Hilary M Carey
Biographic Data
| ID | 301629 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hilary M Carey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hilary M |
| FAMILY NAME | Carey |
| SIGNATURE | CAREY H M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Newcastle Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6998-0399 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Mariners: Race, Religion and Empire. Special Issue: Introduction
Sailors, Societies and Sectarianism: George Charles (‘Boatswain’) Smith and the Formation of the British and Foreign Sailor Society
This article examines the context for the establishment of the non-denominational Port of London Society, and the dissenting Bethel Union, which came together to form the British and Foreign Sailor Society in 1833. Making forensic use of the surviving archives as well as contemporary reports in regional and national newspapers, it challenges the traditional historiography which focuses on the charismatic, but disruptive, figure of George Charles …
Poor Jack to Pious Sailor: Religious Literature for British Seamen, 1815–C.1850
Convicts: A Global History, by Clare Anderson
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Blubber for Bibles: Translating colonialism in Inuit missions, c. 1750–1850
Between 1750 and 1850, at least twenty versions of the Greenlandic Bible were published through the efforts of Greenlandic catechists, Danish Lutherans, German Moravians, the Danish Bible Society and the British and Foreign Bible Society (BFBS). This article assesses the role of Greenlandic and other Inuit translators as they were engaged in the colonial project of devising a complete version of the scriptures in their own language. Using the rel…
Maeve Ryan. Humanitarian Governance and the British Antislavery World System
Book review of Ryan, Humanitarian Governance (2022)
The History of James Curtin: Catholic Priest, Protestant Missionary, and Pariah of British Proslavery, 1765-1845
This article analyses the place of Christian proslavery in the era of amelioration through the lens of the career of the Rev. James Curtin (1765-1845). Curtin is best known for his role in the baptism of Mary Prince, and the History of Mary Prince that made her famous. Curtin was a crucial proslavery advocate in the subsequent libel cases involving Thomas Pringle, the Secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society, the Wood family who enslaved Mary Prince…
Empire of Hell: Religion and the Campaign to End Convict Transportation in the British Empire, 1788–1875
This revisionist history of convict transportation from Britain and Ireland will challenge much that you thought you knew about religion and penal colonies. Based on original archival sources, it examines arguments by elites in favour and against the practice of transportation and considers why they thought it could be reformed, and, later, why it should be abolished. In this, the first religious history of the anti-transportation campaign, Hilar…
The Imperial Irish: Canada's Irish Catholics Fight the Great War, 1914–1918 by Mark G. McGowan
[No Abstract]
Missions and missionaries
Missions and missionaries have been major players in the history of world empires and especially in relation to Europe and the history of Christianity. This entry provides an account of missions from the early Christians to the post‐colonial era. It considers the role played by missions and missionaries in some other world religions including Buddhism, Islam, and Hinduism. Missionaries ensured that Christianity spread across Europe in the Middle …
Religion and Greater Ireland: Christianity and Irish Global Networks, 1750-1969
Henry VII’s Book of Astrology and the Tudor Renaissance
This essay considers the place of astrology at the early Tudor court through an analysis of British Library MS Arundel 66, a manuscript compiled for the use of Henry VII (r. 1485 -1509) in the 1490s. It argues that an illustration on fol. 201 depicts King Henry being presented with prognostications by his astrologer, William Parron, with the support of Louis, Duke of Orleans, later King Louis XII of France (r. 1498 -1515). It considers the activi…
Church and State in Old and New Worlds
Church-state relations have always been important but the need for an historical re-evaluation has been heightened by recent developments in the relations between governments and religious bodies. Drawing on a wide range of historical case-studies this book focuses particularly on the way in which the traditional European Old World fusion of church and state was reshaped in the New World of European settler colonies of the United States, Australi…
