Evangelical Protestantism in Ulster Society 1740-1890 [Paperback]

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.`... valuable as a scrupulous and detailed treatment of its particular topic, but also as a wider evocation of the nineteenth century development of evangelical Protestantism in a European and North American Context.' - Theological Book ReviewThis major new book represents 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. Many of the central themes of the book are at the forefront of recent work on popular religion including the relationship between religion and national identity, the role of women in popular religion, the causes and consequences of 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. In addition, they display an impressive mastery of the wider literature on popular religion in the period.Preface PART ONE From international origins to an Irish crisis 17401800 1 The rise of evangelical religion 174080 2 Rebellion and revolution: c. 17801800 PART TWO Voluntarism, denominationalism and sectarianism 180050 3 Evangelical expansion: cooperation and conflict 4 The churches: schism and consolidation 5 Religion and society: conversions and controversy PART THREE Culture and society in evangelical Ulster6 Religion in the city: evangelicalism in Belfast 180060 7 Born to serve: women and evangelical religion PART FOUR From religious revival to provincial identity 8 Ulster awakened: the 1859 revival 9 Home Rule and the PrlS¢