A sociological study of the Reverend Ian Paisley, his Free Presbyterian Church and his Democratic Unionist Party, drawing on unpublished documentary material to argue that evangelical Protestant belief did genuine, substantive work in shaping loyalist and unionist politics during the Troubles, against readings that treat religious affiliation as a passive ethnic label riding on top of a purely national or economic conflict.
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Bruce is a professor of sociology (Aberdeen) specializing in religion and politics in the United Kingdom, and this Oxford University Press monograph is his first sustained study of evangelical Protestantism's political role in the Troubles, the primary academic voice arguing for religion's own causal weight against the ethno-national reading's tendency to set doctrine aside. Citation
AuthorSteve Bruce
PublisherClarendon Press, Oxford
Publication Year1986
Source Typeacademic monograph
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