God's Empire: Religion and Colonialism in the British World, c.1801–1908
In God's Empire, Hilary M. Carey charts Britain's nineteenth-century transformation from Protestant nation to free Christian empire through the history of the colonial missionary movement. This wide-ranging reassessment of the religious character of the second British empire provides a clear account of the promotional strategies of the major churches and church parties which worked to plant settler Christianity in British domains. Based on extens…
God's Empire: Religion and Colonialism in the British World, C. 1801-1908
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The Secret of England's Greatness’: Medievalism, Ornithology, and Anglican Imperialism in the Aboriginal Gospel Book of Sir George Grey
The Bible was a central symbol of the Victorian age and one which was readily adapted to the Gothic style which became fashionable from the middle of the nineteenth century. This essay provides an analysis for the Aboriginal Gospel Book (Auckland Public Library, Grey MS 82) which was once owned by the colonial administrator Sir George Grey (1812-1898). This contains a translation of the Gospel of St Luke which was completed by the missionary Lanc…
Church and State in Old and New Worlds
Anglican Imperialism and the Gothic Style in Australia
From the middle of the nineteenth century, the Church of England renewed its missionary objectives for the colonies and aspired to demonstrate its credentials to be a national Church for the empire. This essay considers the ways in which ‘imperial Anglicanism’ was reflected in the deployment of the Gothic style for church architecture. It is argued that enthusiasts for the Gothic style in Australia included both Anglicans and Catholics, but was e…
Astrology in the Middle Ages
The article reviews the history of astrology in the middle ages including its classical inheritance, ascendancy under Byzantium and Islam, and development in the Latin west. Mediaeval astrology was a part of learned, scientific culture. However, the translation movement in the high middle ages brought challenges of integration to the Latin west, reflected in condemnations and anxieties about the orthodoxy and morality of astrological judgements. …
Judicial astrology in theory and practice in later medieval Europe
Lancelot Threlkeld, Biraban, and the Colonial Bible in Australia
Ethnographers, historians, and linguists have argued for many years about the nature of the relationship between missionaries and their collaborators. Critics of missionary linguistics and education have pointed out that Bible translations were tools forged for the cultural conquest of native people and that missionary impacts on local cultures nearly always destructive and frequently overwhelming (Comaroff and Comaroff 1997; Rafael 1988; Sanneh …
Books
Death, God and Linguistics: Conversations with Missionaries on the Australian Frontier, 1824–1845
The first encounters between Aborigines and Europeans in south-eastern Australia were constrained by profound social and linguistic barriers, but they did provide opportunities for cultural exchange. This article argues that important evidence is contained in linguistic materials compiled by missionaries for the purposes of evangelisation and scripture translation. It interprets the linguistic work of Lancelot Threlkeld (1788–1859), who conducted…
Beong! Beong! (more! more): John Harper and the Wesleyan Mission to the Australian Aborigines
“Beong! Beong! (more! more!)”: John Harper and the Wesleyan Mission to the Australian Aborigines David A. Roberts and Hilary Carey I said to them in their own language “Were gairer” be not afraid, at which words they sat down and became quite composed. One of them was much pleased to hear me speak in the native tongue, and exclaimed “Beong! Beong!” (more more) Harper Journal, 5 March 1825).1 In July 1826, two Methodist gentlemen sat down for a te…
Empires of Religion
A sparkling new collection on religion and imperialism, covering Ireland and Britain, Australia, Canada, the Cape Colony and New Zealand, Botswana and Madagascar. Bursting with accounts of lively char
Lancelot Threlkeld, Biraban, and the Colonial Bible in Australia
Ethnographers, historians, and linguists have argued for many years about the nature of the relationship between missionaries and their collaborators. Critics of missionary linguistics and education have pointed out that Bible translations were tools forged for the cultural conquest of native people and that missionary impacts on local cultures nearly always destructive and frequently overwhelming (Comaroff and Comaroff 1997; Rafael 1988; Sanneh …
Companions in the Wilderness? Missionary Wives in Colonial Australia, 1788‐1900
