A sparkling new collection on religion and imperialism, covering Ireland and Britain, Australia, Canada, the Cape Colony and New Zealand, Botswana and Madagascar. Bursting with accounts of lively characters and incidents from around the British world, this collection is essential reading for all students of religious and imperial history.

'This book is an extremely welcome addition to the growing literature on the British empire, or empires, and religion. It offers much comment that is new while contributing to established historiographical debates. It is to be hoped that this volume will generate further interest and debate on a significant and too-long neglected dimension to imperial history.' - The Journal of the Ecclesiastical History

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FIONA BATEMAN MA Course Co-ordinator, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland ESTHER BREITENBACH Postdoctoral Fellow, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, the University of Edinburgh, UK RUTH COMPTON BROUWER Lecturer in History, the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada HILARY M. CAREY Associate Professor of History, the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia PETER CLAYWORTH Historian, the Head Office of the Department of Conservation, New Zealand PETER CUNICH Lecturer in History, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China CATHERINE HALL Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History, University College London, UK JOHN MACKENZIE Honorary Research Professor at the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, the University of Aberdeen, UK, and Honorary Professor at the Centre for Environmental History and Policy, the University of Stirling, UK JOHN MCALEER Curator of Eighteenth-Century Imperial and Maritime History, the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK ANNE O'BRIEN Lecturer in History, the University of New South Wales, Australia TADHG ÓHANNRACHÁIN Lecturer in Early Modern History, University College Dublin, Ireland ELIZABETH E. PREVOST Assistant Professor of History, Grinnell College, Iowa, USA SHURLEE SWAIN Professor of History, School of Historical Studies, the University of Melbourne, Australia JOHN STUART Lecturer in History, Kings College London and Kingston University,UK JOHN WOLFFE Professor of Religious History, the Faculty of Arts, The Open University, UK

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Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction: Empires of Religion; H.M.Carey PART I: RELIGIOUS METROPOLES The Consolidation of Irish Catholicism within a Hostile Imperial Framework: a comparative study of early modern Ireland and Hungary; T.Ó Hannracháin Anti-Catholicism and the British Empire, 1815-1914; J.Wolffe An Empire of God or of Man?: the Macaulays, father and son; C.Hall Religious Literature and Discourses of Empire: The Scottish Presbyterian Foreign Mission Movement, 1824-1913; E.Breitenbach PART II: COLONIES AND MISSION FIELDS 'Making Black Scotsmen and Women?' Scotland, Scottish Missions and the Eastern Cape Colony in the Nineteenth Century; J.Mackenzie Archbishop Vaughan and the Empires of Religion in Colonial New South Wales; P.Cunich 'Brighter Britain': Images of Empire in the International Child Rescue Movement, 1850-1915; S.Swain Saving 'the empty north': Religion and Empire in Australia; A.O'Brien 'The sharer of my joys and sorrows': Alison Blyth, Missionary Labours and Female Perspectives on Slavery in Nineteenth-century Jamaica; J.McAleer Richard Taylor and the Children of Noah: Race, Science and Religion in the South Seas; P.Clayworth From African Missions to Global Sisterhood: the Mothers' Union and Colonial Christianity, 1900-1930; E.E.Prevost PART III: POST-COLONIAL TRANSFORMATIONS Ireland's Spiritual Empire: Territory and Landscape in Irish Catholic Missionary Discourse; F.Bateman Canadian Protestant Overseas Missions to the Mid Twentieth Century: American Influences, Interwar Changes, Long-term Legacies, 1930-50; R.Compton Brouwer Empire and Religion in Colonial Botswana: The Seretse Khama Controversy, 1948-56; J.Stuart Select Bibliography Endnotes Index