Siobhán Garrigan
Professor
Religions, Peace Studies and Theology
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
Siobhán came to Trinity in 2014 from the University of Exeter. Prior to that, she worked at Yale University, the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology and the Open University (Ireland). She teaches theology with a particular concentration on issues of social justice. By looking at theology's role in social and political difficulty, her research aims to highlight the many ways theology can also foster dialogue across the boundaries of difference, particularly regarding ecumenism, poverty and matters of identity, such as gender and racial discrimination.
Research Interest
Siobhán’s most recent book is The Real Peace Process: Worship, Politics and the End of Sectarianism, a study of the work yet to be done to change hearts and minds regarding the Irish-British conflict in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Her next two books are: A Brief Theology of Home, a theoretical response to the practical experience of contemporary homelessness, and Theology and Song, a study of the sonic theologies of Irish traditional music.
Publications
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Planning the Liturgy and A Living Liturgy in E. Duffy and E. Lyons, eds., Celebrating the Triduum (Dublin: Columba Press, 1999).
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Teresa of Avila in Ian Markham, ed., The Blackwells Companion to the Theologians (Oxford: Blackwells, 2009), pp.375–389
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Crediting Worship: Multicultural Chapels in the University Curriculum in Siobhán Garrigan and Todd Johnson, Common Worship in Theological Education (Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 2009), pp.179–199.
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Is Ecumenical Worship a Serious Business? in Simon Jones and Melanie Ross, The Serious Business of Worship (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2010), pp.159–170.
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Forgetting without Forgiving: The State of the Peace in Ireland, North and South in Andrea Bieler and Hans-Martin Guttman, eds., After Violence: Religion, Trauma and Reconciliation (Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2011), pp.167-179.
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The Ethics of Liturgy in Juliette Day and Ben Gordon-Taylor, eds., The Alcuin Guide to the Study of Liturgy and Worship (London: SPCK, 2013).
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A Flagging Peace in Cláudio Carvalhaes, Liturgy in Post-colonial Perspectives, (New York–Palgrave, 2015), pp215 – 222
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The Hermeneutics of Intersubjectivity: A Study of Theologies of Homelessness in Stephan van Erp, Martin Poulsom and Lieven Boeve, Grace, Governance and Globalization – Theology and Public Life (London: Bloomsbury, 2017), pp 62–76.
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Intellectuals in the Public Sphere: Habermas, Theology and Worship, The Irish Review 32 (Winter 2004), pp.39–52.
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The Spirituality of Presiding, LITURGY, 22:2 (2007), pp.3–8.
