# Veronique Altglas

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# Veronique Altglas

Dr

- Senior Lecturer, [School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/organisations/school-of-social-sciences-education-and-social-work/)
- [The Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/organisations/the-institute-for-global-peace-security-and-justice/)

[https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3408-3946](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3408-3946 "Orcid")

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- Email[v.altglas@qub.ac.uk](#)

- Room 01.011 - 3 College Park East

  United Kingdom

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

Sociological and Anthropological approaches to religion- Identity formation in Northern Ireland and beyond- Racism and anti-Semitism- Social class and religion- Responses to religious diversity - religion and politics - New Religious Movements -

1998 …Research output 2002: 1Research output 2003: 1Research output 2004: 1Research output 2005: 2Research output 2007: 2Research output 2008: 3Projects 2009: 1Research output 2010: 5Research output 2011: 2Research output 2012: 2Research output 2014: 4Research output 2015: 1Research output 2016: 1Research output 2018: 4Research output 2020: 5Research output 2022: 2Research output 2023: 1Research output 2024: 2Research output 2025: 1Research output 2026: 12026

Research activity per year

## Personal profile

### Research Interests

Sociology of religion: deregulation, individualism and exoticism; religion and social class; religion and politics in Northern Ireland; the messianic movement, Christian Zionism and new bricolages with Judaism. New Religious Movements. Critical sociology of religion.

Sociology of antisemitism and ethnic relations.

Epistemology; Research ethics.

### Research Statement

Véronique Altglas obtained her PhD from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at Warwick University and a Research Fellowship at the University of Cambridge’s department of sociology, she was appointed as a lecturer in sociology at Queen’s University Belfast in 2009. She passed her *Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches* in 2015 at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, on the theme “Fragmentation and Structure of the Contemporary Religious Field”.

Véronique’s research areas are transformations of religion in modern societies, and cross-national comparisons of responses to religious diversity. She initially conducted research on the transnational expansion of neo-Hindu movements and the popularisation of kabbalah in France, Britain, Brazil and Israel; she developed an analysis of religious exoticism in relation to social class and new forms of governance. Her latest empirical research focuses on a messianic congregation in Northern Ireland and is inscribed in broader reflections regarding the making of identities, religion and social class.

Véronique Altglas’ publications include two monographs: *Le nouvel hindouisme occidental* (CNRS, 2005); and *From Yoga to Kabbalah: Religious Exoticism and the Logics of Bricolage* (Oxford University Press, 2014), for which she won the book award of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion in 2017. She is the editor of a four-volume reader, *Religion and Globalization: Critical Concepts in Social Studies* (Routledge, 2010). Her latest monograph, *Judaizing Christianity and Christian Zionism in Northern Ireland. For God, Israel and Ulster* (Routledge 2025) focuses on a messianic congregation in Northern Ireland and is inscribed in broader reflections regarding bricolage in fundamentalist contexts, and the relations between religion, politics, and social class.

Véronique is also particularly interested in epistemological issues within the sociology of religion. She published *Bringing the Social Back into the Sociology of Religion* (Brill 2018), a collective work which focuses on critical and reflexive sociological studies of religion. Her book, *Religion and Conflict in Northern Ireland: What Does Religion Do?* (Palgrave, 2022) is the first critical and comprehensive review of the ways in which the social sciences have interpreted religion’s significance in Northern Ireland. Through and beyond this regional case, this book outlines a critical agenda for the social study of religion.

She has published several articles in *Culture & Religion, Archives des Sciences Sociales des Religions*, *European Societies*, *Nova Religio, Current Sociology*, *Nordic Journal of Religion and Society, Religion of South Asia*, and *Ethnologie Française*.

