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Land, Faith and the Crofting Community : Christianity and Social Criticism in the Highlands of Scotland 1843-1893 / Allan W. MacColl.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Scottish Historical Review Monographs : SHRMPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2006Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748623822
  • 9780748626748
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 285/.2411509034 22
LOC classification:
  • HN39.S36 M23 2006
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Free Course of Providence: Presbyterian Social Thought in the Age of Disruption and Destitution -- 2. A Peculiar People: Highland Religion and Identity -- 3. 'The Crofters' War': Genesis 1880-3 -- 4. The Escalation of Agitation -- 5. Politics, Presbyteries and 'The Prophet' -- 6. 'The Crofters' War': Disunity and Disorder 1886-8 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748623822);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 - both clergy and laity - were committed to land reform as an engine of social improvement and conciliation.The Christian contribution to the development of a distinctively Highland identity - which found expression during the Crofters' War of the 1880s - is delineated, while wider links between theology and social philosophy are examined from beyond the perspective of the Highlands."
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Free Course of Providence: Presbyterian Social Thought in the Age of Disruption and Destitution -- 2. A Peculiar People: Highland Religion and Identity -- 3. 'The Crofters' War': Genesis 1880-3 -- 4. The Escalation of Agitation -- 5. Politics, Presbyteries and 'The Prophet' -- 6. 'The Crofters' War': Disunity and Disorder 1886-8 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

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GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748623822);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 - both clergy and laity - were committed to land reform as an engine of social improvement and conciliation.The Christian contribution to the development of a distinctively Highland identity - which found expression during the Crofters' War of the 1880s - is delineated, while wider links between theology and social philosophy are examined from beyond the perspective of the Highlands."

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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