• DOI:10.2307/2168365
Corpus ID: 145286433

Piety and Nationalism: Lay Voluntary Associations and the Creation of an Irish-Catholic Community in Toronto, 1850-1895

@inproceedings{Zucchi1993PietyAN,
  title={Piety and Nationalism: Lay Voluntary Associations and the Creation of an Irish-Catholic Community in Toronto, 1850-1895},
  author={J. Zucchi and B. Clarke},
  year={1993}
}

J. Zucchi, B. Clarke

Published 1993

Sociology

While the role of the laity in the nationalist awakening is commonly recognized, their part in the movement for religious renewal is usually minimized. Initiative on the part of the laity has been thought to have existed only outside the church, where it remained a troubling and at times insurgent force. Clarke revises this picture of the role of the laity in church and community. He examines the rich associational life of the laity, which ranged from nationalist and fraternal associations… CONTINUE READING

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