Current funded projects

Prof. Linda Hogan, 'Visioning 21st Century Ecumenism: Diversity, Dialogue and Reconciliation.'

This three-year project is funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (2009-2011). Research conducted for this project will provide the springboard for a major international conference (2010) to mark the centenary of the 1910 Edinburgh Missionary Conference, to evaluate the contributions of ecumenism in Ireland and globally, and to identify key areas in which ecumenics can contribute to conversations about theological and cultural diversity, the influence of immigration, inter-faith dialogue and reconciliation. Our aims are: 1. To stimulate further theological research in related theological subdisciplines (e.g., ecumenical ecclesiology, socio-religious reconciliation; contextual theology and social ethics); 2. To equip churches and other faith communities with theological resources for a new ecumenical vision and praxis for the 21st century. Click here for more information about the project, including more information about the 2010 conference and the results of our major surveys of clergy and laypeople on the island of Ireland: http://www.ecumenics.ie/research/visioning-21st-century-ecumenism/

Dr Norbert Hintersteiner, 'Translating God(s): Comparative Theology in Europe.'

This four-year research project (2010-2014), financed by a Marie Curie Grant of the FP7 European Research Framework of the European Research Council, studies recent developments and scholarship in Anglo-American comparative theology and explores its transatlantic transfer and reception in Europe, not only stimulating its own fields of intercultural theology, theology of religion, and interreligious studies, but also advancing distinct European comparative theological scholarship. Click here for more information about the project: http://www.ecumenics.ie/research/translating-gods/