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Anti-Catholicism in Northern Ireland, 1600-1998 : The Mote and the Beam
AntiCatholicism in Northern Ireland 16001998 The Mote and the Beam Author:John D. Brewer, Gareth I. Higgins Anti-Catholicism forms part of the dynamics to Northern Ireland's conflict and is critical to the self-defining identity of certain Protestants. However, anti-Catholicism is as much a sociological process as a theological dispute. It was given a Scriptural underpinning in the history of Protestant-Catholic relations in Ireland, and wider British... more »-Irish relations, in order to reinforce social divisions between the religious communities and to offer a deterministic belief system to justify them. This book examines the socio-economic and political processes that have led to theology being used in social closure and stratification between the seventeenth century and the present day.« less