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    <language>eng</language>
        <publisher>Journal of Irish Studies</publisher>
        <journalTitle>Estudios Irlandeses</journalTitle>
        <eissn>1699-311X</eissn>
            <publicationDate>2008-03-15</publicationDate>
        <volume>3</volume>
    <issue>3</issue>
        <startPage>143</startPage>
    <endPage>153</endPage>
    <publisherRecordId>3055</publisherRecordId>
    <documentType>article</documentType>
    <title language="eng"><![CDATA[ From Idealised Moral Community to Real Tiger Society. The Catholic Church in Secular Ireland ]]></title>

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      <author>
        <name><![CDATA[ Jean-Christophe Penet ]]></name>
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      <affiliationName affiliationId="1"><![CDATA[ National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies, ITT Dublin ]]></affiliationName>
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        <abstract language="eng"><![CDATA[ From the 1960s to the 1980s, a time of “tension management” between “the old hegemony of Catholicism and nationalism and the emergence of liberalism and materialism” (Fogarty 1984: 102), Ireland’s self-image as a moral community came under the influence of secularisation. The country’s secularisation process speeded up when it decided to embrace new technologies – and consequently met with huge economic success – in the early 1990s, the results of which for Catholicism in Ireland were the visible and apparently irreversible undermining of the institution. However, I believe that Ireland’s secularisation through economic and psychological transformation affected the Irish Catholic Church as a whole, that is to say, its people as well as the institution. My argument in this article is that, whereas in an Ireland which many viewed as a traditional, well-integrated religious nation, it was possible for Irish Catholics to live their faith in an institutionalised manner through the idealised moral community desirable both to Church and State, economic success and increased internationalisation made this idea of community less sustainable. Indeed, in what has now become a “network society” (Castells 1996: 469), there has emerged a new breed of Catholics who no longer live their religion as a transcendent inheritance but as an immanent choice, and who, therefore, seem to “connect” to their religion more than they “commune” with it.
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          <keywords language="eng">
              <keyword>Irish Catholicism</keyword>
              <keyword>Moral community</keyword>
              <keyword>Secularisation</keyword>
              <keyword>Celtic Tiger</keyword>
              <keyword>Network society</keyword>
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