The study of religions in Ireland : past, present and future / [edited by] Brendan McNamara and Hazel O' Brien.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

O'Brien, Hazel, editor.

McNamara, Brendan, editor.

ProQuest ebook central

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ireland--Religion.

Ireland.

Ireland--Religion--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages)

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Contents:

Preface / Brendan McNamara (University College Cork, Ireland) and Hazel O' Brien (Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland)

Part I: Disciplinary Survey of the Study of Religions in Ireland. Introduction / Brian Bocking (Professor Emeritus University College Cork, Ireland) and Alexandra Grieser (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) ; 1. Reflections on Irish Folklore / Sile De Cleir (University of Limerick, Ireland) ; 2. Understanding the Sociology of Religion in Contemporary Ireland / Ganiel Gladys (Queens University, Belfast, UK) ; 3. Tracking Change in Irish Religious Education / Patricia Kieran (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick) ; 4. Maeve's Revolution: Irish Nationalist Women and Religious Innovation in the Revolutionary Period, 1898-1921 / Amy Heath Carpentier (Washington University, USA)

Part II. Themes in the Contemporary Study of Religions in Ireland. 5. A revolution of a different kind: The diminution of the portrayal of Catholicism as a marker of cultural identity in broadcast media / Finola Doyle-O' Neill (University College Cork, Ireland) ; 6. Esotericism, Romantic Nationalism, and the Birth of the Irish State / Jenny Butler (University College Cork, Ireland) ; 7. Affirmations of Irishness: Traversing the Contours of Irish Protestant Identity / Deirdre Nutall (Independent Researcher, Ireland) and Tony Walsh (Maynooth University, Ireland) ; 8. Where to Now for Irish Catholicism? Evaluating the Present and the Future in Light of the Past / Brian Conway (Maynooth University, Ireland) ; 9. Migrant religions and the Irish state / Abel Ugba (University of Leeds, UK) ; 10. New Religious Movements in Ireland: Secularisation or Pluralisation? / Vesna Malesevic (NUI Galway, Ireland) ; 11. Thinking beyond the Island: Buddhism, Ireland and Method in the Study of Religions / Laurence Cox (Maynooth University, Ireland) and Brian Bocking (Professor Emeritus at University College Cork, Ireland)

Postface / Tom Inglis (Professor Emeritus University College Dublin, Ireland)

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781350291775

1350291773

9781350291768

1350291765

Publisher Number:

99991186772

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