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Table des matières
1. Looking Out Across the Terrain: Surveying the landscape and a map for the journey
2. The Story They Brought With Them: Dissent’s British Origins and Colonial Australian Experience
3. Landscape of Scepticism and Belief: Churches of Christ travelogues from the Holy Land to Australia, 1889 to 1896
4. Landscape of Urban Transformation: Salvation Army publicity and performance in the parish of the streets, 1890 to 1909
5. Landscape of Here and Elsewhere: Congregationalist poetry at home in war and peace, 1914 to 1920
6. Landscape of Adventure: Methodist novels and imagination on the mission fields, 1915 to 1948
7. Landscape of Timeless Beauty: Quaker essays on beauty in art and the painting of nature, 1922 to 1963
8. Conclusion. Writing the Australian Landscape
Bibliography
Index
A propos de l'auteur
Kerri Handasyde is a Senior Lecturer in history at the University of Divinity, Australia.
Résumé
This book shows how creative writing gives voice to the drama and nuance of religious experience in a way that is rarely captured by sermons, reports, and the minutes of church meetings. The author explores the history of religious Dissent and Evangelicalism in Australia through a variety of literary responses to landscape, from both men and women, lay and ordained.
The book explores transnational themes, along with themes of migration and travel across the Australian continent. The author gives insight into the literature of Protestant Dissent, concerned as it is with travel, belonging, and the intersection of national and religious identity. Much of the writing is situated on the road: a soldier returning from the Great War, a child on a lone adventure, a night-time journey through urban slums; all of these are in some way dependent on the theme of “walking with Jesus” as the Holy Land travelogues make explicit.
God in the Landscape draws the links between landscape, literature, and spirituality with imagination and insight and is an important contribution to the historical study of religion and the environment.
Préface
Tells the multi-stranded history of Protestant Dissent and Evangelicalism in Australia through the creative writing of women and men of faith as they engaged with their environment.
Texte suppl.
Kerrie Handasyde’s historical work is fascinating in its focus on fiction, poetry, novels, travel writing and dramatic performance, rather than denominational histories, to get inside the lived experience of Protestant Dissent. In so doing, it uncovers insights that might otherwise go overlooked.