### Research Focus

[**Publications**](http://qub.academia.edu/VeroniqueAltglas)

**Books**

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|  | **2025****[*Judaizing Christianity and Christian Zionism in Northern Ireland: For God, Israel, and Ulster.*](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Judaizing-Christianity-Christian-Zionism-Northern/dp/1041002769/ref=sr_1_1?crid=6HQPM6M74TOI&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.icLcE4l49rC5BFLQOAmy0B5GCUVzVofed6Z84KGMgN4fHec1PDSiN6_uxqvCZw4byhEqFZSWUaJy9T1FMAWF3zm9JSfu6l8nX3Ws9itlpXw.b3ajKPPSb95DH9veEQiFVFEs_2S-Biyl5XwUnWWgJNE&dib_tag=se&keywords=Altglas+veronique&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1733487067&sprefix=altglas+veroniqu%2Caps%2C332&sr=8-1) London: Routledge (forthcoming).**  This book explores the contemporary judaization of evangelical Christianity through the ethnography of a messianic congregation in Northern Ireland. A constellation of messianic ‘congregations’ have expanded worldwide over recent years, combining Jewish liturgy, symbols and artefacts, with prophecies about the End Time and the return of Jesus. Increasingly recognised as a legitimate subdivision within evangelicalism, the messianic movement has facilitated a popularisation of Jewish practices and symbolism beyond its own congregations.  What insights do these congregations offer about the deregulation of religions? Is there any logic to the combinations of Christian and Jewish sources in messianic beliefs and practices? How can we understand this fascination with Jews and Judaism? Finally, what is the political significance of messianics’ relationship with Jewish people, the state of Israel, and Christian Zionism? |
|  | **2022    [*Religion and Conflict in Northern Ireland. What Does Religion Do?*](https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-96950-9) Basingstoke: Palgrave.**  This book is the first comprehensive and critical review of the ways in which social sciences have interpreted religion's significance in Northern Ireland. In particular, it examines the shortcomings of existing interpretations abd suggests alternative lines of thinking for more compelling analyses of the role(s) religion might play in Northern Irish culture and politics.  Through, and beyond, this regional case, this book also outlines a critical agenda for the social study of religion, which has theoretical, methodological and epistemological underpinnings. In particular, this work engages with epistemological issues which never have been addressed as such in the Northern Irish context: how do conflict settings affect the research undertaken on religion, when religion is an object of political and violent contentions? By analysing the scope for objective and critical thinking in such research context, this critical essay intends to contribute to a sociology of the sociology of religion. |
| **2018 *[Bringing the Social Back into the Sociology of Religion](https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1343-bringing-back-the-social-into-the-sociology-of-religion) (with Matthew Wood)*. Leiden, Brill and Haymarket (2019).**  This edited volume aims to develop a critical sociology of religion, in the sense of engaging with ideas, debates and theories central to mainstream sociology and cognate disciplines such as Anthropology, Politics and History. In particular, the contributors share a common orientation to bringing an appreciation of the social back into the sociological study of religion, which they see as too often ignoring or evading crucial issues of power, practice, interactions and broader contexts. Through this, their chapters connect with mainstream sociological debates and attend to issues of epistemology and scientific reflexivity. Based upon original empirical research, they address a range of different religious traditions and regions of the world such Sufism in Pakistan; the Kabbalah Centre in Europe, Brazil and Israel; African Christian missions in Europe; and Evangelical Christianity.  Contributors are: Véronique Altglas, Peter Doak, Yannick Fer, Gwendoline Malogne-Fer, Christophe Monnot, Eric Morier-Genoud, Alix Philippon, and Matthew Wood. |  |
|  | **2014****[*From Yoga to Kabbalah: Religious Exoticism and the Logics of Bricolage*](http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199997633.do). Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press.**  *Nominated as best book in 2017 by the International Society for the Sociology of Religion.*The popularization of Buddhism, yoga and meditation, public curiosity about shamanism and Sufism, and the recent craze for Kabbalah all demonstrate the appeal of foreign religious traditions to a wide audience in advanced industrial societies. Strange and enticing, their perceived otherness seems to lend them authenticity and to nourish hopes for the discovery of mysteries and hidden truths. Yet this exoticism in the religious sphere, as such, has never been sociologically investigated. Rather, sociologists of religion considered this fascination was evidence of the fact that individuals increasingly craft their religious life and identity by picking and mixing from a wide range of religious traditions. This book shows that this understanding of bricolage with foreign religions over-estimates its eclecticism, takes for granted the availability of religious resources, and misunderstands religious individualism. Ultimately, it uncovers the historical and socio-cultural logics that organize practices of bricolage. |
|  | **2010 Editor of *Religion and Globalization: Critical Concepts in Social Studies*, four volumes. London: Routledge.**  This four-volume collection from Routledge brings together all the key texts on globalization and religion in one easy-to-use ‘mini library’. The first volume brings together the best scholarship on religion and space in its global context. Volume II entitled 'Westernization of Religion and its Counter-Trends' looks at the debates surrounding the westernization of religion including the transnational diffusion and local expressions of Christianity and counter-trends to the westernization of religion. Volume III features articles concerning the theories and case-studies on the religious responses to globalization. The final volume looks at the new challenges, epistemological and transnational faced by religion and politics in their global context. |
|  | **2005 *Le nouvel hindouisme occidental*(New Western Hinduism)*.*Paris: Éditions du CNRS. [Open Access](https://books.openedition.org/editionscnrs/30911).**  Long after the Beatles flew to Rishikesh to discover meditation in the ashram of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian gurus continue to be successful in attracting western disciples in India as well as disseminating their teachings all around the world. These gurus are a major force in the diffusion of Asian religious ideas and practices, such as reincarnation, yoga and meditation, which have become increasingly popular, but have modern gurus really brought about a ‘meditation revolution’ as one of them claimed? On the basis of two case-studies, Siddha Yoga and Sivananda Centres, this book provides an original analysis of the transnational diffusion of practices and beliefs related to Hinduism in Britain and France. |

