This is list of readings that informed my literature review, prepared in the first half of 2011.
Agrama, H.A. (2010) Secularism, Sovereignty, Indeterminacy: Is Egypt a Secular or a Religious State? Comparative Studies in Society and History, 52(3), 495–523.
Andersen, K. (2010) Social Compass. Social Compass, 57(1), 15-39.
Asad, T. (2003) Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity. Cultural Memory in the Present, M. Bal and H. deVries, eds. Stanford CA: Stanford University Press.
Benhabib, S. (1999) Models of Public Space: Hannah Arendt, the Liberal Tradition and, Jürgen Habermas In: Calhoun, C., (ed.). (1999) Habermas and the Public Sphere. Boston: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chapter 3.
Bergdahl, L. (2009) Lost in Translation: On the Untranslatable and its Ethical Implications for Religious Pluralism. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 43(1), 31-44.
Berger, P.L. (1967) The Social Reality of Religion. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Bottici, C. (2009) The politics of imagination and the public role of religion. Philosophy & Social Criticism, 35(8), 985-1005.
Brace, C., Bailey, A.R. & Harvey, D.C. (2006) Religion, place and space: a framework for investigating historical geographies of religious identities and communities. Progress in Human Geography, 30(1), 28-43.
Bruce, S. (2001) Christianity in Britain, R.I.P. Sociology of Religion, 62(2), 191-203.
Bruce, S., and Voas, D. (2010) Vicarious Religion: An Examination and Critique. Journal of Contemporary Religion, 25(2), 243-259.
Butler, J. (2008) Sexual politics, torture, and secular time. The British Journal of Sociology, 59(1), 1-23.
Butler, J. (2011) Implicated and enraged: an interview with Judith Butler. [website]. Available at: http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2011/04/01/implicated-and-enraged-an-interview-with-judith-butler/ (last accessed: 30/4/2011).
Calhoun, C. (2008) A Secular Age Charles Taylor, A Secular Age. Archives of European Sociology, XLIX(3), 455-461.
Carroll, C. and King, P., eds. (2003) Ireland and postcolonial theory. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press.
Casanova, J. (1994) Public Religions in the Modern World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Casanova, J. (2004) It’s all about identity, stupid! Index on Censorship, 4, 88-103.
Central Statistics Office, (2010) Marriages Registered (Number) by Region, Year and Form of Ceremony. [website]. Available at: http://www.cso.ie/px/pxeirestat/Database/Eirestat/Marriages/Marriages.asp (last accessed: 1/5/2011).
Citizens Information (2010) Getting Married. [website]. Available at: http://www.citizensinformation.ie/categories/birth-family-relationships/getting-married/getting_married (last accessed 28/8/2010).
Cosgrove, O., Cox L., Kuhling, C. and Mulholland, P., eds., (2011) Ireland’s New Religious Movements. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Cox, K. (1998) Scales of dependence, spaces of engagement and the politics of scale, or: looking for local politics. Political Geography, 17, 1–23.
Davie, G. (2007) The Sociology of Religion. London: Sage.
Dewsbury, J.D. and Cloke, P. (2009) Spiritual landscapes: existence , performance and immanence. Social & Cultural Geography, 10(6), 695-711.
Fox, J. (2006) World Separation of Religion and State Into the 21st Century. Comparative Political Studies, 39(5), 537-569.
Fraser, N. (1999) Rethinking the Public Sphere: a contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy In: Calhoun, C., (ed.). (1999) Habermas and the Public Sphere. Boston: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ch. 5.
Fraser, N. (2005) Transnationalizing the Public Sphere. [website]. Available at: http://eipcp.net/transversal/0605/fraser/en (last accessed: 11/5/2011).
Gane, M. (2008) Foucault on Governmentality and Liberalism. Theory, Culture & Society, 25(7-8), 353-363.
Gerth, H.H. (2003) From Max Weber: essays in sociology. The International Library of Sociology, 3rd edition. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Gökarksel, B. (2009) Beyond the officially sacred: religion, secularism, and the body in the production of subjectivity. Social & Cultural Geography, 10(6), 657-674.
Habermas, J. (1992) The Theory of Communicative Action: Reason and the rationalization of society. Volume 1. Boston: Beacon Press.
Habermas, J. (2006) Religion in the Public Sphere. European Journal of Philosophy, 14(1), 1-25.
Hamilton, M. (1995) The sociology of religion: theoretical and comparative perspectives. London: Routledge.
Herod, A. (2003) Scale: the local and the global In: Clifford, N.J., Holloway, S.L., Rice, P. and Valentine, G., eds., (2003) Key Concepts in Geography. London: Sage. Ch. 12.
Hilliard, B. (2003) The Catholic Church and Married Women’s Sexuality: Habitus change in late 20th Century Ireland. Irish Journal of Sociology, 12(2), 28-49.
Holloway, J. (2003) Make-believe: spiritual practice, embodiment, and sacred space. Environment and Planning A, 35(11), 1961–1974.
