Empires of Religion

ISBN-13: 9780230208803 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 364 str.

Opis

Kant denies that Reason is intuitive, but demands that we must - in some way - 'make' Reason intuitive, and follow its guidance, particularly in matters of morality. In this book, a group of scholars attempt to analyze and explore this central paradox within Kantian thought. Each essay explores the question from a different perspective - from political philosophy, ethics and religion to science and aesthetics. The essays thus also reformulate the core question in different forms, for example, how are we to realize the moral good in personal character, political arrangements, or religious institutions?

Recenzje

'This book is an extremely welcome addition to the growing literature on the British empire, or empires, and religion. It offers much comment that is new while contributing to established historiographical debates. It is to be hoped that this volume will generate further interest and debate on a significant and too-long neglected dimension to imperial history.' - The Journal of the Ecclesiastical History

Spis treści

Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction: Empires of Religion; H.M.Carey PART I: RELIGIOUS METROPOLES The Consolidation of Irish Catholicism within a Hostile Imperial Framework: a comparative study of early modern Ireland and Hungary; T.Ó Hannracháin Anti-Catholicism and the British Empire, 1815-1914; J.Wolffe An Empire of God or of Man?: the Macaulays, father and son; C.Hall Religious Literature and Discourses of Empire: The Scottish Presbyterian Foreign Mission Movement, 1824-1913; E.Breitenbach PART II: COLONIES AND MISSION FIELDS 'Making Black Scotsmen and Women?' Scotland, Scottish Missions and the Eastern Cape Colony in the Nineteenth Century; J.Mackenzie Archbishop Vaughan and the Empires of Religion in Colonial New South Wales; P.Cunich 'Brighter Britain': Images of Empire in the International Child Rescue Movement, 1850-1915; S.Swain Saving 'the empty north': Religion and Empire in Australia; A.O'Brien 'The sharer of my joys and sorrows': Alison Blyth, Missionary Labours and Female Perspectives on Slavery in Nineteenth-century Jamaica; J.McAleer Richard Taylor and the Children of Noah: Race, Science and Religion in the South Seas; P.Clayworth From African Missions to Global Sisterhood: the Mothers' Union and Colonial Christianity, 1900-1930; E.E.Prevost PART III: POST-COLONIAL TRANSFORMATIONS Ireland's Spiritual Empire: Territory and Landscape in Irish Catholic Missionary Discourse; F.Bateman Canadian Protestant Overseas Missions to the Mid Twentieth Century: American Influences, Interwar Changes, Long-term Legacies, 1930-50; R.Compton Brouwer Empire and Religion in Colonial Botswana: The Seretse Khama Controversy, 1948-56; J.Stuart Select Bibliography Endnotes Index

O autorze

FIONA BATEMAN MA Course Co-ordinator, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland ESTHER BREITENBACH Postdoctoral Fellow, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, the University of Edinburgh, UK RUTH COMPTON BROUWER Lecturer in History, the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada HILARY M. CAREY Associate Professor of History, the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia PETER CLAYWORTH Historian, the Head Office of the Department of Conservation, New Zealand PETER CUNICH Lecturer in History, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China CATHERINE HALL Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History, University College London, UK JOHN MACKENZIE Honorary Research Professor at the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, the University of Aberdeen, UK, and Honorary Professor at the Centre for Environmental History and Policy, the University of Stirling, UK JOHN MCALEER Curator of Eighteenth-Century Imperial and Maritime History, the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK ANNE O'BRIEN Lecturer in History, the University of New South Wales, Australia TADHG ÓHANNRACHÁIN Lecturer in Early Modern History, University College Dublin, Ireland ELIZABETH E. PREVOST Assistant Professor of History, Grinnell College, Iowa, USA SHURLEE SWAIN Professor of History, School of Historical Studies, the University of Melbourne, Australia JOHN STUART Lecturer in History, Kings College London and Kingston University, UK JOHN WOLFFE Professor of Religious History, the Faculty of Arts, The Open University, UK