Hilary M Carey: 3 books
Believing in Australia
A cultural history of religions
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1996
Australians have been slow to appreciate the rich variety of their religious inheritance. Believing in Australia is a much-needed cultural history of Australia's many religions which goes well beyond existing studies of denominationalism.
Hilary Carey traces the changes in religions practice...
God's Empire
Religion and Colonialism in the British World, c.1801–1908
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
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...
Empire of Hell
Religion and the Campaign to End Convict Transportation in the British Empire, 1788–1875
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
This revisionist history of convict transportation from Britain and Ireland will challenge much that you thought you knew about religion and penal colonies. Based on original archival sources, it examines arguments by elites in favour and against the practice of transportation and considers why they...