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Anti-Catholicism in Northern Ireland, 1600–1998: The Mote and the Beam

By John D. Brewer , Gareth I. Higgins (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
1998
ISBN
978-0-333-74635-6, 978-0-333-99502-0, 978-0-312-21738-9
DOI
10.1057/9780333995020
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
30 MB (31093738 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
XI, 248\258
Time added
2016-03-14 21:35:01
History of Britain and Ireland; Catholicism; Angli

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.

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