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Religion, Identity and Politics in Northern Ireland

Author : Claire Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351904841
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Religion, Identity and Politics in Northern Ireland written by Claire Mitchell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Has conflict in Northern Ireland kept political dimensions of religion alive, and has religion played a role in fuelling conflict? Conflict in Northern Ireland is not and never will be a holy war. Yet religion is more socially and politically significant than many commentators presume. In fact, religion has remained a central feature of social identity and politics throughout conflict as well as recent change. There has been an acceleration of interest in the relationship between religion, identity and politics in modern societies. Building on this debate, Claire Mitchell presents a challenging analysis of religion in contemporary Northern Ireland, arguing that religion is not merely a marker of ethnicity and that it continues to provide many of the meanings of identity, community and politics. In light of the multifaceted nature of the conflict in Northern Ireland, Mitchell explains that, for Catholics, religion is primarily important in its social and institutional forms, whereas for many Protestants its theological and ideological dimensions are more pressing. Even those who no longer go to church tend to reproduce religious stereotypes of 'them and us'. Drawing on a range of unique interview material, this book traces how individuals and groups in Northern Ireland have absorbed religious types of cultural knowledge, belonging and morality, and how they reproduce these as they go about their daily lives. Despite recent religious and political changes, the author concludes that perceptions of religious difference help keep communities in Northern Ireland socially separate and often in conflict with one another.

When God Took Sides

Author : Marianne Elliott
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191664278
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book When God Took Sides written by Marianne Elliott and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-09-24 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The struggle between Catholic and Protestant has shaped Irish history since the Reformation, with tragic consequences up to the present day. But how do Catholics and Protestants in Ireland see each other? And how do they view their own communities and what these communities stand for? Tracing the history of religious identities in Ireland over the last three centuries, Marianne Elliott argues that these two questions are inextricably linked and that the identity of both Catholics and Protestants is shaped by the way that each community views the other. Cutting through the layers of myths, lies, and half-truths that make up the vision that Catholics and Protestants have of each other, she looks at how mutual religious stereotypes were developed over the centuries, how they were perpetuated and entrenched, and how they have defined modern identities and shaped Ireland's historical destiny, from the independence struggle and partition to the Troubles of the last four decades.

Culture and Identity Politics in Northern Ireland

Author : Máiréad Nic Craith
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403948119
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Culture and Identity Politics in Northern Ireland written by Máiréad Nic Craith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-05-02 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civilization and culture have traditionally been regarded as mutually exclusive concepts. In this comparative case-study of Northern Ireland, Máiréad Nic Craith explores the commitment of unionists to a civic, 'culture-blind' British state; contrasting this with nationalist demands for official recognition of Irish culture. The 'cultural turn' in Northern Irish politics and the development of a bicultural infrastructure is examined here in the context of differing interpretations of equality and increasing demands for intercultural communication within, as well as between, communities.

Scripture Politics

Author : Ian McBride
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198206422
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Scripture Politics written by Ian McBride and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scripture Politics examines the central role played by Ulster Presbyterians in the birth of Irish republicanism. Drawing on recent trends in British and American historiography, as well as a wide range of Irish primary sources, Ian McBride charts the development of Presbyterian politicsbetween the War of American Independence and the rebellion of 1798.McBride begins by tracing the emergence of a radical sub-culture in the north of Ireland, showing how traditions of religious dissent underpinned oppositional politics. He goes on to explore the impact of American independence in Ulster, and shows how the mobilization of the Volunteers and thereform agitation of the 1780s anticipated the ideology and organization of the United Irish movement. He describes how, in the wake of the French Revolution, Ulster Presbyterians sought to create a new Irish nation in their own image, and reveals the confessional allegiances which shaped the 1798rebellion. Above all, this innovative and original book uncovers the close relationship between theological disputes and political theory, recreating a distinctive intellectual tradition whose contribution to republican thought has often been misunderstood. _

Plural Identities--singular Narratives

Author : Máiréad Nic Craith
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571813145
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Plural Identities--singular Narratives written by Máiréad Nic Craith and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Northern Ireland is frequently characterised in terms of a two traditions paradigm, representing the conflict as being between two discrete cultures. Demonstrating the reductionist nature of this argument, this book highlights the complexity of reality.

