Rowan Strong
Biographic Data
| ID | 4790253 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rowan Strong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rowan |
| FAMILY NAME | Strong |
| SIGNATURE | STRONG R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Murdoch University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3272-679X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Anglican Identities: Logos Idealism, Imperial Whiteness, Commonweal Ecumenism , by Gary Dorrien
This is a big book, not just in its length but in its ambition and complexity. Professor Gary Dorrien is Reinhold Neibuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Religion at Columbia University. In this, his most recent book, he is writing for the first time as an Anglican about his own religious adherence. He seeks to delineate the history and enduring characteristics of Anglican theology from its beginnings in …
The Anglican Tradition from a Postcolonial Perspective , by Kwok Pui-Lan
The Anglican Tradition from a Postcolonial Perspective, by Kwok Pui-Lan, seems to have been written for readers who are nonacademic and, presumably, mainly Anglican-Episcopalian. It offers an introduction to the theory of postcolonialism as it applies to the present global Anglican Communion and its history. This modern theory, influenced by Marxist antagonism to Western imperialism and capitalism, has enabled scholars to develop influential crit…
Charles Strong’s Australian Church: Christian Social Activism 1885–1917
Charles Strong’s Australian Church: Christian Social Activism 1885–1917." Australian Historical Studies, 53(2), pp. 370–371
Anglican Emigrant Chaplaincy in the British Empire and Beyond, c .1840–1900
In the 1840s the Church of England, through the agency of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG) and the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK), established an official chaplaincy to emigrants leaving from British ports. The chaplaincy lasted throughout the rest of the nineteenth century. It was revitalized in the 1880s under the direction of the SPCK in response to a surge in emigration from Britain to the colonies. This a…
Emigrant Christianity 1880–c.1914
This chapter looks at emigrants’ religious experiences in the final decades of the Victorian and Edwardian periods, when emigration took place either in larger wooden sailing ships, or in steamships. These larger vessels made religious encounters across the various classes of passengers less common, but such encounters as did occur are found to be broadly similar to those in previous decades, with both the maintenance of religious difference and …
Religious Professionals in Emigrant Ships
This chapter looks at the religion of those emigrants, and others in emigrant ships, who earned their living from religion. These professionals were principally male clergy, but there were also some women who were nuns, deaconesses, or matrons supervising parties of single women. Among these religious professionals studied in the chapter are Anglicans emigrant chaplains, but also Nonconformists who acted unofficially as emigrant chaplains, and Ca…
Religious Constructions of British Emigration in the Nineteenth Century
A chapter on the understandings and constructions of emigration and emigrants propounded by the Victorian preachers and other clergy, emigration publicists, political economists, those working directly in emigrants’ ministry, and the Church of England. It finds that differences between the ways emigrants and emigration were viewed depended on the amount of direct contact the various groups had with emigrants themselves. The chapter also looks at …
Victorian Christianity and Emigrant Voyages to British Colonies c.1840 - c.1914
This volume looks at the religious dimensions of the nineteenth-century British and Irish emigration experience, examining 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. It examines a significant aspect of this emigration history that has been overlooked by scholars—the development of an international emigrants’ chaplainc…
Origins of Anglo-Catholic Missions: Fr Richard Benson and the Initial Missions of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1869–1882
This paper investigates the origins of Anglican Anglo-Catholic missions, through the missionary theology and practice of the founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, Fr Richard Benson, and an exploration of its initial missionary endeavours: the Twelve-Day Mission to London in 1869, and two missions in India from 1874. The Indian missions comprised an institutional mission at Bombay and Pune, and a unique ascetic enculturated mission at …
Pilgrims, Paupers or Progenitors: Religious Constructions of British Emigration from the 1840s to 1870s
This article examines the public attitudes of various religious commentators in Britain towards emigrants and emigration in the mid‐Victorian decades. These figures include bishops, Anglican clergy (but also those of some other denominations), those directly involved in ministry to emigrants, and lay proponents of emigration. It also contrasts their views with those of more secular commentators influenced by political economy. The article argues …
Globalising British Christianity in the Nineteenth Century: The Imperial Anglican Emigrant Chaplaincy 1846– c . 1910
