Durkheim and National Identity in Ireland: Applying the Sociology of Knowledge and Religion

by James Dingley

Book Overview

Durkheim and National Identity in Ireland uses the classical sociology of Durkheim, in association with established theories of nation formation, to explore the development of opposed national identities in Ireland and Northern Ireland. James Dingley looks at Catholicism, the core of Irish nationalist identity, and draws upon its established sociological association of pre-industrial, rural peasant society and culture. By contrast, Dingley reviews...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137442581
• ISBN13: 9781137442581
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 211 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"