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Church, State and Social Science in Ireland: Knowledge Institutions and the Rebalancing of Power, 1937-73
Peter Murray
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Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJ; HRAM2; JHB; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 562.
The immense power the Catholic Church once wielded in Ireland has considerably diminished over the last fifty years. During the same period the Irish state has pursued new economic and social development goals by wooing foreign investors and throwing the state's lot in with an ever-widening European integration project. How a less powerful church and a more assertive state related to one another during the key third quarter of the twentieth century is the subject of this book. Drawing on newly available material, it looks at how social science, which had been a church monopoly, was taken over and bent ... Read more
The immense power the Catholic Church once wielded in Ireland has considerably diminished over the last fifty years. During the same period the Irish state has pursued new economic and social development goals by wooing foreign investors and throwing the state's lot in with an ever-widening European integration project. How a less powerful church and a more assertive state related to one another during the key third quarter of the twentieth century is the subject of this book. Drawing on newly available material, it looks at how social science, which had been a church monopoly, was taken over and bent ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781526100788
SKU
V9781526100788
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About Peter Murray
Peter Murray is Lecturer in Sociology at Maynooth University, Ireland Maria Feeney has lectured in Sociology and Education at Maynooth University, Ireland -- .
Reviews for Church, State and Social Science in Ireland: Knowledge Institutions and the Rebalancing of Power, 1937-73
'It makes excellent use of original archival research to offer new and revised perspectives, the essence of good social-science research, of which Peter Murray and Maria Feeney, of Maynooth University, are admirable and hardworking practitioners.' Diarmaid Ferriter, University College Dublin, The Irish Times July 2017
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