### Research Focus

**Peer-reviewed articles**

2014 [‘Bricolage’: Reclaiming a Conceptual Tool](https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2014.984235%20 "link")*[.](https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2014.984235%20 "link") Culture & Religion*, 15(4): 474-693.

2014 [Exotisme religieux et bricolage](http://assr.revues.org/ "ASSR"). *Archives des Sciences Sociales des Religions*, 167: 315-332.

2012 [Anti-Semitism in France](http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14616696.2012.676450#preview). *European Societies*[,](http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14616696.2012.676450#preview) 14(2): 259-274.

2011 [The Challenges of Universalizing Religions: the Kabbalah Centre in France and Britain](http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.1525/nr.2011.15.1.22?uid=32889&uid=3738032&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=3&uid=5910784&uid=67&uid=32887&uid=62&sid=21100835843671). *Nova Religio,*15(1): 22-43.

2010 [Laïcité is what Laïcité does: rethinking the French Cult Controversy](http://csi.sagepub.com/content/58/3/489.refs). *Current Sociology*, 58(3): 1-22.

2010 (with Matthew Wood) [Reflexivity, Scientificity and the Sociology of Religion: Pierre Bourdieu in Debate](http://www.tapironline.no/fil/vis/840), *Nordic Journal of Religion and Society,*23(1): 9-26.

2008 (with L. Amiotte-Suchet) [Sectes, controverses et pluralisme : une sociologie sceptique des religions](http://www.ethnographiques.org/2008/Amiotte-Suchet,Altglas). Entretien avec le sociologue des religions James A. Beckford (Sects, Controversies and pluralism: a sceptical Sociology of Religion. Interview with sociologist of religion James A. Beckford). *Ethnographiques.org,* 15.

2007 [The Global diffusion and Westernization of Neo-Hindu Movements: Siddha Yoga and Sivananda Centres](https://www.equinoxjournals.com/index.php/ROSA/article/view/4349).*Religion of South Asia*, 1(2): 217-237.

