Research Catalog

Title

Durkheim and national identity in Ireland : applying the sociology of knowledge and religion / James Dingley.

Author

Dingley, James,

Publication

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

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Description

211 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Durkheim and National Identity in Ireland uses the classical sociology of Durkheim, in association with established theories of nation formation, to explore the development of opposed national identities in Ireland and Northern Ireland. James Dingley looks at Catholicism, the core of Irish nationalist identity, and draws upon its established sociological association of pre-industrial, rural peasant society and culture. By contrast, Dingley reviews Protestantism as the core of Ulster identity, with the equal association of industrial, scientific society, as the key elements in explaining why Ulster Unionists evolved an opposed and incompatible culture and identity to Irish nationalism. These underlying religious philosophies of Catholicism and Protestantism illustrate how religion acted as a symbolic representation of socio-economic separate development, and examine a Durkheimian analysis as an alternative approach to conflict resolution in Northern Ireland"--

Subject

• Cultural studies > Ireland
• Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917
• Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917 > Political and social views
• HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
• Knowledge, Sociology of
• Knowledge, Sociology of
• National characteristics
• National characteristics
• Political and social views
• Religion and sociology
• Religious groups: social & cultural aspects > Ireland
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion
• Social & cultural anthropology > Ireland
• Social groups: religious groups & communities > Ireland
• Social theory > Ireland
• Society
• Sociology > Ireland
• Sociology: customs & traditions > Ireland

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Durkheim as a French Nationalist -- 2. Durkheim's Sociology of Knowledge -- 3. Nations and Nationalism -- 4. Ireland, The Revisionist Debate -- 5. Science and the Arts in Ireland -- 6. Ireland and Nationalism -- 7. Knowledge, Truth and the Problem of Useless Knowledge.

ISBN

• 9781137442581
• 1137442581

LCCN

^^2014035458

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library