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Anti-Catholicism in Northern Ireland, 1600-1998 : the mote and the beam / John D. Brewer, with Gareth I. Higgins.
LIBRA BX1766 .B74 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brewer, John D.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anti-Catholicism--Northern Ireland--History.
- Anti-Catholicism.
- Religion.
- History.
- Northern Ireland--Religion.
- Northern Ireland.
- Northern Ireland--Politics and government.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 248 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998.
- Summary:
- 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 sociological 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. This 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-245) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0312217382
- OCLC:
- 39300085
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