Gareth Higgins
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Dr Gareth Higgins is a writer living in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
He is a graduate in sociology from Queen's University of Belfast (BA, PhD). He is a co-founder (in 1998) of the zero28 Project, a faith-based peace and justice initiative in Northern Ireland. He has written and spoken widely on religion and conflict, art and spirituality, postmodern theology and practice, and film, with his work appearing in The Independent, The Irish Times, Sojourners, and Third Way Magazine, among others.
He appears regularly on BBC Radio, often presenting the early evening Arts Extra programme, and has helped review films on the Letter To America podcast. In October 2006 he and Jett Loe began a film review podcast called 'Film Talk'
[edit] Selected Publications
Anti-Catholicism in Northern Ireland, co-authored with John D Brewer (Palgrave, 1998)
How Movies Helped Save My Soul: Finding Spiritual Fingerprints in Culturally Significant Films (Relevant Books, 2003)
Chapters in Researching the Troubles: Social Science Perspectives on the Northern Ireland Conflict (Mainstream, 2004)
Artisans of Peace: Grassroots Peacemaking Among Christian Communities (Orbis, 2003)
Article on 'Free Presbyterianism' in The Encyclopaedia of Ireland (Gill & Macmillan, 2004)