2005 [« Les mots brûlent ». Sociologie des nouveaux mouvements religieux et déontologie](http://assr.revues.org/3264?&id=3264) (‘Words can hurt you’: Sociology of New Religious Movements and Ethics). *Archives des Sciences Sociales des Religions*, 131-132: 165-188.

2000 [‘Living in Harmony’: le pranayama à des fins thérapeutiques](http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/40991509?uid=32889&uid=3738032&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=3&uid=5910784&uid=67&uid=32887&uid=62&sid=21100835843671) (Living in Harmony: Therapeutic use of Pranayama). *Ethnologie Française*, 30(4): 545-553.

**Chapters**

Le retour de la sociologie religieuse? In Yannick Fer, Juliette Galonnier and Gabrielle Angey (eds.), *Sociologie critique des religions.* Lyon: ENS Editions(forthcoming).

2024 (with Alix Philippon). Religious Minorities and Exoticism. In Erica Baffelli, Michael Stausberg and Alexander van der Haven (eds.) *Religious Minorities Online.* DeGruyter.

2023 Ce que la lumière donne à Daren et Catherine : Biens de salut et stratification sociale. In Anthony Favier *et al.* (eds.), *Religion et Classes Sociales.* Lyon: ENS Editions, p. 275-296.

2018 Spirituality and discipline; not a contradiction in terms. In V. Altglas and Matthew Wood (eds.) *Bringing the Social Back into the Sociology of Religion*. Leiden, Brill pp. 79-107.

2018 Introduction. An Epistemology for the Sociology of Religion (with Matthew Wood). In V. Altglas and Matthew Wood (eds.) *Bringing the Social Back into the Sociology of Religion*. Leiden, Brill pp. 1-34.

2012 La religion comme symptôme (‘Religion as Symptom’). In Philippe Gonzalez et Christophe Monnot (eds.) *Penser le religieux, le théologique et le social avec Pierre Gisel*, Genève, Labor et Fidès, pp. 33-46.

2011 Yoga and Kabbalah as World Religions? A Comparative Perspective on Globalization of Religious Resources. In Boaz Huss (ed.) *Kabbalah and Contemporary Spiritual Revival*. Beer-Sheva: Ben Gurion University of the Negev Press, pp. 233-250.

2010 Introduction. In *Religion and*Globalization:*Critical Concepts in Social Studies*. London: Routeldge, pp.1-22.

2008 French Cult Controversy at the turn of the New Millennium: Escalation, Dissensions, and new forms of Mobilisations across the Battlefield. In E. Barker (ed.) *The Centrality of Religion in Social Life.**Essays in honour of James A. Beckford*. London: Ashgate, pp.55-68.

2008 Indian Gurus and the Quest for Self-perfection among the Educated Middle-Classes. In J. Stolz (ed.). *Salvation Goods and Religious Markets. Theory and Applications*. Bern: Peter Lang, pp. 211-234.

2007 Siddha Yoga : un cas d’étude de la psychologisation de la religion (Siddha Yoga: a Case-Study of the Psychologisation of Religion). In N. Durish-Gauthier, I. Rossi, J. Stolz, (eds.). *Quêtes de santé, entre soins médicaux et guérisons spirituelles.*Geneva: Labor et Fidès, pp.  87-99*.*

2003 De l’orientalisme romantique au yoga sur la 5ème avenue (From Romantic Orientalism to Yoga on Fifth Avenue). In J.-P. Willaime, J.-R. Armogathe, (eds.). *Les mutations contemporaines du religieux*, Bibliothèque de l’École Pratique des Hautes Études, 119. Paris: Brépols, pp. 95-110.

2001 L’implantation du néo-hindouisme en Occident (The Diffusion of Neo-Hinduism in the West). In J.-P. Bastian, F. Champion, K. Rousselet (eds.). *La globalisation du religieux*. Paris: l’Harmattan, pp. 49-60.

