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The push and pull between religion and ethnicity: the case of the Loyalists in Northern Ireland
In: Ethnopolitics, Band 9, Heft 1, S. 53-69
This study uses the case of a largely religiously non-practising group, working class loyalists in Northern Ireland, to explore the relationship between religion and ethnicity in divided societies. It finds that loyalists often turn to religion habitually in times of insecurity to provide justification for conflict. But religion does not just prop up deeper ethnic identities. Religion has meaning and content itself that is sometimes in tension with oppositional ethnic identies and, in some cases, can transform them totally. This produces a complex set of relationships in which religion and ethnicity push and pull against one another in the lives of individuals, neither dominating fully over the other. (Ethnopolitics)
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The Push and Pull between Religion and Ethnicity: The Case of Loyalists in Northern Ireland
In: Ethnopolitics, Band 9, Heft 1, S. 53-69
ISSN: 1744-9065
The Limits of Legitimacy: Former Loyalist Combatants and Peace‐Building in Northern Ireland
In: Irish political studies: yearbook of the Political Studies Association of Ireland, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 1-19
ISSN: 1743-9078
The Religious Content of Ethnic Identities
In: Sociology: the journal of the British Sociological Association, Band 40, Heft 6, S. 1135-1152
ISSN: 1469-8684
The religious dimensions of ethnic identities have been under-theorized. In contemporary industrial societies there is a tendency to characterize religiously demarcated groups as 'really' ethnic.This article suggests that the religious content of ethnic boundaries may be more important than might initially be assumed. A religious identification may have specific religious content and assumptions that may cause it to operate in different ways from other identities. Even if identities do not seem primarily religious per se, they may have latent religious dimensions that can become reactivated. Whilst identity conflicts and other social struggles may stimulate the return of the religious, once reactivated, the religious dimensions of identity may take on a logic of their own.Therefore, the article argues that in many contexts there is a two-way relationship between religion and ethnicity. Each can stimulate the other, rather than religion simply playing a supporting role to the ethnic centrepiece.
Behind the Ethnic Marker: Religion and Social Identification in Northern Ireland
In: Sociology of religion, Band 66, Heft 1, S. 3
ISSN: 1759-8818
Is Northern Ireland Abnormal?: An Extension of the Sociological Debate on Religion in Modern Britain
In: Sociology: the journal of the British Sociological Association, Band 38, Heft 2, S. 237-254
ISSN: 1469-8684
This article places Northern Ireland within the unfolding sociological debate on religion in modern Britain. It measures secularization along Casanova's three dimensions (1994): religious differentiation, decline and privatization. It finds that Northern Ireland has, in common with Britain, high levels of religious differentiation, grey areas of religious belief and little convinced secularism. However, Northern Ireland differs in that it has higher levels of religious affiliation and practice, and religion plays more roles in civil society than it does in other parts of Britain. The article explores the role of conflict in forming these religious trends, asking if they represent a persistence of the sacred, or simply mask deeper ethnic divisions. It concludes that the social dimensions of religion are just as important as the supernatural, and that they often inform each other. Finally, it suggests that the dynamics of religious change are comparable across regions and, as such, Northern Ireland might be a useful case study for British policy makers, particularly as it becomes increasingly multicultural and religiously plural.
From victims to equals? Catholic responses to political change in Northern Ireland
In: Irish political studies: yearbook of the Political Studies Association of Ireland, Band 18, Heft 1, S. 51-71
ISSN: 1743-9078
Everyday evangelicals: life in a religious subculture after the Agreement
In: Everyday Life After the Irish Conflict, S. 68-82
Between the devil and the deep blue sea: nationality, power and symbolic trade‐offs among evangelical Protestants in contemporary Northern Ireland1
In: Nations and nationalism: journal of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, Band 13, Heft 4, S. 637-655
ISSN: 1469-8129
ABSTRACT. National identity is a symbolically complex configuration, with shifts of emphasis and reprioritisations of content negotiated in contexts of power. This paper shows how they occur in one post‐conflict situation – Northern Ireland – among some of the most extreme of national actors – evangelical Protestants. In‐depth interviews reveal quite radical shifts in the content of their British identity and in their understanding of and relation to the Irish state, with implications for their future politics. The implications for understanding ethno‐religious nationalism, nationality shifts and the future of Northern Ireland are drawn out.
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Nationality, Power and Symbolic Trade-Offs Among Evangelical Protestants in Contemporary Northern Ireland
In: Nations and Nationalism, Band 13, Heft 4
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Between the devil and the deep blue sea: nationality, power and symbolic trade-offs among evangelical Protestants in contemporary Northern Ireland
In: Nations and nationalism: journal of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, Band 13, Heft 4, S. 637-656
ISSN: 1354-5078
Discourses of equality in post-Agreement Northern Ireland
In: Contemporary politics, Band 9, Heft 3, S. 293-312
ISSN: 1469-3631
The Moral Minority: Evangelical Protestants in Northern Ireland and Their Political Behaviour
In: Political studies: the journal of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, Band 52, Heft 3, S. 585-602
ISSN: 1467-9248
It has long been asserted that strong evangelical religious beliefs underpin strong unionist and loyalist political attitudes in Northern Ireland. Although recent literature has argued for a wide diversity of political attitudes amongst evangelicals, this has not been quantified. Based on analysis of the 1991 Northern Irish Social Attitudes Survey and the 1998 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, this article argues that evangelicals are attitudinally different to other Protestants in Northern Ireland. However, their distinctiveness arises from their conservative moral attitudes and not, as widely claimed, from stronger unionist political values. Indeed, in terms of party identification, in 1991 evangelicals were less likely than other Protestants to support the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). And although there has been a small shift towards the DUP over the course of the 1990s, it is not due to any strengthening of the unionism of evangelicals, but rather the increasing importance of moral conservatism in predicting voters' party choice in Northern Ireland.