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Leading Irish historians examine the origins of sectarian division in early modern Ireland.
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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…mehr

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Leading Irish historians examine the origins of sectarian division in early modern Ireland.

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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 the first 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.

Table of contents:
Introduction: living together, living apart: the problem of sectarianism in early modern Ireland Alan Ford; 1. Confessionalization in Ireland: periodisation and character Ute Lotz-Heumann; 2. Sectarianism: division and dissent in Irish Catholicism Brian Jackson; 3. Popular religion and Irish sectarianism Micheál MacCraith; 4. The Irish historical renaissance and the shaping of Protestant history Alan Ford; 5. Religion, culture and the bardic elite in early modern Ireland Marc Caball; 6. Purity of blood and purity of faith in early modern Ireland Declan Downey; 7. 'In memory of blessed St Charles': Irish Episcopal activity at the edge of Europe Tadhg O hAnnracháin; 8. Protestant prelates or godly pastors(?)33; The dilemma of the early Stuart episcopate John McCafferty; Conclusion John Morrill.
Autorenporträt
Alan Ford is Professor of Theology at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of The Protestant Reformation (1997) and editor, with James Maguire and Kenneth Milne, of As by Law Established: The Church of Ireland since the Reformation (1995).