Evangelical Protestantism in Ulster Society 1740-1890

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EVANGELICAL
PROTESTANTISM IN ULSTER
SOCIETY 1740-1890
This book is the first serious study of Irish
Evangelicalism. The authors examine the
social history of popular Protestantism in
Ulster from the Evangelical Revival in the
mid-eighteenth century to the conflicts
generated by proposals for Irish Home Rule
at the end of the nineteenth century.
Evangelical Protestantism in Ulster Society
1740-1890 will be useful reading for
undergraduates and postgraduates studying
nineteenth-century social history, political
history, the history of ideas and religious
history. It will also be of interest to Church
historians and specialists in the field.
@ Many of the central themes of the book are
at the forefront of recent work on popular
religion: women in popular religious
movements, religion and national identity,
religious revivalism, and the impact of
social change on religious experience.
@ The authors draw ona wide range of
primary sources from the early eighteenth
to the late nineteenth century. They also
display an impressive mastery of the wider
literature on popular religion in the period.
® By concentrating on the controversial
province of Ulster, the book makes a fresh
contribution to the history of Britain and
Ireland in the modern period.
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EVANGELICAL PROTESTANTISM
IN ULSTER SOCIETY
1740-1890

EVANGELICAL
PROTESTANTISM
IN -U LSTER SOCIETY
1740-1890
David Hempton and Myrtle Hill
39037LNOW
LONDON AND NEW YORK
First published 1992
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
a division of Routledge, Chapman and Hall, Inc.
29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001
© 1992 David Hempton and Myrtle Hill
Typeset in 10 on 12 point Bembo by Fotographics (Bedford) Ltd
and printed in Great Britain by The University Press, Cambridge
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or
reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic,
mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter
invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any
information storage or retrieval system, without permission in
writing from the publishers.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available
from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
A catalog record for this book is available on request
ISBN 0 415 07823 7
Contents
List of figures page vii
List of maps vill
List of tables ix
Preface x1
PART ONE From international origins to an Irish crisis 1740-1800
1 The rise of evangelical religion 1740-80 3
2 Rebellion and revolution: c.1780—1800 Sei 46)
PARTTWO Voluntarism, denominationalism and sectarianism 1800-50
3 Evangelical expansion: cooperation and conflict 47
4 The churches: schism and consolidation 62
5 Religion and society: conversions and controversy 81
PART THREE Culture and society in evangelical Ulster
6 Religion in the city: evangelicalism in Belfast 1800-60 105
7 ‘Born to serve’: women and evangelical religion 129
PART FOUR From religious revival to provincial identity
8 Ulster awakened: the 1859 revival 145
9 Home Rule and the Protestant mind 1860-90 161
10 Conclusion 188
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Notes 190
Bibliography 234
Index 265