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Religion and Greater IrelandChristianity and Irish Global Networks, 1750-1950 |
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Stimulating essays that break new ground on religion and Irish identity in modern world history.
Impelled by economic deprivation at home and spiritual ambition abroad, nineteenth-century Irish clerics and laypeople reshaped the many sites where they came to pray, preach, teach, trade, and settle. So decisive was the role of religion in the worlds of Irish settlement that it helped to create a "Greater Ireland" that encompassed the entire English-speaking world and beyond.
Rejecting the popular notion that the Irish were passive victims of imperial oppression, Religion and Greater Ireland demonstrates how religion opened up a vast world to exploit. The religious free market of the United States and the British Empire provided an opportunity and a level playing-field in which the Irish could compete and thrive. Contributors to this collection show how the Irish of all denominations contributed to the creation and extension of Greater Ireland through missionary and temperance societies, media, and the circulation of people, ideas, and material culture around the world. Essays also detail the diverse experiences of Irish immigrants, whether they were Catholics or Protestants, clergy or laypeople, women or men, in sites of settlement and mission including the United States, Canada, South Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland itself.
Seeking to illuminate the interconnections and commonalities of the Irish migrant experience, Religion and Greater Ireland provides fascinating insight into the range of influences that Ireland’s religions have had on the world beyond the British Isles.
Rejecting the popular notion that the Irish were passive victims of imperial oppression, Religion and Greater Ireland demonstrates how religion opened up a vast world to exploit. The religious free market of the United States and the British Empire provided an opportunity and a level playing-field in which the Irish could compete and thrive. Contributors to this collection show how the Irish of all denominations contributed to the creation and extension of Greater Ireland through missionary and temperance societies, media, and the circulation of people, ideas, and material culture around the world. Essays also detail the diverse experiences of Irish immigrants, whether they were Catholics or Protestants, clergy or laypeople, women or men, in sites of settlement and mission including the United States, Canada, South Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland itself.
Seeking to illuminate the interconnections and commonalities of the Irish migrant experience, Religion and Greater Ireland provides fascinating insight into the range of influences that Ireland’s religions have had on the world beyond the British Isles.
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Part of the McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion Series (number 2.73 in series)
472 Pages, 6 x 9
ISBN 9780773545700
November 2015
Formats: Cloth, Paperback, eBook
"A cutting-edge work that explores crucial dimensions in the history of Ireland's globalization, Religion and Greater Ireland stands out for its wide range of geographical and cultural coverage and ground-breaking perspectives on religion and migration." Eugenio Biagini, University of Cambridge
“Barr and Carey have produced a volume that surely will contribute to a renewed scholarship of Irish religion that acknowledges its inherently transnational and globally-networked significances.” European History Quarterly
“Barr and Carey have produced a volume that surely will contribute to a renewed scholarship of Irish religion that acknowledges its inherently transnational and globally-networked significances.” European History Quarterly
Colin Barr is senior lecturer in history at the University of Aberdeen.
Hilary M. Carey is professor of imperial and religious history at the University of Bristol.
Hilary M. Carey is professor of imperial and religious history at the University of Bristol.
Contents
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Religion and Greater Ireland