Holloway, J., 2006. Enchanted Spaces: The Séance, Affect, and Geographies of Religion The Spiritualist Movement and the Effects of the Séance. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 96(1), 182-187.
Inglis, T. (1998) Moral Monopoly: the rise and fall of the Catholic Church in modern Ireland. Dublin: UCD Press.
Inglis, T. (2010) Catholic Identity in Contemporary Ireland : Belief and Belonging to Tradition. Journal of Contemporary Religion, 22(2), 205-220.
Ivakhiv, A. (2006) Toward a Geography of ‘‘Religion’’: Mapping the Distribution of an Unstable Signifier. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 96(1), 169-175.
Kong, L. (2005) Re-presenting the religious: nation, community and identity in museums. Social & Cultural Geography, 6(4), 495-513.
Kong, L. (2001) Mapping ‘new’ geographies of religion: politics and poetics in modernity. Progress in Human Geography, 25(2), 211-233.
Kong, L. (2010) Global shifts, theoretical shifts: Changing geographies of religion. Progress in Human Geography, 34(6), 755-776.
Lefèbvre, H. (1991) The production of space. Translated by D. Nicholson-Smith. Oxford: Blackwell.
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Maddrell, A. (2009) A place for grief and belief: the Witness Cairn, Isle of Whithorn, Galloway, Scotland. Social & Cultural Geography, 10(6), 675-693.
Malesevic, V. (2010) Ireland and Neo-Secularisation Theory. Irish Journal of Sociology, 18(1), 22-42.
Marston, S.A., Jones, J.P. and Woodward, K. (2005) Human geography without scale. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 30(4), 416-432.
Marston, S.A., Woodward, K. & Jones, J.P. (2007) Flattening Ontologies of Globalization: The Nollywood Case. Globalizations, 4(1), 45-63.
Martin, D. (1978) A General Theory of Secularization. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
Massey, D. (2005) For Space. London: Sage.
Matthews, E. (2002) The Phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Chesham: Acumen.
McLennan, G. (2010) The Postsecular Turn. Theory, Culture & Society, 27(4), 3-20.
Merleau-Ponty, M. (1962) The Phenomenology of Perception. International Library of Philosophy and Scientific Method. Translated by C. Smith. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Mignolo, W. (2009) Epistemic Disobedience , Independent Thought and Decolonial Freedom. Theory, Culture & Society, 26(7-8), 159-181.
Mooney, T. (2010) Flexibility, Motor Intentionality and Concrete Movement. [Letter] (Personal communication: 16/04/2010).
Moore, A. (2008) Rethinking scale as a geographical category: from analysis to practice. Progress in Human Geography, 32(2), 203-225.
Naylor, S. and Ryan, J.R. (2002) The mosque in the suburbs: negotiating religion and ethnicity in South London. Social & Cultural Geography, 3(1), 39-59.
Norris, P. and Inglehart, R. (2004) Sacred and Secular: religion and politics worldwide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
O’Mahony, E. (2008), Religious Practice in Ireland: a summary a European Social Survey Round 3 data, [online] 12/09/2008, Available at: http://www.catholicbishops.ie/2010/10/05/religious-practice-and-values-in-ireland/ (last accessed 01/05/2011)
O’Mahony, E. (2010), Religious Practice and Values in Ireland: a summary of European Values Study 4th wave data, [online] 05/10/2010, Available at: http://www.catholicbishops.ie/2010/10/05/religious-practice-and-values-in-ireland/ (last accessed 01/05/2011).
O’Toole, F., (2010), We live in the 19th century as well as the 21st. The Irish Times, [online], 06/03/2010. Available at http://www.lexisnexis.com.jproxy.nuim.ie/uk/nexis/docview/getDocForCuiReq?lni=7XY5-D6T1-2R56-4068&csi=142626&oc=00240&perma=true (last accessed: 30/04/2011).
Robinson, J. (2003). Postcolonialising Geography: Tactics and Pitfalls. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 24(3), 273-289.
Rose, M. (2010). Pilgrims: an ethnography of sacredness. Cultural Geographies, 17(4), 507-524.
Schultz, K.M. (2006) Secularization: A Bibliographic Essay. The Hedgehog Review, 8(1-2), 170-177.
Secor, A. (2004) “There Is an Istanbul That Belongs to Me”: Citizenship, Space, and Identity in the City. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 94(2), 352-368.
Smyth, J. (2010) Registrar Warns of Rise on ‘Sham Marriages’. The Irish Times, [online], 17/08/2010. Available at: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2010/0817/1224276972826.html (last accessed: 30/4/2011).
Smyth, J. (2011) Biometric checks on Pakistani visas likely. The Irish Times, [online], 08/01/2011. Available at http://www.lexisnexis.com.jproxy.nuim.ie/uk/nexis/docview/getDocForCuiReq?lni=51WT-B9K1-JC8Y-82BX&csi=142626&oc=00240&perma=true (last accessed: 09/05/2011).
Southern, R.W. (1970) Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages. Penguin History of the Church, Vol. 2. London: Penguin Books.
