Empires of Religion

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