Victorian Christianity and Emigrant Voyages to British Colonies - C.1840 C.191

Rowan Strong looks at the religious component of the nineteenth-century British and Irish emigration experience, by examining the varieties of Christianity adhered to by most British and Irish emigrants in the nineteenth century, and consequently taken to their new homes in British settler colonies.

List of contents

• List of abbreviations


• Introduction


• 1: The Anglican Emigrant Chaplaincy: An Imperial Network


• 2: Religious Constructions of British Emigration in the Nineteenth Century


• 3: Steerage Emigrants 1840-c.1880


• 4: Cabin Passenger Religion 1840s-1870s


• 5: Religious Professionals in Emigrant Ships


• 6: Emigrant Christianity 1880-c.1914: Changes, Continuities, Conclusions


• Bibliography

About the author

Rowan Strong is Professor of Church History in the Theology department of Murdoch University, Australia. He has degrees from New Zealand in history and theology from universities in New Zealand and Australia, and received his PhD in Ecclesiastical History from the University of Edinburgh. He is the General Editor of the five-volume The Oxford History of Anglicanism. His previous publications include Alexander Penrose Forbes: The First Tractarian Bishop (1995) and Episcopalianism in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: Religious Responses to a Modernizing Society (2002).

Summary

Rowan Strong looks at the religious component of the nineteenth-century British and Irish emigration experience, by examining the varieties of Christianity adhered to by most British and Irish emigrants in the nineteenth century, and consequently taken to their new homes in British settler colonies.

Additional text

This fascinating and significant study by Rowan Strong looks at emigration to British colonies (not US) and shows that there was an important network of Church of England chaplains assisting emigrants.

Product details

• Authors: Rowan Strong, Rowan (Professor of Church History Strong, Strong Rowan
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9780198724247
• ISBN: 978-0-19-872424-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; European History, Social & cultural history, RELIGION / Christianity / History, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Christianity, Colonialism & imperialism, History of Religion, Migration, immigration & emigration, United Kingdom, Great Britain, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Social and cultural history, Migration, immigration and emigration, Colonialism and imperialism, Church history