**Other publications**

2022    Bringing Back the Social into the Sociology of Religion: A Response to Jean-Pierre Reed, *Critical Research on Religion*April 2022, Vol. 10(1), pp. 112-115.

2020    Syncretism (including bricolage and hybridity). In Adam Possamai and Anthony Joseph Blasi (eds*.) The SAGE Encyclopedia of Sociology of Religion*. Thousand Oaks, California : Sage, pp. 825-826.

2020    Exoticism (religious). In Adam Possamai and Anthony Joseph Blasi (eds*.) The SAGE Encyclopedia of Sociology of Religion.*Thousand Oaks, California : Sage, pp. 279-281.

2020    Individualism (including individualization). In Adam Possamai and Anthony Joseph Blasi (eds*.) The SAGE Encyclopedia of Sociology of Religion*. Thousand Oaks, California : Sage, pp. 385-387.

2020    Laïcité. In Adam Possamai and Anthony Joseph Blasi (eds*.) The SAGE Encyclopedia of Sociology of Religion*. Thousand Oaks, California : Sage, pp. 429-430.

2020    Westernisation and Easternisation of Religion. In Adam Possamai and Anthony Joseph Blasi (eds*.) The SAGE Encyclopedia of Sociology of Religion*. Thousand Oaks, California : Sage, pp. 914-915.

2018    Bricolage. In George Ritzer (ed.) *The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology*. Malden, Wiley-Blackwell.

2016    ‘Spirituality, the Opiate of Scholars of Religion?’ , *Religion* 46(3) : 1-9.

2015    ‘Introduction’, *Social Compass* 62(2): 127-131.

2014    ‘Introduction’, *Social Compass,* 61(2): 145-152.

2010    (with Matthew Wood) Sociologists of Belief and Beliefs of Sociologists (translation into English of Pierre Bourdieu, “Sociologues de la croyance et croyances de sociologues”), *Nordic Journal of Religion and Society,* 23 (1): 1-7.

2004       ‘Atman / Brahman’. *Notions*. Paris, Encyclopédie Universalis. p. 64-66.

2002       Hindouismes en Occident, *La revue des deux mondes,* janvier 2002, p. 144-148.

1998       ‘L’implantation des nouveaux mouvements religieux néo-orientaux en France. Deux cas d’étude : le Centre Sri Chinmoy et Sahaja Yoga’, *Mouvements religieux*, n°220.

### Particulars

Visting Lecturer, Institut d'Études Politiques d’Aix-en-Provence, France, March 2026.

Research Fellow, University of Toyo, Tokyo, November 2024.

Visiting Professor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, May 2022.

Guest researcher in residence, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, Norway, Autumn 2019.

Visting Lecturer, Institut d'Études Politiques d’Aix-en-Provence, France, February 2017.

Qualification for the grade of professor, awarded by the French National Council of Universities, Section 19 (Sociology), 2016.

Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR), awarded by the École Pratique des Hautes Études, 2015.

**Research Awards and Fellowships**

Co-Investigator of UKRI UK-Japan SSH Connections Grant "Religion and Minority: lived religion, migration and marginalities in secular societies", 2018-2019.

Co-Investigator of PSL project « Agenda for a Critical Sociology of Religion », CNRS – Université Paris Dauphine – EHESS (France), 2016-2019.

ESRC Research Fellow, Faculty of Politics, Psychology, Sociology and International Studies, University of Cambridge, “Globalisation and New Religious Movements. Kabbalah Centres in Britain, France, Israel and Brazil” (RES-063-27-0041), 2007-2011.

Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick: Grant Programme for the Study and Combating of Racism and Anti-Semitism in Europe, funded by Ford and Hanadiv Charitable Foundations. “The Jew as outsider: postnational political community and European anti-Semitism 1990 to the present” (Principal Investigator: Prof. Robert Fine), 2006-2007.

