User:Laurence Cox/Religious change in Ireland

Religious change in Ireland

Background

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Religion and politics in Ireland Feminism Good Friday agreement Religious abuse scandals Difficulties of using census statistics

Secularisation

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Overall picture Age profile and vocations crisis in Catholicism Lapsed and non-practising vs atheist and agnostic Refusal of categorisation Migrant population

Religious change and globalisation

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Emigration Migration Ireland as global religious homeland Religious affiliation and attitudes to globalisation

Change within established Christianity

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Creolisation and syncretism Spirituality and adoption of Asian meditation techniques Contemporary Celtic Christianity Evangelical movements within Irish churches Changing meaning of religious visions

Migrant religion in Ireland

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Evangelical and Pentecostal Christianity Islam Buddhism Hinduism Other migrant religions

Conversion to world religions

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Buddhism Hinduism Islam Bah'ai

New religious movements

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Cultural nationalism as folk religion Neopaganism Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu NRMs

New Age and alternative spirituality

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Channelled teachings Alternative medicine Class, gender, race aspects New Age as broader cultural phenomenon

Conclusion

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Religious individualism Syncretism Declining ethnic character of Irish religion?


References

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Sources: Kuhling, Ugba, UCC study, Ireland's NRMs, Cardiac Celts, Cox on Irish Buddhism, Heelas / Woodhead on religious change

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