@inbook{f823275740f14349b0a67f85ea12d3d1,
title = "The rise and fall of anti-Catholicism in Scotland",
abstract = "Recent reports of religious {\textquoteleft}hate crime{\textquoteright} against Catholics in Scotland have heightened social anxieties – yet such claims are unconvincing when a broader historical and sociological view is taken. Whilst anti-Catholicism was one key marker of Scottish Protestantism for several centuries after the Reformation, in more modern times it declined rapidly and significantly. Few Scots now have the desire, nor the wherewithal, to undertake sectarian discrimination. In this chapter we review the historical decline of anti-Catholicism and examine some of the (now substantial) evidence on religion in the social structure and in social experience. These suggest a Catholic community now firmly in the mainstream of Scottish life – and an anti-Catholicism firmly at the margins.",
keywords = "anti-Catholicism, Scotland, social change, discrimination, integration",
author = "Thomas Devine and Michael Rosie",
note = "Sir Tom Devine is Sir William Fraser Professor Emeritus of Scottish History and Palaeography in the University of Edinburgh. Dr Michael Rosie is senior lecturer in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh. ",
year = "2020",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783030428815",
series = "Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700–2000",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
pages = "273--287",
editor = "Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille and Geraldine Vaughan",
booktitle = "Anti-Catholicism in Britain and Ireland, 1600–2000",
edition = "1",
}