The below is a list of scholarly books and articles that inform the Religious Spaces in Transition project. I have also included links to examples of media coverage of the subject.
This page will be updated on an ongoing basis.
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Religious Spaces in Transition: Recent media coverage Vivienne Clarke, 'Rejection of plan for Kilkenny mosque "crushingly disappointing"', Irish Times, 16 May 2019 https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/rejection-of-plan-for-kilkenny-mosque-crushingly-disappointing-1.3894302 Eoghan Dalton, 'Franciscans bid farewell to Waterford after nearly 800 years', Irish Times, 10 May 2019. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/franciscans-bid-farewell-to-waterford-after-nearly-800-years-1.3886851 Rob McNamara, 'Convent development granted permission', Echo Live, 10 May 2019, https://www.echolive.ie/corknews/Convent-development-granted-permission-8b578ee8-ca0e-423c-9a7c-794821c71e58-ds Tommy Barker, 'Cork city's Good Shepherd Convent back up for sale with planning for 202 units', Irish Examiner, 1 May, 2019. https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/property/cork-citys-good-shepherd-convent-back-up-for-sale-with-planning-for-202-units-921322.html Historical Contexts Methodological and theoretical approaches Timothy Willem Jones and Lucinda Matthews-Jones (eds.), Material Religion in modern Britain: the spirit of things (Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) Kim Knott, ‘Religion, space, and place: the spatial turn in research on religion’, Religion and Society, 2010, 1(1), 29-43. Kim Knott, ‘The secular sacred: In between or both/and?’, in Social Identities Between the Sacred and the Secular, ed. By Abby Day, AHRC British Council Fellow, University of Kent, UK, Giselle Vincett and Christopher R. Cotter, Lancaster University, UK (Ashgate, 2013).
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