Hilary M. Carey and Colin Barr 3
PART ONE IRISH GLOBAL NETWORKS
1 Deference, Accommodation, and Conflict in Irish Confessional
Relations 33
R. V. Comerford
2 Drawing Strength from Past Migratory Experiences:
The Church of Ireland Gazette and Southern Protestant
Migration in the Post-Independence Period 52
Leigh-Ann Coffey
3 Religious Texts for the Catholic Migrant: International Print
Networks and the Irish-Australian Book Trade 71
Kevin Molloy
PART TWO ATLANTIC WORLD
4 The Tales and Trials of a “Double Minority”:
The Irish and French Catholic Engagement for the Soul
of the Canadian Church, 1815-1947 97
Mark G. McGowan
5 This Sacred Feeling: Patriotism, Nation-Building, and the Catholic
Church in Newfoundland, 1850-1914 124
Carolyn Lambert
Controversial Immigrants: Theological Conflict in the Transatlantic
World of Eighteenth-Century Irish Presbyterianism 143
Rankin Sherling
7 Catholicism, Masculinity, and Middle-Class Respectability in the
Irish Catholic Temperance Movement in Nineteenth-Century
Canada 163
Mike McLaughlin
8 “We Know Neither Catholics, nor Protestants, nor Free-Thinkers
Here”: Ethnicity, Religion, and the Chicago Public Schools,
1837-94 187
Mimi Cowan
PART THREE ASIA AND AFRICA
9 Irish Religious Networks in Colonial South Asia, ca.
1788-1858 209
Barry Crosbie
10 Saving the Empire? The Role of Irishwomen in Protestant Female
Missions, 1870-1914 229
Myrtle Hill
11 “Hurrah for Old Ireland!”: Irish Catholicism at the Cape
of Good Hope 251
Colin Barr
PART FOUR SOUTHERN WORLD
12 Greater Ireland and the Australian Immigrant: The Religious
Dimension 275
Eric Richards
13 “Mindful of Her St Columbas and Gaels”: Ireland, Empire,
and Australian Anglicanism, 1788-1850 297
Michael Gladwin
14 “God Sent Me Here to Raise a Society”: Irishness, Protestantism,
and Colonial Identity in New South Wales 319
Dianne Hall
15 Building “God’s Own Country”: The Reverend Rutherford
Waddell, the Global Irish, and New Zealand History 340
John Stenhouse
16 “A Veritable Hurricane of Sectarianism”: The Year 1920 and
Ethno-Religious Conflict in Australia 363
Jeff Kildea
Conclusion 383
Colin Barr and Hilary M. Carey
Bibliography 391
Contributors 431
Index 435
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Religion and Greater Ireland
Hilary M. Carey and Colin Barr 3
PART ONE IRISH GLOBAL NETWORKS
1 Deference, Accommodation, and Conflict in Irish Confessional
Relations 33
R. V. Comerford
2 Drawing Strength from Past Migratory Experiences:
The Church of Ireland Gazette and Southern Protestant
Migration in the Post-Independence Period 52
Leigh-Ann Coffey
3 Religious Texts for the Catholic Migrant: International Print
Networks and the Irish-Australian Book Trade 71
Kevin Molloy
PART TWO ATLANTIC WORLD
4 The Tales and Trials of a “Double Minority”:
The Irish and French Catholic Engagement for the Soul
of the Canadian Church, 1815-1947 97
Mark G. McGowan
5 This Sacred Feeling: Patriotism, Nation-Building, and the Catholic
Church in Newfoundland, 1850-1914 124
Carolyn Lambert
Controversial Immigrants: Theological Conflict in the Transatlantic
World of Eighteenth-Century Irish Presbyterianism 143
Rankin Sherling
7 Catholicism, Masculinity, and Middle-Class Respectability in the
Irish Catholic Temperance Movement in Nineteenth-Century
Canada 163
Mike McLaughlin
8 “We Know Neither Catholics, nor Protestants, nor Free-Thinkers
Here”: Ethnicity, Religion, and the Chicago Public Schools,
1837-94 187
Mimi Cowan
PART THREE ASIA AND AFRICA
9 Irish Religious Networks in Colonial South Asia, ca.
1788-1858 209
Barry Crosbie
10 Saving the Empire? The Role of Irishwomen in Protestant Female
Missions, 1870-1914 229
Myrtle Hill
11 “Hurrah for Old Ireland!”: Irish Catholicism at the Cape
of Good Hope 251
Colin Barr
PART FOUR SOUTHERN WORLD
12 Greater Ireland and the Australian Immigrant: The Religious
Dimension 275
Eric Richards
13 “Mindful of Her St Columbas and Gaels”: Ireland, Empire,
and Australian Anglicanism, 1788-1850 297
Michael Gladwin
14 “God Sent Me Here to Raise a Society”: Irishness, Protestantism,
and Colonial Identity in New South Wales 319
Dianne Hall
15 Building “God’s Own Country”: The Reverend Rutherford
Waddell, the Global Irish, and New Zealand History 340
John Stenhouse
16 “A Veritable Hurricane of Sectarianism”: The Year 1920 and
Ethno-Religious Conflict in Australia 363
Jeff Kildea
Conclusion 383
Colin Barr and Hilary M. Carey
Bibliography 391
Contributors 431
Index 435
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