Religion and Sectarianism in Ulster
Interpreting the Northern Ireland Troubles
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4299437 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laurence Elliott (University of Northampton, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 93-101 |
| Publication date | 2013-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religion Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-8171 • E-ISSN: 1749-8171 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/rec3.12025 |
| OpenAlex | W1534207850 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 8 |
The following article considers the various arguments and counter-arguments around the role of religion in causing and sustaining the conflict in Northern Ireland. It identifies the essential elements of the problem and assesses a number of the explanations given, emphasising the difficulty of providing a single answer to such a complex question. The correlation between religion and the divisions in Northern Ireland seems at first sight obvious, but, as a number of commentators have rightly observed, pinning down the relationship between someone's religion and their attitudes is much more problematic. This essay therefore avoids the reductionism and 'either/or' formulations of so many scholars on both sides of the debate, instead emphasising that religion is ultimately one of a number of dimensions to Northern Irish identity, the politics of which sustains the social divisions and was the source of the political violence that ravaged the region
Epistemology · Ethnology · Irish · Northern ireland · Political science · Politics · Reductionism · Sectarianism · Sociology · Gender Studies · Irish and British Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religious Tourism and Spaces · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |