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Dethroning Irish Catholicism
Church, State and modernity in contemporary Ireland
in Tracing the cultural legacy of Irish Catholicism
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Using Charles Taylor’s A Catholic Modernity? as its starting point, David Cochrane explores the evolving role of Catholicism in Ireland over the last half century and concludes that the disentangling of the Church from the dominant political and cultural institutions of society has paradoxically extended many of the very values Catholicism celebrates. Due to the severing of its close traditional connection to the State, the Church has rediscovered its original mission to provide a prophetic spiritual voice, especially in favour of the poor, and to align itself more closely with the concerns of its founder, Jesus Christ.

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Tracing the cultural legacy of Irish Catholicism

From Galway to Cloyne and beyond

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