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Turbulent Religions, Alternative Futures Blog Series - No. 5

6 February, 2024

Reframing the Past and Imagining the Future of Post-Brexit Northern Ireland

‘Peace For All’ sculpture by Derek A. Fitz Simons, Aghalane, Co. Fermanagh, erected 1999. Located at the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, at the south side of the Senator George Mitchell Peace Bridge. Via Wikimedia Commons.

A blog series has been launched on the University of Notre Dame’s ‘Contending Modernities’ website. The series is a result of a joint Queen’s University-University of Notre Dame workshop, which was hosted by the Mitchell Institute in August 2023.

The posts explore ‘turbulent religions’, including the study of how religious actors, institutions, and discourses disrupt societal and political norms and practices, whether by contributing to violence or peacefully challenging injustices and inequalities.  They analyse religion’s role in historical and contemporary currents of violence – most notably around the themes of race and nationalism – and their relation to apocalyptic and conspiratorial thinking. 

In the latest blog, Professor Thomas A. Tweed of University of Notre Dame writes on 'Reframing the Past and Imagining the Future of Post-Brexit Northern Ireland'.

https://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-modernities/reframing-past-imagining-future-northern-ireland/

 

Professor Thomas A. Tweed

Thomas A. Tweed is the Harold and Martha Welch Professor of American Studies and Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He is also a Faculty Fellow in the Institute of Latino Studies, the Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion, and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. Tweed edited Retelling U.S. Religious History (19997) and co-edited Asian Religions in America: A Documentary History (1998), which Choice named an "outstanding academic book." He also wrote Our Lady of the Exile: Diasporic Religion at a Cuban Catholic Shrine in Miami (1997), which won the American Academy of Religion's book award. Harvard University Press published Tweed's Crossing and Dwelling: A Theory of Religion in 2006, and America's Church: The National Shrine and Catholic Presence in the Nation's Capital (2011) received the AAR's 2012 book award. Oxford University Press published Religion: A Very Short Introduction in 2020, and his forthcoming book is called Religion in the Lands That Became America: From the Ice Age to the Information Age. In 2015, Tweed served as president of the AAR.

 

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