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Introduction Introduction
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Nones in the Republic Nones in the Republic
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Irish Nones in Global Context Irish Nones in Global Context
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Anti-Nostalgic Moralized Authenticity Anti-Nostalgic Moralized Authenticity
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Cultural Catholicism and the Decline of Religious Socialization Cultural Catholicism and the Decline of Religious Socialization
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The Moral Inversion of the Church The Moral Inversion of the Church
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The Lingering Institutional Influence of the Church The Lingering Institutional Influence of the Church
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The Contrast with Nones in Northern Ireland The Contrast with Nones in Northern Ireland
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Conclusion Conclusion
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References References
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Suggested Reading Suggested Reading
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32 The Rise of ‘No Religion’
Get accessHugh Turpin is a cognitive and social anthropologist researching the growth of non-religion in contemporary Ireland. He is the author of Unholy Catholic Ireland: Religious Hypocrisy, Secular Morality, and Irish Irreligion (Stanford University Press, 2022). He is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Centre for Culture and Evolution at Brunel University London.
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Published:22 February 2024
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Abstract
This chapter examines religious disaffiliation on the island of Ireland. It focuses first on ex-Catholics in the Republic, describing how they fit a global pattern of rising non-religion. After this, the distinctive normative stance of Irish ex-Catholicism is explored using qualitative data from fieldwork and interviews carried out in Dublin. These suggest that for these ex-Catholics, disaffiliation means the moralized relinquishment of an increasingly casual, capacious, and amorphous form of ethnically linked collective identification: ‘cultural Catholicism’ for short. The roots of this stance lie in the country’s trajectory of economic growth, social liberalization, attenuated domestic religious socialization, the moral collapse of the church, and its lingering influence in social institutions and laws. In Northern Ireland, in contrast, things are quite different. There, it is Protestants rather than Catholics who primarily choose to opt out of their natal designations.
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