This article argues for the importance of religion in mass emigration from Britain in the nineteenth century. It does so by examining the origins and development of the Anglican emigrant chaplaincy developed from the 1840s to nurture the spiritual welfare of British emigrants departing for the British settler colonies over the rest of the nineteenth century. Developed over succeeding decades by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and th…
The Colonial Religion of the A nglican Clergy: W estern A ustralia 1830 to c. 1870
This article sets out to remedy an historiographical oversight in A ustralian history by identifying the principal characteristics of the religious culture of A nglican clergy in the colony of W estern A ustralia between 1830 and about 1870. Using sources, both personal from clergy or clergy wives, and official correspondence with the colonial governments, and clergy correspondence to mission societies and their bishop, a number of features of cl…
Anglicanism and Sanctity: The Diocese of Perth and the Making of a ‘Local Saint’ in 1984
On 23 February 1984, the bishops of the Anglican Province of Western Australia signed and sealed a document promulgating the Venerable John Ramsden Wollaston a local saint and hero of the Anglican Communion in accordance with Resolutions 77–80 of the Lambeth Conference 1958. These four resolutions had allowed national or provincial Anglican Churches to add to the Calendar of the Saints to permit ‘supplementary commemorations for local use’ accord…
Converting Colonialism: Visions and Realities in Mission History 1706–1914 – Edited by Dana L. Robert
Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and the Cold War
Journal Article Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and the Cold War Get access Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and the Cold War. By Nicholas Evan Sarantakes. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xvi, 340 pp. Cloth, $90.00, ISBN978-0-521-19477-8. Paper, $28.99, ISBN978-0-521-17666-8.) Robert A. Strong Robert A. Strong Washington and Lee University Lexington, Virginia [email protected] Search for oth…
The Cambridge Platonists: A Brief Introduction – Edited by Tod E. Jones
Church and State in Western Australia: Implementing New Imperial Paradigms in the Swan River Colony, 1827–1857
This article examines, through the work and attitudes of its first four governors, the relations between Church and State in the last Australia colony to be established. It covers the period from the foundation of the colony in 1829 to the arrival of the first resident bishop of Perth in 1857. It challenges the prevailing historiography of a colonial administration wedded to Anglican privilege, and discusses the persistence of an erastian mind-se…
Rescuing the Perishing Heathen: The British Empire versus the Empire of Satan in Anglican theology, 1701–1721
In 1493–94, Pope Alexander VI divided the globe between Spain and Portugal with reference to their conquest of the territories of the New World. In the eighteenth century, Anglicans divided the globe into the territory of Christ and the lands and peoples under the dominion of Satan. The Bishop of Carlisle in 1719 was adamant that that indigenous heathen peoples were ‘insensible of the great Concernments of their immortal Souls, and very much unce…
Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism ‐ by Christopher Leslie Brown
Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth‐century England ‐ by Timothy Larsen
The Resurgence of Colonial Anglicanism: The Colonial Bishoprics Fund, 1840–1
Revival and resurgence is not simply something that happens to individuals or groups of persons; it is a phenomenon that, takes place within organized communities, institutions, and societies. The Church has existed in history as an organized society of believers, and this institutional dimension of Christianity has frequently shaped Christian history and the influence of Christianity on wider society for better and worse. Indeed, it could be arg…
A Vision of an Anglican Imperialism: The Annual Sermons of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts 1701–1714
This article examines the first two decades of the oldest continuing Anglican missionary society, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, founded in 1710. It argues that, contrary to the prevailing historiography of the British missionary movement, this early eighteenth‐century society was genuinely evangelistic and marks the real beginning of that movement. The society also marks the beginning of a formal, institutional e…
Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger
Journal Article Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger Get access Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger. By Kuklick Bruce. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. xvi, 241 pp. $29.95, isbn0-691-12349-7.) Robert A. Strong Robert A. Strong Washington and Lee UniversityLexington, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 9…
The Reverend John Wollaston and Colonial Christianity in Western Australia, 1840–1863
A Church for the Poor’: High-Church Slum Ministry in Anderston, Glasgow, 1845–51
In December 1845 Bishop Michael Russell of Glasgow and Galloway wrote to a keen young Episcopalian layman, Alexander James Donald D'Orsey, a teacher at the High School in Glasgow, suggesting ordination. Conscious of the growing numbers of immigrant Episcopalians in the western suburbs of Glasgow, the bishop's intention was to stimulate a new congregation for ‘the wants of the poorer class there’. Evidently D'Orsey was already known to the bishop …
