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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). |
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Series |
Manchester Religious Studies
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Contents |
Introduction -- Eamon Maher and Eugene O'Brien Part I: Tracing change and setting the context 1. 'The times they are a changin'': Tracing the transformation of Irish Catholicism through the eyes of a journalist -- Patsy McGarry 2. Revisiting the faith of our fathers ... and reimagining its relevance in the context of twenty-first-century Ireland -- Louise Fuller 3. Dethroning Irish Catholicism: Church, State and modernity in contemporary Ireland -- David Carroll Cochran 4. Refracted visions: Street photography, humanism and the loss of innocence -- Justin Carville 5. Contemporary Irish Catholicism: A time of hope! -- Vincent Twomey Part II: Going against the tide 6. The poetry of accumulation: Irish-American fables of resistance -- Eamonn Wall 7. Prophetic voices or complicit functionaries? Irish priests and the unravelling of a culture -- Eamon Maher 8. Tony Flannery: A witness in an age of witnesses -- Catherine Maignant 9. 'Belief shifts': Ireland's referendum and the journey from Gemeinschaft to Gesellschaft -- Eugene O'Brien Part III: Challenges in the here and now 10. Faith, hope and clarity? A new church for the unhoused -- Michael Cronin 11. The people in the pews: Silent and betrayed -- Patricia Casey 12. Irreconcilable differences? The fraught relationship between women and the Catholic Church in Ireland -- Sharon Tighe-Mooney 13. The Catholic twilight -- Joe Cleary Index. |
Summary |
This book of essays will appeal to anyone interested in the dismantling of Ireland's cultural attachment to Catholicism over the past four decades. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Language |
In English. |
Subject |
Catholic Church.
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Catholic Church. |
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Religion and sociology -- Ireland.
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Religion and sociology. |
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Ireland. |
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Ireland -- Religious life and customs.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
O'Brien, Eugene, 1958- author.
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Other Form: |
Print version: 9781526101068 |
ISBN |
9781526117205 (electronic book) |
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1526117207 (electronic book) |
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9781526117199 (electronic book) |
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1526117193 (electronic book) |
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9781526124197 |
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152612419X |
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9781526101068 (hardback) |
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1526101068 |
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9781526129635 (paperback) |
Standard No. |
10.7765/9781526117199 |
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