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.

This book provides a serious study of Irish evangelicalism. The authors examine the social history of popular Protestantism in Ulster from the Evangelical Revival in the mid-18th century to the conflicts generated by proposals for Irish Home Rule at the end of the 19th century. Many of the central themes of the book are at the forefront of recent work on popular religion including the relationship between religion and national identity, the role of women in popular religion, the causes and consequences of religious revivalism, and the impact of social change on religious experience. The authors draw on a wide range of primary sources from the early 18th to the late 19th century. In addition, they display an impressive mastery of the wider literature on popular religion in the period. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of social history, political history, history of ideas and religious history.