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

By John D. Brewer and Gareth I. Higgins

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333746341
• ISBN13: 9780333746349
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"