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Publication
Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018.
Physical description
xxvi, 222 p.; 24 cm
Notes
From the Introduction:
This is the story of Irish immigrants who sought to recreat an Old World ethnoreligious culture and in so doing established Presbyterianism in western Pennsylvania. This study attempts to understand their translation of religious belief and practice from the north of Ireland to western Pennsylvania, how ritual and that translation functioned, and how and why change occurred.
. . . This is both a historical study of an American region transitioning from the colonial to the early republic eras and an examination of an Irish diaspora. The Presbyterians who contributed the making of western Pennsylvania at the turn of the nineteenth century largely understood their faith through the prism of Irish experience.
By the second half of the eighteenth century, Ireland's Presbyterianism encompassed numerous fractious, competing denominations and tendencies. Despite differences, Irish Presbyterians shared distinctive commonalities, especially within Ulster, Ireland's northern province. Fundamental ideas of Presbyterianism, both creed and church governance, came from Scotland and that nation's protracted reformation. So, too, did many Presbyterian famililes.
But they shared more than a common Scots legacy : their communities also had the experience of being Scots Presbyterians in Ireland, contributing to change in Ireland that altered their understanding of Presbyterianism even as Presbyterianism in Scotland underwent change. The Irish experience was a defining moment for the Presbyterians.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
1. "A Great Many Have Come from Ireland."
2. "A Social Combination."
3. Irish Presbyterian Ritual and Discipline in the Pennsylvania Countryside.
4. Defining a Doctrinally Distinct Community.
5. From Insurrection to Revival.
6. Revivalism, Psalmody, and "Satanic" Ministry.
7. The Sabbath, Temperance, and Market Revolution.
Conclusion.
Endnotes, pp. 119-183.
Bibliography, pp. 185-213.
Index, pp. 215-222.
This is the story of Irish immigrants who sought to recreat an Old World ethnoreligious culture and in so doing established Presbyterianism in western Pennsylvania. This study attempts to understand their translation of religious belief and practice from the north of Ireland to western Pennsylvania, how ritual and that translation functioned, and how and why change occurred.
. . . This is both a historical study of an American region transitioning from the colonial to the early republic eras and an examination of an Irish diaspora. The Presbyterians who contributed the making of western Pennsylvania at the turn of the nineteenth century largely understood their faith through the prism of Irish experience.
By the second half of the eighteenth century, Ireland's Presbyterianism encompassed numerous fractious, competing denominations and tendencies. Despite differences, Irish Presbyterians shared distinctive commonalities, especially within Ulster, Ireland's northern province. Fundamental ideas of Presbyterianism, both creed and church governance, came from Scotland and that nation's protracted reformation. So, too, did many Presbyterian famililes.
But they shared more than a common Scots legacy : their communities also had the experience of being Scots Presbyterians in Ireland, contributing to change in Ireland that altered their understanding of Presbyterianism even as Presbyterianism in Scotland underwent change. The Irish experience was a defining moment for the Presbyterians.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
1. "A Great Many Have Come from Ireland."
2. "A Social Combination."
3. Irish Presbyterian Ritual and Discipline in the Pennsylvania Countryside.
4. Defining a Doctrinally Distinct Community.
5. From Insurrection to Revival.
6. Revivalism, Psalmody, and "Satanic" Ministry.
7. The Sabbath, Temperance, and Market Revolution.
Conclusion.
Endnotes, pp. 119-183.
Bibliography, pp. 185-213.
Index, pp. 215-222.
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