Din Ve Millet: Kuzey İrlanda Örneğinde Bir Azinlik Milliyetçiliği Olarak Katoliklik
Religion and Nation: Catholicism as an Minority Nationalism in the Case of the Northern Ireland Example

Summary/Abstract: This paper considers the Irish Catholic identity in Northern Ireland as a religious nationalism case in which religion and nationalism intertwine.. The aim is to display that religious nationalism is not an authentic type of nationalism that belongs to a specific religion or a specific region, and to show the effects of historical dynamics on the emergence of religious nationalism through a European example In this context, firstly by referring to the relationship between religion and nationalism, the concept of religious nationalism will be defined. Secondly, the social structure of Northern Ireland will be handled in the framework of religious nationalism by especially highlighting the historical process of identification of Irishness with Catholicism and the continuity of this identification today.

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