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Politics and Religion in the United Kingdom

This important new volume seeks to provide significant contribution to our understanding of religion and politics, demonstrating through comparisons with other countries the unusually complex nature of the interaction of religion and politics in the United Kingdom.

Bruce provides a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the field, covering key topics including:

• Religion and violence in Northern Ireland
• A UKUS comparison of the relationship between the church and the nation state
• Links between Protestantism and the rise of modern democracy
• The relationship between Methodism and Socialism
• The impact that ethnic minority status and religious values have on political alignment

This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of religion, politics and religious sociology.

Steve Bruce has been Professor of Sociology at the University of Aberdeen since 1991. In 2003 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy and in 2005 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is the author of 24 books and some 140 journal articles and essays in edited collections.

Routledge studies in religion and politics

Edited by Jeffrey Haynes

London Metropolitan University, UK

This series aims to publish high quality works on the topic of the resurgence of political forms of religion in both national and international contexts. This trend has been especially noticeable in the post-cold war era (that is, since the late 1980s). It has affected all the world religions (including, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism) in various parts of the world (such as, the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa).

The series welcomes books that use a variety of approaches to the subject, drawing on scholarship from political science, international relations, security studies, and contemporary history.

Books in the series explore these religions, regions and topics both within and beyond the conventional domain of church-state relations to include the impact of religion on politics, conflict and development, including the late Samuel Huntingtons controversial yet influential thesis about clashing civilisations.

In sum, the overall purpose of the book series is to provide a comprehensive survey of what is currently happening in relation to the interaction of religion and politics, both domestically and internationally, in relation to a variety of issues.

Politics and the Religious Imagination

Edited by John Dyck, Paul Rowe and Jens Zimmermann

Christianity and Party Politics

Keeping the faith

Martin H. M. Steven

Religion, Politics and International Relations

Selected essays

Jeffrey Haynes

Religion and Democracy

A worldwide comparison

Carsten Anckar

Religious Actors in the Public Sphere

Means, objects and effects

Edited by Jeffrey Haynes and Anja Hennig

Politics and Religion in the United Kingdom

Steve Bruce

Politics, Religion and Gender

Framing and regulating the veil

Edited by Sigelinde Rosenberger and Birgit Sauer

Politics and Religion in the United Kingdom

Steve Bruce

First published 2012

by Routledge

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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

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2012 Steve Bruce

The right of Steve Bruce to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Bruce, Steve, 1954

Politics and religion in the United Kingdom/Steve Bruce.

p. cm. (Routledge studies in religion and politics)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Religion and politicsGreat Britain. 2. Great BritainReligion. 3. Great BritainPolitics and government. 4. Christianity and politics Great Britain. 5. Great BritainChurch history. I. Title.

BL65.P7B79 2011

201.650941dc23

2011019612

ISBN: 978-0-415-66492-9 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-203-18126-3 (ebk)

Contents

Preface

Although I am probably best known as a sociologist of religion who specialises in documenting and explaining the decline of religion in Western liberal democracies, I have also maintained a parallel interest in places where religion is sufficiently popular to remain politically significant. As a Scot who began his teaching career at The Queens University of Belfast, I have long had an interest in ProtestantCatholic conflict. My first book was No Pope of Rome: Militant Protestantism in Modern Scotland, a subject I returned to in 2004 with the jointly authored Sectarianism in Scotland. My time in Belfast produced four studies of Protestant politics in Northern Ireland: God save Ulster! The Religion and Politics of Paisleyism (1986), The Red Hand: Loyalist Paramilitaries in Northern Ireland (1992). The Edge of the Union: The Ulster Loyalist Political Vision (1994) and Paisley: Religion and Politics in Northern Ireland (2009). Along the way my interests gradually broadened and became more comparative with The Rise and Fall of the New Christian Right: Protestant politics in America, 197888 (1988), Conservative Protestant Politics (1998) and Politics and Religion (2003). They stretched even further with Fundamentalism (2007).

When Jeff Haynes originally suggested I contribute to the Routledge series on Religion and Politics, the proposal we discussed was a volume that drew together various essays originally published in specialist journals that would benefit from being placed side by side, and that deserved a more general readership. As I worked through potential candidates for inclusion, I realised that, paradoxically, the virtues of the original essays became clearer the more I revised them and that, with the addition of new material, the reworked versions formed a coherent monograph. In the end only survived from the original concept. All the other chapters were written for this volume. My hope is that together they form a coherent general account of religion and politics in the United Kingdom.

Acknowledgements

Over a period of 33 years the obligations mount up. Although none of the chapters reports a specific externally funded research project, the Economic and Social Research Council, the Nuffield Foundation, and the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland have all supported my work over the years. I am extremely grateful to them and to the Leverhulme Trust, which awarded me a senior research fellowship for 200709. That and generous research leave from the University of Aberdeen allowed me to complete this project. Both Queens University of Belfast (from 1978 to 1991) and the University of Aberdeen (from 1991 to the present) have been generous in supporting my research with small grants and with time free from teaching and administration. The Universities of Edinburgh and Virginia were kind enough to give me house room during periods of research leave in the 1980s when I worked on sectarianism in Scotland and the New Christian Right in America.

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