Kirk Discipline and Roman Catholicism in Early Modern Scotland
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-5237-0 (ISBN)
This book analyses the Scottish kirk’s use of public shame to persecute the kingdom’s Catholic minority. In early modern Scotland, where the national church mandated that a specially constructed stool of repentance be placed directly in front of every minister’s pulpit, the dreadful spectacle of public penance was a routine feature of parish life. The book examines this process of ritualised shame.
Drawing on recent advances in the study of kirk discipline, underground Catholicism and the history of emotion, it unsettles understandings of religious persecution. Ryan Burns analyses the psychological pressure inflicted on religious dissidents, some of whom attempted suicide rather than submit to the repentance stool. The book examines the spectacle of public penance, as well as the Presbyterian kirk’s often creative means of inducing humiliation.
Ryan Burns is an Assistant Professor of History at Jacksonville State University. He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2019 and held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Chabraja Center for Historical Studies. His research focuses on the history of shame and its intersection with the history of religion. Kirk Discipline and Roman Catholicism in Early Modern Scotland is his first book.
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Demand for Tears
Chapter 1: Performing Shame: The Theatre of Conversion in Early Modern Scotland
Chapter 2: Catholic Elites, Immigrants, and the Kirk: Minding Boundaries
Chapter 3: Inward Catholics and Outward Protestants: The Limits of Religious Conformity
Chapter 4: The Cromwellian Turn: Strange Bedfellows in Interregnum Scotland
Chapter 5: Repentance Revisited: Disciplining Catholics in Restoration Scotland
Chapter 6: Settling for Diversity: The Decline of Scotland’s Proselytising Mission
Conclusion: Conversion and its Discontents
Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.10.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Scottish Religious Cultures: Historical Perspectives |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte | |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-3995-5237-6 / 1399552376 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-3995-5237-0 / 9781399552370 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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