Eamonn Conway heads
the Department of Theology and Religious Studies and is Joint Director, Centre
for Culture, Technology and Values at Mary Immaculate College, University of
Limerick. A native of Galway, is a priest of the Tuam diocese. Rev. Dr. Conway
has a B.A. in philosophy and sociology (NUI Maynooth) and has studied theology
at Maynooth Pontifical University and at Eberhard-Karls University in Tubingen,
Germany. He taught at All Hallows' College in Dublin for seven years, and is
Visiting Professor at the Graduate Theological Foundation, Indiana (USA).
One of his principal research
interests is the impact of technology on culture and religion. In particular,
he is examining implications of the Information Society for the Christian
vision of the human person; the digital divide; a human-centred approach to
technology. His is also interested in other aspects of Faith and Culture
Studies such as the relationship between the media and the Church and the Church
and its exercise of power. Recent publications include Twin Pulpits: Essays in Media & Church (Veritas, 1997), The Splintered Heart (Veritas, 1998) and
Child Sexual Abuse & the Catholic
Church - A Pastoral Response (Columba Press, 1999). He and Michael Breen
are co-chairs of the LSI group Religious Values and Social Change, one of the
15 societies that comprise the SophiaEuropa project.