Gladys Ganiel is Professor in the Sociology of Religion at Queen’s University Belfast and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. She is author of six books and her articles have appeared in Religion, State and Society; Sociology Compass; The Review of Faith and International Affairs, and Sociology of Religion. She is co-editor, with Andrew J. Holmes, of The Oxford Handbook of Religion in Modern Ireland (2024). She has two forthcoming books, An Island of Faith? Religions and Change in Ireland, North and South (with Caoimhe Ní Dhónaill, Oxford University Press) and Christianity and Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland (Cambridge Elements).

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