ESRC Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, “Responses to religious diversity in France and England: The case of Neo-Hinduism” (PTA-026-27-0864), 2005-2006.

Teaching Assistant, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris), 2001-2004, post awarded competitively.

**Other Professional Activities and Affiliations**

Member of the Economic and Social Research Council Peer Review College (2010; 2024-)

General Secretary of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion (2017-2023).

Member of the ESRC Virtual Sift Panel and the Commissioning Panel for the Future Research Leaders Grant call (2013)

Member of the CNRS research institution 'Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités', since 1996.

Review of grant applications for the AHRC and the British Academy.

Member of the Editorial board of  *Social Compass.*

Member of the Editorial board of the *Journal of Religion in Europe.*

Member of the Advisory Board for the Ashgate Inform Series on Minority Religions and Spiritual Movements.

Member of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion, French representative on the Council 2005-2013

Member of the European Sociological Association, Chair of Research Network 31 “Ethnic Relations, Racism and Antisemitism” 2010-2012

Member of the Association Française de Sciences Sociales des Religions since 1995.

### Teaching

**Program Director for BA Sociology (2016-2019; 2025- )**

**Program Director for the MSc Sociology and Global Inequality (2024-2025)**

**Course convenor of:**

Race, Racism and Colonialism (SOC2053)

The Sociology of Religion (SOC3052)

Research Design (SOC9012)

MRes Dissertation (SOC9019)

MSc Disseration (SOC9089)

### Other

**Citizenship**

Development, and co-chairing of the staff network promoting Linguistic Diversity and Minority Languages, Iolra, Morra, more, 2024-

Representative of Academic Staff on the University's Academic Council 2025-2029.

Representative of Academic Staff on the University's Senate 2017-2021, re-elected 2022-2026.

Staff Excellence Award in the "Leading by Example" category for leadership in promoting equality and diversity on campus. Queen’s University Belfast, February 2023.

Member of the University's Standing Committee 2020-21.

Member of the University's Health and Safety Committee 2018-21.

Equalities Officer,  UCU at Queen's, 2018-2019.

Secretary for Local Issues, UCU at Queen's, 2017-2018.

General Secretary, UCU at Queen's, 2016-2017.

Staff representative, School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work, 2012-2013.

### Keywords

- HM Sociology
- religion
- anti-semitism
- identity
- social class
- globalisation
- new religious movements
- responses to religious diversity
- religious individualism
- exoticism
- bricolage
- epistemology
- Northern Ireland
- cult controversies
- social theory
- spirituality
- power
- research ethics

### Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global [Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)](https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

1. SDG 4
   Quality Education
2. SDG 5
   Gender Equality
3. SDG 8
   Decent Work and Economic Growth
4. SDG 10
   Reduced Inequalities
5. SDG 16
   Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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## Projects

- [1](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/projects/?status=FINISHED)
  Finished

- ### [R1053SSP: ESRC - RES-063-27-0041-A](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/projects/esrc-res-063-27-0041-a/)

  [Altglas, V.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/) (PI)

  01/08/2009 → 30/04/2010

  Project: Research

## Research output

- [8](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/publications/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Fresearchoutput%2Fresearchoutputtypes%2Fcontributiontojournal%2Farticle&type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Fresearchoutput%2Fresearchoutputtypes%2Fcontributiontoperiodical%2Farticle)
  Article
- [7](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/publications/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Fresearchoutput%2Fresearchoutputtypes%2Fcontributiontobookanthology%2Fpeerreviewedchapter)
  Chapter (peer-reviewed)
- [3](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/publications/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Fresearchoutput%2Fresearchoutputtypes%2Fbookanthology%2Fbook)
  Book
- [3](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/publications/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Fresearchoutput%2Fresearchoutputtypes%2Fcontributiontobookanthology%2Fchapter)
  Chapter
- 3
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  - [**2** Editorial](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/publications/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Fresearchoutput%2Fresearchoutputtypes%2Fcontributiontojournal%2Feditorial)
  - [**2** Review article](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/publications/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Fresearchoutput%2Fresearchoutputtypes%2Fcontributiontojournal%2Fsystematicreview)
  - [**1** Other contribution](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/publications/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Fresearchoutput%2Fresearchoutputtypes%2Fothercontribution%2Fother)

