Settling Old Scores? Religion, Secularisation and Recent Irish Cinema

Martin McLoone

Settling Old Scores? Religion, Secularisation and Recent Irish Cinema

Martin McLoone

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Abstract

This chapter looks at the representation of religion in recent Irish cinema and argues that a dominant motif has been the humiliation or punishment of the Catholic priest. Ireland is a much more secular society than previously and these hard-hitting critiques of the Church reflects both the diminished status of Catholicism in Ireland and also is a response to recurring child abuse scandals involving the clergy.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Multiculturalism at the Start of the 21st Century
Editors	Krystyna Kujawinska Courtney, Maria A Kukowska
Publisher	Wydawnictwo UŁ
Pages	105-116
ISBN (Print)	978-83-7525-143-2
Publication status	Published (in print/issue) - 2008

Keywords

Religion
secularisation
cinema
Ireland

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