The Scotland’s Shame? Trust and conflict in sectarian neighborhoods

In popular understanding, the word “sectarianism” in Scotland describes the religious conflict and prejudice between Catholics and Protestants and it is directly connected with the events in Northern Ireland, but it doesn’t involve the mainstream of Protestant and Catholic churches. The Scottish scholar Steve Bruce defines sectarianism a widespread and shared culture of improperly treating people in terms of their religion. Sectarianism has its origins in the wide fluxes of Irish people to Scotland in the middle of Nineteenth century and it caused big social conflicts in the past, but clashes and prejudices between the Catholic Irish and the Protestant Scots still happen in daily life, often connected with the rivalry between the football teams of Glasgow Celtic and Glasgow Rangers, and with the divides between Catholic schools and non denominational schools.