Kieran Flanagan
Biographic Data
| ID | 107352 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kieran Flanagan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kieran |
| FAMILY NAME | Flanagan |
| SIGNATURE | FLANAGAN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5394-7829 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 61 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 125 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 59 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Crisis of Narration, by Byung-Chul Han, Cambridge
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Two censuses
The politics of recognition in Ireland related to inequalities of Catholics leading its census of 1861 to cross tabulate occupations and religion. The unique sociological value of these Irish statistics has never been recognised. As a social laboratory at the time, what was permitted in Ireland was debarred on grounds of privacy in England and Wales. Whereas colonisation necessitated a politics of recognition of religion in Ireland, in England, a…
Sociology of Seeking
Keith Tester (1960-2019)
Theologically Engaged Anthropology
Theologically Engaged Anthropology
Theology
Theology represents as a peculiar omission in the exploration of multidisciplinary ventures in sociology. This neglect arises from the Christian basis of theology, but is also a hesitant sociological response to its complexity. The secularization of sociology sought to eradicate links with theology, yet dalliances exist in the writings of Comte, Simmel, and Weber and in recent spasmodic efforts to move beyond the inchoate to generate a dialogue. …
Metaphysical Sociology
Metaphysical Sociology: On the Work of John Carroll
At This Time and In This Place
At This Time and In This Place: Vocation and Higher Education." Journal of Contemporary Religion, 33(2), pp. 365–366
Religion
The contentious basis of religion and its mutations in Europe and North America continue to surprise those believing it to have been secularised out of existence. More unexpectedly, with the rise o
A Sociology of Spirituality
Contents: Introduction, Kieran Flanagan Spirituality: some disciplinary perspectives, Peter R. Holmes The Spiritual Revolution: Another False Dawn for the Sacred, David Voas and Steve Bruce The holistic milieu and spirituality: reflections on Voas and Bruce, Paul Heelas Beyond secularisation versus sacralisation: lessons from a study of the Dutch case, Andre Droogers Spirituality on the margin of the Church: Christian spiritual centres in The Net…
New religiosity in Contemporary Sweden
New religiosity in Contemporary Sweden: The Dalarna Study in National and International Context." Journal of Contemporary Religion, 31(2), pp. 308–309
Mors Britannica
Present-Day Spiritualities
Martyrs and martyrdom
Jupp in 2005 and in 2010 recommended a special issue of Mortality on the topic. We thank Mortality’s editors for accepting our proposal. As a result of an advertisement in Mortality, August 2011 we received 15 viable offers of papers. We are very grateful for all these submissions and most especially for the seven contributors who contributed to the issue. Our anonymous referees supplied most helpful suggestions and comments which greatly aided t…
Godless Intellectuals? The Intellectual Pursuit of the Sacred Reinvented
Godless Intellectuals? The Intellectual Pursuit of the Sacred Reinvented ALEXANDER TRISTAN RILEY, 2010 New York & Oxford: Berghahn x + 298 pp., US$95.00(hb) £56.00 (hb) ISBN 978–1–84545–670–2 For a
Lawrence A. Scaff, Max Weber in America
Lawrence A. Scaff, Max Weber in America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011, 311 pp. $28.63 hardcover (978-0-691-14779-6) In this handsomely produced work, Scaff has managed an unusual accomplishment of elevating what is proper to a lengthy footnote into a highly credible treatise on Weber's grand tour of America. The visit was made with his wife Marianne between August 20 and November 27, 1904. On journey home to Germany, Weber note…
Commissions of inquiry as ritual
Recent concerns in Ireland with memorialisation and cultural nationalism facilitate a sociological appraisal of the unjustly neglected Kildare Commission on Endowed Schools, 1854–58. Uniquely, it was an exercise in modernisation and rationalisation of cultural capital set to supply hope to Irish Protestants in the post-Famine era. The sociological significance of the Commission lies in the understandings it offers of the link between print cultur…
Sociology's Don Giovanni
