1st Edition

The Real Peace Process Worship, Politics and the End of Sectarianism

By Siobhan Garrigan Copyright 2010
    238 Pages
    by Routledge

    238 Pages
    by Routledge

    The Good Friday Agreement resulted in the cessation of paramilitary violence in Northern Ireland. However, prejudice and animosity between Protestants and Catholics remains. The Real Peace Process draws on extensive fieldwork in Protestant and Catholic churches across Ireland to analyse how Christian worship can become caught up in sectarianism. The book examines the need for a peace process that changes hearts and minds and not merely civic structures of their inhabitants. Aspects of everyday worship – ranging from the spatial and symbolic to the verbal, musical and interpersonal – are explored as the means by which sectarianism can be challenged and transformed.

    Part I  1. Worship and Sectarianism  2. Worship and Reconciliation  Part II  3. Spaces, Gestures, Bodies, Visuals  4. Words  Part III  5. Meals  6. Music and Song  7. Conclusion

    Biography

    Siobhán Garrigan is Loyola Professor of Theology at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

    "A model for how insightful ethnography can lead to the enrichment of practical and constructive theology, it demonstrates how religious worship can be rooted into political worlds."Choice

    "The value of this book lies in its detail: its careful descriptions of actual practices and its comparison with other forms of practice within the same churches in different societies, and, most of all, in its critical perspective."Journal of Church and State