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Land, faith and the crofting community : Christianity and social criticism in the Highlands of Scotland, 1843-1893 / Allan W. MacColl.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- MacColl, Allan W.
- Series:
- Scottish historical review monographs series ; no. 14.
- Scottish historical review monographs series ; no. 14
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church and social problems--Scotland--Highlands--History--19th century.
- Church and social problems.
- Crofters--Scotland--Highlands--19th century.
- Crofters.
- Land reform--Scotland--Highlands--History--19th century.
- Land reform.
- Highlands (Scotland)--Church history--19th century.
- Highlands (Scotland).
- Highlands (Scotland)--Social conditions--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (250 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- 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 Gaidhealta
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE The Free Course of Providence: Presbyterian Social Thought in the Age of Disruption and Destitution; CHAPTER TWO A Peculiar People: Highland Religion and Identity; CHAPTER THREE 'The Crofters' War': Genesis 1880-3; CHAPTER FOUR The Escalation of Agitation; CHAPTER FIVE Politics, Presbyteries and 'The Prophet'; CHAPTER SIX 'The Crofters' War': Disunity and Disorder 1886-8; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7486-5337-6
- 1-280-83391-2
- 9786610833917
- 0-7486-2674-3
- OCLC:
- 476051910
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