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 AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Demand for TearsChapter 1: Performing Shame: The Theatre of Conversion in Early Modern ScotlandChapter 2: Catholic Elites, Immigrants, and the Kirk: Minding BoundariesChapter 3: Inward Catholics and Outward Protestants: The Limits of Religious ConformityChapter 4: The Cromwellian Turn: Strange Bedfellows in Interregnum ScotlandChapter 5: Repentance Revisited: Disciplining Catholics in Restoration ScotlandChapter 6: Settling for Diversity: The Decline of Scotland’s Proselytising MissionConclusion: Conversion and its DiscontentsBibliography

Covering more than 200 years with much vivid detail, this book is equally impressive in exploring the Kirk's attempt to convert Catholics by public humiliation, and the latter's parrying of those attempts by surrender, feigned conformity or occasional courageous defiance.