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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... Poor Law Commission.33 This report clearly reveals the attitudes of the clergy to the problem of pauperism and its relief. Many Highland ministers were reticent to engage with the issue other than to stress their support for voluntary ...
... Poor Law Commission.33 This report clearly reveals the attitudes of the clergy to the problem of pauperism and its relief. Many Highland ministers were reticent to engage with the issue other than to stress their support for voluntary ...
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... poor during this period. The mainstream newspapers of the 1840s and 1850s were generally less willing to engage with social issues. The period from the mid-1850s until the mid-1870s has been seen by many commentators as a time of slow ...
... poor during this period. The mainstream newspapers of the 1840s and 1850s were generally less willing to engage with social issues. The period from the mid-1850s until the mid-1870s has been seen by many commentators as a time of slow ...
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... poor Highlanders – were the victims of a disastrous theological error brought about by their rigid, deterministic understanding of God's providence. This was the error of regarding every temporal event and activity – including all the ...
... poor Highlanders – were the victims of a disastrous theological error brought about by their rigid, deterministic understanding of God's providence. This was the error of regarding every temporal event and activity – including all the ...
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... poor. In its rural application this programme was partly informed by the unfavourable comparisons which Free Church commentators drew between the state of the rural population of Britain and that of agricultural populations elsewhere ...
... poor. In its rural application this programme was partly informed by the unfavourable comparisons which Free Church commentators drew between the state of the rural population of Britain and that of agricultural populations elsewhere ...
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... Poor' by 'B'exemplifies this notion: A great flight of aristocratic paupers from above, and a growing swarm of idlers and criminals from below, have gradually placed the middle classes between two fires, which equally threaten to ...
... Poor' by 'B'exemplifies this notion: A great flight of aristocratic paupers from above, and a growing swarm of idlers and criminals from below, have gradually placed the middle classes between two fires, which equally threaten to ...
Contenido
1 | |
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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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