Journal article
The colonial religion of the Anglican clergy: Western Australia 1830 to c. 1870
Journal of Religious History, Vol.38(1), pp.91-114
2014
Abstract
This article sets out to remedy an historiographical oversight in Australian history by identifying the principal characteristics of the religious culture of Anglican clergy in the colony of Western Australia between 1830 and about 1870. Using sources, both personal from clergy or clergy wives, and official correspondence with the colonial governments, and clergy correspondence to mission societies and their bishop, a number of features of clergy religion are delineated. They enable a comparison to be made between metropolitan and colonial Anglican clergy cultures. These include anxieties about status and income; the involvement of the clergy in charity, education, church building, and public worship; isolation and religious competition. While many of these were familiar to English clergy, they took on new aspects in the colonial context, which required the clergy there to become conscious that the colony was a new land, however much they attempted to remake it in their own ecclesiastical image.
Details
- Title
- The colonial religion of the Anglican clergy: Western Australia 1830 to c. 1870
- Authors/Creators
- R. Strong (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Journal of Religious History, Vol.38(1), pp.91-114
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing
- Identifiers
- 991005540076307891
- Copyright
- © 2014 The Author
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Arts
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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