Irish And Catholic?: Towards An Understanding Of Identity

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This book examines the changed, and changing, face of Irish Catholicism and Irish Catholic identity at the beginning of the third millennium. There has never been any formal philosophical training in the Irish educational system that allows space for the type of intellectual engagement with issues of a religious nature that characterizes a society like France, for example. So Irish and Catholic? is in some ways an attempt to fill a void and to launch a debate that is absolutely necessary if Ireland is to come to terms with a vastly changed socio-religious landscape that could effectively be termed as "post-Catholic."

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