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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... region over half a century. As well as avoiding the frequent problem of the unavailability of localised sources, this approach enables us to observe the longer-term, regional nature of religious involvement in the land question. In ...
... region over half a century. As well as avoiding the frequent problem of the unavailability of localised sources, this approach enables us to observe the longer-term, regional nature of religious involvement in the land question. In ...
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... region. As the book's title suggests, Christianity lay close to the heart of the relationship between the land and the people. This study concentrates on the events of the 1880s that have become known as 'the crofters' war'. The ...
... region. As the book's title suggests, Christianity lay close to the heart of the relationship between the land and the people. This study concentrates on the events of the 1880s that have become known as 'the crofters' war'. The ...
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... region represented the last stronghold of a thoroughgoing, socially pervasive calvinism in the British Isles by the end of the period covered by this study. It is no surprise then that the Free Church ministers were regarded as the ...
... region represented the last stronghold of a thoroughgoing, socially pervasive calvinism in the British Isles by the end of the period covered by this study. It is no surprise then that the Free Church ministers were regarded as the ...
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... region. Murdoch used the columns of his paper as a platform for his vision of a revitalised Gaelic-speaking Gaidhealtachd based on a communal landholding system. Following the demise of Murdoch's paper in 1882, the establishment of the ...
... region. Murdoch used the columns of his paper as a platform for his vision of a revitalised Gaelic-speaking Gaidhealtachd based on a communal landholding system. Following the demise of Murdoch's paper in 1882, the establishment of the ...
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... region, though, where the crofting system prevailed most strongly, the Free Church became the church of the vast majority. In some areas, notably Lewis, Harris, Sutherland, and Ross-shire, the Free Church attracted over ninety per cent ...
... region, though, where the crofting system prevailed most strongly, the Free Church became the church of the vast majority. In some areas, notably Lewis, Harris, Sutherland, and Ross-shire, the Free Church attracted over ninety per cent ...
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 |
Land, Faith and the Crofting Community: Christianity and Social Criticism in ... Allan W. MacColl Sin vista previa disponible - 2006 |
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