• Book review: Gladys Ganiel, Transforming post-Catholic Ireland: religious practice in late modernity 

  Stringer, Adrian (ISASR in association with the Study of Religions, University College Cork, 2018)
• From Jihad to Muqawamah: the case of Hizballah in Lebanon 

  Kanaaneh, Abed (ISASR in association with the Study of Religions, University College Cork, 2018)

  The history and politics of the Middle-East are often understood as a battle-field where various religious currents and ethnic factions are constantly struggling for hegemony. In contrast, in this paper I argue that this ...
• John Traske, Puritan Judaizing and the ethic of singularity 

  Cottrell-Boyce, Aidan (ISASR in association with the Study of Religions, University College Cork, 2018)

  In 1619, John Traske was tried before the Star Chamber, charged with being ‘a disturber of the peace of the Church,’ an ‘insolent detractor of the ecclesiastical government’ and with ‘having ambitions to become the father ...
• Liminality and experience: the 1979 revolution in Iran and Shia religious symbols 

  Sharifi Isaloo, Amin (ISASR in association with the Study of Religions, University College Cork, 2018)

  Drawing on Victor Turner’s emphasis on the importance of symbols and his analyses of liminality together with Wilhelm Dilthey’s explanations of experience, and considering the mimetic theory of René Girard, this article ...

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