Product Description: The struggle to create and sustain meaning in our everyday lives is fought using cultural ingredients to spin the webs of meaning that keep us going. To help reveal the complexity and intricacy of the webs of meaning in which they are suspended, Tom Inglis interviewed one-hundred people in their native home of Ireland to discover what was most important and meaningful for them in their lives...read more

Product Description: Love is a dominant theme in Western popular culture. It has become central to the meaning of everyday life, propagated through the media and the market. Being in love has become idealised. With the demise of institutional religion in the West, romantic love has become the dominant form of inner-worldly salvation...read more

Product Description: In this moving memoir, Tom Inglis recounts his life and the love he shared with Aileen, who died from breast cancer in 2005. Relentlessly honest about his feelings and his failings as a husband and a lover, and touching on everything from infidelity to the loss of his child, Inglis provides a raw but authentic portrait of a man struggling to comprehend love, death, and the complexities of living...read more

Product Description: If you know where God is taking the church, you will know how to prepare for the journey. This book gives prophetic insight into the place of worship that God is taking the church, what you can expect and how to prepare for it. You will learn: A prophetic insight into what the church will look like in the years to come and the changes necessary to bring it about...read more

Global Ireland offers a concise synthesis of globalization's dramatic impact on Ireland. In the past fifteen years, Ireland has transformed from a sleepy and depressed European backwater to the 'emerald tiger', a country with a booming economy based on knowledge and high-tech industries. Not long ago it was one of the poorest and most traditional countries in Europe, yet now it is one of the wealthiest and most cosmopolitan. Using a number of case studies of Ireland's transition, Tom Inglis explains what this means for traditional Irish culture and society, and offers an incisive social portrait of globalizing Ireland.Concise, descriptive, interdisciplinary and theoretically informed, this volume is an ideal introduction to Ireland.

Product Description: In 1984 the bodies of two infants were discovered in County Kerry. The police were convinced the mother and murderer was Joanne Hayes, a young, unmarried woman who had become pregnant from an affair she had with a married man. The Hayes family and the girl were set upon by the police, two Tribunals of Inquiry, the Catholic Church, and public opinion...read more

Product Description: Edited by Tom Inglis, Zdzislaw Mach, and Rafal Mazanek. How politics and democracy are affecting religion today. Are churches a force for democracy, and religious belief a bulwark of civil society? Or are churches traditional authoritarian institutions inimical to mature democratic societies? Such questions about religion and politics have come back to the center of controversy both in the countries of the former Soviet Empire and in the West...read more

Product Description: The myth that sex does not exist in Ireland has been shattered. The Catholic Church's monopoly over sexual morality has been broken. Tom Inglis takes a clear and honest look at the state of sex and sexual education as it exists in Ireland today...read more