Piety and Nationalism: Lay Voluntary Associations and the Creation of an Irish-Catholic Community in Toronto, 1850-1895 9780773564367

Lay voluntary associations played a vital role in the creation of a religiously informed ethnic culture among the Irish

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Piety and Nationalism: Lay Voluntary Associations and the Creation of an Irish-Catholic Community in Toronto, 1850-1895
9780773564367

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Brian P. Clarke

Table of contents :
Contents
Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The Irish in Toronto
2 Reform of the Roman Catholic Church
3 Renewal
4 The Parish and the Hearth: Women's Confraternities and the Devotional Revolution
5 "To Bribe the Porters of Heaven": Poverty, Salvation, and the Saint Vincent de Paul Society
6 "Heroic Virtue": Parish Temperance Societies and Male Piety
7 "A Pariah Among Nations": The Rise of Irish Nationalism in Toronto
8 "Loyal Hibernians?": Fenianism and the Hibernian Benevolent Society
9 "The Sacred Cause and the National Faith": The Resurrection of Irish Nationalism
10 New Departures
Conclusion
Appendix: Occupational Categories
Notes
Index
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