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Religion and Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland

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Religious Studies Research Forum

Date(s)
April 11, 2024
Location
Online via Microsoft Teams
Time
16:15 - 17:30
Price
Free
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Speaker: Dr Maria Power

The Queen's University Belfast Religious Studies Research Forum is an interdisciplinary grouping of scholars from across the University interested in exploring themes and issues relating to religion in culture and society. The Forum sponsors the annual McCosh lecture, delivered in recent years by Diarmaid MacCulloch (2018), Onora O'Neill (2019) and David Hempton (2020).

The Forum hosts a series of seminars throughout the academic year to promote religious studies across the University. In recent years, it has welcomed many distinguished visitors to Queen's, including the Oxford neurologist Irene Tracey, the University of York physicist Tom McLeish FRS, and the climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe.

The Religious Studies Research Forum is chaired by Dr Andrew Holmes.

 

Biography

Dr Maria Power is a Fellow of Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, where she a Senior Research Fellow in Human Dignity at the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice.  In December 2019, she was appointed as a Research Associate of the Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence at Bristol Baptist College, and in June 2019, she was a Holland Visiting Fellow at the University of Durham.  Maria is also a honourary Senior Research Fellow at the William Temple Foundation as well as being a Visiting Fellow at the Benedict XVI Centre for Religion and Society at St Mary’s University.  She is the Book Reviews Editor for the Journal for the Study of Bible and Violence, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Social Encounters. 

Maria’s academic research focuses on the role that religions can play in ameliorating violence and ethnic conflict.  Her research on conflict and peace seeks to understand how religious organisations should behave in conflict and post-conflict situations to have a positive impact. Maria has expertise in intra- and inter-faith dialogue and peace-building practices. She is currently working on a project entitled: ‘Using Catholic Social Teaching’s concepts of peacebuilding to strengthen the social contract between citizen and state in post-conflict Northern Ireland.’ As well as producing a monograph which contextualises Catholic Social teaching for Northern Ireland, this project will also create two toolkits which will empower marginalized communities and help them engage with policy makers. Her research has been funded by the ESRC, the British Academy, The Spalding Trust and the Porticus Foundation.

 

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Name Dr Andrew Holmes
Email a.holmes@qub.ac.uk
Website https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/happ/Events/religious-studies-research-forum/
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