Land, Faith and the Crofting Community: Christianity and Social Criticism in the Highlands of Scotland 1843-1893Edinburgh University Press, 2006 M04 20 - 240 páginas This book probes the deep-rooted links between the land, the people and the religious culture of the Scottish Highlands and Islands in the nineteenth century. The responses of the clergy to the social crisis which enveloped the region have often been characterised as a mixture of callous indifference, cowering deference or fatalistic passivity. Allan MacColl's pioneering research challenges such stereotypical representations of Highland ministers head-on. Land, Faith and the Crofting Community is the first full-scale examination of Christian social teaching in the nineteenth-century Gaidhealtachd and addresses a major gap in the historical understanding of Gaelic society. Seeking to lay bare the existing myths by a wide-ranging analysis of all the denominational, theological and social factors at play, this study boldly overturns the received scholarly and popular interpretations. A ground-breaking work, it explores a substantial but under-utilised field of evidence and questions whether or not Highland Christians "e; both clergy and laity "e; were committed to land reform as an engine of social improvement and conciliation. The Christian contribution to the development of a distinctively Highland identity "e; which found expression during the Crofters' War of the 1880s "e; is delineated, while wider links between theology and social philosophy are examined from beyond the perspective of the Highlands. |
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... Sutherland estate papers and Anne MacLeod kindly located a suitable photograph for the cover. The late Dr Frank Hollick, the late James Campbell and Iain Thornber were most helpful in bringing me to study the Highlands from the low ...
... Sutherland estate papers and Anne MacLeod kindly located a suitable photograph for the cover. The late Dr Frank Hollick, the late James Campbell and Iain Thornber were most helpful in bringing me to study the Highlands from the low ...
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... Sutherland, including the Hebrides. Caithness was different, agriculturally, socially, and linguistically, but similar in religious observance to the crofting counties. In those Highland districts outside the above counties, such as ...
... Sutherland, including the Hebrides. Caithness was different, agriculturally, socially, and linguistically, but similar in religious observance to the crofting counties. In those Highland districts outside the above counties, such as ...
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... Sutherland stonemason, was evicted during the infamous Strathnaver clearances and was an outspoken critic of the policy of 'improvement' carried out by the Sutherland estate. According to his account the church actively dissuaded ...
... Sutherland stonemason, was evicted during the infamous Strathnaver clearances and was an outspoken critic of the policy of 'improvement' carried out by the Sutherland estate. According to his account the church actively dissuaded ...
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... Sutherland and elsewhere – were less quiescent than Donald MacLeod's accounts would suggest. Lachlan MacKenzie of Lochcarron's opposition to sheep clearances during the 1810s is well documented. Other ministers such as Alexander MacLeod ...
... Sutherland and elsewhere – were less quiescent than Donald MacLeod's accounts would suggest. Lachlan MacKenzie of Lochcarron's opposition to sheep clearances during the 1810s is well documented. Other ministers such as Alexander MacLeod ...
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... Sutherland estate ground officer. MacDonald's diary entry for 11 August, 1840 – when half of his salary was still paid by the duke of Sutherland – records that he preached at Kildonan from Psalm 75: 8: 'For in the hand of the Lord there ...
... Sutherland estate ground officer. MacDonald's diary entry for 11 August, 1840 – when half of his salary was still paid by the duke of Sutherland – records that he preached at Kildonan from Psalm 75: 8: 'For in the hand of the Lord there ...
Contenido
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Highland Religion and Identity | 58 |
Genesis 18803 | 96 |
CHAPTER FOUR The Escalation of Agitation | 126 |
CHAPTER FIVE Politics Presbyteries and The Prophet | 156 |
Disunity and Disorder 18868 | 179 |
Conclusion | 212 |
Bibliography | 220 |
Index | 234 |
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Land, Faith and the Crofting Community: Christianity and Social Criticism in ... Allan W. MacColl Vista de fragmentos - 2006 |
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active agitation Aird Alexander Assembly Association attitudes became believed cause century Christian clearances clergy Commission congregations conservative criticism crofters crofting Crofting Community cultural debate destitution discussion Disruption Donald early economic Edinburgh effect elders emigration encouraged especially Established Church evangelical eviction evidence example existing factors famine favour Free Church ministers further Gaelic given hand held Highland Highlands and Islands HLLRA holdings Hunter important influence interest Inverness involved Irish issue James John Kennedy land question land reform landlords leading League less letter Lewis Liberal London Lowland MacCallum MacDonald Macinnes MacLeod MacPhail majority Meek meeting movement Murdoch Napier nature nineteenth Northern opinion parish period political poor population position Presbyterian present providence radical referred regarded region religion religious Report response role Scotland Scottish Skye social society spiritual suggest Sutherland tenants theological tion Whilst Witness