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Religion and Conflict in Northern Ireland - What Does Religion Do? (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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Religion and Conflict in Northern Ireland - What Does Religion Do? (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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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 Irish context: 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.
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