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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... regarded as the arch-collaborator – in relation to the Sutherland estate policy of 'improvement' through relocation: Once the implied contract of adequate lots in return for evacuation of the glens was shown to be a complete sham, the ...
... regarded as the arch-collaborator – in relation to the Sutherland estate policy of 'improvement' through relocation: Once the implied contract of adequate lots in return for evacuation of the glens was shown to be a complete sham, the ...
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... regarded as the natural social and intellectual leadership of the crofting communities.24 Yet on account of their education and status, the ministers formed a distinctive elite and were normally respected by outsiders as fairly ...
... regarded as the natural social and intellectual leadership of the crofting communities.24 Yet on account of their education and status, the ministers formed a distinctive elite and were normally respected by outsiders as fairly ...
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... regarded the older, non-assessed provision of welfare as encouraging a more benevolent social order. In 'Notes of a recent journey through part of the Highlands of Scotland', Begg blamed landlord 'feudalism' for the travails of the Free ...
... regarded the older, non-assessed provision of welfare as encouraging a more benevolent social order. In 'Notes of a recent journey through part of the Highlands of Scotland', Begg blamed landlord 'feudalism' for the travails of the Free ...
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... regarded as judgements from Heaven. We hold it to be extremely hazardous, nay often presumptuous and unwarrantable in the highest degree, to pronounce on the special delinquency that may have called forth some temporal infliction in the ...
... regarded as judgements from Heaven. We hold it to be extremely hazardous, nay often presumptuous and unwarrantable in the highest degree, to pronounce on the special delinquency that may have called forth some temporal infliction in the ...
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... regarded as the high-water mark of providentialist thinking in official circles. Peter Gray has viewed providentialist ideas as providing, in the absence of scientific explanations, 'a mental and emotional framework by which that ...
... regarded as the high-water mark of providentialist thinking in official circles. Peter Gray has viewed providentialist ideas as providing, in the absence of scientific explanations, 'a mental and emotional framework by which that ...
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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