An Anglican British world - (Studies in Imperialism) by Joseph Hardwick (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Looks at how the Anglican Church coped with mass migration from Britain in the first half of the nineteenth century<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>This book looks at how that oft-maligned institution, the Anglican Church, coped with mass migration from Britain in the first half of the nineteenth century. The book details the great array of institutions, voluntary societies and inter-colonial networks that furnished the Church with the men and money that enabled it to sustain a common institutional structure and a common set of beliefs across a rapidly-expanding 'British world'. It also sheds light on how this institutional context contributed to the formation of colonial Churches with distinctive features and identities. One of the book's key aims is to show how the colonial Church should be of interest to more than just scholars and students of religious and Church history. The colonial Church was an institution that played a vital role in the formation of political publics and ethnic communities in a settler empire that was being remoulded by the advent of mass migration, democracy and the separation of Church and State.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>When members of that oft-maligned institution, the Anglican Church - the 'Tory Party at prayer' - encountered the far-flung settler empire, they found it a strange and intimidating place. Anglicanism's conservative credentials seemed to have little place in developing colonies; its established status, secure in England, would crumble in Ireland and was destined never to be adopted in the 'White Dominions'. By 1850, however, a global 'Anglican Communion' was taking shape. This book explains why Anglican clergymen started to feel at home in the empire. Between 1790 and 1860 the Church of England put in place structures that enabled it to sustain a common institutional structure and common set of beliefs across a rapidly-expanding 'British world'. Though Church expansion was far from being a regulated and coordinated affair, the book argues that churchmen did find ways to accommodate Anglicans of different ethnic backgrounds and party attachments in a single broad-based 'national' colonial Church. The book details the array of institutions, voluntary societies and inter-colonial networks that furnished the men and money that facilitated Church expansion; it also sheds light on how this institutional context contributed to the formation of colonial Churches with distinctive features and identities. The colonial Church that is presented in this book will be of interest to more than just scholars and students of religious and Church history. The book shows how the colonial Church played a vital role in the formation of political publics and ethnic communities in a settler empire that was being remoulded by the advent of mass migration, democracy and the separation of Church and state.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><br>Joseph Hardwick's study of the imperial growth of a national church is an illuminating and important addition to nineteenth-century imperial and ecclesiastical historiography. - Jacob M. Blosser, Texas Woman's University, Anglican and Episcopal History <br><p></p><br><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><br>Joseph Hardwick is Lecturer in British History at Northumbria University<br>
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