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  3. The Origins of Sectarianism in Early Modern Ireland
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      24 November 2009
      08 December 2005
      ISBN:
      9780511584282
      9780521837552
      9781107407787
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511584282
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.56kg, 260 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.35kg, 260 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Religion, Church History
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    Ireland is riven by sectarian hatred. This simple assumption provides a powerful explanation for the bitterness and violence which has so dominated Irish history. Most notably, the troubles in Northern Ireland have provided fertile ground for scholars from all disciplines to argue about and explore ways in which religious division fueled the descent into hostility and disorder. In much of this literature, however, sectarianism is seen as, somehow, a 'given' in Irish history, an inevitable product of the clash of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, something which sprang fully formed into existence in the sixteenth century. In this book leading historians provide a detailed analysis of the ways in which rival confessions were developed in early modern Ireland, the extent to which the Irish people were indeed divided into two religious camps by the mid-seventeenth century, and also their surprising ability to transcend such stark divisions.

    Reviews

    Review of the hardback:'This is a most welcome collection that adds new and refreshing insights into the complex and many-layered history of Ireland in this period.'

    Source: Contemporary Review

    Review of the hardback:'Unexpected but illuminating comparisons are made with, for example, Transylvania and the Balkans … Welcome, too, is the use of European intellectual currents - Weber and Durkheim - to comprehend Irish experiences … ideas of sectarianism and confessionalisation originated among scholars seeking to make better sense of what happened in Germany … same forces animating and sometimes dividing the post-Tridentine Church agitated Ireland … the collection, mining rich materials, offers much to ponder.'

    Source: Journal of Ecclesiastical History

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