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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; introduction; 1: "A Great Many Have Come from Ireland"; 2: "A Social Combination"; 3: Irish Presbyterian Ritual and Discipline in the Pennsylvania Countryside; 4: Defining a Doctrinally Distinct Community; 5: From Insurrection to Revival; 6: Revivalism, Psalmody, and "Satanic" Ministry; 7: The Sabbath, Temperance, and Market Revolution; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
"Irish Presbyterians and the Shaping of Western Pennsylvania, 1770-1830 is a historical study examining the religious culture of Irish immigrants in the early years of America. Despite fractious relations among competing sects, many immigrants shared a vision of a renewed Ireland in which their versions of Presbyterianism could flourish free from the domination of landlords and established church. In the process, they created the institutional foundations for western Pennsylvanian Presbyterian churches. Rural Presbyterian Irish church elders emphasized community and ethnoreligious group solidarity in supervising congregants' morality. Improved transportation and the greater reach of the market eliminated near-subsistence local economies and hastened the demise of religious traditions brought from Ireland. Gilmore contends that ritual and daily religious practice, as understood and carried out by migrant generations, were abandoned or altered by American-born generations in the context of major economic change"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Irish -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 18th century.
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Irish. |
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Pennsylvania. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Irish -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Presbyterians -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 18th century.
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Presbyterians. |
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Civil war -- Religious aspects -- Presbyterians. |
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Presbyterians -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century.
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Pennsylvania -- Church history -- 18th century.
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Church history. |
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Pennsylvania -- Church history -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1700-1899 |
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Electronic books.
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Church history.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gilmore, Peter E. Irish Presbyterians and the shaping of western Pennsylvania, 1770-1830. Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018] 0822945436 9780822945437 (OCoLC)1032019143 |
| ISBN |
9780822986249 (electronic book) |
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0822986248 (electronic book) |
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9780822945437 |
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0822945436 |
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