Empires of Religion

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: Empires of Religion....Pages 1-21
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
The Consolidation of Irish Catholicism within a Hostile Imperial Framework: A Comparative Study of Early Modern Ireland and Hungary....Pages 25-42
Anti-Catholicism and the British Empire, 1815–1914....Pages 43-63
An Empire of God or of Man? The Macaulays, Father and Son....Pages 64-83
Religious Literature and Discourses of Empire: The Scottish Presbyterian Foreign Mission Movement....Pages 84-110
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
‘Making Black Scotsmen and Scotswomen?’ Scottish Missionaries and the Eastern Cape Colony in the Nineteenth Century....Pages 113-136
Archbishop Vaughan and the Empires of Religion in Colonial New South Wales....Pages 137-160
‘Brighter Britain’: Images of Empire in the International Child Rescue Movement, 1850–1915....Pages 161-176
Saving the ‘Empty North’: Religion and Empire in Australia....Pages 177-196
Front Matter....Pages 197-197
‘The Sharer of My Joys and Sorrows’: Alison Blyth, Missionary Labours and Female Perspectives on Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Jamaica....Pages 199-221
Richard Taylor and the Children of Noah: Race, Science and Religion in the South Seas....Pages 222-242
From African Missions to Global Sisterhood: The Mothers’ Union and Colonial Christianity, 1900–1930....Pages 243-264
Front Matter....Pages 265-265
Ireland’s Spiritual Empire: Territory and Landscape in Irish Catholic Missionary Discourse....Pages 267-287
Canadian Protestant Overseas Missions to the Mid-Twentieth Century: American Influences, Interwar Changes, Long-Term Legacies....Pages 288-310
Empire and Religion in Colonial Botswana: The Seretse Khama Controversy, 1948–1956....Pages 311-332
Back Matter....Pages 333-350