Ulster Presbyterians in the Atlantic World Religion, Politics and Identity

by Wilson, David A.; Spencer, Mark G.

• ISBN13: 9781851829491
• ISBN10: 1851829490
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-06-19
• Publisher: Four Courts Press

Summary

Eight Irish-American historians explore the changing transatlantic character of Ulster Presbyterianism in the 18th and 19th centuries. - Mark G. Spencer (Brock U), Peter Gilmore (Carnegie Mellon U), Katherine Brown (Mary Baldwin College) & David A. Wilson (U Toronto) examine the role of Ulster Presbyterians in the United Irish movement on both sides of the Atlantic - Patrick Griffin (Ohio U) compares and contrasts the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 in Pennsylvania with the Defender movement in Ireland - Kerby Miller (U Missouri) analyzes class conflict and the origins of Unionist hegemony in early 19th-century Ulster - Kevin James (Guelph U) explores the social underpinnings and political consequences of the Ulster Revival of 1859 - David W. Miller (Carnegie Mellon U) provides a broad-ranging assessment of evangelical traditions in Scotland, Ulster and the United States

Table of Contents

Religious commotions in the Scottish diaspora : a transatlantic perspective on 'evangelicalism' in a mainline denomination	p. 22
Reflections on '59 : local social contexts of religious revival in Ulster	p. 39
'Stupid Irish teagues' and the encouragement of enlightenment : Ulster Presbyterian students of moral philosophy in Glasgow University, 1730-1795	p. 50
'Minister of the devil' : Thomas Ledlie Birch, Presbyterian rebel in exile	p. 62
United Irishmen in the American South : a re-evaluation	p. 87
John Caldwell's memoir : a case study in Ulster-American radicalism	p. 104
Forging the 'Protestant way of life' : class conflict and the origins of unionist hegemony in early nineteenth-century Ulster	p. 128
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