A Vision of an Anglican Imperialism: The Annual Sermons of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts 1701–1714
This article examines the first two decades of the oldest continuing Anglican missionary society, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, founded in 1710. It argues that, contrary to the prevailing historiography of the British missionary movement, this early eighteenth‐century society was genuinely evangelistic and marks the real beginning of that movement. The society also marks the beginning of a formal, institutional e…
Alexander Forbes of Brechin: The first Tractarian bishop
Alexander Forbes, Bishop of Brechin from 1847 to 1875, was the first member of the Oxford Movement to become a bishop. A leading example to many Tractarians and Anglo–Catholics in the Episcopal Church, and in the Church of England, he also became well known to various Roman Catholics in Europe for his work for Catholic reunion in the 1860s. As bishop, and also incumbent of the Scottish Episcopalian congregation in the newly industrialized Dundee,…
Origins of Anglo-Catholic Missions: Fr Richard Benson and the Initial Missions of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1869–1882
This paper investigates the origins of Anglican Anglo-Catholic missions, through the missionary theology and practice of the founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, Fr Richard Benson, and an exploration of its initial missionary endeavours: the Twelve-Day Mission to London in 1869, and two missions in India from 1874. The Indian missions comprised an institutional mission at Bombay and Pune, and a unique ascetic enculturated mission at …
The Reverend John Wollaston and Colonial Christianity in Western Australia, 1840–1863
High Churchmen and Anglo‐Catholics: William Gladstone and the Eucharistic Controversy in the Scottish Episcopal Church, 1856–60
Globalising British Christianity in the Nineteenth Century: The Imperial Anglican Emigrant Chaplaincy 1846– c . 1910
This article argues for the importance of religion in mass emigration from Britain in the nineteenth century. It does so by examining the origins and development of the Anglican emigrant chaplaincy developed from the 1840s to nurture the spiritual welfare of British emigrants departing for the British settler colonies over the rest of the nineteenth century. Developed over succeeding decades by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and th…
The Colonial Religion of the A nglican Clergy: W estern A ustralia 1830 to c. 1870
This article sets out to remedy an historiographical oversight in A ustralian history by identifying the principal characteristics of the religious culture of A nglican clergy in the colony of W estern A ustralia between 1830 and about 1870. Using sources, both personal from clergy or clergy wives, and official correspondence with the colonial governments, and clergy correspondence to mission societies and their bishop, a number of features of cl…
Church and State in Western Australia: Implementing New Imperial Paradigms in the Swan River Colony, 1827–1857
This article examines, through the work and attitudes of its first four governors, the relations between Church and State in the last Australia colony to be established. It covers the period from the foundation of the colony in 1829 to the arrival of the first resident bishop of Perth in 1857. It challenges the prevailing historiography of a colonial administration wedded to Anglican privilege, and discusses the persistence of an erastian mind-se…
A Church for the Poor’: High-Church Slum Ministry in Anderston, Glasgow, 1845–51
In December 1845 Bishop Michael Russell of Glasgow and Galloway wrote to a keen young Episcopalian layman, Alexander James Donald D'Orsey, a teacher at the High School in Glasgow, suggesting ordination. Conscious of the growing numbers of immigrant Episcopalians in the western suburbs of Glasgow, the bishop's intention was to stimulate a new congregation for ‘the wants of the poorer class there’. Evidently D'Orsey was already known to the bishop …
Alexander Forbes of Brechin: The first Tractarian bishop
Alexander Forbes, Bishop of Brechin from 1847 to 1875, was the first member of the Oxford Movement to become a bishop. A leading example to many Tractarians and Anglo–Catholics in the Episcopal Church, and in the Church of England, he also became well known to various Roman Catholics in Europe for his work for Catholic reunion in the 1860s. As bishop, and also incumbent of the Scottish Episcopalian congregation in the newly industrialized Dundee,…
High Churchmen and Anglo‐Catholics: William Gladstone and the Eucharistic Controversy in the Scottish Episcopal Church, 1856–60
Coronets and Altars: Aristocratic Women’s and Men’s Support for the Oxford Movement in Scotland during the 1840s
The Oxford Movement has been portrayed in its classic historiography as both clericalist and, in so far as all nineteenth-century Anglican clergy were male, a movement of masculine leadership and initiatives. This is not to deny that the movement was largely priest-led and therefore male in its leadership but ‘largely’ does not mean ‘exclusively’. By looking at the introduction of the Oxford Movement into Scotland, a neglected aspect of its disse…
A Church for the Poor’: High-Church Slum Ministry in Anderston, Glasgow, 1845–51
