Evangelical Belief and Enlightenment Morality in the Australian Temperance Movement

ISBN-13: 9781032403847 / Twarda / 2024 / 336 str.

Nicole Starling

Opis

This book explores the history of the Australian temperance movement and the ideas that informed it, offering a detailed examination of the beliefs of evangelicals involved.

Spis treści

Introduction: Temperance, Improvement and the ‘Moral Enlightenment’ Project

1 Temperance in Australia, 1832–1930

2 John Saunders, Temperance, Enlightenment and The Gospel

3 George Washington Walker, Religion, Irreligion and The Hobart Town Total Abstinence Society

4 John Mcencroe and The Catholic Teetotal Movement

5 Alfred Stackhouse and the Rise of Church-Based Temperance

6 Mary Ann Thomas and the Rise of Third-Wave Gospel Temperance

7 Elizabeth Webb Nicholls, The Wctu and The Secularisation of Salvation

Conclusion: A ‘New Faith’? Evangelicalism and Enlightenment in the Australian Temperance Movement

O autorze

Nicole Starling is Academic Dean and Lecturer in Church History at Morling College, Sydney.