Diary of a Working Clergyman in Australia and Tasmania

Diary of a Working Clergyman in Australia and Tasmania
Author: John Davies Mereweather
Publisher: London : Hatchard
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1859
Genre: Australia
ISBN:

This book covers the second half of Mereweather's journey from 1850-1853, which includes his visits to Batavia (pages 265-323) and Singapore (pages 326-330). On his visit to Singapore, he briefly describes the state of law and order in the colony, his trips to several places such as St Andrew's church, Government Hill, Whampoa's bazaar, the high cost of fresh food, the climate and the presence of tigers. He also describes in detail of the interior of a Chinese temple, possibly the Tian Hock Keng temple.

The Spectator

The Spectator
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1202
Release: 1859
Genre: English literature
ISBN:

A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.

Victorian Christianity and Emigrant Voyages to British Colonies c.1840 - c.1914

Victorian Christianity and Emigrant Voyages to British Colonies c.1840 - c.1914
Author: Rowan Strong
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2017-10-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0191036218

Victorian Christianity and Emigrant Voyages to British Colonies c.1840 - c.1914 considers the religious component of the nineteenth-century British and Irish emigration experience. It examines the varieties of Christianity adhered to by most British and Irish emigrants in the nineteenth century, and consequently taken to their new homes in British settler colonies. Rowan Strong explores a dimension of this emigration history that has been overlooked by scholars—the development of an international emigrants' chaplaincy by the Church of England that ministered to Anglicans, Nonconformists, as well as others, including Scandinavians, Germans, Jews, and freethinkers. Using the sources of this emigrants' chaplaincy, Strong also makes extensive use of the shipboard diaries kept by emigrants themselves to give them a voice in this history. Using these sources to look at the British and Irish emigrant voyages to new homes, this study provides an analysis of the Christianity of these emigrants as they travelled by ship to British colonies. Their ships were floating villages that necessitated and facilitated religious encounters across denominational and even religious boundaries. It argues that the Church of England provided an emigrants' ministry that had the greatest longevity, breadth, and international structure of any Church in the nineteenth century. The book also examines the principal varieties of Christianity espoused by most British emigrants, and argues this religion was more central to their identity and, consequently, more significant in settler colonies than many historians have often hitherto accepted. In this way, the Church of England's emigrant chaplaincy made a major contribution to the development of a British world in settler colonies of the empire.

Athenaeum

Athenaeum
Author: James Silk Buckingham
Publisher:
Total Pages: 920
Release: 1859
Genre:
ISBN: