Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: Difference between revisions

The Scottish sister society,<ref name="Tanner 2004">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AXyq-Umw9DgC&q=%22Society+for+the+Promotion+of+Christian+Knowledge%22 |title=The Last of the Celts |last=Tanner |first=Marcus |publisher=Yale University Press |date=2004 |isbn=0-300-10464-2 |page=35 |url-access=limited }}</ref> the '''Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge''' ('''SSPCK'''), was formed by royal charter in 1709<ref name="Tanner 2004"/> as a separate organisation with the purpose of founding schools "where religion and virtue might be taught to young and old" in the [[Scottish Highlands]] and other "uncivilised" areas of the country. It was intended to counter the threat of Catholic missionaries and of growing Highland [[Jacobitism]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Porter |first=Andrew |title=Religion Versus Empire?: British Protestant Missionaries and Overseas Expansion, 1700–1914 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ldQxO_yIPSEC&pg=PP9 |year=2004 |publisher=Manchester University Press |page=9 |isbn=9780719028236 }}</ref> The