The Oxford Handbook of Religion in Modern Ireland

by Ganiel, Gladys; Holmes, Andrew R.

• ISBN13: 9780198868699
• ISBN10: 0198868693
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2024-04-12
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

What does religion mean to modern Ireland and what is its recent social and political history? The Oxford Handbook of Religion in Modern Ireland provides in-depth analysis of the relationships between religion, society, politics, and everyday life on the island of Ireland from 1800 to the twenty-first century. Taking a chronological and all-island approach, it explores the complex and changing role of religion both before and after partition.

The handbook's thirty-two chapters address long-standing historical and political debates about religion, identity, and politics, including religion's contributions to division and violence. They also offer perspectives on how religion interacts with education, the media, law, gender and sexuality, science, literature, and memory. Whilst providing insight into how everyday religious practices have intersected with the institutional structures of Catholicism and Protestantism, the book also examines the island's increasing religious diversity, including the rise of those with 'no religion'.

Written by leading scholars in the field and emerging researchers with new perspectives, this is an authoritative and up-to-date volume that offers a wide-ranging and comprehensive survey of the enduring significance of religion on the island.

Author Biography

Gladys Ganiel, Professor in the Sociology of Religion, Queen's University Belfast,Andrew R. Holmes, Reader in History, Queen's University Belfast

Gladys Ganiel is Professor in the Sociology of Religion at Queen's University Belfast and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. Her specialisms include religion on the island of Ireland, religion and conflict in Northern Ireland, evangelicalism, and the emerging church. Her books include Evangelicalism and Conflict in Northern Ireland (Palgrave 2008), Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland: Religious Practice in Late Modernity (OUP 2016), and The Deconstructed Church: Understanding Emerging Christianity (OUP 2014), co-authored with Gerardo Marti (winner of the 2015 Distinguished Book Award of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion).

Andrew R. Holmes is Reader in History and Chair of the Religious Studies Research Forum at Queen's University Belfast. He has published extensively on the history of Protestantism and evangelicalism, including The Shaping of Ulster Presbyterian Belief and Practice, 1770-1840 (OUP 2006) and The Irish Presbyterian Mind: Conservative Theology, Evangelical Experience, and Modern Criticism, 1830-1930 (OUP 2018).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Introduction: Religion in Modern Ireland, Gladys Ganiel and Andrew R. Holmes
Part One: Religion, Politics, and Society, 1800-1922
1. Beyond Teleology: Religious and Political Identities Before the Irish Revolution, S.J. Connolly
2. Churches, the State, and Politics, 1800-1922: An Overview, Stewart J. Brown
3. Catholic Ireland and the Devotional Revolution, Sarah Roddy
4. Protestant Ireland--Variety and Vitality, 1800-1914, John Wolffe
5. The Supernatural, Magic, and Religion, Andrew Sneddon
6. Science and Religion Before and After Darwin, Juliana Adelman and Stuart Mathieson
7. Literature and Religion, 1798-1923, Norman Vance
8. Religion, Gender, and Sexuality in Ireland 1800-1922, Myrtle Hill
Part Two: Religion, Politics, and Society, 1922-1968
9. The Catholic Church and the Irish State, 1916-1973, Daithí Ó Corráin
10. Northern Ireland: A Protestant State?, Graham Walker
11. Irish Catholic Culture Before and After Vatican II, Louise Fuller
12. Catholics in Northern Ireland, 1921-1969, Marianne Elliott
13. Changing Protestant Identity in southern Ireland, 1922-1970s, Ian d'Alton
14. Protestant Religion in Northern Ireland to 1980, Andrew R. Holmes
15. Religion and Education in southern Ireland, Patricia Kieran
16. Religion and Education in Northern Ireland, L. Philip Barnes
17. Religion, Gender, and Sexuality, 1922-1968, Lindsey Earner-Byrne
18. Religion and Broadcasting the Two Irelands, Robert J. Savage
Part Three: Religion, Politics, and Society, 1968-present
19. Ireland After Secularisation, Gladys Ganiel
20. Religious Demography, Identification, and Practice: Change over Time, Malcolm P. A. Macourt
21. Being Catholic in Ireland, Tom Inglis
22. The Abuse Crises in the Irish Christian Churches, James Gallen
23. Religion and Law in Ireland and Northern Ireland Since 1968, Christopher McCrudden, Oran Doyle, and David Kenny
24. Sectarianism and Conflict, Duncan Morrow and Gladys Ganiel
25. The Religion and Politics of Paisleyism, Patrick Mitchel
26. Catholic Responses to Violence in Northern Ireland, Margaret M. Scull
27. Christian Realism and Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland, Maria Power
28. New Religious Movements, Peter Mulholland and Carles Salazar
29. Paganism, Jenny Butler
30. Minority Religions and Immigration in Ireland, Vladimir Kmec
31. Religion and Memory in Modern Ireland, Guy Beiner
32. The Rise of 'No Religion', Hugh Turpin
Index