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Unholy Catholic Ireland - Religious Hypocrisy, Secular Morality, and Irish Irreligion (Paperback)
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Unholy Catholic Ireland - Religious Hypocrisy, Secular Morality, and Irish Irreligion (Paperback)
Series: Spiritual Phenomena
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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."
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