Religion, Ethnicity and Social Change

by Campling, Jo; Fawcett, L.

• ISBN13: 9780333720479
• ISBN10: 0333720474
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-03-02
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Author Biography

Liz Fawcett is a Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Ulster

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. x
List of Abbreviations	p. xi
Foreword	p. xii
Acknowledgements	p. xvi
Introduction	p. 1
Religion and Ethnicity	p. 3
Religion and the Mobilisation of Ethnic Sentiment	p. 7
Civil Religion	p. 9
Religion in the Cultural Mainstream	p. 10
Under Siege: A Brief History of Afrikaners and Ulster Presbyterians	p. 15
Race and Religion as Ethnic Markers	p. 16
The Afrikaner Experience	p. 20
The Ulster Presbyterian Experience	p. 30
Afrikaners and Ulster Presbyterians: The Parallels	p. 39
Conclusion	p. 45
Setting the Scene: Afrikaners and Ulster Presbyterians in the Early 1990s	p. 47
South Africa	p. 47
Northern Ireland	p. 52
The Significance of the Church in the Fieldwork Congregations	p. 55
Conclusion	p. 57
Fear, Insecurity and Alienation	p. 59
Uncertainty, Insecurity and Threat	p. 61
Alienation	p. 64
'They're Taking our Jobs'	p. 69
Collective Identity	p. 74
Conclusion	p. 80
Civil Religion: Symbolic Resources and Social Change	p. 81
Afrikaner Nationalism Redefined	p. 81
The Orange Order	p. 88
Civil Religion and Politics: Drumcree	p. 95
Conclusion	p. 100
The Church as Volkskerk: A Church of 'The People' or a Church for All?	p. 103
The PCI and the Orange Order	p. 103
The DRC and Civil Religion	p. 111
Speaking Out	p. 114
Conclusion	p. 121
Church and Politics: The Interrelationship between the Religious and Political Spheres	p. 123
The Mainstream Role of the PCI and the DRC	p. 123
Discourses of Change versus Discourses of Continuity	p. 126
Communication Between Hierarchy and Laity	p. 129
Clergy and Politics	p. 131
The Discourse of Separation between Church and Politics	p. 135
Conclusion	p. 139
The Church as 'Conciliator': The Difficult Task of Bridge-Building	p. 142
Reaching Out	p. 145
'Mission' Efforts and the Discourse of Colonialism	p. 147
Worship as a 'Boundary Marker'	p. 150
Joining Together	p. 153
The Role of the Minister	p. 158
Evangelicalism and Cross-Community Projects	p. 161
Intergroup Initiatives and Apathy	p. 164
Conclusion	p. 165
Different Worlds: Rural-Urban and Social Class Divisions	p. 167
Boundary-Making in the Rural Congregations	p. 168
Accommodating to the Mainstream	p. 174
The Working-Class Congregations	p. 176
Conclusion	p. 178
Conclusion	p. 180
Civil Religion	p. 181
Identity and Discourse	p. 183
The Church as Part of the Mainstream	p. 185
Broader Implications	p. 187
Notes and References	p. 190
Select Bibliography	p. 207
Index	p. 210
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