Popular Catholicism in 20th-Century Ireland - Locality, Identity and Culture

For much of the 20th century, Catholics in Ireland spent significant amounts of time engaged in religious activities. This book documents their experience in Limerick city between the 1920s and 1960s, exploring the connections between that experience and the wider culture of an expanding and modernising urban environment. Sile de Cleir discusses topics including ritual activities in many contexts: the church, the home, the school, the neighbourhood and the workplace. The supernatural belief underpinning these activities is also important, along with creative forms of resistance to the high levels of social control exercised by the clergy in this environment. De Cleir uses a combination of in-depth interviews and historical ethnographic sources to reconstruct the day-to-day religious experience of Limerick city people during the period studied. This material is enriched by ideas drawn from anthropological studies of religion, while perspectives from both history and ethnology also help to contextualise the discussion.With its unique focus on everyday experience, and combination of a traditional worldview with the modernising city of Limerick - all set against the backdrop of a newly-independent Ireland - P lar Catholicism in 20th-century Ireland presents a fascinating new perspective on 20th-century Irish social and religious history.>

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• Authors: Sile De Cleir, Sile De (University of Limerick Ireland) Cleir, Saile de Claeir, Sile De Cleir, Síle de Cleir, Sile (University of Limerick De Cleir, Síle de Cléir
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781350020597
• ISBN: 978-1-350-02059-7
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; European History, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Ireland, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Social and cultural history, c 1950 to c 1959, General and world history, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, c 1960 to c 1969, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), History and Archaeology, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General