Australia's Secular Foundations

Australia's Secular Foundations
Author: Malcolm Wood
Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2016-09-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 1925333329

Explaining how Australia’s secular society derives from its colonial past, this book examines: • the environmental and social context that encouraged godlessness, including the convict system, the bush, materialism and cultural development; • religious practice and sectarianism; • the state’s policy of denominational even-handedness to ensure social harmony; • the challenges to faith that science and critical biblical scholarship posed; and • churchmen’s attempts to foist a moral code on society, and their ambivalent attitudes to society’s poor and distressed.

Australian Catholics

Australian Catholics
Author: Edmund Campion
Publisher: Ringwood, Vic., Australia ; New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1987
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Gonzaga Barry - Jack Donahoe - Julian Tenison Woods - Daniel Mannix - Pat Dodson - John Plunkett - John Polding - John McEncroe - Vatican Council II (2).

Empire, migration and identity in the British World

Empire, migration and identity in the British World
Author: Kent Fedorowich
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2015-11-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1526103222

The essays in this volume have been written by leading experts in their respective fields and bring together established scholars with a new generation of migration and transnational historians. Their work weaves together the ‘new’ imperial and the ‘new’ migration histories, and is essential reading for scholars and students interested in the interplay of migration within and between the local, regional, imperial, and transnational arenas. Furthermore, these essays set an important analytical benchmark for more integrated and comparative analyses of the range of migratory processes – free and coerced – which together impacted on the dynamics of power, forms of cultural circulation and making of ethnicities across a British imperial world.

Then and Now

Then and Now
Author: Edmund Campion
Publisher: ATF Press
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2021-10-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1922582646

Recent decades have seen many changes in the religious lives of Australian Catholics. Then and Now charts these changes while acknowledging the relevance of past experience. Its focus is on the stories of Catholic people, their leaders and their encounters with history. It explores the ways Catholics have influenced the future of wider national society. The book tells of diversity and differences in the Australian Catholic story.

Dimensions of Australian Society

Dimensions of Australian Society
Author: Brian Graetz
Publisher: Macmillan Education AU
Total Pages: 460
Release: 1994
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780732927929

Second edition of this detailed reference examining the social and political currents of contemporary Australian society. Ordered into three sections - demographic dimensions, social dimensions and politics - the volume utilises data for the national Census and representative national sample surveys. Includes new chapters on Aborigines, health and deviance. Also available in hardback. Indexed.

Encyclopedia of Monasticism: A-L

Encyclopedia of Monasticism: A-L
Author: William M. Johnston
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 866
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781579580902

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.