Durkheim and National Identity in Ireland: Applying the Sociology of Knowledge and Religion - Paperback

by J. Dingley (Author)

This book examines the development of opposed Nationalist and Unionists identities as products of different economies, symbolically represented in religious differences, that impelled conflicting cultures and ideals of best interest that were fundamentally incompatible within a single identity.

Author Biography

James Dingley is a sociologist who has researched terrorism and nationalism at the University of Ulster, UK, and Queen's University Belfast, Ireland. He is former Head of Department of Business and Management, University of Kurdistan-Hawler, Iraq, and Chairman of the Francis Hutcheson Institute, Belfast, Ireland. He has published widely in major international journals and this is his fifth book in the area of terrorism and nationalism.