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The Colonial Religion of the A nglican Clergy: W estern A ustralia 1830 to c. 1870
Author(s) -
Strong Rowan
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of religious history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.117
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9809
pISSN - 0022-4227
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9809.12137
Subject(s) - worship , colonialism , context (archaeology) , historiography , metropolitan area , isolation (microbiology) , sociology , history , religious studies , political science , law , philosophy , archaeology , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
This article sets out to remedy an historiographical oversight in A ustralian history by identifying the principal characteristics of the religious culture of A nglican clergy in the colony of W estern A ustralia 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 A nglican 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 E nglish 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.