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Hastings Rashdall : revelaton for the modern world
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2013)Hastings Rashdall will be placed in context and a crucial aspect of his theology, his theology of revelation or revelatory theology, will be examined, establishing the centrality and significance of revelatory theology for ... -
In Dialogue With Shinto: Challenges to Interreligious Communication.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Religions,Theology & Ecumenics. Irish School of Ecumenics, 2018)A major challenge for the contemporary world is how to best approach inter-religious dialogue, especially between faiths that have very different perspectives. Whilst much work has been done in the field of major world ... -
Integrating Women into Peacebuilding in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A Case Study of Goma
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Religion. Irish School of Ecumenics, 2021)Lack of representation and participation of women in decision-making is a global phenomenon that has been under public discussion for many years. Feminist theory has articulated gender as an underlying factor in inequality, ... -
Investigating the liberation method of interreligious dialogue as a common ground for Muslim-Christian relations in Northern Nigeria
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2004)This dissertation investigates the relevance of the liberation method of interreligious dialogue as a common ground for Muslim-Christian relations in Northern Nigeria. The region of our study is one characterised by the ... -
Irish POWs in the Great War
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Religions,Theology & Ecumenics. Irish School of Ecumenics, 2019)The thesis turns on the central question: ‘What were the experiences of Irish POWs during and after the Great War?’ – placing them in their historical context, examining the knowledge gaps and rectifying the historical ... -
Isolated in academia : an analytical study of the mechanisms of academic boycotts
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2006)Academic boycotting is withdrawing support for or participation in one or more aspects of academia in order to make specific changes. Support is restored after those who are boycotted make the desired changes. The mechanisms ... -
James Henthorn Todd, a Tractarian at Trinity : making Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2015)In the following chapters I have created a biographical portrait of Todd as a Tractarian at Trinity College, Dublin and studied the variety and range of his texts which contributed to making Ireland in the mid-nineteenth ... -
Jehanne D'Arc and claims to divine sanction in acts of war : a double-edged sword
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2013)This work conducts a theological exploration and interpretation of the heavily documented life and death of Saint Jehanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc) in the context of claims to divinely sanctioned violence, particularly within ... -
Just War and Iraq: Examining the Limitations of the Just War Tradition and the Supplementary Benefits of Just Peacemaking
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Religion. Irish School of Ecumenics, 2020)This study examines the inconsistencies and limitations present within the just war tradition and the potential for just peace to provide supplementary advice in conflict discourse. In light of historical evidence that ... -
Knowledge sharing in peacebuilding: A case study of the Nuba Mountains' war zone in Sudan
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Religion. Irish School of Ecumenics, 2023)Over the past decade, there has been an increase in decolonial/postcolonial approaches to peace, peacebuilding and peace education pedagogy, with scholars asking scholar-practitioners and practitioners to rethink `the ... -
Maternal peacebuilding - an alternative approach to women's peacebuilding in Northern Ireland
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2010)Post-conflict peacebuilding offers great opportunities for the development of just and equal societies, but these opportunities are often overlooked, particularly in regards to gender and the needs of women. Though significant ... -
Meaningful practices of citizenship in urban middle-class Peru : the case of political blogging
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2013)This thesis discusses political blogging as a meaningful praxis of citizenship among members of the (traditional) urban middle classes in post-transitional Peru. It examines the meanings political bloggers attach to ... -
Moral equality, war, and defence of the community : a critque and reconceptualisation of moral equality
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2015)This thesis focuses on Michael Walzer’s argument for the moral equality of soldiers and aims to reconceptualise moral equality. This concept explains why it is not a crime when soldiers kill each other during a war. In ... -
Non-nationalist politics in a bi-national consociation: the case of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
(2018)Through a case study of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, this article examines the contention that consociational power-sharing, in its determination to include dominant and conflicting identity groups, exalts these ... -
Non-Negotiability in Conflict: Religious Zionist Attachments to Land and Temple in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Religion. Irish School of Ecumenics, 2023)A major reason for peacemaking failures has thus far been overlooked and understudied: policy makers and scholars tend to lack a nuanced understanding of non-negotiability, especially when they encounter conflict parties ... -
Not having babies won't save the planet
(2019)Environmental antinatalisms share the idea that bringing people into existence is bad for the planet, and see a need to discontinue human ‘procreation’. They assume that the world needs fewer people (or none), and ... -
On Restoring the Centrality of Prudentia (Phron ̄esis) for Living Well: Pathways and Contemporary Relevance
(2021)The aftermath of the Second World War saw some radical rethinking in both theology and philosophy on what it is to live well as a human being. In philosophy two of the key thinkers were Elizabeth Anscombe and Philippa Foot. ... -
Otherisation and Polarisation in the Korean Peninsula: North Korean Defectors and Korean Protestant Churches
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Religion. Irish School of Ecumenics, 2020)This thesis deals with the relationship between North Korean defectors and the South Korean Protestant churches in light of Emmanuel Levinas' philosophy. North Korean defectors who stay in the South experience significant ...