Dr Kieran Flanagan

Personal profile

University of Bristol: Lecturer, 1976-1991; Senior Lecturer 1991-1996;  Reader in Sociology 1997-2010; Senior Research Fellow  

Research

My research centres on the interface between sociology and theology (Catholic) pursued in terms of virtue ethics, ritual and visual culture. Also have interest in historical sociology in relation to nineteenth century Irish Society.

Currently preparing proposal for solo work: Utterances in the Wilderness: Sociology at Prayer.

Essay on Public Inquiries as forms of ritual in mid-nineteenth century Irish Society

 Completing editing of a special issue of New Blackfriars on Charles Taylor, A Secular Age

 Latest book published: Sociology in Theology: Reflexivity and Belief (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). 

Teaching

Visual Culture, Sociology of Religion, Goffman and Culture, Postmodernity and Religion

Full publications list in the University of Bristol publications system