Contesting the Moral High Ground

Contesting the Moral High Ground PDF Author: Paul T. Phillips
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 077354111X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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How four of Britain's best-known thinkers influenced the public consciousness on issues from God to the environment.

Contesting the Moral High Ground

Contesting the Moral High Ground PDF Author: Paul T. Phillips
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 077354111X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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Book Description
How four of Britain's best-known thinkers influenced the public consciousness on issues from God to the environment.

Big Picture

Big Picture PDF Author: Santo Dodaro
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773540148
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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How a grassroots economic movement inspired common people to take control of their own destinies in Depression-era Nova Scotia.

Beating against the Wind

Beating against the Wind PDF Author: Calvin Hollett
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773599010
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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There are many analyses of Tractarianism – a nineteenth-century form of Anglicanism that emphasized its Catholic origins – but how did people in the colonies react to the High Church movement? Beating against the Wind, a study in nineteenth-century vernacular spirituality, emphasizes the power of faith on a shifting frontier in a transatlantic world. Focusing on people living along the Newfoundland and Labrador coast, Calvin Hollett presents a nuanced perspective on popular resistance to the colonial emissary Bishop Edward Feild and his spiritual regimen of order, silence, and solemnity. Whether by outright opposing Bishop Feild, or by simply ignoring his wishes and views, or by brokering a hybrid style of Gothic architecture, the people of Newfoundland and Labrador demonstrated their independence in the face of an attempt at hierarchical ascendency upon the arrival of Tractarianism in British North America. Instead, they continued to practise evangelical Anglicanism and participate in Methodist revivals, and thereby negotiated a popular Protestantism, one often infused with the spirituality of other seafarers from Nova Scotia and New England. Exploring the interaction between popular spirituality and religious authority, Beating against the Wind challenges the traditional claim of Feild’s success in bringing Tractarianism to the colony while exploring the resistance to Feild’s initiatives and the reasons for his disappointments.

Empire and Emancipation

Empire and Emancipation PDF Author: S. Karly Kehoe
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487541082
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 301

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Drawing upon the experiences of Scottish and Irish Catholics in Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island, Newfoundland, and Trinidad, Empire and Emancipation sheds important new light on the complex relationship between Catholicism and the British Empire.

Shouting, Embracing, and Dancing

Shouting, Embracing, and Dancing PDF Author: Calvin Hollett
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 077353671X
Category : Ecstasy
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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An impressive study of the important role common people play in reviving faith.

Into Silence and Servitude

Into Silence and Servitude PDF Author: Brian Titley
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773551735
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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For many American Catholics in the twentieth-century the face of the Church was a woman's face. After the Second World War, as increasing numbers of baby boomers flooded Catholic classrooms, the Church actively recruited tens of thousands of young women as teaching sisters. In Into Silence and Servitude Brian Titley delves into the experiences of young women who entered Catholic religious sisterhoods at this time. The Church favoured nuns as teachers because their wageless labour made education more affordable in what was the world's largest private school system. Focusing on the Church's recruitment methods Titley examines the idea of a religious vocation, the school settings in which nuns were recruited, and the tactics of persuasion directed at both suitable girls and their parents. The author describes how young women entered religious life and how they negotiated the sequence of convent "formation stages," each with unique challenges respecting decorum, autonomy, personal relations, work, and study. Although expulsions and withdrawals punctuated each formation stage, the number of nuns nationwide continued to grow until it reached a pinnacle in 1965, the same year that Catholic schools achieved their highest enrolment. Based on extensive archival research, memoirs, oral history, and rare Church publications, Into Silence and Servitude presents a compelling narrative that opens a window on little-known aspects of America’s convent system.

Thomas Meagher

Thomas Meagher PDF Author: Eugene Broderick
Publisher: Merrion Press
ISBN: 1788550234
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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Thomas Meagher is the biography of the father of one of Ireland’s most famous patriots, Thomas Francis Meagher. Overshadowed by his son, he was a man of deeply held political and religious principles, who, through his philanthropic works and political career, helped shape the character of nineteenth-century Ireland and deserves to be remembered in his own right. The book charts the complete story of Meagher, from his birth to Irish parents in Newfoundland, to his death in Bray in 1874. Most of his life was spent in Waterford city and it was there that he would establish himself as champion of political and religious equality, holding mayoral and parliamentary offices, while also working for the alleviation of suffering for the working classes, particularly during the Great Famine. A staunch follower of Daniel O’Connell, his career was strongly linked to the ongoing fight for repeal and Catholic rights. Broderick also looks at the fascinating and complex relationship Meagher had with his son, Thomas Francis, which mirrored the age-old conflict between constitutional and revolutionary nationalism in Ireland. Illuminating the history, not only of the man, but also the times in which he lived, this is a very human story set against the backdrop of great political turbulence.

Irish Nationalism and the British State

Irish Nationalism and the British State PDF Author: Brian Jenkins
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 077356005X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 439

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The Catholicisms of Coutances

The Catholicisms of Coutances PDF Author: Michael Hayden
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773541136
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385

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How religious belief and practice shaped daily life in early modern France.

Infantry

Infantry PDF Author:
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Category : Infantry
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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