Episcopalianism in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: Religious Responses to a Modernizing Society

This work looks at the various groups of Episcopalians in the 19th century, showing how their beliefs and attitudes responded to the new industrial and urban society. They include Highland Gaels; North-East crofters, farmers, and fisherfolk; urban Episcopalians; Episcopalian aristocrats; Evangelical and Anglo-Catholic Episcopalians.
This title examines the history of Scottish Episcopalianism in the 19th century as a response to the new urbanizing and industrializing society of the time. In particular, it looks at the various Episcopalian sub-cultures which had to come to terms with these social and economic changes. These sub-cultures include Highland Gaels; North-East crofters, farmers and fisherfolk; urban Episcopalians; aristocratic Episcopalians; and Evangelicals and Anglo-Catholics. The author also provides an outline of the history of Episcopalianism in Scotland from the 16th century to 1900 and addresses the issue of Episcopalianism and Scottish identity, which remains topical at the 21st century.