Abstract
People can belong to several communities at the same time, but which version of ‘community’ dominates the representations of specific places? This article looks at how the villages of Carfin and Newarthill in Lanarkshire, central Scotland, came to be seen as separate communities. Carfin was viewed primarily as having a Catholic identity and Newarthill a Presbyterian identity. Religious divisions in these neighbouring villages reflected wider sectarian tensions in inter-war Scotland. The building of a Marian grotto at Carfin acted to focus these tensions and, at a particular time, to magnify them. Nevertheless, other representations of community, notably those from a sharing of occupational and political affiliations, functioned to moderate religious differences.
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