Love's Betrayal: The Decline of Catholicism and Rise of New Religions in Ireland

ISBN-13: 9781787071278 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 362 str.

Peter Mulholland

Opis

This book provides a detailed analysis of the decline of Catholicism and the almost simultaneous surge of new religious movements in Ireland during the second half of the twentieth century. It argues that the Church's authoritarian regime was fostering interest in alternative spiritualities for decades before the abuse scandals of the 1990s.

Spis treści

CONTENTS: The Winds of Change - Man Turned God - The Civilising Mission - The Civilising Offensive - Beating the Devil - The Birthpangs of a New Civilisation - The Brink of Apocalypse -Attachment and Atonement - Conclusions: Psyche and Circumstances.

O autorze

Peter Mulholland holds a PhD in social and cultural anthropology from Maynooth University. He has published papers on Marian apparitions in the Republic and sectarian parades in his hometown of Portadown, in Northern Ireland. He initiated the first multidisciplinary academic conference on new religious movements in Ireland and co-edited the essay collection Ireland's New Religious Movements (2011).