Religion and Conflict in Northern Ireland

Author : Véronique Altglas
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030969509
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Conflict in Northern Ireland written by Véronique Altglas and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-11 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Northern Ireland presents a fundamental challenge for the sociology of religion – how do religious beliefs, attitudes and identities relate to practices, violence and conflict? In other words, what does religion do? These interrogations are at the core of this book. It is the first critical and comprehensive review of the ways in which the social sciences have interpreted religion’s significance in Northern Ireland. In particular, it examines the shortcomings of existing interpretations and, in turn, suggests alternative lines of thinking for more robust and compelling analyses of the role(s) religion might play in Northern Irish culture and politics. Through, and beyond, the case of Northern Ireland, the second objective of this book is to outline a critical agenda for the social study of religion, which has theoretical and methodological underpinnings. Finally, 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.

Religion, Civil Society, and Peace in Northern Ireland

Author : John D. Brewer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191629669
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Religion, Civil Society, and Peace in Northern Ireland written by John D. Brewer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion was thought to be part of the problem in Ireland and incapable of turning itself into part of the solution. Many commentators deny the churches a role in Northern Ireland's peace process or belittle it, focusing on the few well-known events of church involvement and the small number of high profile religious peacebuilders. This new study seeks to correct various misapprehensions about the role of the churches by pointing to their major achievements in both the social and political dimensions of the peace process, by small-scale, lesser-known religious peacebuilders as well as major players. The churches are not treated lightly or sentimentally and major weaknesses in their contribution are highlighted. The study challenges the view that ecumenism was the main religious driver of the peace process, focusing instead on the role of evangelicals, it warns against romanticising civil society, pointing to its regressive aspects and counter-productive activities, and queries the relevance of the idea of 'spiritual capital' to understanding the role of the churches in post-conflict reconstruction, which the churches largely ignore. This book is written by three 'insiders' to church peacebuilding in Northern Ireland, who bring their insight and expertise as sociologists to bear in their analysis of four-years in-depth interviewing with a wide cross section of people involved in the peace process, including church leaders and rank-and-file, members of political parties, prime ministers, paramilitary organisations, community development and civil society groups, as well as government politicians and advisors. Many of these are speaking for the first time about the role of religious peacebuilding in Northern Ireland, and doing so with remarkable candour. The volume allows the Northern Irish case study to speak to other conflicts where religion is thought to be problematic by developing a conceptual framework to understand religious peacebuilding.

Politics of Identity in Post-Conflict States

Author : Éamonn Ó Ciardha
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317483553
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Politics of Identity in Post-Conflict States written by Éamonn Ó Ciardha and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ireland and the Balkans have come to represent divided and (re)united communities. They both provide effective microcosms of national, ethnic, political, military, religious, ideological and cultural conflicts in their respective regions and, as a result, they demonstrate real and imaginary divisions. This book will specifically focus on the history, politics and literature of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Northern Ireland, while making comparative reference to some of Europe’s other disputed and divided regions. Using case-studies such as Kosovo and Serbia; Lithuania, Germany, Poland, Russia and Belarus; Greece and Macedonia, it examines ‘space’, ‘place’ and ‘border’ discourse, the topography of war and violence, post-war settlement and reconciliation, and the location and negotiation of national, ethnic, religious, political and cultural identities. The book will be of particular interest to scholars and students of cultural studies, history, politics, Irish studies, Slavonic studies, area studies and literary studies.

Irish/ness Is All Around Us

Author : Olaf Zenker
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857459147
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Irish/ness Is All Around Us written by Olaf Zenker and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on Irish speakers in Catholic West Belfast, this ethnography on Irish language and identity explores the complexities of changing, and contradictory, senses of Irishness and shifting practices of 'Irish culture' in the domains of language, music, dance and sports. The author's theoretical approach to ethnicity and ethnic revivals presents an expanded explanatory framework for the social (re)production of ethnicity, theorizing the mutual interrelations between representations and cultural practices regarding their combined capacity to engender ethnic revivals. Relevant not only to readers with an interest in the intricacies of the Northern Irish situation, this book also appeals to a broader readership in anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, history and political science concerned with the mechanisms behind ethnonational conflict and the politics of culture and identity in general.

