insightful congregants and visitors.
Alan in Belfast recorded the discussion, which you can listen to … Read more...
From time to time I stumble across reviews of my research that I missed the first time around. Recently I found Mary Gethins’ review of my 2011 book, co-authored with Claire Mitchell, Evangelical Journeys: Choice and Change in a Northern … Read more...
