Wolffe Irish Religious Conflict in Comparative Perspective

Catholics, Protestants and Muslims
2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-35190-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700-2000

By setting the Irish religious conflict in a wide comparative perspective, this book offers fresh insights into the causes of religious conflicts, and potential means of resolving them. The collection mounts a challenge to views of 'Irish exceptionalism' and points to significant historical and contemporary commonalities across the Western world.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wolffe, John

Wolffe, J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Analysing Religious Conflict; John Wolffe PART I: IRELAND 1. 'A Solid and United Phalanx'? Protestant Churches and the Ulster Covenant, 1912–2012; Nicola Morris and David Tombs 2. Social Structure and Religious Division: Comparing the Form of Religious Distinction in the Two Irish States; Jennifer Todd 3. Can Churches Contribute to Post-Violence Reconciliation and Reconstruction? Insights and Applications from Northern Ireland; Gladys Ganiel 4. Alternative Ulster: Punk Rock as a Means of Overcoming the Religious Divide in Northern Ireland; Francis Stewart PART II: EUROPEAN COMPARISONS 5. The Case against Northern Ireland Exceptionalism: The 'Academy', Religion and Politics; Brian M. Walker 6. Churches and Communal Violence in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: A Comparison of Ireland and Scotland; Stewart J. Brown 7. Protestant–Catholic Conflict and Nationalism in German and Irish Historical Narratives; Shane Nagle 8. Comparing Protestant–Catholic Conflict in France and Ireland: The Significance of the Ethnic and Colonial Dimension; Joseph Ruane PART III: ANTI-CATHOLICISM, MUSLIMS AND ISLAMOPHOBIA 9. The Multiculturalism Backlash and the Mainstreaming of Islamophobia Post-9/11; Humayun Ansari 10. Muslims in Britain: Researching and Addressing Conflict in a Post-Secular City; Philip Lewis 11. Religion, Detraditionalization and Backlashes against Multiculturalism in Northern Europe: A Comparison of Dutch, Northern Irish and English Cases (2001–2011); David Herbert 12. New Variation, Old Theme: Parallels between Islamophobia and Anti-Catholicism in the United States; Katy Scrogin Conclusion: Overcoming 'Religious' Conflict: History and Practice; John Wolffe

Über Autor(innen)

Humayun Ansari, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Stewart J. Brown, University of Edinburgh, UK
Gladys Ganiel, Trinity College Dublin at Belfast, UK
David Herbert, University of Agder, Norway
Philip Lewis, Bradford University, UK
Nicola Morris, University of Chester, UK
Shane Nagle, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Joseph Ruane, University College Dublin, Ireland
Katy Scrogin, independent scholar, UK

Francis Stewart, University of Stirling, UK
Jennifer Todd, University College Dublin, Ireland
David Tombs, Trinity College Dublin at Belfast, UK
Brian Walker, Queen's University Belfast, UK