Conflict and Consensus

Author : Bernadette Hayes
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047408160
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Conflict and Consensus written by Bernadette Hayes and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study uses a wide range of survey data to examine present-day differences in identity and political allegiance between Catholics and Protestants on the island of Ireland but also to show the extensive cultural similarities that cut across the Catholic-Protestant divide.

Feel Free

Author : Nick Laird
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571341748
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Feel Free written by Nick Laird and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated for his novels and screenplays, Nick Laird has been 'an assured and brilliant voice' (Colm Toibin) in contemporary poetry ever since his impressive debut, To a Fault, in 2005. This is his strongest collection to date, in which we sense the deep American influence from living in New York meeting his familial shores of Northern Ireland: the acoustically generous, longer lines of the new world's Ginsberg or Whitman, and the lyricism of his forebears Heaney, MacNeice and Yeats. These are smart, energetic, worldly poems of political edge and family tenderness.

Religion and the Politics of Identity in Kosovo

Author : Gerlachlus Duijzings
Publisher : C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
ISBN 13 : 9781850653929
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book Religion and the Politics of Identity in Kosovo written by Gerlachlus Duijzings and published by C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS. This book was released on 2000 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kosovo is a frontier society where two Balkan nations, Albanian and Serb, as well as two religions, Islam and Christianity, clash. The tension between conflict and symbiosis lies at the core of this book.

Identity Change after Conflict

Author : Jennifer Todd
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319985035
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Identity Change after Conflict written by Jennifer Todd and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-23 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores everyday identity change and its role in transforming ethnic, national and religious divisions. It uses very extensive interviews in post-conflict Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in the early 21st century to compare the extent and the micro-level cultural logics of identity change. It widens comparisons to the Gard in France, and uses multiple methods to reconstruct the impact of identity innovation on social and political outcomes in the 2010s. It shows the irreducible causal importance of identity change for wider compromise after conflict. It speaks to those interested in Cultural Sociology, Politics, Conflict and Peace Studies, Nationalism, Religion, International Relations and European and Irish Studies.

Troubled Geographies

Author : Ian N. Gregory
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253009790
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Troubled Geographies written by Ian N. Gregory and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-27 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Tap[s] the power of new geospatial technologies . . . explore[s] the intersection of geography, religion, politics, and identity in Irish history.”—International Social Science Review Ireland’s landscape is marked by fault lines of religious, ethnic, and political identity that have shaped its troubled history. Troubled Geographies maps this history by detailing the patterns of change in Ireland from 16th century attempts to “plant” areas of Ireland with loyal English Protestants to defend against threats posed by indigenous Catholics, through the violence of the latter part of the 20th century and the rise of the “Celtic Tiger.” The book is concerned with how a geography laid down in the 16th and 17th centuries led to an amalgam based on religious belief, ethnic/national identity, and political conviction that continues to shape the geographies of modern Ireland. Troubled Geographies shows how changes in religious affiliation, identity, and territoriality have impacted Irish society during this period. It explores the response of society in general and religion in particular to major cultural shocks such as the Famine and to long term processes such as urbanization. “Makes a strong case for a greater consideration of spatial information in historical analysis―a message that is obviously appealing for geographers.”—Journal of Interdisciplinary History “A book like this is useful as a reminder of the struggles and the sacrifices of generations of unrest and conflict, albeit that, on a global scale, the Irish troubles are just one of a myriad of disputes, each with their own history and localized geography.”—Journal of Historical Geography

Unionists, Loyalists, and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland

Author : Lee A. Smithey
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195395875
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Unionists, Loyalists, and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland written by Lee A. Smithey and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lee Smithey examines how symbolic cultural expressions in Northern Ireland, such as parades, bonfires, murals, and commemorations, provide opportunities for Protestant unionists and loyalists to reconstruct their collective identities and participate in conflict transformation.

Evangelical Journeys

Author : Claire Mitchell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781906359638
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Evangelical Journeys written by Claire Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on 95 interviews with evangelicals and ex-evangelicals in Northern Ireland, this book explores how religious journeys are shaped by social structures and by individual choices.

The Tragedy of Belief

Author : John Fulton
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Tragedy of Belief written by John Fulton and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive account of the role of religion in the divisions of Ireland, North and South, beginning with a social and historical survey and proceeding to a thorough cultural and structural analysis of contemporary divisions in the context of Ireland as a whole.