Gladys Ganiel is Professor in the Sociology of Religion at Queen's University Belfast and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. Her specialisms include religion on the island of Ireland, religion and conflict in Northern Ireland, evangelicalism, and the emerging church. Her books include Evangelicalism and Conflict in Northern Ireland (Palgrave 2008), Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland: Religious Practice in Late Modernity (OUP 2016), and The Deconstructed Church: Understanding Emerging Christianity (OUP 2014), co-authored with Gerardo Marti (winner of the 2015 Distinguished Book Award of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion).
Andrew R. Holmes is Reader in History and Chair of the Religious Studies Research Forum at Queen's University Belfast. He has published extensively on the history of Protestantism and evangelicalism, including The Shaping of Ulster Presbyterian Belief and Practice, 1770-1840 (OUP 2006) and The Irish Presbyterian Mind: Conservative Theology, Evangelical Experience, and Modern Criticism, 1830-1930 (OUP 2018).

• Acknowledgements


• List of Tables


• List of Contributors


• Introduction: Religion in Modern Ireland


• Part One: Religion, Politics, and Society, 1800-1922


• 1: S.J. Connolly: Beyond Teleology: Religious and Political Identities Before the Irish Revolution


• 2: Stewart J. Brown: Churches, the State, and Politics, 1800-1922: An Overview


• 3: Sarah Roddy: Catholic Ireland and the Devotional Revolution


• 4: John Wolffe: Protestant Ireland--Variety and Vitality, 1800-1914


• 5: Andrew Sneddon: The Supernatural, Magic, and Religion


• 6: Juliana Adelman and Stuart Mathieson: Science and Religion Before and After Darwin


• 7: Norman Vance: Literature and Religion, 1798-1923


• 8: Myrtle Hill: Religion, Gender, and Sexuality in Ireland 1800-1922


• Part Two: Religion, Politics, and Society, 1922-1968


• 9: Daithí Ó Corráin: The Catholic Church and the Irish State, 1916-1973


• 10: Graham Walker: Northern Ireland: A Protestant State?


• 11: Louise Fuller: Irish Catholic Culture Before and After Vatican II


• 12: Marianne Elliott: Catholics in Northern Ireland, 1921-1969


• 13: Ian d'Alton: Changing Protestant Identity in southern Ireland, 1922-1970s


• 14: Andrew R. Holmes: Protestant Religion in Northern Ireland to 1980


• 15: Patricia Kieran: Religion and Education in southern Ireland


• 16: L. Philip Barnes: Religion and Education in Northern Ireland


• 17: Lindsey Earner-Byrne: Religion, Gender, and Sexuality, 1922-1968


• 18: Robert J. Savage: Religion and Broadcasting the Two Irelands


• Part Three: Religion, Politics, and Society, 1968-present


• 19: Gladys Ganiel: Ireland After Secularisation


• 20: Malcolm P. A. Macourt: Religious Demography, Identification, and Practice: Change over Time


• 21: Tom Inglis: Being Catholic in Ireland


• 22: James Gallen: The Abuse Crises in the Irish Christian Churches


• 23: Christopher McCrudden, Oran Doyle, and David Kenny: Religion and Law in Ireland and Northern Ireland Since 1968


• 24: Duncan Morrow and Gladys Ganiel: Sectarianism and Conflict


• 25: Patrick Mitchel: The Religion and Politics of Paisleyism


• 26: Margaret M. Scull: Catholic Responses to Violence in Northern Ireland


• 27: Maria Power: Christian Realism and Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland


• 28: Peter Mulholland and Carles Salazar: New Religious Movements


• 29: Jenny Butler: Paganism


• 30: Vladimir Kmec: Minority Religions and Immigration in Ireland


• 31: Guy Beiner: Religion and Memory in Modern Ireland


• 32: Hugh Turpin: The Rise of 'No Religion'


• Index

This volume offers a range of sociological, political, and historical perspectives on religion in Ireland from 1800 to the present. Going beyond the usual Catholicism-Protestantism dichotomy and adopting an all-island approach, the book's contributors address religion's interaction with several contemporary themes and debates in modern Ireland.