Books by K. Flanagan

This is an original study of the sociological imagination in regard to visual culture. It explores the reflexive dimensions of choice over seeing or not seeing in relation to paintings, images and islands. Bourdieu, Goffman and Simmel provide the basis for insights into how reflexivity in sociology has unexplored theological implications.

This lively and highly original study explores the link between visual culture and religion in terms of tales, memory and character. Using Simmel's approach to religiosity in his third study of sociology in theology, Flanagan explores how spectacle is to be understood in ways that yield trust.

A unique study of the link between theology and culture from a sociological perspective which addresses the issue of the pursuit of enchantment in the context of postmodernity.

This is a study of the social construction and the impression management of the public forms of worship of Catholicism and Anglicanism. The study is an innovative effort to link sociology to theology in a way that serves to focus on an issue of social praxis.