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Religious change in Ireland

Background[edit]

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

Secularisation[edit]

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[edit]

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

Change within established Christianity[edit]

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[edit]

Evangelical and Pentecostal Christianity Islam Buddhism Hinduism Other migrant religions

Conversion to world religions[edit]

Buddhism Hinduism Islam Bah'ai

New religious movements[edit]

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

New Age and alternative spirituality[edit]

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

Conclusion[edit]

Religious individualism Syncretism Declining ethnic character of Irish religion?


References[edit]

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

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