Anglican Clergy in Australia, 1788-1850: Building a British World

by Michael Gladwin

Anglican clergymen in Britain's Australian colonies in their earliest years faced very particular challenges. Lacking any relevant training, experience or pastoral theology, these pioneer religious professionals not only had to minister to a convict population unique in the empire, but had also to engage with indigenous peoples and a free-settler population struggling with an often inhospitable environment. Previous accounts have caricatured such...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0861933281
• ISBN13: 9780861933280
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Royal Historical Society
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"