- ### [Sociologie de la religion et conflits: feuille de route pour les temps de crise](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/publications/sociologie-de-la-religion-et-conflits-feuille-de-route-pour-les-t/)

  [Altglas, V.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/), 01 Jan 2026, (Accepted) In: [Social Compass.](#)

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- ### [Judaizing Christianity and Christian Zionism in Northern Ireland: for God, Israel, and Ulster](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/publications/judaizing-christianity-and-christian-zionism-in-northern-ireland-/)

  [Altglas, V.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/), 22 Apr 2025, [Routledge](#). 306 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

  - Northern Ireland
  - Ulster
  - Christianity
  - Deity
  - Messianic
- ### [Le retour de la sociologie religieuse?](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/publications/le-retour-de-la-sociologie-religieuse/)

  Translated title of the contribution: The return of religious sociology?[Altglas, V.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/), 01 Jan 2024, (Accepted) *Sociologie critique des religions.* Fer, Y., Galonnier, J. & Angey, G. (eds.). Lyon: [Ecole Normale Supérieure](#)

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
- ### [Religious minorities and exoticism](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/publications/religious-minorities-and-exoticism/)

  [Altglas, V.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/) & Philippon, A., 31 Jan 2024, Religious Minorities Online.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  Open Access

  - Religious Minorities
  - Sufism
  - Case Study
  - Fear
  - Meditation
- ### [Ce que la lumière donne à Daren et Catherine: Biens de salut et stratification sociale](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/publications/ce-que-la-lumi%C3%A8re-donne-%C3%A0-daren-et-catherine-biens-de-salut-et-st/)

  Translated title of the contribution: What the light gives to Daren and Catherine: salvation goods and social stratification[Altglas, V.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/), 16 Feb 2023, *Religions et classes sociales.* Favier , A., Fer, Y., Galonnier, J. & Perrin-Heredia, A. (eds.). Paris: [Ecole Normale Supérieure](#), p. 275-296 (Sociétés, Espaces, Temps).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  92
  Downloads
  (Pure)

[View all 44 research outputs](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/publications/)

## Prizes

- ### [Best Book Award of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/prizes/best-book-award-of-the-international-society-for-the-sociology-of/)

  [Altglas, V.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/) (Recipient), 05 Jul 2017

  Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)

  - Social Systems
  - Awards
  - Sociology of Religion
  - Logic
  - Bricolage
- ### [Staff Excellence Award, "Leading by Example"](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/prizes/staff-excellence-award-leading-by-example/)

  [Altglas, V.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/) (Recipient), 2023

  Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)

## Activities

- [22](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Ftalk%2Finvited_talk)
  Invited talk
- [21](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Ftalk%2Fpublic_lecture_debate_seminar)
  Public lecture/debate/seminar
- [16](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Ftalk%2Foral_presentation)
  Oral presentation
- [4](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fattendance%2Fconferenceparticipation)
  Participation in conference
- 25
  More

