Cox, Laurence (2010) Current debates: new religion(s) in Ireland ‘Alternative spiritualities, new religious movements and the New Age in Ireland’ conference report, NUI Maynooth, 30–31 October 2009. Irish Journal of Sociology, 18 (1). pp. 100-111.
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Abstract
Recent decades have seen a sea change in the study of religion in Ireland. Numerically dominated by theology until very recently – to the extent that Ireland is one of only two European countries without an association for the non-confessional study of religion – the quantitative decline in academic theology, the generational change of staff, the merging of seminaries and the increasingly lay character of their students are all pointing towards a gradual transformation into departments of religious studies, following the experience of other Northern countries.
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | New religion(s) in Ireland; Alternative spiritualities; New Age in Ireland; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology |
Item ID: | 2197 |
Depositing User: | Dr. Laurence Cox |
Date Deposited: | 18 Oct 2010 12:14 |
Journal or Publication Title: | Irish Journal of Sociology |
Publisher: | A & A Farmar |
Refereed: | Yes |
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Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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