Taking a fresh look at the roots and implications of the enduring major historic fissure in Western Christianity, this book presents new insights into the historical dynamics of Protestant-Catholic conflict while illuminating present-day contexts and suggesting comparisons for approaching other entrenched conflicts in which religion is implicated.
Table of Content
Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors 1. Exploring the History of Protestant-Catholic Conflict; John Wolffe 2. Europe’s ‘Wars of Religion’ and their Legacies; Mark Greengrass 3. Eighteenth-Century English Anti-Catholicism: Contexts, Continuity and Diminution; Colin Haydon 4. The Longue Durée of German Religious Conflict?; Helmut Walser Smith 5. Religious Conflict in Ulster c. 1780-1886; Andrew Holmes 6. Sectarianism and Evangelicalism in Birmingham and Liverpool, 1850-2010; Philomena Sutherland 7. ‘The Catholic danger’: Liberal theology and Anti-Catholicism in Sweden; Yvonne-Maria Werner 8. Protestant-Catholic Conflict in the United States: The Cases of John F. Kennedy and Ronald W. Reagan; Thomas J. Carty 9. The Dynamics of Religious Difference in Contemporary Northern Ireland; John Bell 10. Beyond Protestant-Catholic Conflict?; John Wolffe Index
About the author
John Bell, Institute for Conflict Research, Belfast, Ireland Thomas Carty, Springfield College, Massachusetts, USA Mark Greengrass, University of Sheffield, UK Colin Haydon, University of Winchester, UK Andrew Holmes, Queen’s University Belfast, Ireland Helmut Walser Smith, Vanderbilt University, USA Philomena Sutherland, Open University, UK Yvonne-Maria Werner, University of Lund, Sweden
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