TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tom Inglis
PY  - 2025
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1662-9094
SN  - 9781803748184
TI  - Unbecoming Catholic
T2  - Being Religious in Contemporary Ireland
DO  - 10.3726/b22436
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1517999
N2  - Humans are naturally religious. They are enchanted by the world. They engage in collective rituals, and they try to live moral lives. Over the last two thousand years, this instinct has been colonised by churches and other religious institutions. In a personal and intimate approach, Inglis explores his early love of being Catholic, of being immersed in Catholic time and space and how in his teenage years, this grew stale and unfulfilling. He argues we have now entered a new cosmopolitan era of religious freedom in which there is much ambiguity and doubt. People are searching for new meanings of life and what it is to live a good life. He argues that religion has less to do with doctrine and more to do with our experience of beauty, mystery and bonding with each other. It revolves around trying to connect to the divine, call it God, nature or the cosmos. Making this connection has been crucial in this time of climate breakdown
KW  - Memoir, The colonisation of Ireland by the Catholic Church, Being brought up Catholic, What is to be religious, Enchantment, Belonging, Spirituality, Relation between God and nature
LA  - English
ER  -