Converts and Conversion in Ireland, 1650-1850Conversion was a highly controversial aspect of aspect of religious life in Early Modern Ireland, yet it remains under investigated by modern scholarship. This collection brings together both new and established scholars to begin the task of exploring this vexed issue. The book takes a wide chronological span, treats of the broad range of Irish confessional lives and uses a variety of disciplinary approaches, interrogating the variety of individual motivations in the face of religious and political pressures to conform during a controversial period in Irish history. |
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Contents
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS | 11 |
The provisions for conversion in the penal laws 16951750 | 35 |
The theology and liturgy of conversion from Catholicism | 60 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Converts and Conversion in Ireland, 1650-1850 |
| Authors | Michael Brown, Thomas P. Power |
| Editors | Michael Brown, Charles Ivar McGrath, Thomas P. Power |
| Publisher | Four Courts Press, 2005 |
| ISBN | 1851828109, 9781851828104 |
| Length | 320 pages |
| Subjects | › › Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General |
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