Jana Riess: The struggles of Mormonism in a country where to be Irish is to be Catholic.
, a 32% increase in just under 10 years. On the other hand, no new congregations have been created in Ireland over that period, which suggests poor retention of new converts and other members.
And then, from a professional perspective, I was reading around the sociology of religion and religion’s relationship to race in Ireland, and one of the things that struck me was that a lot of the studies that had been done in Ireland previously very much focused on religious minorities who were also racial or ethnic minorities. That meant we had a lot of information emerging on the likes of Hinduism and Islam, but less from small religions whose members would be majority white.
That leads us into a situation where, all these generations later, even in the midst of a lot of liberalization and the decline of the Catholic Church, it can still sometimes be seen as a huge loss to the family if somebody converts to a different religion. It’s leaving something of Irishness behind if you’ve chosen this other religion that’s often viewed as foreign.With Mormonism, having a strong association with the U.S. is a particular challenge.
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