Anti-catholicism in Northern Ireland, 1600-1998 : The Mote and the Beam -- Paperback

Brewer, John D./ Higgins, Gareth I.

Palgrave Macmillan（1998/09発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 260 p.
• 商品コード 9780333746356
• DDC分類 941.6

Full Description

Anti-Catholicism forms part of the dynamics to Northern Ireland's conflict and is critical to the self-defining identity of certain Protestants. However, anti-Catholicism is as much a sociology process as a theological dispute. It was given a Scriptural underpinning in the history of Protestant-Catholic relations in Ireland, and wider British-Irish relations, in order to reinforce social divisions between the religious communities and to offer a deterministic belief system to justify them. The book examines the socio-economic and political processes that have led to theology being used in social closure and stratification between the seventeenth century and the present day.

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements List of Figures Introduction PART I: ANTI-CATHOLICISM AS A SOCIOLOGICAL PROCESS IN IRISH HISTORY Plantation to the United Irishmen: 1600-1799 Union to Partition: 1800-1920 Northern Ireland: 1921-1997 PART II: SOCIOLOGICAL FEATURES OF CONTEMPORARY ANTI-CATHOLICISM The Modes of Contemporary Anti-Catholicism Common-sense Reasoning and Theological Misunderstandings Conclusion Postscript: A Better Way Bibliography