{"product_id":"anglican-clergy-in-australia-17881850-9780861933280","title":"Anglican Clergy in Australia 17881850","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFirst full-length exploration of the role of the Anglican church in the development of colonial Australia.\u003c\/b\u003eAnglican clergymen in Britain's Australian colonies in their earliest years faced very particular challenges. Lacking relevant training, experience or pastoral theology, these pioneer religious professionals not only ministered toa convict population unique in the empire, but had also to engage with indigenous peoples and a free-settler population struggling with an often inhospitable environment. This was in the context of a settler empire that was beingreshaped by mass migration, rapid expansion and a widespread decline in the political authority of religion and the confessional state, especially after the American Revolution.  Previous accounts have caricatured such clerics as lackeys of the imperial authorities: \"moral policemen\", \"flogging parsons\". Yet, while the clergy did make important contributions to colonial and imperial projects, this book offers a more wide-ranging picture. It reveals them at times vigorously asserting their independence in relation both to their religious duties and to humanitarian concern, and shows them playing an important part in the new colonies' social and economic development, making a vital contribution to the emergence of  civil society and intellectual and cultural institutions and traditions within Australia. It is only possible to understand the distinctive role that the clergy played in the light of their social origins, intellectual formation and professional networks in an expanding British World, a subject explored systematically here for the first time.  Michael Gladwin is Lecturer in History at St Mark's National Theological Centre, Charles Sturt University, Canberra.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWell organized, and packed with the sort of detail that shows how thoroughly the author has been prepared to follow up every relevant question that occurs to him. * AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS \u0026amp; HISTORY *\u003cbr\u003eMichael Gladwin's excellent book offers robust correctives to some of the most entrenched stereotypes in Australian historiography...[It] is a model of how to reconstruct a particular milieu. * STUDIES IN WORLD CHRISTIANITY *\u003cbr\u003e[This] deeply researched and judiciously revisionist work...is a distinguished addition to [the] scholarly literature. * CHURCH HISTORY \u0026amp; RELIGIOUS CULTURE *\u003cbr\u003eOffers valuable insights and resources for other scholars investigating the influence of Christianity in British colonial societies. * JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY *\u003cbr\u003e[An] impressive volume - a model of empirically grounded critical history writing that deserves widespread and careful attention. It has major implications for our understanding of the character of the Church of England in early colonial Australia. * AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL STUDIES *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction Anglican imperial designs? Funding, recruitment and national backgrounds Gentility, manners and the ideal colonial clergyman Social background, education and motivation Ecclesiastical roles: rites of passage and public worship Flogging parsons? Chaplaincy, the magistracy and civil roles Clergy, culture and society Clergy and indigenous peoples The impact of voluntarism Colonial quiverfuls: clerical family life Clerical identity, laity and voluntarism Conclusion Bibliography","brand":"Boydell \u0026 Brewer Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406372413783,"sku":"9780861933280","price":76.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780861933280.jpg?v=1730495563","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/anglican-clergy-in-australia-17881850-9780861933280","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}