The Soul of Scotland
1st Edition
Published on 30. June 2016
320 pages
978-0-86153-792-1 (ISBN)
Description
Religion is at the very core of Scotland's turbulent history and unique cultural heritage. In a fast-paced enthralling celebration of this heritage, Harry Reid introduces us to a spiritual landscape of incredible richness and variety.
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Content
- Intro
- The Soul of Scotland
- Contents
- A preface and a warning
- Introduction: Keills
- A romp through Scottish religious history
- Part 1 Travelogue
- Listen to the stones
- Pilgrimage
- Smithton and Scalan
- Three caves
- Dunnottar Castle
- Carfin
- Snobbery and deference
- Abernethy
- Abbeys
- Two unlikely chapels
- Part 2 Recent History
- R. F. Mackenzie
- The Church reborn
- Charisma
- 'Doing God'
- Papal visits and the All-Scotland crusade
- Aberdeen
- The 'nearly men'
- Army chaplains
- Tony Bryer
- Christianity and the Scottish Parliament
- Part 3 History
- Highlands and Islands
- The Ruthwell Cross
- Saints
- Jacobitism, sectarianism, state-sponsored slaughter, and industrial exploitation
- George Buchanan, the unwitting father of the National Covenant
- Enlightenment
- Methodism and socialism
- The Disruption and the destruction of old Scotland
- Three exceptional Victorians
- Part 4 Literature
- Scotland as hell
- The big four
- Four texts
- Two Thomsons
- Biographies and novels
- Lewis Grassic Gibbon
- 'Mac the great' and others
- John Buchan
- The Elie declaration
- Endnote
- References and further reading
