{"product_id":"transforming-post-catholic-ireland-gladys-ganiel-9780198745785","title":"Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland: Religious Practice in Late Modernity","description":"\u003cem\u003eTransforming Post-Catholic Ireland\u003c\/em\u003e is the first major book to explore the dynamic religious landscape of contemporary Ireland, north and south, and to analyze the island's religious transition. It confirms that the Catholic Church's long-standing \"monopoly\" has well and truly disintegrated, replaced by a mixed, post-Catholic religious \"market\" featuring new and growing expressions of Protestantism, as well as other religions. It describes how people of faith are developing \"extra-institutional\" expressions of religion, keeping their faith alive outside or in addition to the institutional Catholic Church. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on island-wide surveys of clergy and laypeople, as well as more than 100 interviews, Gladys Ganiel describes how people of faith are engaging with key issues such as increased diversity, reconciliation to overcome the island's sectarian past, and ecumenism. Ganiel argues that extra-institutional religion is especially well-suited to address these and other issues due to its freedom and flexibility when compared to traditional religious institutions. She explains how those who practice extra-institutional religion have experienced personal transformation, and analyses the extent that they have contributed to wider religious, social, and political change. On an island where religion has caused much pain, from clerical sexual abuse scandals, to sectarian violence, to a frosty reception for some immigrants, those who practice their faith outside traditional religious institutions may hold the key to transforming post-Catholic Ireland into a more reconciled society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gladys Ganiel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198745788\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198745785\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/25\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 284\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.90d","brand":"Gladys Ganiel","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47424981795071,"sku":"9780198745785","price":135.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a2c2f1a9-0544-4839-bb5d-fdcf2e4e528d.jpg?v=1761536183","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/transforming-post-catholic-ireland-gladys-ganiel-9780198745785","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}