Unholy Catholic Ireland : Religious Hypocrisy, Secular Morality, and Irish Irreligion

Hugh Turpin

ISBN 10: 1503613151 / ISBN 13: 9781503613157

Edité par Stanford University Press Sep 2022, 2022

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Neuware - 'There have been few instances of a contemporary Western European society more firmly welded to religion than Ireland is to Catholicism. For much of the twentieth century, to be considered a good citizen of the Republic was to be seen as a good and observant Catholic. Today, the opposite may increasingly be the case. The Irish Catholic Church, once a spiritual institution beyond question, is not only losing influence and relevance; in the eyes of many, it has become something utterly desacralized. In this book, Hugh Turpin offers an innovative and in-depth account of the nature and emergence of 'ex-Catholicism' - a new model of the good, and secular, Irish person that is being rapidly adopted in Irish society. Using rich quantitative and qualitative research methods, Turpin explains the emergence and character of religious rejection in the Republic of Ireland. He examines how numerous factors, including economic growth, social liberalization, attenuated domestic religious socialization, the institutional scandals and moral collapse of the Church, and the Church's lingering influence in social institutions and laws have interacted to produce a rapid growth in ex-Catholicism. By tracing the frictions within and between practicing Catholics, cultural Catholics, and ex-Catholics in a period of profound cultural change and moral reckoning, Turpin shows how deeply the meanings of being religious or non-religious have changed in the country once described as 'Holy Catholic Ireland.''--.

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• Titre: Unholy Catholic Ireland : Religious Hypocrisy, Secular Morality, and Irish Irreligion
• Éditeur: Stanford University Press Sep 2022
• Date de parution: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1503613151
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781503613157
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 231 L x 155 H x 25 P (en millimètres) 231 millimètres de largeur par 155 millimètres de hauteur par 25 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 658 grammes

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Synopsis

There are few instances of a contemporary Western European society more firmly welded to religion than Ireland is to Catholicism. For much of the twentieth century, to be considered a good Irish citizen was to be seen as a good and observant Catholic. Today, the opposite may increasingly be the case. The Irish Catholic Church, once a spiritual institution beyond question, is not only losing influence and relevance; in the eyes of many, it has become something utterly desacralized. In this book, Hugh Turpin offers an innovative and in-depth account of the nature and emergence of "ex-Catholicism"-a new model of the good, and secular, Irish person that is being rapidly adopted in Irish society.

Using rich quantitative and qualitative research methods, Turpin explains the emergence and character of religious rejection in the Republic. He examines how numerous factors-including economic growth, social liberalization, attenuated domestic religious socialization, the institutional scandals and moral collapse of the Church, and the Church's lingering influence in social institutions and laws-have interacted to produce a rapid growth in ex-Catholicism. By tracing the frictions within and between practicing Catholics, cultural Catholics, and ex-Catholics in a period of profound cultural change and moral reckoning, Turpin shows how deeply the meanings of being religious or non-religious have changed in the country once described as "Holy Catholic Ireland."

À propos de l?auteur

Hugh Turpin is Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for the Study of Social Cohesion at the University of Oxford's School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography.