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Faith, Famine, and Faction: Religious Conflict in an Irish Mining Community, 1847-1858 - Couverture souple

Power, Thomas P.

 
9781725283343: Faith, Famine, and Faction: Religious Conflict in an Irish Mining Community, 1847-1858
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ISBN 10 : 1725283344 ISBN 13 : 9781725283343
Editeur : Wipf and Stock, 2020

Synopsis

Religious conflict in Ireland has had a long history. Faith, Famine, and Faction is a case study of religious conflict in the copper-mining community of Bunmahon, Co. Waterford, Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century. By the time an English evangelical clergyman, Rev. David Alfred Doudney, came to the area in 1847, intense exploitation of its copper resources had begun. Depression in the industry followed by famine and its legacy, spurred Doudney to initiate educational establishments to help the poor and deprived of the area, children particularly. These initiatives brought him into conflict with Catholic clergy who suspected him of engaging in proselytism.

Doudney was more interested in encouraging a more vital Christianity in opposition to the nominalism he found around him, whether among Catholics or Protestants, than he was in forced religious conversion. However, such a distinction was not clear at popular level. In the rising tensions that ensued and against the backdrop of a suspected suicide, Doudney was the object of bigoted opposition, a narrow xenophobia, and of threat to his life, that together forced his departure. Not without blemish himself, Doudney articulated a strong anti-Catholic rhetoric common to the Victorian age, which he directed against the doctrines and practices of the Catholic Church.

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À propos de l'auteur

Thomas P. Power is sessional lecturer in the history of Christianity, Wycliffe College, University of Toronto. He is the author of The Apocalypse in Ireland: Prophecy and Politics in the 1820s (2022). He is general editor of the series Wycliffe Studies in History, Church, and Society.

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Éditeur
Wipf and Stock
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1725283344
ISBN 13 
9781725283343
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
337
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