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How far and how are religious distinctions affected by their sociopolitical context? We know that ‘religionized politics’ is coloured by the specific social and political interests that give rise to conflict, and that the same nominal religious distinctions take very different forms in peaceful societies.1 But the ways in which macro-level social structure and political division impacts on the micro-level experience of religious distinction are less well explored.
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Todd, J. (2014). Social Structure and Religious Division: Comparing the Form of Religious Distinction in the Two Irish States. In: Wolffe, J. (eds) Irish Religious Conflict in Comparative Perspective. Histories of the Sacred and the Secular 1700–2000. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137351906_3
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