Religious Women and the Northern Ireland Troubles
The article uses research from an ongoing oral history project examining the peacebuilding work of religious women during the conflict in and about Northern Ireland, euphemistically known as the “Troubles.” The focus is on religious women whose peacebuilding activism was motivated by faith. Since 20...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2021
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Journal of religious history
Year: 2021, Volume: 45, Issue: 3, Pages: 412-434 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Civil War
/ Peacebuilding
/ Woman
/ Religiosity
/ Social engagement
/ Political engagement
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| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality CG Christianity and Politics CH Christianity and Society KBF British Isles ZC Politics in general |
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| Summary: | The article uses research from an ongoing oral history project examining the peacebuilding work of religious women during the conflict in and about Northern Ireland, euphemistically known as the “Troubles.” The focus is on religious women whose peacebuilding activism was motivated by faith. Since 2015 the project has recorded religious women in conversation about their lives serving the working-class communities that bore the brunt of the violence during the Troubles. It has brought to the fore their involvement in political as well as personal and societal reconciliation. Yet their activism has been omitted from the historical record. The article explores why this happened and argues the necessity of considering their contributions to the peace process in order that its dynamics be fully understood. The article brings forward new research that complicates secularisation narratives and the male-centric version of the Troubles that still prevails. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9809 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religious history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12767 |