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Population, providence and empire : the churches and emigration from nineteenth-century Ireland / Sarah Roddy.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Texts in culturePublisher: Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (xii, 275 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781847799777
  • 1847799779
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Population, providence and empire.DDC classification:
  • 941.5081 23
LOC classification:
  • JV7711 .R63 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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
Summary: 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 it, or limit it? Were the three Irish churches themelves changed by this demographic upheaval? Focusing on the effects of emigration on Ireland rather than its diaspora, and merging two of the most important phenomena in the story of modern Ireland - mass emigration and religious change - this study.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-268) and index.

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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

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 it, or limit it? Were the three Irish churches themelves changed by this demographic upheaval? Focusing on the effects of emigration on Ireland rather than its diaspora, and merging two of the most important phenomena in the story of modern Ireland - mass emigration and religious change - this study.

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