{"title":"Allan W. MacColl","description":"\u003cp\u003eAllan W. MacColl’s works delve into the intricate relationship between faith, land, and community life. Through thoughtful reflection, his writing explores the spiritual foundations that shape rural traditions and the enduring values within crofting societies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect insightful and measured discussions that illuminate the intersections of religion and everyday existence. His books offer a grounded perspective on the role of faith in sustaining cultural heritage and communal identity.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"land-faith-and-the-crofting-community-by-allan-w-maccoll-9781399563598","title":"Land, Faith and the Crofting Community","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book probes the deep-rooted links between the land, the people, and the religious culture of the Scottish Highlands and Islands in the nineteenth century. The responses of the clergy to the social crisis which enveloped the region have often been characterised as a mixture of callous indifference, cowering deference, or fatalistic passivity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAllan MacColl's pioneering research challenges such stereotypical representations of Highland ministers head-on. \u003ci\u003eLand, Faith and the Crofting Community\u003c\/i\u003e is the first full-scale examination of Christian social teaching in the nineteenth-century Gaidhealtachd and addresses a major gap in the historical understanding of Gaelic society. Seeking to lay bare the existing myths by a wide-ranging analysis of all the denominational, theological, and social factors at play, this study boldly overturns the received scholarly and popular interpretations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA ground-breaking work, it explores a substantial but under-utilised field of evidence and questions whether or not Highland Christians—both clergy and laity—were committed to land reform as an engine of social improvement and conciliation. The Christian contribution to the development of a distinctively Highland identity, which found expression during the Crofters' War of the 1880s, is delineated, while wider links between theology and social philosophy are examined from beyond the perspective of the Highlands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47934106206444,"sku":"9781399563598","price":86.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781399563598-land-faith-and-the-crofting-community.jpg?v=1783896678"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/allan-w-maccoll.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}