Irish Religious Conflict in Comparative Perspective

1. Introduction: Analysing Religious Conflict
John Wolffe

Part I. Ireland

2. ‘A Solid and United Phalanx’? Protestant Churches and the Ulster Covenant, 1912–2012
Nicola Morris, David Tombs

3. Social Structure and Religious Division: Comparing the Form of Religious Distinction in the Two Irish States
Jennifer Todd

4. Can Churches Contribute to Post-Violence Reconciliation and Reconstruction? Insights and Applications from Northern Ireland
Gladys Ganiel

5. ‘Alternative Ulster’: Punk Rock as a Means of Overcoming the Religious Divide in Northern Ireland
Francis Stewart

Part II. European Comparisons

6. The Case against Northern Ireland Exceptionalism: the ‘Academy’, Religion and Politics
Brian M. Walker

7. Churches and Communal Violence in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: a Comparison of Ireland and Scotland
Stewart J. Brown

8. Protestant-Catholic Conflict and Nationalism in German and Irish Historical Narratives
Shane Nagle

9. Comparing Protestant-Catholic Conflict in France and Ireland: the Significance of the Ethnic and Colonial Dimension
Joseph Ruane

Part III. Anti-Catholicism, Muslims and Islamophobia

10. The Multiculturalism Backlash and the Mainstreaming of Islamophobia Post-9/11
Humayun Ansari

11. Muslims in Britain: Researching and Addressing Conflict in a Post-Secular City
Philip Lewis

12. Religion, De-traditionalization and Backlashes against Multiculturalism in Northern Europe: a Comparison of Dutch, Northern Irish and English Cases (2001–11)
David Herbert

13. New Variation, Old Theme: Parallels between Islamophobia and Anti-Catholicism in the United States
Katy Scrogin

14. Conclusion: Overcoming ‘Religious’ Conflict: History and Practice
John Wolffe

Keywords: Religious Studies, History of Religion, Cultural History, History of Philosophy, History of Britain and Ireland, Modern History, Social History