A Comparative Historical Categorisation of Anti-Catholicism
A balanced understanding of anti-Catholicism requires an appreciation of its diverse and multifaceted nature. This article draws on the author's extensive research on anti-Catholicism in the English-speaking world to propose a four-fold categorisation: constitutional-national, theological, popu...
| Published in: | Journal of religious history |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2015]
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Journal of religious history
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| Summary: | A balanced understanding of anti-Catholicism requires an appreciation of its diverse and multifaceted nature. This article draws on the author's extensive research on anti-Catholicism in the English-speaking world to propose a four-fold categorisation: constitutional-national, theological, popular and socio-cultural. Each category is illustrated by historical examples drawn primarily from nineteenth-century Britain and the United States, but also ranging more widely across time and space. They are fluid and interlinked but nevertheless provide a useful basis for analysis. It is shown how an awareness of the diversity of anti-Catholicism enhances understanding of its widespread influence, and also of its long-term patterns of fluctuation, persistence, and decline. In particular, whereas since the later nineteenth century theological anti-Catholicism has become marginal and popular anti-Catholicism highly localised, the relative resilience of constitutional-national and social-cultural anti-Catholicism is explained by their mutation from a primarily Protestant to a primarily secular ideological foundation. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9809 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religious history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12182 |