Word: protestantizing
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Tommy sat across from me on the train going to Belfast from Dublin. He propped his elbows on the table separating us, and explained the situation in Belfast. He grew up in Belfast on the Upper Falls road (any Ulsterman knows that means Tommy is Catholic). And he lifted his...
What's important is not that Tommy is Catholic, but that his hopelessness--those fingers locked into each other--seems to express the futility of the situation in Northern Ireland for everyone. It doesn't really matter whether Tommy is Catholic or Protestant, because a Protestant, especially a working-class...
The July 12 Orange parade is a celebration of the Protestant William, Prince of Orange's victory over the Catholic James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. In a way, it is a hearkening back to the days of Protestant ascendency; when that can't be realized...
Today, the Orange Order serves much the same purpose it did at its inception in 1795, when, threatened by Catholic peasants willing to undercut them in bids for land tenancy, Protestants united to terrorize and exclude them. The initiation oath for the Orange order still requires that members swear allegiance...
For Max Weber, in his famous essay, these sentiments were the essence of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. They sum up an ethos that is against the profligacy of a court life or the indifference to time of a Mediterranean culture. Franklin defends as just an attitude...