Some years ago, a colleague's choice of an image for the jacket cover of his specialist study of Durkheim generated mixed feelings of mirth and violation.The photograph was of Durkheim, clearly on holidays, asleep in a deckchair.The image seemed to trespass on a received sensibility that the Olympian founding figures of sociology were not to be trivialized in such a way but then, they were human after all, presumably living in the real world, and…
Sociology into Theology
By means of a comparison between Bourdieu and Simmel, this article explores the fusion of theology and religion so as to give sociological expression to Kierkegaard's leap of faith. When detached from theology, religion services civil and secular needs in ways that enhance power and the right of the state to regulate the agenda of the politics of identity. In their dealings with religion, Bourdieu and Simmel present sociology with a choice of fus…
Sociology in Theology
This is an original study of the sociological imagination in regard to visual culture. It explores the reflexive dimensions of choice over seeing or not seeing in relation to paintings, images and isl
To the Western Isles
The need to secure a defining image and to lay out a disciplinary domain arises most pressingly in introductory textbooks. Responding to a query, ‘what is sociology?’ Macionis and Plummer (2005: 4) defined it as ‘ a form of consciousness, a way of thinking, a critical way of seeing the social’ . Sociology sees in two ways that underline its particular ocular powers. At one end lies observer participation. It offers systematic discernments chronic…
Seen and Unseen
This lively and highly original study explores the link between visual culture and religion in terms of tales, memory and character. It draws out the sociological implications of handling the virtual
Visual Culture and the Virtual
Between television and the home computer, an increased amount of work and leisure activity is devoted to looking at the screen and deciphering what is seen on it. With so many visual outlets available, the contingency of postmodernity has invaded the gaze, for with so much to see there is confusion about what to see and how to see it. Sometimes, the activity of looking can be passive, but in other forms it can be interactive. Increasingly the cam…
Seen and Unseen
Reflexivity, Ethics and the Teaching of the Sociology of Religion
This essay reflects on the ethical and reflexive considerations surrounding the use of student fieldwork reports on a course on the sociology of religion. Using reflexivity as a teaching strategy coincides with changes in sociological approaches to religion where experiential and substantive issues are stressed in its study. Reflexive and ethical issues that emerge on courses on sexuality and gender politics are compared to those which seem pecul…
Gadamer, Hermeneutics, Tradition and Reason
Hans-Georg Gadamer is one of the leading philosophers in the world today. Since the publication in 1960 of his magnum opus Truth and Method, his philosophical hermeneutics has been the focus of a great deal of attention and controversy. His ideas have been applied to questions of interpretation in the study of art and literature, to issues of knowledge and objectivity in the social sciences, and even to reevaluations of philosophy itself.This boo…
Social Action and Human Nature
A Treatise on Social Theory
Reflexive Modernization
The Enchantment of Sociology
Sociology into Theology
By means of a comparison between Bourdieu and Simmel, this article explores the fusion of theology and religion so as to give sociological expression to Kierkegaard's leap of faith. When detached from theology, religion services civil and secular needs in ways that enhance power and the right of the state to regulate the agenda of the politics of identity. In their dealings with religion, Bourdieu and Simmel present sociology with a choice of fus…
Liturgy, Ambiguity and Silence
This paper is a preliminary exploration of a neglected area in sociology of religion. It aims to interpret and to characterize the distinctive performative basis of Christian liturgy. Ambiguities in liturgical enactment can be routinely handled as long as they relate to the nuministic content of the rite and not to its social form. Silence is a distinctive non-reducible phenomenon of rite that can be related to the regulation of ceremonial form t…
The Chief Secretary’s Office, 1853-1914
It is not surprising that Raymond Williams should cite Lady Morgan’s comment in 1818 that Ireland had for long been governed by a ‘bureaucratie or office tyranny’ as an early example of the use of the term. Dublin Castle, ‘the architectural emblem of England’s rule over Ireland’, with its extensive coercive and financial powers, appeared to many as a ‘congested district of impervious officialdom’ This unique apparatus of state was characterised b…
Does Christianity Cause War
