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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... especially Alasdair MacDonald who very helpfully agreed to read the proofs. I am greatly obliged to the staff of the University Library, the Seeley History Library, and Robinson College Library, Cambridge; the British Library and ...
... especially Alasdair MacDonald who very helpfully agreed to read the proofs. I am greatly obliged to the staff of the University Library, the Seeley History Library, and Robinson College Library, Cambridge; the British Library and ...
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... especially the law of Moses, was widely used by land reformers to condemn the existing order in the 1880s. Meek has focused on two individuals, Donald MacCallum, Established Church minister of Waternish, Skye, in the 1880s, and John ...
... especially the law of Moses, was widely used by land reformers to condemn the existing order in the 1880s. Meek has focused on two individuals, Donald MacCallum, Established Church minister of Waternish, Skye, in the 1880s, and John ...
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... especially 24–5 for his public opposition to the clearances; Ansdell, People of Great Faith, 142–5. Cited in Hunter, Crofting Community, 146. 15 This oft-quoted reference confirms the early link between evangelicalism and 6 Land, Faith ...
... especially 24–5 for his public opposition to the clearances; Ansdell, People of Great Faith, 142–5. Cited in Hunter, Crofting Community, 146. 15 This oft-quoted reference confirms the early link between evangelicalism and 6 Land, Faith ...
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... especially the emphasis on the incarnation and the humanity of Christ, led churchmen to show more concern for human problems in this present world. He regards the support for land reform given by the Free Church General Assembly in the ...
... especially the emphasis on the incarnation and the humanity of Christ, led churchmen to show more concern for human problems in this present world. He regards the support for land reform given by the Free Church General Assembly in the ...
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... especially those concerning the arrest of Donald MacCallum, the outspoken land reformer and Established Church minister. MacCallum achieved iconic status as the 'prophet' of land reform and has frequently been held up as virtually the ...
... especially those concerning the arrest of Donald MacCallum, the outspoken land reformer and Established Church minister. MacCallum achieved iconic status as the 'prophet' of land reform and has frequently been held up as virtually the ...
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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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