Empirical topics include neo-paganism, Buddhism, Islam, evangelical Christianity, New Age groups, traveller religion and visions. Themes include Ireland as global homeland, "Celticity", migrant religion, the commodification of religion, gender, healing and the meaning of "spirituality".
The first half of the introduction is available as a sample PDF here; the dust cover, blurb and endorsements are online here. The table of contents is as follows:
Ch. 1) Editors’ Introduction: Understanding Ireland’s New Religious Movements. Olivia Cosgrove, Laurence Cox, Carmen Kuhling and Peter Mulholland
Ch. 2) Mapping the “New Religious Landscape” and the “New Irish”: Uses and Limitations of the Census. Malcolm Macourt
Part I: The Changing Religious Faces of Ireland
- The Long History of New Religions in Ireland
Ch. 3) The Wild Irish girl and the “Dalai Lama of Little Thibet”: The Long Encounter between Ireland and Asian Buddhism. Laurence Cox and Maria Griffin
Ch. 4) Inventing the Concept of Celtic Buddhism: A Literary and Intellectual Tradition. John L. Murphy
- Alternative Spiritualities and New Religious Movements in Contemporary Ireland
Ch. 5) Irish Travellers and “Powerful” Priests: An Alternative Response to New Age Healing Techniques. Attracta Brownlee
Ch. 6) Irish Neo-paganism: World-view and Identity. Jenny Butler
Ch. 7) The Changing Face of Irish Christianity: The Evangelical Christian Movement in the Republic. Ruth Jackson Noble
Ch. 8) A Course in Miracles in Ireland: From Channelled Authority to Therapy and Self-help. Ruth Bradby
- Making Sense of Religious Experience
Ch. 9) The Psychological Dimension of Religious Experience: Spirituality and Schizotypy. Diarmuid B. Verrier and Brian M. Hughes
Ch. 10) Marian Apparitions, the New Age and the FÁS Prophet. Peter Mulholland
Part II: Irish religion as global
- The Globalised Irish Religious Market
Ch. 11) New Age Re-enchantment in Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland. Carmen Kuhling
Ch. 12) “Becoming Whole”: An Exploration of Women’s Choices in the Holistic and New Age Movement in Ireland. Ciara O’Connor
Ch. 13) A Crucial Site of Difference? Minority Religions and Attitudes to Globalisation in Ireland. Olivia Cosgrove
- Ireland as Global Homeland
Ch. 14) Irish Base, Global Religion: The Fellowship of Isis. Catherine Maignant
Ch. 15) “Celticity” in Australian Alternative Spiritualities. Carole M. Cusack
Ch. 16) “Celtic Spirituality” in Contemporary Ireland. Bożena Gierek
- Migrant Religion in Ireland
Ch. 17) Islam in Ireland: Organising a Migrant Religion. Oliver Scharbrodt
Ch. 18) Turkish Islam in Ireland: Exploring the Modus Operandi of Fethullah Gülen’s Neo-brotherhood. Jonathan Lacey
NB that some online booksellers still list the book by its working title, "New religion in Ireland". It is available from the publishers, Cambridge Scholars, as well as Amazon and Blackwells under the correct title, and other online listings are in the process of changing (25.2.2011). Apologies for any difficulties caused by this.
