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1 Online-Ressource (288 p)
ISBN:
9781847799777
Content:
Over seven million people left Ireland over the course of the nineteenth century. This book is the first to put that huge population change in its religious context, by asking how the Irish Catholic, Anglican and Presbyterian churches responded to mass emigration. Did they facilitate it, object to it, or limit it? Were the three Irish churches themelves changed by this demographic upheaval? Focusing on the effects of emigration on Ireland rather than its diaspora, and merging two of the most important phenomena in the story of modern Ireland - mass emigration and religious change - this study
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POPULATION, PROVIDENCE AND EMPIRE: THE CHURCHES AND EMIGRATION FROM NINETEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND: SARAH RODDY -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I -- 1. Talk of population: the clergy and emigration in principle -- 2. The emigrant's friend?: the clergy and emigration in practice -- 3. 'Scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd': the pastoral responses of the Irish churches to emigration -- Part II -- 4. The battlefield against popery: emigration and sectarian rivalry
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5. The spiritual empire at home: emigration and the spread of Irish religious influence -- Conclusion -- Select bibliography -- Index
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ISBN 9781847799777
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780719090196
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Roddy, Sarah Population, providence and empire Oxford : Manchester University Press,c2016
Language:
English
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