Money and Irish Catholicism: An Intimate History, 1850-1921 - Couverture rigide

Roddy, Sarah

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1009456695 ISBN 13 : 9781009456692

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2025

Synopsis

In the decades after the Great Famine, from about 1850, the Irish Catholic Church underwent a 'devotional revolution' and grew wealthy on a 'voluntary' system of payments from ordinary lay people. This study explores the lives of the people who gave the money. Focusing on both routine payments made to support clerical incomes and donations towards building the vast Catholic infrastructure that emerged in the period, Money and Irish Catholicism offers an intimate insight into the motivations, experiences, and emotions of ordinary people. In so doing, it offers a new perspective on the history of Irish Catholicism, focused less on the top-down exploits of bishops, priests, and nuns, and more on the bottom-up contributions of everyday Catholics. Sarah Roddy also demonstrates the extent to which the creation of the modern Irish Catholic Church was a transnational process, in which the diaspora, especially in the United States, played a vital role

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sarah Roddy is Associate Professor of Irish Social History at Maynooth University and has published widely in modern Irish and British history. Her previous publications include Population, Providence and Empire: The Churches and Emigration from Nineteenth-century Ireland (2014) and, as co-author, The Charity Market and Humanitarianism in Britain, 1870-1912 (2018).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1009456695
• ISBN 13: 9781009456692
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 294
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italie