Subordination, invisibility and chosen work: Missionary nuns and Australian Aborigines, c.1900-1949
1998). Subordination, invisibility and chosen work: Missionary nuns and Australian Aborigines, c.1900–1949. Australian Feminist Studies: Vol. 13, No. 28, pp. 251-267
Smallpox and the Baiame Waganna of Wellington Valley, New South Wales,1829-1840: The Earliest Nativist Movement in Aboriginal Australia
Of all the various infections that afflicted Aboriginal people in Australia during the years of first contact with Europeans, smallpox was the most disastrous. The physical and social impacts of the disease are well known. This article considers another effect of the contagion. It is argued that a nativist movement in the form of a waganna (dance ritual) associated with the Wiradjuri spirit Baiame and his adversary Tharrawiirgal was linked to the…
What is the Folded Almanac: The Form and Function of a Key Manuscript Source for Astro-medical Practice in Later Medieval England
This article provides an account of an important source for late medieval English medicine and astrology, namely the folded almanac, also termed, less correctly, a physician's folded (or folding) calendar, vade mecum, or girdle book. On the basis of a discussion of twenty-nine surviving examples of the folded almanac, a number of questions are raised about the way these manuscripts were used in astro-medical practice. This article reviews what th…
Death, God and Linguistics: Conversations with Missionaries on the Australian Frontier, 1824–1845
The first encounters between Aborigines and Europeans in south-eastern Australia were constrained by profound social and linguistic barriers, but they did provide opportunities for cultural exchange. This article argues that important evidence is contained in linguistic materials compiled by missionaries for the purposes of evangelisation and scripture translation. It interprets the linguistic work of Lancelot Threlkeld (1788–1859), who conducted…
Astrological Medicine and the Medieval English Folded Almanac
An earlier study (see Social History of Medicine, 16.3 (2003), 481–509) has provided an analysis of twenty-nine surviving examples of the folded almanac, a group of small, late medieval manuscripts which have been of considerable interest to medical historians. It has been demonstrated that the folded almanac was an English innovation designed in part to cater to the needs of medical practitioners and other professionals with an interest in astro…
Sailors, Societies and Sectarianism: George Charles (‘Boatswain’) Smith and the Formation of the British and Foreign Sailor Society
This article examines the context for the establishment of the non-denominational Port of London Society, and the dissenting Bethel Union, which came together to form the British and Foreign Sailor Society in 1833. Making forensic use of the surviving archives as well as contemporary reports in regional and national newspapers, it challenges the traditional historiography which focuses on the charismatic, but disruptive, figure of George Charles …
Poor Jack to Pious Sailor: Religious Literature for British Seamen, 1815–C.1850
The History of James Curtin: Catholic Priest, Protestant Missionary, and Pariah of British Proslavery, 1765-1845
This article analyses the place of Christian proslavery in the era of amelioration through the lens of the career of the Rev. James Curtin (1765-1845). Curtin is best known for his role in the baptism of Mary Prince, and the History of Mary Prince that made her famous. Curtin was a crucial proslavery advocate in the subsequent libel cases involving Thomas Pringle, the Secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society, the Wood family who enslaved Mary Prince…
Missions and missionaries
Missions and missionaries have been major players in the history of world empires and especially in relation to Europe and the history of Christianity. This entry provides an account of missions from the early Christians to the post‐colonial era. It considers the role played by missions and missionaries in some other world religions including Buddhism, Islam, and Hinduism. Missionaries ensured that Christianity spread across Europe in the Middle …
Henry VII’s Book of Astrology and the Tudor Renaissance
This essay considers the place of astrology at the early Tudor court through an analysis of British Library MS Arundel 66, a manuscript compiled for the use of Henry VII (r. 1485 -1509) in the 1490s. It argues that an illustration on fol. 201 depicts King Henry being presented with prognostications by his astrologer, William Parron, with the support of Louis, Duke of Orleans, later King Louis XII of France (r. 1498 -1515). It considers the activi…
