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...
Today the blog features a new guest post from Fr Charlie Burrows, a priest with Oblate Mission Development, an office of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. He has served in Chilachap on Java’s southern coast for the past 40 … Read more...
Sub-Saharan Africa Between Conflict and Reconciliation, an edited volume for which Joram Tarusarira and I wrote a chapter, has been reviewed by Rita Schafer on the German language website Welt-Sichten. Schafer praises the book for providing ‘some impetus … Read more...
Today Fr Charlie Burrows, an Irish missionary priest serving in Chilachap, Java, Indonesia, offers another blog post about ongoing efforts towards dialogue and encounter with Muslims. Last month, he described the visit of students from the local Muslim Pesantren school 
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 Charlie Burrows, an Irish priest serving in Chilachap on Java’s southern coast in Indonesia, is well known for cultivating good relations between Christians and Muslims in his local area. In his latest contribution to this blog, he describes an 
A book I co-edited with Heidemarie Winkel and Christophe Monnot, Religion in Times of Crisis (Brill 2014), has been reviewed in Numen (Vol 62, pp. 484-486, 2015) by Chaminda Weerawardhana from Queen’s University Belfast.
Weerawardhana also spoke at the launch … Read more...
Lord Rowan Williams will speak tonight (24 April) on ‘Fundamentalism, Christian and Non-Christian’, at the second annual lecture to mark the bicentenary celebrations of St George’s Parish Church, High Street, Belfast, at 7.30pm .
Lord Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury, … Read more...
I was a respondent to Dr Jenny Taylor’s Catherwood Lecture, ‘When Words Fail: Religious Literacy and Post-Multicultural Possibilities’ on Thursday evening. The Catherwood Lecture is an annual event organised by Contemporary Christianity. You can read my short summary … Read more...
Dr Jenny Taylor spoke on ‘When Words Fail: Religious Literacy and Post-Multicultural Possibilities’ at Contemporary Christianity’s annual Catherwood Lecture in Public Theology on Thursday evening.
Will Leitch of the BBC and I were respondents to Taylor’s lecture. You can read … Read more...
Contemporary Christianity’s annual Catherwood Lecture in Public Theology will take place Thursday 16 April at 8 pm (7.30 for tea and coffee) at the Agape Centre, 238 Lisburn Road in Belfast.
Dr Jenny Taylor, a cultural analyst, journalist, author and … Read more...