Abstract
This chapter seeks to set Irish Mormonism in its specific place-based context. It explains how Irish society has developed in ways that are similar to, and distinct from, its European neighbours, and the place of religions within that milieu. It reflects on how sudden economic growth changed Irish society and Irish culture, and illustrates how religions in Ireland have been experienced in the midst of these adaptations. The chapter introduces the role of collective memory to theorise this experience, arguing that collective memory is variously used in Irish society to sustain a sense of tradition in the midst of fragmentation and it employs Hervieu-Léger’s ‘chain of memory’ concept to apply this to religions in Ireland.
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