Tag: Welsh national identity

• St David, Feast and Nation: Faith, Respectability, and the Welsh Diaspora

  

  Saint David, Dewi Sant, stands at the centre of Welsh national consciousness in a manner unmatched by most European patron saints. His importance lies not only in religion, but in the way successive generations of Welsh people have used his memory to articulate identity, morality, and belonging. Nowhere is this clearer than in the evolution…

  Antony David Davies

  Religion

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• William Williams Pantycelyn (1717–1791), The Voice of the Welsh Revival and the Making of a Singing Nation

  

  In my earlier essays on Daniel Rowland, the great evangelist of the Welsh Methodist Revival, and Howell Harris, the organiser and engine who turned revival into a disciplined movement, I explored two forms of power that shaped modern Wales. The first was the power of the pulpit, preaching as national event, the sermon as moral…

  Antony David Davies

  Religion

  18th century Wales, bible, Calvinistic Methodists, Carmarthenshire, Chapel culture, christianity, congregational singing, Daniel Rowland, evangelical revival, faith, History, Howell Harris, jesus, Llandovery, Llangeitho, Methodist Revival, Nonconformist Wales, Pantycelyn, revival hymns, Sunday schools, Trefeca, Welsh Calvinistic Methodism, Welsh chapel history, Welsh culture and identity, Welsh devotional literature, Welsh evangelicalism, Welsh hymnody, Welsh hymns, Welsh language, Welsh literature, Welsh Methodist Revival, Welsh national identity, Welsh Nonconformity, Welsh poets, Welsh preaching, Welsh religious history, Welsh singing tradition, Welsh Social History, Welsh spirituality, William Williams, William Williams Pantycelyn