{"product_id":"religion-and-greater-ireland-colin-barr-9780773545700","title":"Religion and Greater Ireland: Christianity and Irish Global Networks, 1750-1950","description":"\u003cp\u003eImpelled by economic deprivation at home and spiritual ambition abroad, nineteenth-century Irish clerics and laypeople reshaped the many sites where they came to pray, preach, teach, trade, and settle. So decisive was the role of religion in the worlds of Irish settlement that it helped to create a \"Greater Ireland\" that encompassed the entire English-speaking world and beyond. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRejecting the popular notion that the Irish were passive victims of imperial oppression, \u003ci\u003eReligion and Greater Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how religion opened up a vast world to exploit. The religious free market of the United States and the British Empire provided an opportunity and a level playing-field in which the Irish could compete and thrive. Contributors to this collection show how the Irish of all denominations contributed to the creation and extension of Greater Ireland through missionary and temperance societies, media, and the circulation of people, ideas, and material culture around the world. Essays also detail the diverse experiences of Irish immigrants, whether they were Catholics or Protestants, clergy or laypeople, women or men, in sites of settlement and mission including the United States, Canada, South Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSeeking to illuminate the interconnections and commonalities of the Irish migrant experience, \u003ci\u003e Religion and Greater Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e provides fascinating insight into the range of influences that Ireland's religions have had on the world beyond the British Isles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Colin Barr,Hilary M. Carey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0773545700\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780773545700\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McGill-Queen's University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 472\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.20d","brand":"Colin Barr","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096714125567,"sku":"9780773545700","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/religion-and-greater-ireland-colin-barr-9780773545700","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}