Empires of Religion

1. Introduction: Empires of Religion
Hilary M. Carey

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 Ó hAnnracháin

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

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

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

Part II. Colonies and Mission Fields

6. ‘Making Black Scotsmen and Scotswomen?’ Scottish Missionaries and the Eastern Cape Colony in the Nineteenth Century
John MacKenzie

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

8. ‘Brighter Britain’: Images of Empire in the International Child Rescue Movement, 1850–1915
Shurlee Swain

9. Saving the ‘Empty North’: Religion and Empire in Australia
Anne O’Brien

Part II. Colonies and Mission Fields

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

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

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

Part III. Post-Colonial Transformations

13. Ireland’s Spiritual Empire: Territory and Landscape in Irish Catholic Missionary Discourse
Fiona Bateman

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

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

Keywords: History, Imperialism and Colonialism, History of Science, History of Britain and Ireland, History of Philosophy, History of Religion, Modern History