  - [**8** Membership of external research organisation](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fmembership%2Fcouncil)
  - [**8** Invited or keynote talk at national or international conference](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Ftalk%2Finvited_or_keynote_talk_at_national_or_international_conference)
  - [**7** Membership of peer review panel or committee](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fmembership%2Fcommittee)
  - [**5** Publication peer-review](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Feditorialwork%2Fpublicationpeerreview)
  - [**4** Editorial activity](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Feditorialwork%2Feditorial)
  - [**4** PhD external examination](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fexamination%2Fexamination)
  - [**4** Visiting an external academic institution](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fvisitother%2Fvisitother)
  - [**2** Participation in Festival/Exhibition](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fattendance%2Fparticipation_in_festival_exhibition)
  - [**2** Work on advisory panel to industry or government or non-government organisation](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fconsultancy%2Fwork_on_advisory_panel_to_industry_or_government_or_non_government_organisation_)
  - [**2** Research and Teaching at External Organisation](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fvisitother%2Fresearch_and_teaching_at_external_organisation)
  - [**1** Participation in workshop, seminar, course](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fattendance%2Fworkshopseminarcourseparticipation)
  - [**1** Work on advisory panels for social community and cultural engagement](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fconsultancy%2Fwork_on_advisory_panels_for_social_community_and_cultural_engagement)
  - [**1** Hosting an academic visitor](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fhostvisitor%2Fhostvisitor)
  - [**1** Hosting a school group or open day](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fotheractivity%2Fpublicengagement_schoolsengagement)

- ### [Religious exoticism and religious minorities: comparative perspectives between Islam and Judaism (with Alix Philippon).](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/activities/religious-exoticism-and-religious-minorities-comparative-perspect/)

  [Altglas, V.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/) (Advisor)

  25 Mar 2026

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
- ### [Évangéliques judaïsants et sionistes chrétiens (Irlande du Nord). Quel impact politique du religieux ?](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/activities/%C3%A9vang%C3%A9liques-juda%C3%AFsants-et-sionistes-chr%C3%A9tiens-irlande-du-nord-qu/)

  [Altglas, V.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/) (Invited speaker)

  17 Mar 2026

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public lecture/debate/seminar
- ### [Enseigner les relations religion et conflit. Le cas de l'Irlande du Nord.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/activities/enseigner-les-relations-religion-et-conflit-le-cas-de-lirlande-du/)

  [Altglas, V.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/) (Speaker)

  06 Mar 2026

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public lecture/debate/seminar
- ### [« Sectarianism » en Irlande du Nord. Le rôle de la religion dans les divisions et conflits sociaux.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/activities/sectarianism-en-irlande-du-nord-le-r%C3%B4le-de-la-religion-dans-les-d/)

  [Altglas, V.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/) (Lecturer)

  04 Mar 2026

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
- ### [Sciences Po Aix](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/activities/sciences-po-aix/)

  [Altglas, V.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/) (Visiting lecturer)

  01 Mar 2026 → 31 Mar 2026

  Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Visiting an external academic institution

[View all 176 activities](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/activities/)

## Press/Media

- ### [Interview by John Manley, “For God and Israel: What lies behind unionism’s affiliation with Zionism?”, The Irish News, 27 January 2026.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/clippings/interview-by-john-manley-for-god-and-israel-what-lies-behind-unio/)

  [Altglas, V.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/)

  27/01/2026

  1 item of Media coverage

  Press/Media: Expert Comment
- ### [“L’âge des gurus” (article)](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/clippings/l%C3%A2ge-des-gurus-article/)

  [Altglas, V.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/)

  05/11/2025

  1 Media contribution

  Press/Media: Expert Comment
- ### [Interview on Christian Zionism in Northern Ireland](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/clippings/interview-on-christian-zionism-in-northern-ireland/)

  [Altglas, V.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/)

  05/11/2025

  1 Media contribution

  Press/Media: Expert Comment
- ### [Interview for “les idées larges”, Arte, 15 September 2025.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/clippings/interview-for-les-id%C3%A9es-larges-arte-15-september-2025/)

  [Altglas, V.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/)

  15/09/2025

  1 Media contribution

  Press/Media: Expert Comment
- ### [Featuring in “New book launch: For God, Israel and Ulster”, Andersonstown News, 9 August 2025.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/clippings/featuring-in-new-book-launch-for-god-israel-and-ulster-andersonst/)

  [Altglas, V.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/)

  09/08/2025

  1 item of Media coverage

  Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities

[View all 31 press/media](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/veronique-altglas/clippings/)