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Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland

By Gladys Ganiel

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Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland

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Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland is the first major book to explore the dynamic religious landscape of contemporary Ireland, north and south, and to analyze the island's religious transition. It confirms that the Catholic Church's long-standing monopoly has well and truly disintegrated, replaced by a mixed, post-Catholic religious market featuring new and growing expressions of Protestantism, as well as other religions. It describes how people of faith are developing extra-institutional expressions of religion, keeping their faith alive outside or in addition to the institutional Catholic Church. Drawing on island-wide surveys of clergy and laypeople, as well as more than 100 interviews, Gladys Ganiel describes how people of faith are engaging with key issues such as increased diversity, reconciliation to overcome the island's sectarian past, and ecumenism. Ganiel argues that extra-institutional religion is especially well-suited to address these and other issues due to its freedom and flexibility when compared to traditional religious institutions. She explains how those who practice extra-institutional religion have experienced personal transformation, and analyses the extent that they have contributed to wider religious, social, and political change. On an island where religion has caused much pain, from clerical sexual abuse scandals, to sectarian violence, to a frosty reception for some immigrants, those who practice their faith outside traditional religious institutions may hold the key to transforming post-Catholic Ireland into a more reconciled society.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
288
Release Date:
2016-04-25
Publication Date:
2016-04-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press(UK)
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0198745788
ISBN13:
9780198745785
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[email protected]
Weight:
599 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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