Siobhán Garrigan
Associate professor of liturgical studies
Professor Garrigan is author of Beyond Ritual: Sacramental Theology after Habermas, and a former Government of Ireland humanities scholar. Before coming to Yale, she taught religious studies at the Open University in Belfast and theology at the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology. Prior to teaching, she worked extensively with homeless people. She has coordinated numerous worship services for major ecumenical and interfaith gatherings, and has published articles connecting theology, worship, and justice issues. In addition to writing a book called Worship for the Whole Congregation: How to Build A Participative Church about the methods for leading vibrant congregational worship that she developed through her eight years as Dean of Chapel at YDS, she is about to publish The Real Peace Process: Worship, Politics and the End of Sectarianism, a ritual-studies type analysis of religious division in Ireland and Northern Ireland. Her long-standing commitments to ecumenism, feminism, and revitalizing Christian worship also recently combined to produce a special volume of the journal Liturgy called "New and Borrowed Rites", and her commitment to the unique learning offered in seminary chapels is reflected in her collection, The Role of Worship in Theological Education. B.A., Oxford University; S.T.M., Union Theological Seminary, New York; Ph.D., Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy, Dublin
updated March 2010 for 2010-11