Dr Kieran Flanagan
B.Soc.Sc.(N.U.I.), M.A.(Minn.), D.Phil.(Sus.)
Current positions
Senior Research Fellow in Sociology, Politics and International Studies
School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
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Research interests
My research centres on the interface between sociology and theology (Catholic) pursued in terms of virtue ethics, ritual and visual culture. Also have interest in historical sociology in relation to nineteenth century Irish Society.
Currently preparing proposal for solo work: Utterances in the Wilderness: Sociology at Prayer.
Essay on Public Inquiries as forms of ritual in mid-nineteenth century Irish Society
Completing editing of a special issue of New Blackfriars on Charles Taylor, A Secular Age
Latest book published: Sociology in Theology: Reflexivity and Belief (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
Publications
Recent publications
04/01/2023The disappearance of rituals
New Blackfriars
A Sociology of Seeking
A Sociology of Seeking
Review of Nicholas Orme Going to Church in Medieval England
New Blackfriars
Review of Mass Exodus
New Blackfriars
Post-secularism:
The Catholic Social Science Review