Speers, S. (2008) The Secular Thesis Revisited. Education, X(1), 170-177.
Taylor, C. (2007) A Secular Age. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Thrift, N. (1999) The Place of Complexity. Theory Culture & Society, 16(3), 31-69.
Trudeau, D. (2006) Politics of belonging in the construction of landscapes: place-making, boundary- drawing and exclusion. Cultural Geographies, 13, 421-443.
Various (2010) Church’s role in primary schools. The Irish Times, [online], 30/01/2010. Available at http://www.lexisnexis.com.jproxy.nuim.ie/uk/nexis/docview/getDocForCuiReq?lni=7XNP-DTV1-2R56-41XH&csi=142626&oc=00240&perma=true (last accessed 30/04/2011).
Wallach-Scott, J. (2010) Secularism . . . a really interesting problematic: a conversation with Joan Wallach Scott. The Immanent Frame, [online], 14/07/2010. Available at: http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2010/07/14/secularism-a-really-interesting-problematic/ (last accessed 01/05/2011).
Warner, M. (1999) The Mass Public and the Mass Subject In: Calhoun, C., (ed.). (1999) Habermas and the Public Sphere. Boston: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ch. 15.
Weber, M. (1993) The Sociology of Religion. Translated by E. Fischoff. Boston: Beacon Press.
Weintraub, J.A and Kumar, K. (1997) Public and private in thought and practice: perspectives on a grand dichotomy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Wilford, J. (2010). Sacred archipelagos: geographies of secularization. Progress in Human Geography, 34(3), 328-348.
Wylie, J. (2009) Landscape, absence and the geographies of love. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, NS 34, 275-289.
Yorgason, E. and della Dora, V. (2009) Geography, religion, and emerging paradigms: problematizing the dialogue. Social & Cultural Geography, 10(6), 629-637.
This list of readings originated from my proposal in late 2009. I am adding to it as time goes on and forms the basis for the thesis’ bibliography.
Abercrombie, N., Hill, S. and Turner, B. (1986) Sovereign Individuals of Capitalism. London, Allen and Unwin.
Asad, T. (2006) “French Secularism and the “Islamic Veil Affair””, The Hedgehog Review – critical reflections on contemporary culture 8 (1-2), 93-106.
Bottici, C. (2009) “The politics of imagination and the public role of religion”, Philosophy and Social Criticism 35 (8), 985–1005.
Boyle, M. (2008) “A Good Act of Contrition? Geography, Civilisational Thinking, and the Colonial Present” Geopolitics 13, 724–729.
Bruce, S. (1995) Religion in Modern Britain. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Bruce, S. (2002) God is Dead – Secularization in the West. Oxford, Blackwell.
Calhoun, C. (2008) “Secularism, Citizenship and the Public Sphere”, The Hedgehog Review – critical reflections on contemporary culture 10 (3), 7-21.
Casanova, J. (1994) Public Religions in the Modern World. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.
Castree, N. (2003) “Place: connections and boundaries in an interdependent world”, in Holloway, S.L., Rice, S.P. and Valentine, G. (eds.) Key Concepts in Geography. London, Sage, 165-186.
Cleary, J. (2003) “‘Misplaced Ideas’?: Colonialism, Location, and Dislocation in Irish Studies”, in Carroll, C. and King, P. (eds.) Ireland and Postcolonial Theory. Cork, Cork University Press.
Council for Research & Development (2008) Religious Practice in Ireland: a summary of European Social Survey Round 3 data. Maynooth, Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference.
Council for Research & Development, (2009) Parishes and Trócaire: where next? An analysis of focus groups and a survey of Catholic parishes in Ireland. Maynooth, unpublished.
Cox, K. (1998) “Spaces of dependence, spaces of engagement and the politics of scale, or: looking for local politics” Political Geography 17 (1), l-23.
Davie, G. (2007) The Sociology of Religion. London, Sage.
Eagleton, T. (2006) Lunging, Flailing, Mispunching. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n20/terry-eagleton/lunging-flailing-mispunching, accessed 9/12/09.
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Fox, J. (2006) “World Separation of Religion and State Into the 21st Century”, Comparative Political Studies 39 (5), 537-569.
Fraser, N. (1992) “Rethinking the Public Sphere: a contribution to the critique of actually existing democracy” in Calhoun, C. (ed.) Habermas and the Public Sphere. Boston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 109-142.
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Gibbons, L. (2003) “Towards a Postcolonial Enlightenment: the United Irishmen, cultural diversity and the Public Sphere”, in Carroll, C. and King, P. (eds.) Ireland and Postcolonial Theory. Cork, Cork University Press.
Gökarksel, B. (2009) “Beyond the officially sacred: religion, secularism, and the body in the production of subjectivity” Social & Cultural Geography 10 (6), 657-674.
Göle, N. (2006) “Islam in European Publics: secularism and religious difference” The Hedgehog Review – critical reflections on contemporary culture 8 (1-2), 140-145.
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