Rowan Strong

Victorian Christianity and Emigrant Voyages to British Colonies C.1840 - C.1914

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Produktbeschreibung

Rowan Strong looks at the religious component of the nineteenth-century British and Irish emigration experience, by examining the varieties of Christianity adhered to by most British and Irish emigrants in the nineteenth century, and consequently taken to their new homes in British settler colonies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780198724247
• ISBN-10: 0198724241
• Artikelnr.: 48688486

Autorenporträt

Rowan Strong is Professor of Church History in the Theology department of Murdoch University, Australia. He has degrees from New Zealand in history and theology from universities in New Zealand and Australia, and received his PhD in Ecclesiastical History from the University of Edinburgh. He is the General Editor of the five-volume The Oxford History of Anglicanism. His previous publications include Alexander Penrose Forbes: The First Tractarian Bishop (1995) and Episcopalianism in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: Religious Responses to a Modernizing Society (2002).

Inhaltsangabe

* List of abbreviations
* Introduction
* 1: The Anglican Emigrant Chaplaincy: An Imperial Network
* 2: Religious Constructions of British Emigration in the Nineteenth
Century
* 3: Steerage Emigrants 1840-c.1880
* 4: Cabin Passenger Religion 1840s-1870s
* 5: Religious Professionals in Emigrant Ships
* 6: Emigrant Christianity 1880-c.1914: Changes, Continuities,
Conclusions
* Bibliography