Anglican Clergy in Australia, 1788–1850: Building a British World

Michael Gladwin

Anglican Clergy in Australia, 1788–1850

Building a British World

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Michael Gladwin, Lecturer in History, St Mark's National Theological Centre, School of Theology, Charles Sturt University, Canberra

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: December 2015
Print publication year:: 2015
Online ISBN:: 9781782044291

Series:: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New
Subjects:: History, Australian History

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Anglican clergymen in Britain's Australian colonies in their earliest years faced very particular challenges. Lacking any relevant training, experience or pastoral theology, these pioneer religious professionals not only had to minister to a 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. Previous accounts have caricatured such clerics - several of whom doubled as magistrates - as the imperial authorities' lackeys: "moral policemen", "flogging parsons". While the clergy did indeed make important contributions to colonial and imperial projects, this book shows that they explicitly rejected the subordination of Church to state, vigorously asserting their independence in relation to both religious duties and humanitarian concern. The author also demonstrates the clergy's vital contribution to the evolution of the new colonies in their economic development, and in the emergence of civil society and distinctive intellectual and cultural institutions and traditions. The clerical contribution was shaped by their social origins, intellectual formation and professional networks in an expanding settler empire, explored systematically here for the first time. What emerges is a much more nuanced understanding of the place of the Anglican Church in thehistory of colonial Australia than has previously been presented, shedding important new light on the religious, social and political history of both Australia and the British World of which it formed a part. Dr MichaelGladwin is Lecturer in History, St Mark's National Theological Centre, School of Theology, Charles Sturt University, Canberra.

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Anglican Clergy in Australia, 1788–1850

Building a British World

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-vii

List of illustrations
pp viii-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-x

Abbreviations
pp xi-xiii

Map
pp xiv-xiv

Introduction
pp 1-26

PART I - SINEWS: FUNDING, RECRUITMENT, BACKGROUNDS AND MOTIVATION, 1788-1850
pp 27-28

1 - Anglican imperial designs? Funding, recruitment and national backgrounds
pp 29-56

2 - Gentility, manners and the ideal colonial clergyman
pp 57-70

3 - Social background, education and motivation
pp 71-94

PART II - CLERGYMEN IN COLONIAL AUSTRALIA, 1788-1850
pp 95-96

4 - Ecclesiastical roles: rites of passage and public worship
pp 97-113

5 - Flogging parsons? Chaplaincy, the magistracy and civil roles
pp 114-128

6 - Clergy, culture and society
pp 129-152

7 - Clergy and indigenous peoples
pp 153-162

PART III - SCENES OF COLONIAL CLERICAL LIFE: AUSTRALIAN CLERGYMEN AND VOLUNTARISM, 1836-50
pp 163-164

8 - The impact of voluntarism
pp 165-189

9 - Colonial quiverfuls: clerical family life
pp 190-201

10 - Clerical identity, laity and voluntarism
pp 202-215

Conclusion
pp 216-228

Bibliography
pp 229-252

Index
pp 253-268

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