Religion and Greater Ireland: Christianity and Irish Global Networks, 1750-1969 9780773597341

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Religion and Greater Ireland: Christianity and Irish Global Networks, 1750-1969
 9780773597341

Table of contents :
Cover
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction - Religion and Greater Ireland - Hilary M. Carey and Colin Barr
PART ONE - Irish Global Networks
1 - Deference, Accommodation, and Conflict in Irish Confessional Relations - R.V. Comerford
2 - Drawing Strength from Past Migratory Experiences: The Church of Ireland Gazette and Southern Protestant Migration in the Post-Independence Period - Leigh-Ann Coffey
3 - Religious Texts for the Catholic Migrant: International Print Networks and the Irish-Australian Book Trade - Kevin Molloy
PART TWO - Atlantic World
4 - The Tales and Trials of a “Double Minority”: The Irish and French Catholic Engagement for the Soul of the Canadian Church, 1815–1947 - Mark G. McGowan
5 - This Sacred Feeling: Patriotism, Nation-Building, and the Catholic Church in Newfoundland, 1850–1914 - Carolyn Lambert
6 - Controversial Immigrants: Theological Conflict in the Transatlantic World of Eighteenth-Century Irish Presbyterianism - Rankin Sherling
7 - Catholicism, Masculinity, and Middle-Class Respectability in the Irish Catholic Temperance Movement in Nineteenth-Century Canada - Mike McLaughlin
8 - “We Know Neither Catholics, nor Protestants, nor Free-Thinkers Here”: Ethnicity, Religion, and the Chicago Public Schools, 1837–94 - Mimi Cowan
PART THREE - Asia and Africa
9 - Irish Religious Networks in Colonial South Asia, ca. 1788–1858 - Barry Crosbie
10 - Saving the Empire? The Role of Irishwomen in Protestant Female Missions, 1870–1914 - Myrtle Hill
11 - “Hurrah for Old Ireland!”: Irish Catholicism at the Cape of Good Hope - Colin Barr
PART FOUR - Southern World
12 - Greater Ireland and the Australian Immigrant: The Religious Dimension - Eric Richards
13 - “Mindful of Her St Columbas and Gaels”: Ireland, Empire, and Australian Anglicanism, 1788–1850 - Michael Gladwin
14 - “God Sent Me Here to Raise a Society”: Irishness, Protestantism, and Colonial Identity in New South Wales - Dianne Hall
15 - Building “God’s Own Country”: The Reverend Rutherford Waddell, the Global Irish, and New Zealand History - John Stenhouse
16 - “A Veritable Hurricane of Sectarianism”: The Year 1920 and Ethno-Religious Conflict in Australia - Jeff Kildea
Conclusion - Colin Barr and Hilary M. Carey
Bibliography
Contributors
Index

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