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, Mitchell Institute Fellow: Religion, Arts and Peacebuilding, Dr Jocelyn Dautel and Dr Bethany Corbett, write on 'Modern “Derry Girls”: How Teens Navigate Polarization in a Post-conflict Society'.

https://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-modernities/modern-derry-girls/

 

Dr Jocelyn Dautel

Dr Dautel is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology. Jocelyn's research investigates the development of social cognition with a particular emphasis on how children and adults categorize others into social groups, and how these categories then guide further inferences and behavior.

Dr Bethany Corbett

Dr Corbett is a developmental psychologist and lecturer in the School of Psychology, Ulster University. Her research has examined factors contributing towards children's prosocial choices (for example, to help and share), including experiences of minoritization within settings of conflict.