Dr Liam Kelly
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Publications
Monograph:
Poverty, Peacemaking, and the Sacred: A Girardian Reading of the Early Franciscan Movement (New York: Franciscan Institute Publications, 2025)
Peer-Reviewed Journals:
"The Shape of Non-violent Belonging: Exploring Gods, Circles, and Sacrifice in the Political Domain of Ancient Greece through a Mimetic Lens", Irish Theological Quarterly 91 (1) (2026): 59-73.
"History, Narrative, and Romance: Contemporary Concerns in Representations of Saint Francis of Assisi and the Early Franciscan Movement, Franciscan Studies (82), (2024): 99-120.
"The Priest as Sacred Figure: Reflections on Violence, Religion, and the Holy in Twentieth Century Ireland, Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, (451), (2024): 384-398.
Book Chapter:
"Living in the Eleventh Hour: Reflections on Early Franciscan Apocalypticism in Light of the 'Girardian Apocalypse'", Celebrating 800 Years of the Franciscans in the British Isles: Essays in Honour of Eric Doyle, OFM. Editor Brenda Abbott (Darlington, UK: Franciscan Publishing, 2024): 389-407.
Book Review:
"Mimetic Theory and its Shadow: Girard, Milbank and Ontological Violence" by Scott Cowdell, Irish Theological Quarterly, 90 (1) (2025): 20-22.
Current Projects/Research
Honorary Fellow of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Durham, 2026-2028 (Conferred July 1st 2026)
Advisory Board Member of the Centre for Catholic Studies, University of Durham, UK.
Organizing Committee Member for the International Franciscan Studies Conference, University of Durham, UK, (inaugural) April 2019, (second) April 2022, (third) April 2026 and (fourth International Conference, forthcoming) April 2028.
Research article (forthcoming) "Demons Over Arezzo: An Early Franciscan Encounter with Mimetic Conflict?"
Mimetic Theory
Franciscan Studies
