Anti-Catholicism in Northern Ireland, 1600-1998
Subtitle: The Mote and the Beam
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: September 4, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780312217389
Subjects: Contemporary Politics - Britain; Roman Catholic Church; Sociology; History: World; Christianity - History - Protestant; Discrimination & Racism; Europe - Great Britain - General; Religion / Catholicism; Christianity - Catholic; Europe - Ireland; Anti-Catholicism; History; Northern Ireland; Politics and government; Religion
Description: This book provides an authoritative and topical assessment of four centuries of religious strife in Northern Ireland and presents proposals for better intercommunity relations in the future. 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. -- Publisher description