TY  - GEN
T1  - Land, faith and the crofting community : christianity and social criticism in the Highlands of Scotland, 1843-1893
T2  - Scottish historical review monographs series ;
A1  - MacColl, Allan W.
LA  - English
PP  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
YR  - 2006
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn173252821
AB  - 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 Gaidhealtachd and addresses a major gap in the historical understanding of Gaelic society. Seeking to lay bare the existing myths by a wide-ranging analysis of all the denominational, theological and social factors at play, this study boldly overturns the received scholarly and popular interpretations. A ground-breaking work, it explores a substantial but under-utilised field of evidence and questions whether or not Highland Christians - both clergy and laity - were committed to land reform as an engine of social improvement and conciliation. The Christian contribution to the development of a distinctively Highland identity - which found expression during the Crofters' War of the 1880s - is delineated, while wider links between theology and social philosophy are examined from beyond the perspective of the Highlands.
OP  - 240
CN  - HN39.S36 M23 2006eb
SN  - 9780748626748
SN  - 0748626743
SN  - 1280833912
SN  - 9781280833915
SN  - 0748653376
SN  - 9780748653379
SN  - 9786610833917
SN  - 6610833915
SN  - 0748623825
SN  - 9780748623822
KW  - Church and social problems : Scotland : Highlands : History : 19th century.
KW  - Crofters : Scotland : Highlands : History : 19th century.
KW  - Land reform : Scotland : Highlands : History : 19th century.
KW  - Highlands (Scotland) : Church history : 19th century.
KW  - Highlands (Scotland) : Social conditions : 19th century.
KW  - Église et problèmes sociaux : Écosse : Highlands : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Crofters : Écosse : Highlands : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Réforme agraire : Écosse : Highlands : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Highlands (Écosse) : Histoire religieuse : 19e siècle.
KW  - Highlands (Écosse) : Conditions sociales : 19e siècle.
KW  - RELIGION : Christianity : General.
KW  - RELIGION : Christian Life : Social Issues.
KW  - HISTORY : General.
KW  - Church and social problems
KW  - Crofters
KW  - Land reform
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Scotland : Highlands
KW  - 1800-1899
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - Church history
KW  - History
ER  -