Tracing the cultural legacy of Irish Catholicism : from Galway to Cloyne and beyond
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Tracing the cultural legacy of Irish Catholicism : from Galway to Cloyne and beyond
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Eamon Maher, Eugene O'Brien.
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Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
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9781526117199
9781526117205
9781526124197
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This book of essays will appeal to anyone interested in the dismantling of Ireland's cultural attachment to Catholicism over the past four decades.
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UAS/JPL: EBSCO Academic Subscription.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
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In English.
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