Tracing the Cultural Legacy of Irish Catholicism - From Galway to Cloyne and Beyond

Informationen zum Autor Eamon Maher is Director of the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies at the Institute of Technology, Tallaght, where he also lectures in Humanities Eugene O’Brien is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of English Language and Literature at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick Klappentext This book of essays will appeal to anyone interested in the dismantling of Ireland's cultural attachment to Catholicism over the past four decades. Zusammenfassung This book of essays will appeal to anyone interested in the dismantling of Ireland’s cultural attachment to Catholicism over the past four decades. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - Eamon Maher and Eugene O'BrienPart I: Tracing change and setting the context1. 'The times they are a changin'': Tracing the transformation of Irish Catholicism through the eyes of a journalist - Patsy McGarry2. Revisiting the faith of our fathers ... and reimagining its relevance in the context of twenty-first-century Ireland - Louise Fuller3. Dethroning Irish Catholicism: Church, State and modernity in contemporary Ireland - David Carroll Cochran4. Refracted visions: Street photography, humanism and the loss of innocence - Justin Carville5. Contemporary Irish Catholicism: A time of hope! - Vincent TwomeyPart II: Going against the tide6. The poetry of accumulation: Irish-American fables of resistance - Eamonn Wall7. Prophetic voices or complicit functionaries? Irish priests and the unravelling of a culture - Eamon Maher8. Tony Flannery: A witness in an age of witnesses - Catherine Maignant9. 'Belief shifts': Ireland's referendum and the journey from Gemeinschaft to Gesellschaft - Eugene O'BrienPart III: Challenges in the here and now10. Faith, hope and clarity? A new church for the unhoused - Michael Cronin11. The people in the pews: Silent and betrayed - Patricia Casey12. Irreconcilable differences? The fraught relationship between women and the Catholic Church in Ireland - Sharon Tighe-Mooney13. The Catholic twilight - Joe ClearyIndex...

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• Authors: &apos, Eugene brien, Eamon Maher, Eamon O&apos Maher, Eamon O''brien Maher, Maher Eamon, Eugene O'Brien
• Assisted by: Eamon Maher (Editor), Eugene O'Brien (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.03.2017
• EAN: 9781526101068
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-0106-8
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic, European History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, RELIGION / Christian Church / History, HISTORY / Europe / Ireland, Ireland, History of Religion, British & Irish history, Christian Churches, denominations, groups, Social and cultural history, Christian life and practice, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, Religious life and practice, Religious groups: social & cultural aspects, RELIGION / Christian Living / Social Issues, Religious social and pastoral thought and activity, Religious life & practice, Social groups: religious groups and communities