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Gareth I. Higgins
Researcher at Queen's University Belfast
Publications - 5
Citations - 189
Gareth I. Higgins is an academic researcher from Queen's University Belfast. The author has contributed to research in topics: Protestantism & Conceptual framework. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 5 publications receiving 179 citations.
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Anti-Catholicism in Northern Ireland, 1600–1998: The Mote and the Beam
John D. Brewer,Gareth I. Higgins +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an overview of anti-Catholicism as a sociological process in Irish history is presented, focusing on the modes of contemporary anti-Catholicism.
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Religion and Peacemaking: A Conceptualization:
TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual framework for theorizing the relationship between religion and peacemaking in conflict societies where religion is perceived to be part of the problem is proposed, and the authors illustrate the framework with evidence from several examples in order to show how comparative analysis simultaneously illuminates case studies.
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Understanding anti-catholicism in northern ireland
John D. Brewer,Gareth I. Higgins +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argued that anti-Catholicism is part of the dynamics of Northern Ireland's conflict and is critical to the self-defining identity of certain Protestants, and that it is as much a sociological pro...
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Northern Ireland: 1921–1998
John D. Brewer,Gareth I. Higgins +1 more
TL;DR: For example, this paper argued that anti-Catholicism and anti-Irishness continued as central defining tenets of the new state, despite the fact that Ireland had no history or heritage and Protestants did not have to artificially construct a sense of nationhood.