Population, providence and empire : The churches and emigration from nineteenth-century Ireland /

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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 i...

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Autor principal: Roddy, Sarah (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Emigration and immigration.
Emigration and immigration > Religious aspects.
HISTORY > Europe > France.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Ireland.
Irlande > Émigration et immigration > Aspect religieux.
Irlande > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Irlande > Émigration et immigration > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Ireland > History > 19th century.
Ireland > Emigration and immigration > Religious aspects.
Ireland > Emigration and immigration > History > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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
  • 5. The spiritual empire at home: emigration and the spread of Irish religious influenceConclusion; Select bibliography; Index

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