Irish Religious Conflict in Comparative Perspective

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction: Analysing Religious Conflict

   1. Introduction: Analysing Religious Conflict

      • John Wolffe

      Pages 1-19

3. Ireland

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. ‘A Solid and United Phalanx’? Protestant Churches and the Ulster Covenant, 1912–2012

      • Nicola Morris, David Tombs

      Pages 23-41

   3. Social Structure and Religious Division: Comparing the Form of Religious Distinction in the Two Irish States

      • Jennifer Todd

      Pages 42-58

   4. Can Churches Contribute to Post-Violence Reconciliation and Reconstruction? Insights and Applications from Northern Ireland

      • Gladys Ganiel

      Pages 59-75

   5. ‘Alternative Ulster’: Punk Rock as a Means of Overcoming the Religious Divide in Northern Ireland

      • Francis Stewart

      Pages 76-90

4. European Comparisons

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91

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   2. The Case against Northern Ireland Exceptionalism: the ‘Academy’, Religion and Politics

      • Brian M. Walker

      Pages 93-106

   3. Churches and Communal Violence in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: a Comparison of Ireland and Scotland

      • Stewart J. Brown

      Pages 107-128

   4. Protestant-Catholic Conflict and Nationalism in German and Irish Historical Narratives

      • Shane Nagle

      Pages 129-145

   5. Comparing Protestant-Catholic Conflict in France and Ireland: the Significance of the Ethnic and Colonial Dimension

      • Joseph Ruane

      Pages 146-166

5. Anti-Catholicism, Muslims and Islamophobia

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167

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   2. The Multiculturalism Backlash and the Mainstreaming of Islamophobia Post-9/11

      • Humayun Ansari

      Pages 169-190

   3. Muslims in Britain: Researching and Addressing Conflict in a Post-Secular City

      • Philip Lewis

      Pages 191-205

   4. Religion, De-traditionalization and Backlashes against Multiculturalism in Northern Europe: a Comparison of Dutch, Northern Irish and English Cases (2001–11)

      • David Herbert

      Pages 206-225

   5. New Variation, Old Theme: Parallels between Islamophobia and Anti-Catholicism in the United States

      • Katy Scrogin

      Pages 226-241

   6. Conclusion: Overcoming ‘Religious’ Conflict: History and Practice

      • John Wolffe

      Pages 242-260

6. Back Matter

   Pages 261-280

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By setting the Irish religious conflict in a wide comparative perspective, this book offers fresh insights into the causes of religious conflicts, and potential means of resolving them. The collection mounts a challenge to views of 'Irish exceptionalism' and points to significant historical and contemporary commonalities across the Western world.

• Comparative Religions
• Conflict Studies
• Religious history
• Irish history
• Catholics
• Islam
• protestants
• religion
• religion and politics
• Scotland

• The Open University, UK

  John Wolffe

Humayun Ansari, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Stewart J. Brown, University of Edinburgh, UK Gladys Ganiel, Trinity College Dublin at Belfast, UK David Herbert, University of Agder, Norway Philip Lewis, Bradford University, UK Nicola Morris, University of Chester, UK Shane Nagle, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Joseph Ruane, University College Dublin, Ireland Katy Scrogin, independent scholar, UK Francis Stewart, University of Stirling, UK Jennifer Todd, University College Dublin, Ireland David Tombs, Trinity College Dublin at Belfast, UK Brian Walker, Queen's University Belfast, UK

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