Overview
- Critically examines how the social sciences have interpreted religion’s significance in Northern Ireland
- Considers the impact of the political context in which sociologists of religion have had to work
- Draws on French and English academic works which are rarely considered together in this space
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Northern Ireland presents a fundamental challenge for the sociology of religion – how do religious beliefs, attitudes and identities relate to practices, violence and conflict? In other words, what does religion do?
These interrogations are at the core of this book. It is the first critical and comprehensive review of the ways in which the social sciences have interpreted religion’s significance in Northern Ireland. In particular, it examines the shortcomings of existing interpretations and, in turn, suggests alternative lines of thinking for more robust and compelling analyses of the role(s) religion might play in Northern Irish culture and politics.
Through, and beyond, the case of Northern Ireland, the second objective of this book is to outline a critical agenda for the social study of religion, which has theoretical and methodological underpinnings. Finally, this work engages with epistemological issues which never have been addressed as such in the Northern Irishcontext: how do conflict settings affect the research undertaken on religion, when religion is an object of political and violent contentions? By analysing the scope for objective and critical thinking in such research context, this critical essay intends to contribute to a sociology of the sociology of religion.Authors and Affiliations
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Book Title: Religion and Conflict in Northern Ireland
Book Subtitle: What Does Religion Do?
Authors: Véronique Altglas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96950-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-96949-3Published: 12 April 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-96950-9Published: 11 April 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 138
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Crime and Society, Sociology of Religion, Political Sociology, Politics and Religion, International Relations, Philosophy of Religion