Research Catalog

Title

Evangelical Protestantism in Ulster society 1740-1890 / David Hempton and Myrtle Hill.

Author

Hempton, David.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.

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Additional Authors

Hill, Myrtle.

Description

xiv, 272 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

• This book is the first serious study of Irish Evangelicalism. The authors examine the social history of popular Protestantism in Ulster from the Evangelical Revival in the mid-eighteenth century to the conflicts generated by proposals for Irish Home Rule at the end of the nineteenth century.
• Evangelical Protestantism in Ulster Society 1740-1890 will be useful reading for undergraduates and postgraduates studying nineteenth-century social history, political history, the history of ideas and religious history. It will also be of interest to Church historians and specialists in the field.
• Many of the central themes of the book are to the forefront of recent work on popular religion: women in popular religious movements, religion and national identity, religious revivalism, and the impact of social change on religious experience. The authors draw on a wide range of primary sources from the early eighteenth to the late nineteenth century. They also display an impressive mastery of the wider literature on popular religion in the period.
• By concentrating on the controversial province of Ulster, the book makes a fresh contribution to the history of Britain and Ireland in the modern period.

Subjects

• Evangelicalism > Ireland
• Ireland > Religion > 19th century
• Protestant churches > History
• Northern Ireland
• Ireland > Religion > 18th century

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• BIbliography: p. [234]-264.

Contents

Pt. 1. From International origins to an Irish crisis 1740-1800. 1. The rise of evangelical religion, 1740-80. 2. Rebellion and revolution: c. 1780-1800 -- Pt. 2. Voluntarism, denominationalism and sectarianism 1800-50. 3. Evangelical expansion: cooperation and conflict. 4. The churches: schism and consolidation. 5. Religion and society: conversions and controversy -- Pt. 3. Culture and society in evangelical Ulster. 6. Religion in the city: evangelicalism in Belfast 1800-60. 7. 'Born to serve': women and evangelical religion -- Pt. 4. From religious revival to provincial identity. 8. Ulster awakened: the 1859 revival. 9. Home Rule and the Protestant mind 1860-90. 10. Conclusion.

ISBN

0415078237

LCCN

gb 92022495

OCLC

ocm25780448

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries