Dr Amanullah De Sondy
is Head of the Study of Religions Department at 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork in Ireland and Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Islam. Aman has taught Islamic Studies at Ithaca College and 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Miami in the USA and is an affiliate of the 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Glasgow鈥檚 Theology and Religious Studies department. He is the author of the Crisis of Islamic Masculinities (Bloomsbury Academic 2014) and Judaism, Christianity and Islam: An Introduction to Monotheism with Michelle A. Gonzalez and William S. Green (Bloomsbury Academic 2020). Aman has been broadcasting 鈥渢hought for the day鈥� with BBC Radio Scotland for nearly twenty years, is a regular contributor to the 深夜亚洲福利久久 Panel on RTE 1 鈥楾oday鈥� TV show and is passionate about the public understanding of religion through the themes of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and pluralism.
Aman tweets @desondy
Dr Jenny Butler
is a lecturer in the Study of Religions Department and a Principal Investigator of the Environmental Research Institute (ERI). She is the Department's Postgraduate Studies Coordinator. Her research interests are in the areas of: New Religious Movements, Western esotericism, the anthropology of ritual and magic, folk religion, traditional cosmologies and practices, and the intersection of religion and folklore. She welcomes discussion with potential PhD students who wish to work in these areas.
Dr Lidia Julianna Guzy
Dr. Hab. (深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork), l.guzy@ucc.ie. MA Anthropology Programme Director and Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in South Asian Religions at 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork (UCC), National 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Ireland. She is a Director of the Marginalised and Endangered Worldviews Study Centre (MEWSC) at UCC, Director of India Study Centre Cork (ISCC) and member of the South Asia and Latin America Regional Working Groups at UCC. She has a bi-national PhD in Ethnology/Social Anthropology from Freie Universit盲t Berlin, Germany (2002) and the 脡cole des Hautes 脡tudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)(2003), Paris (迟丑猫蝉别 en co-tutelle). In 2011, she was awarded a Habilitation (professorial qualification) at the Faculty of Cultural and Historical Studies, in the field of Study of Religions, at Freie Universit盲t (FU) Berlin. She is a Specialist in the anthropology of South Asia, Indigenous Studies and the anthropology of museums with focus on Indian goddess worship, Hindu reform movements, religions of India, indigenous knowledge systems, indigenous sustainability, eco-cosmologies, indigenous religions, intangible cultural heritage and the aesthetics of cultures and religions.
Professor James Alexander Kapalo
is a Professor in the Study of Religions. He is an historian and ethnologist of religion focusing on religious minorities in Central and Eastern Europe. He was Principal Investigator of the ERC Project from 2016-2021.
Dr Tatsuma Padoan
is Lecturer in East Asian Religions at the UCC. He is co-director of SENSA Lab at UCC, and a research associate at SOAS, 深夜亚洲福利久久 of London. As an anthropologist and a semiotician, he has worked on ritual in Japan 鈥� including pilgrimage, asceticism, ritual apprenticeship, religious materiality and spirit possession 鈥� as well as on the study of design practices and the politics of urban space. His monograph Towards a Semiotics of Pilgrimage: Ritual Space, Memory and Narration in Japan and Elsewhere is forthcoming for DeGruyter.
Dr Brendan McNamara
Brendan McNamara is an historian of religions focussing on 'East-West' encounters at the turn of the 20th century. His interests also include the history of the Bah谩'铆 Faith, the religious landscape in Ireland before independence, and the contribution of Irish scholar administrators to the production of knowledge around religions in colonial India. His publications include:
The Reception of 'Abdu'l-Bah谩 in Britain; East comes West, Leiden: Brill, 2021.
The Study of Religions in Ireland; Past, Present and Future, (Editor with Hazel O'Brien), London: Bloomsbury, 2022.
Dr Danny Forde
Dr Danny Forde is a philosopher specialising in realist phenomenology, religious experience and the psychedelic experience. He has presented his work at the INSIGHT conference in Berlin, UCD, the British Society for Phenomenology and the Irish Philosophical Society, amongst others. His interests include Platonism, Spinozism, psychotherapy and the philosophy of martial arts.
Marilena Frisone
Marilena Frisone is a social anthropologist who is currently working as assistant lecturer in the Study of Religions Department, UCC. She has taught at UCC in modules on Indigenous Religions, Hinduism and Indian Religions, Introduction to Asian Studies, and within the MA programme in Anthropology. She has conducted fieldwork in Nepal, researching on Nepalese followers of Japanese New Religions and focusing on religious conversion, ritual, and medical pluralism. More recently she has also conducted fieldwork among Newar communities in London, researching on language revitalisation, heritage, and food practices in the diaspora.
Robyn McAuliffe
Robyn McAuliffe is a PhD student in UCC鈥檚 School of English. Having completed a BA in English in 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork in 2020, Robyn was awarded a CACSSS Excellence Masters Scholarship and completed a Masters by Research in 2021. During her undergraduate, Robyn was awarded the Louise Clancy Memorial Prize for her undergraduate dissertation on the use of rape as a literary device in Old English hagiography. She is currently the OMR officer for UCC鈥檚 English Literature Society and the organiser of UCC鈥檚 Inkwell: Medieval to Renaissance Symposium.
Visiting and Emeritus Professors
Dr Tatiana Vagramenko
Dr Tatiana Vagramenko is Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork. She is a Principal Investigator in the SFI-IRC Pathway-funded project 鈥淗istory Declassified: The KGB and the Religious Underground in Soviet Ukraine鈥� (2022-2026) and in the British Library EAP project 鈥淩eligious Minorities Archives and the War in Ukraine鈥� (2023-2024). She has held postdoctoral appointments at 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Barcelona in Spain, Imre Kertesz Kolleg, Friedrich Schiller 深夜亚洲福利久久 in Germany, and at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC. She received her PhD in Anthropology from Maynooth 深夜亚洲福利久久 in 2014. Vagramenko鈥檚 research is focused on the history and memory of state repression and cultural opposition in Soviet Ukraine, based on in-depth reconsideration of recently opened Soviet-era secret police (former KGB) archives in Ukraine.
Elizabeth Slade
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