Long conflict and how it ends: Protestants and Catholics in Europe and Ireland

Ruane, Joseph

doi:10.1080/07907184.2021.1877900

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“…1 A full discussion of Northern Ireland's conflict, including links between religion, identity, and politics, is beyond the scope of this article. While this literature is vast, Ruane and Todd (1996), Mitchell (2006), Elliott (2009), Brewer et al (2011), Ruane (2021), and Altglas (2022) provide useful starting points.…”

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Highly religious young Catholics in Northern Ireland: Renewing the Catholic landscape?

Ganiel

2022

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This article explores findings from a 2022 survey of students associated with the Catholic Chaplaincy at Queen's University, Belfast. It is the first study to investigate the beliefs, practices, and experiences of highly religious young Catholics in Northern Ireland. It presents survey findings on beliefs, practices, and influences on faith; dynamics of increased religiosity; and views on Church teachings on same sex relationships, euthanasia, sexual relationships, and abortion. Women are more likely to disagree with Church teachings on these issues than men. The survey confirms the importance of family socialization but finds that a substantial minority experience religious change at university. Respondents prioritize renewal but disagree on how to prompt it: some advocate greater 'openness' to women, LGBTQ+, and others perceived as marginalized; and others feel 'evangelization' should be emphasized. 'Post-secular Catholicism' is used as a foundation for reflections on religious persistence among Northern Ireland's young Catholics, raising questions about their potential role in renewing Ireland's Catholic landscape in light of the synodal process underway in the Church.

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“…While this literature is vast, Ruane and Todd (1996), Mitchell (2006), Elliott (2009), Brewer et al. (2011), Ruane (2021), and Altglas (2022) provide useful starting points.…”

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Highly religious young Catholics in Northern Ireland: Renewing the Catholic landscape?

Ganiel

2022

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“…Protestant churches maintained close relationships with political power (Mitchel 2003). Northern Ireland's violent Troubles , often described as an ethno-national conflict, had religious dimensions (Mitchell 2005;Ruane 2021). At the same time, the churches remained organized on an all-island basis, rather than the denominations in Northern Ireland aligning themselves with British ones.…”

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Online Opportunities in Secularizing Societies? Clergy and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ireland

Ganiel

2021

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This article explores how Christian clergy in Ireland have framed their adoption of online ministries during the COVID-19 pandemic as opportunities for the churches to retain some significance, even in secularizing societies. It is based on an island-wide survey of 439 faith leaders and 32 in-depth, follow-up interviews. The results of this study are analysed in light of scholarship in three areas: (1) secularization in Ireland, informed by Norris and Inglehart’s evolutionary modernization theory; (2) cross-national research that has found increasing interest in spirituality or religion during the pandemic (with the UK as the main point of comparison); and (3) wider pre-pandemic scholarship on digital religion. The article concludes by arguing that the clergy’s framing of online ministries as opportunities is important: if they regard online ministries as potential sites of religious revitalization, they are more likely to invest in them. There is some evidence that they may be assisted in this by lay volunteers. However, given the secularization already underway, it remains to be seen whether an embrace of blended online and in-person religion will have far-reaching impacts on Ireland’s religious landscape.

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Does identity change matter? Everyday agency, moral authority and generational cascades in the transformation of groupness after conflict

Todd

2024

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Everyday identity change is common after conflict, as people attempt to move away from oppositional group relations and closed group boundaries. This article asks how it scales up and out to impact these group relations and boundaries, and what stops this? Theoretically, the article focusses on complex oppositional configurations of groupness, where relationality and feedback mechanisms (rather than more easily measured variables) are crucial to change and continuity, and in which moral authority is a key node of reproduction. It uses the normatively weighted concept of transformation to augment existing research on boundary and identity change, while elaborating it to recognise the role of everyday agency in furthering change and moral inertia in impeding it. Substantively, the article compares the processes of everyday transformation of groupness in three cases that are very similar in historical depth, social embeddedness, symbolic opposition and everyday change, but very different in time-scale and with contrasting outcomes: successful transformation of reformation religious groupness; partial transformation of national groupness; and failed transformation of complexly-configured ethnic groupness in Northern Ireland. This allows tracing of the patterns and mechanisms at work. To anticipate, the article argues that everyday identity change can erode the moral authority of groupness. Its impact is generational and dependent on institutional linkages. The article highlights the importance of moral mechanisms as drivers of and obstacles to change; and it suggests ways that the obstacles could be overcome by radical policy interventions.

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Long conflict and how it ends: Protestants and Catholics in Europe and Ireland

Cited by 3 publications

References 73 publications

Highly religious young Catholics in Northern Ireland: Renewing the Catholic landscape?

Highly religious young Catholics in Northern Ireland: Renewing the Catholic landscape?

Online Opportunities in Secularizing Societies? Clergy and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ireland

Does identity change matter? Everyday agency, moral authority and generational cascades in the transformation of groupness after conflict

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