Religion and Modernity. Modes of Co-Existence
Religion in Britain Since 1945. Believing without Belonging
Frontispiece: Ordinary God, : Donald Davie. Foreword: Professor David Martin. 1. Introduction. 2. A Rapidly Changing Context. 3. The Sacred and the Secular: Religious Generations in Post-war Britain. 4. Religious Constituencies. 5. The Ordinary Gods of British Society. 6. Believing without Belonging: Variations on a Theme. 7. Handing on the Tradition: The Significance of Age and Gender. 8. Church and State: A Framework for Discussion. 9. Religiou…
An Introduction to the Work of Pierre Bourdieu. The Practice of Theory
Irish Peasants
The Rise and Fall of the Celtic Ineligible
Naturalism and Social Science
Turner on ‘Operative Rituals’
In a rather bleak essay, Charles Davis observed in 1970 that ‘the general verdict upon liturgical reform is that it has failed to solve the problem of worship in a secular age’ and ‘that the chief effect of the reforms has been to uncover an insoluble problem’. Any sociological response to liturgical renewal came after the late sixties as a critical reaction to changes implemented as a result of Vatican II. There was certainly no sociological par…
The Chief Secretary’s Office, 1853-1914
It is not surprising that Raymond Williams should cite Lady Morgan’s comment in 1818 that Ireland had for long been governed by a ‘bureaucratie or office tyranny’ as an early example of the use of the term. Dublin Castle, ‘the architectural emblem of England’s rule over Ireland’, with its extensive coercive and financial powers, appeared to many as a ‘congested district of impervious officialdom’ This unique apparatus of state was characterised b…
A Treatise on Social Theory
Televising Quires and Places
Liturgy, Ambiguity and Silence
This paper is a preliminary exploration of a neglected area in sociology of religion. It aims to interpret and to characterize the distinctive performative basis of Christian liturgy. Ambiguities in liturgical enactment can be routinely handled as long as they relate to the nuministic content of the rite and not to its social form. Silence is a distinctive non-reducible phenomenon of rite that can be related to the regulation of ceremonial form t…
Irish Peasants
Ritual Form
Explores performance, ritual form and silence
The Anthropological Circle
Philosophical Profiles
Liturgy as Play
Explores management of ambiguity in ritual performance handling indeterminate outcomes
Between Literature and Science
Gadamer, Hermeneutics, Tradition and Reason
Hans-Georg Gadamer is one of the leading philosophers in the world today. Since the publication in 1960 of his magnum opus Truth and Method, his philosophical hermeneutics has been the focus of a great deal of attention and controversy. His ideas have been applied to questions of interpretation in the study of art and literature, to issues of knowledge and objectivity in the social sciences, and even to reevaluations of philosophy itself.This boo…
Illness and Self in Society
Sociology and Liturgy
Social Action and Human Nature
An Introduction to the Work of Pierre Bourdieu. The Practice of Theory
Theology and Social Theory beyond Secular Reason
Sociology and Liturgy
Sociology and Liturgy
Journal Article Sociology and Liturgy: Re-representations of the Holy, by Kieran Flanagan, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991, xi + 411 pp. $59.95 Get access David Martin David Martin London School of Economics and Political Science Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 54, Issue 3, Fall 1993, Pages 323–324, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711732 Published: 01 October 1993
Sociology and Liturgy
Preface - Introduction - Sociology and Theology: a Career in Misunderstanding - Liturgical Theology: Some Sociological Implications - Sociological Understandings of Liturgy: Some Aspects - Angels and Surplices: appearing as holy becoming - Simulation and Dissimulation: Self-revealing Paradoxes - Holy and Unholy Rites: Lies and Mistakes in Liturgy - Sacred and profane Abasements: the Management of Esteem - Altar Servers and Waiters: serving in Wor…
A Far Glory
Religion in Britain Since 1945. Believing without Belonging
Frontispiece: Ordinary God, : Donald Davie. Foreword: Professor David Martin. 1. Introduction. 2. A Rapidly Changing Context. 3. The Sacred and the Secular: Religious Generations in Post-war Britain. 4. Religious Constituencies. 5. The Ordinary Gods of British Society. 6. Believing without Belonging: Variations on a Theme. 7. Handing on the Tradition: The Significance of Age and Gender. 8. Church and State: A Framework for Discussion. 9. Religiou…
Sociology and Liturgy
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