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Church and Religion in the Ulster Crisis

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Religion, or at least religious labels, are hard to avoid in Northern Ireland. Indeed in the age of the mass media, conflict in Northern Ireland has become synonymous with religious divisions in many parts of the world. Even domestically, labels such as ‘Protestant’ and ‘Catholic’ remain the most commonly used shorthand in describing different social groups and even specific political positions. The impression lingers that conflict in Northern Ireland is between two groups divided by religious confession or tradition.

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Morrow, D. (1995). Church and Religion in the Ulster Crisis. In: Dunn, S. (eds) Facets of the Conflict in Northern Ireland. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23829-3_10

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