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Faith, Famine, and Faction

by Power Thomas P. Power

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Wipf and Stock
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2.1 cm

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Religious conflict in Ireland has had a long history. Faith, Famine, and Faction is a case study of religious conflict in the copper-mining community of Bunmahon, Co. Waterford, Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century. By the time an English evangelical clergyman, Rev. David Alfred Doudney, came to the area in 1847, intense exploitation of its copper resources had begun. Depression in the industry followed by famine and its legacy, spurred Doudney to initiate educational establishments to help the poor and deprived of the area, children particularly. These initiatives brought him into conflict with Catholic clergy who suspected him of engaging in proselytism. Doudney was more interested in encouraging a more vital Christianity in opposition to the nominalism he found around him, whether among Catholics or Protestants, than he was in forced religious conversion. However, such a distinction was not clear at popular level. In the rising tensions that ensued and against the backdrop of a suspected suicide, Doudney was the object of bigoted opposition, a narrow xenophobia, and of threat to his life, that together forced his departure. Not without blemish himself, Doudney articulated a strong anti-Catholic rhetoric common to the Victorian age, which he directed against the doctrines and practices of the Catholic Church.
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  • Author

    Power Thomas P. Power

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Wipf and Stock

  • Published

    September 2020

  • Weight

    622g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9781725283367

  • ISBN-10

    1725283360

  • Eden Code

    5309713

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