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| Name | Ganiel, Gladys | |
| Main Department | School of Ecumenics | |
| College Title | Lecturer | |
| gganiel@tcd.ie | ||
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| Web | http://people.tcd.ie/gganiel | |
| Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies |
| Details | Date From | Date To |
| Association for the Sociology of Religion, Association for Voluntary Action Research in Ireland, Association for Canadian Studies in Ireland, Political Studies Association of Ireland, Religious Research Association, Sociological Association of Ireland, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion | ||
| American Anthropological Association |
| Description of Research Interests |
| Religion and conflict, sociology of the congregation, the conflict in Northern Ireland, civil society, identity construction, conflict resolution and post-conflict transitions, evangelicalism and politics, social change, comparative politics (Canada, Northern Ireland, South Africa, USA, Zimbabwe), qualitative research methods, ethnography |
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| Democratic Unionist Party | Ethnomethodology | Evangelicalism | Identity politics and social change |
| Multiculturalism | Narrative analysis | Northern Ireland Conflict | Race and ethnic studies |
| Religion in the Public Sphere | Social Theory | South Africa | Zimbabwe |
| Research Projects | |
| Project title | Visioning 21st Century Ecumenism |
| Summary | The current centenary of international Conference on World Mission, Edinburgh 1910 provides, an opportunity for the ecumenical movement – in Ireland and internationally – to re-evaluate its goals and to articulate new visions. This ground-breaking ISE research project will provide the springboard for a major international conference in June 2010 – 'From World Mission to Interreligious Witness', to commemorate the centenary of what we know as modern ecumenism, by examining the role of ecumenism in global, Irish, and other national contexts, and identifying key areas in which ecumenism can contribute to ongoing global conversations on such issues as diversity, immigration, interreligious theology, dialogue and reconciliation. This conference, hosted by Trinity College Dublin, promises to stimulate further research collaborations which are global in scope. The research already under way consists of theological work, largely from a Christian perspective, which critically examines and seeks to develop theological models of identity in plural contexts, extrapolating from biblical covenant traditions of exclusiveness-inclusiveness, justice and right relationship, and hospitality. Researchers are developing a theological perspective that will test the boundaries of ecumenism beyond the intra-Christian to interreligious approaches, and by ecumenical engagement within the public sphere, including politics, religion and the arts. Already in the first phase, researchers using a comparative religious studies ethnographic perspectives, have gathered and evaluated empirical data on the churches and other faith communities (Islam, Judaism, Hinduism) on the island of Ireland. This has included web-based surveys of clergy and laypeople – which culminated in an Audited Report and a conference in Belfast in Nov. 2009. Currently, further comparative case studies of churches and faith communities are under way. The research will equip churches and other faith communities with theological and empirical resources for articulating a new ecumenical vision for the 21st century. The Lead Investigator is Professor Linda Hogan; and the other Researchers include Dr Gladys Ganiel, Dr Andrew Pierce, Dr Geraldine Smyth, Dr David Tombs and Professor John D’Arcy May. Other staff and two Ph.D candidates are also engaged in correlative fields research. |
| Funding Agency | IRCHSS |
| Programme | Government of Ireland, Theoolgy and Religion |
| Type of Project | Theology and Religious Studies |
| Date from | Dec. 2008 |
| Date to | Dec. 2011 |
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| Publications |
| Peer Reviewed |
| Religion, Politics and Law in, editor(s)Linda Woodhead and Rebecca Catto , Religion and Change in Modern Britain, Routledge, 2012, pp299 - 321, [Gladys Ganiel and Peter Jones] | |
| Claire Mitchell and Gladys Ganiel, Evangelical Journeys: Choice and Change in a Northern Irish Religious Subculture, Dublin, UCD Press, 2011 | |
| DUP Discourses on Violence and Their Impact on the Peace Process in, editor(s)Katy Hayward and Catherine O'Donnell , Political Discourse and Conflict Resolution: Debating Peace in Northern Ireland, Abingdon, Routledge, 2011, pp93 - 108, [Amber Rankin and Gladys Ganiel] | |
| Battling in Brussels: The DUP in the European Union in, editor(s)Katy Hayward and Mary Murphy , The Europeanization of Party Politics in Ireland, North and South, London, Routledge, 2010, pp159 - 172, [Gladys Ganiel] | |
| Gladys Ganiel, Visioning 21st Century Ecumenism: The View from the Pulpits, the View from the Pews, Doctrine and Life, 60, (5), 2010, p31 - 46 | |
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