The Secret of England's Greatness’: Medievalism, Ornithology, and Anglican Imperialism in the Aboriginal Gospel Book of Sir George Grey
The Bible was a central symbol of the Victorian age and one which was readily adapted to the Gothic style which became fashionable from the middle of the nineteenth century. This essay provides an analysis for the Aboriginal Gospel Book (Auckland Public Library, Grey MS 82) which was once owned by the colonial administrator Sir George Grey (1812-1898). This contains a translation of the Gospel of St Luke which was completed by the missionary Lanc…
Australian Religion Review, 1980–2000, Part 2: Christian Denominations
Australian Religion Review, 1980–2000, Part 1: Surveys, Bibliographies and Religions Other Than Christianity
The Land of Byamee”: K. Langloh Parker, David Unaipon, and Popular Aboriginality in the Assimilation Era
Popular Aboriginal legendary tales have been one of the most significant ways in which Aboriginality has been constructed in Australia, but they have not received much attention prior to this paper. Beginning with missionary accounts of Baiame, a deity associated with Gamilaraay (Kamilaroi) and Wiradhuri (Wiradjuri) speaking peoples of colonial Australia, the author examines the way in which the theme of the Great Spirit or Baiame is developed in…
Introduction: Colonialist Representations of Indigenous Religions
Devout Literate Laypeople and the Pursuit of the Mixed Life in Later Medieval England
Courting Disaster: Astrology at the English Court and University in the Later Middle
Courting Disaster
The High and Noble Science: Astrology and the Merton Circle
As a branch of learning, medieval astrology had its pretensions. Not only was it a royal art, one that was fit to serve kings, it was also a noble art. The study of astrology demanded exceptional standards of personal integrity and a certain nobility of the mind. This, at least, is what those who studied astrology liked to think.
Companions in the Wilderness? Missionary Wives in Colonial Australia, 1788‐1900
Books
War and Peace in Western Australia: The Social and Political Impact of the Great War 1914–1926. By Bobbie Oliver. University of Western Australia Press, Perth, 1995. Pp. 314. $24.95 paper. Unfit for Heroes: Reconstruction and Soldier Settlement in the Empire between the Wars. By Kent Fedorowich. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1995. Pp. xii + 243. £40.00 cloth. Disturbing the Wan Melbourne Catholics and Vietnam. By Val Noone. Spectrum, M…
The Land of Byamee”: K. Langloh Parker, David Unaipon, and Popular Aboriginality in the Assimilation Era
Popular Aboriginal legendary tales have been one of the most significant ways in which Aboriginality has been constructed in Australia, but they have not received much attention prior to this paper. Beginning with missionary accounts of Baiame, a deity associated with Gamilaraay (Kamilaroi) and Wiradhuri (Wiradjuri) speaking peoples of colonial Australia, the author examines the way in which the theme of the Great Spirit or Baiame is developed in…
Introduction: Colonialist Representations of Indigenous Religions
Subordination, invisibility and chosen work: Missionary nuns and Australian Aborigines, c.1900-1949
1998). Subordination, invisibility and chosen work: Missionary nuns and Australian Aborigines, c.1900–1949. Australian Feminist Studies: Vol. 13, No. 28, pp. 251-267
Australian Religion Review, 1980–2000, Part 1: Surveys, Bibliographies and Religions Other Than Christianity
Introduction: Millennium: A View from Australia
Women's Work in a Rural Community: Dungog and the Upper Williams Valley, 1880-1900
This article analyses the position of women in the economy of a rural community in the second half of the nineteenth century. The town of Dungog and its surrounding region in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales were being settled by Europeans in these decades. The article explores the relationship between family needs and aspirations, the economic constraints and opportunities available to women in this community. It concludes that while more ec…
Australian Religion Review, 1980–2000, Part 2: Christian Denominations
Magic and Divination at the Courts of Burgundy and France: Text and Context of Laurens Pignon's "Contre les devineurs" (1411) . Jan R. Veenstra
Books
Gold: Forgotten Histories and Lost Objects of Australia. Edited by Iain McCalman, Alexander Cook and Andrew Reeves. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv + 344. $49.95 cloth. Colonial Consorts: The Wives of Victoria's Governors 1839–1900. By Marguerite Hancock. Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Press, 2001. Pp. xxii + 324. $59.95 cloth. Rosa! Rosa! A Life of Rosa Praed, Novelist and Spiritualist. By Patricia Clar…
