{"product_id":"unholy-catholic-ireland-hugh-turpin-9781503633131","title":"Unholy Catholic Ireland: Religious Hypocrisy, Secular Morality, and Irish Irreligion","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere are few instances of a contemporary Western European society more firmly welded to religion than Ireland is to Catholicism. For much of the twentieth century, to be considered a good Irish citizen was to be seen as a good and observant Catholic. Today, the opposite may increasingly be the case. The Irish Catholic Church, once a spiritual institution beyond question, is not only losing influence and relevance; in the eyes of many, it has become something utterly desacralized. In this book, Hugh Turpin offers an innovative and in-depth account of the nature and emergence of \"ex-Catholicism\"--a new model of the good, and secular, Irish person that is being rapidly adopted in Irish society.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUsing rich quantitative and qualitative research methods, Turpin explains the emergence and character of religious rejection in the Republic. He examines how numerous factors--including economic growth, social liberalization, attenuated domestic religious socialization, the institutional scandals and moral collapse of the Church, and the Church's lingering influence in social institutions and laws--have interacted to produce a rapid growth in ex-Catholicism. By tracing the frictions within and between practicing Catholics, cultural Catholics, and ex-Catholics in a period of profound cultural change and moral reckoning, Turpin shows how deeply the meanings of being religious or non-religious have changed in the country once described as \"Holy Catholic Ireland.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hugh Turpin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1503633136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781503633131\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/13\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.82h x 5.91w x 0.94d","brand":"Hugh Turpin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44065026670847,"sku":"9781503633131","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3c378f2c-0c29-41a3-8173-71a8a4d78e37.jpg?v=1685399006","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/unholy-catholic-ireland-hugh-turpin-9781503633131","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}