Irish Presbyterians and the Shaping of Western Pennsylvania, 1770-1830


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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.




Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series


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Catalogue of Copyright Entries


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History of the Presbyterian Church of Bethel (Classic Reprint)


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Excerpt from History of the Presbyterian Church of Bethel History delights to trace the ancestry of those whose story it writes; and when-it discovers that the blood which courses through their veins bears upon its crimson tides the embellishing glory of a noble lineage, it justifies that people, at its own decisive tribunal, in rejoicing in the stock of which they sprang. In writing the history of Bethel Church, the first task, therefore, which imposes itself, is to tell something about the scotch-irish, from whom its congregation claim descent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.