Church Time and Astrological Time in the Waning Middle Ages
Time, according to medieval theologians and philosophers, was experienced in radically different ways by God and by his creation. Indeed, the obligation to dwell in time, and therefore to have no sure knowledge of what was to come, was seen as one of the primary qualities which marked the post-lapsarian state. When Adam and Eve were cast out of the garden of delights, they entered a world afflicted with the changing of the seasons, in which they …
Smallpox and the Baiame Waganna of Wellington Valley, New South Wales,1829-1840: The Earliest Nativist Movement in Aboriginal Australia
Of all the various infections that afflicted Aboriginal people in Australia during the years of first contact with Europeans, smallpox was the most disastrous. The physical and social impacts of the disease are well known. This article considers another effect of the contagion. It is argued that a nativist movement in the form of a waganna (dance ritual) associated with the Wiradjuri spirit Baiame and his adversary Tharrawiirgal was linked to the…
What is the Folded Almanac: The Form and Function of a Key Manuscript Source for Astro-medical Practice in Later Medieval England
This article provides an account of an important source for late medieval English medicine and astrology, namely the folded almanac, also termed, less correctly, a physician's folded (or folding) calendar, vade mecum, or girdle book. On the basis of a discussion of twenty-nine surviving examples of the folded almanac, a number of questions are raised about the way these manuscripts were used in astro-medical practice. This article reviews what th…
Heads of History 2004 Report
Astrological Medicine and the Medieval English Folded Almanac
An earlier study (see Social History of Medicine, 16.3 (2003), 481–509) has provided an analysis of twenty-nine surviving examples of the folded almanac, a group of small, late medieval manuscripts which have been of considerable interest to medical historians. It has been demonstrated that the folded almanac was an English innovation designed in part to cater to the needs of medical practitioners and other professionals with an interest in astro…
God's Willing Workers: Women and Religion in Australia
This work examines the ways religious beliefs and institutions have shaped the lives of women in Australia over 200 years. It looks at Catholic nuns, protestant missionaries, deaconesses, and laywomen
The Vanished Kingdoms of Patrick O’Farrell: Religion, Memory and Migration in Religious History
This article considers the place of religion and memory in the history of religious immigration to Australia. It begins with a discussion of the work of Patrick O’Farrell and his family memoir, Vanished Kingdoms and its evocation of family, place, and religion in New Zealand and Australia. It reviews recent writing on collective memory by the religious sociologist Danièle Hervieu‐Léger, theologian Paul Ricoeur, and the Australian historian Peter …
Introduction: Remembering the Religious History of A. E. (Tony) Cahill (1933–2004) and Patrick O’Farrell (1933–2003)
This article provides an introduction to a special issue of the Journal of Religious History on the theme religion and memory based on papers presented at the 20th International Congress of Historical Sciences held at the University of New South Wales, Sydney in July 2005. The special issue was prepared as a memorial tribute to the Australian historians Tony Cahill (1933–2004) and Patrick O’Farrell (1933–2003). Patrick O’Farrell made significant …
Introduction: Empires of Religion
At the height of the imperial age church people liked to argue that religion and the British empire were inseparable - that the visible, commercial and political empire was woven into the fabric of another, invisible, country - a spiritual empire. But, then as now, historians and politicians have not been convinced that the empire had significant religious roots. Although religious interpretations of imperial history have undergone a revival in r…
Religion and the “Evil Empire”
This paper provides an historiographical review of the rhetorical and historical sources for religious suspicion of empires and imperialism in the west. It begins with an analysis of Ronald Reagan's celebrated “evil empire” speech of March 1983, and traces its polemical roots to scriptural precedents, notably in the Book of Revelation, in which “empire” is equated with the unjust rule of Babylon. Some comparisons are made between the general use …
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