CONTENTS

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. List of Figures and Tables ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1 Secularization, the Desacralization of the Church, and the Emergence of Ethno-Catholic “Nones” 18
7. 2 “Hostages of Catholicism”: Quantifying the Nature and Scale of the Rejection of the Church 56
8. 3 “For Emergency Use Only”: The Waning of Religious Socialization 95
9. 4 “A Load of Shite”: Hidden Cultures of Catholic Unbelief 131
10. 5 “This Is Our Rising”: Secularization as a Second Struggle for “Irish Freedom” 154
11. 6 “Awakening from Conscription”: Ex-Catholicism as Anti-Nostalgic Moralized Authenticity 189
12. 7 “Blessed Are Those Who Are Persecuted Because of Righteousness”: Coping with a Spoiled Religious Identity 222
13. Epilogue. “Anyone Else Not Bothered?” 253
14. Methodological Appendix 259
15. Notes 265
16. Bibliography 301
17. Index 315