Bibliograph

God's empire, religion and colonialism in the British World, c.1801-1908, Hilary M. Carey

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God's empire, religion and colonialism in the British World, c.1801-1908, Hilary M. Carey

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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chartsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

God's empire

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electronic resource

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Hilary M. Carey

Sub title

religion and colonialism in the British World, c.1801-1908

Summary

In God's Empire, Hilary M. Carey charts Britain's nineteenth-century transformation from Protestant nation to free Christian empire through the history of the colonial missionary movement. This wide-ranging reassessment of the religious character of the second British empire provides a clear account of the promotional strategies of the major churches and church parties which worked to plant settler Christianity in British domains. Based on extensive use of original archival and rare published sources, the author explores major debates such as the relationship between religion and colonization, church-state relations, Irish Catholics in the empire, the impact of the Scottish Disruption on colonial Presbyterianism, competition between Evangelicals and other Anglicans in the colonies, and between British and American strands of Methodism in British North America

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