Empires of Religion Book

List of Abbreviations vii

Preface viii

Notes on Contributors x

1 Introduction: Empires of Religion Hilary M. Carey 1

Part I Religious Metropoles

2 The Consolidation of Irish Catholicism within a Hostile Imperial Framework: A Comparative Study of Early Modern Ireland and Hungary Tadhg O hAnnrachain 25

3 Anti-Catholicism and the British Empire, 1815-1914 John Wolffe 43

4 An Empire of God or of Man? The Macaulays, Father and Son Catherine Hall 64

5 Religious Literature and Discourses of Empire: The Scottish Presbyterian Foreign Mission Movement Esther Breitenbach 84

Part II Colonies and Mission Fields Greater Britain: Whiteness and its Limits

6 'Making Black Scotsmen and Scotswomen?' Scottish Missionaries and the Eastern Cape Colony in the Nineteenth Century John MacKenzie 113

7 Archbishop Vaughan and the Empires of Religion in Colonial New South Wales Peter Cunich 137

8 'Brighter Britain': Images of Empire in the International Child Rescue Movement, 1850-1915 Shurlee Swain 161

9 Saving the 'Empty North': Religion and Empire in Australia Anne O'Brien 177

Part II Colonies and Mission Fields Friends of the Native? Universalism and Its Limits

10 'The Sharer of My Joys and Sorrows': Alison Blyth, Missionary Labours and Female Perspectives on Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Jamaica John McAleer 199

11 Richard Taylor and the Children of Noah: Race, Science and Religion in the South Seas Peter Clayworth 222

12 From African Missions to Global Sisterhood: The Mothers' Union and Colonial Christianity, 1900-1930 Elizabeth E. Prevost 243

Part III Post-Colonial Transformations

13 Ireland's Spiritual Empire: Territory andLandscape in Irish Catholic Missionary Discourse Fiona Bateman 267

14 Canadian Protestant Overseas Missions to the Mid-Twentieth Century: American Influences, Interwar Changes, Long-Term Legacies Ruth Compton Brouwer 288

15 Empire and Religion in Colonial Botswana: The Seretse Khama Controversy, 1948-1956 John Stuart 311

Select Bibliography 333

Index 339