Gareth Higgins is a writer from

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now living in Asheville, North Carolina. He is the founding director of the Wild Goose Festival. He is a graduate in sociology from

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( BA, PhD). He was 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 and film, with his work appearing in The Independent, The Irish Times,

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, and

Third Way Magazine ''Third Way'' was a British magazine which invited Christian thinkers and writers to analyse or comment on the political, social and cultural issues of the day. Notable columnists over the years included Jeremy Vine, Paul Vallely and Mike Ridde ...

, among others. He appears regularly on BBC Radio, and he and

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co-present a film review podcast called 'The Film Talk'.

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) Religion, Civil Society, and Peace in Northern Ireland, co-authored by John D Brewer and Francis Teeney (Oxford University Press, 2011) Cinematic States (Burnside Books, 2013) Chapter in: Researching the Troubles: Social Science Perspectives on the Northern Ireland Conflict (Mainstream, 2004) Chapter in: Artisans of Peace: Grassroots Peacemaking Among Christian Communities (Orbis, 2003) Article on 'Free Presbyterianism' in The Encyclopaedia of Ireland (Gill & Macmillan, 2004) How Not to Be Afraid: Seven Ways to Live When Everything Seems Terrifying (Canterbury Press Norwich, 2021)

External links

''Church of Ireland Gazette''

Higgins' blog

The Film Talk

Wild Goose Festival

Cinematic States
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