Description
Unlike other approaches to this problem, this study recognizes the value of psychological insights on bias and stereotyping. It posits the idea that religion-based conflicts can be examined and understood like any other prejudice. Evidence is extensive: parliamentary debates, select committee reports, petitions, secular periodicals, religious journals, and the reports and tracts of ultra-Protestant organizations. Anti-Catholic prejudice is traced along its major avenues of hostility: the obsession with “watchfulness”; the “Papal Aggression” episode; massive opposition to state funding of St. Patrick’s College; the battle over the notion of a Protestant constitution; the campaign against convents; and the impact of Irish immigration.
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