Anti-Catholicism in Northern Ireland, 1600–1998: The Mote and the Beam

Type

Book

Authors

J. Brewer

G. Higgins

ISBN 10

033374635X

ISBN 13

9780333746356

Tags

Catholicism, Church History, Anglican, History, England, Christianity, Politics, Religion, Science, Religion & Spirituality, Discrimination & Racism, Europe, Social Sciences

Description

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 sociology 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. The 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. - from Amzon

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