In December 1845 Bishop Michael Russell of Glasgow and Galloway wrote to a keen young Episcopalian layman, Alexander James Donald D'Orsey, a teacher at the High School in Glasgow, suggesting ordination. Conscious of the growing numbers of immigrant Episcopalians in the western suburbs of Glasgow, the bishop's intention was to stimulate a new congregation for ‘the wants of the poorer class there’. Evidently D'Orsey was already known to the bishop …
The Reverend John Wollaston and Colonial Christianity in Western Australia, 1840–1863
A Vision of an Anglican Imperialism: The Annual Sermons of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts 1701–1714
This article examines the first two decades of the oldest continuing Anglican missionary society, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, founded in 1710. It argues that, contrary to the prevailing historiography of the British missionary movement, this early eighteenth‐century society was genuinely evangelistic and marks the real beginning of that movement. The society also marks the beginning of a formal, institutional e…
Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger
Journal Article Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger Get access Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger. By Kuklick Bruce. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. xvi, 241 pp. $29.95, isbn0-691-12349-7.) Robert A. Strong Robert A. Strong Washington and Lee UniversityLexington, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 9…
The Resurgence of Colonial Anglicanism: The Colonial Bishoprics Fund, 1840–1
Revival and resurgence is not simply something that happens to individuals or groups of persons; it is a phenomenon that, takes place within organized communities, institutions, and societies. The Church has existed in history as an organized society of believers, and this institutional dimension of Christianity has frequently shaped Christian history and the influence of Christianity on wider society for better and worse. Indeed, it could be arg…
Rescuing the Perishing Heathen: The British Empire versus the Empire of Satan in Anglican theology, 1701–1721
In 1493–94, Pope Alexander VI divided the globe between Spain and Portugal with reference to their conquest of the territories of the New World. In the eighteenth century, Anglicans divided the globe into the territory of Christ and the lands and peoples under the dominion of Satan. The Bishop of Carlisle in 1719 was adamant that that indigenous heathen peoples were ‘insensible of the great Concernments of their immortal Souls, and very much unce…
Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism ‐ by Christopher Leslie Brown
Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth‐century England ‐ by Timothy Larsen
The Cambridge Platonists: A Brief Introduction – Edited by Tod E. Jones
Church and State in Western Australia: Implementing New Imperial Paradigms in the Swan River Colony, 1827–1857
This article examines, through the work and attitudes of its first four governors, the relations between Church and State in the last Australia colony to be established. It covers the period from the foundation of the colony in 1829 to the arrival of the first resident bishop of Perth in 1857. It challenges the prevailing historiography of a colonial administration wedded to Anglican privilege, and discusses the persistence of an erastian mind-se…
Anglicanism and Sanctity: The Diocese of Perth and the Making of a ‘Local Saint’ in 1984
On 23 February 1984, the bishops of the Anglican Province of Western Australia signed and sealed a document promulgating the Venerable John Ramsden Wollaston a local saint and hero of the Anglican Communion in accordance with Resolutions 77–80 of the Lambeth Conference 1958. These four resolutions had allowed national or provincial Anglican Churches to add to the Calendar of the Saints to permit ‘supplementary commemorations for local use’ accord…
Converting Colonialism: Visions and Realities in Mission History 1706–1914 – Edited by Dana L. Robert
Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and the Cold War
Journal Article Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and the Cold War Get access Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and the Cold War. By Nicholas Evan Sarantakes. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xvi, 340 pp. Cloth, $90.00, ISBN978-0-521-19477-8. Paper, $28.99, ISBN978-0-521-17666-8.) Robert A. Strong Robert A. Strong Washington and Lee University Lexington, Virginia [email protected] Search for oth…
Globalising British Christianity in the Nineteenth Century: The Imperial Anglican Emigrant Chaplaincy 1846– c . 1910
This article argues for the importance of religion in mass emigration from Britain in the nineteenth century. It does so by examining the origins and development of the Anglican emigrant chaplaincy developed from the 1840s to nurture the spiritual welfare of British emigrants departing for the British settler colonies over the rest of the nineteenth century. Developed over succeeding decades by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and th…
The Colonial Religion of the A nglican Clergy: W estern A ustralia 1830 to c. 1870
This article sets out to remedy an historiographical oversight in A ustralian history by identifying the principal characteristics of the religious culture of A nglican clergy in the colony of W estern A ustralia between 1830 and about 1870. Using sources, both personal from clergy or clergy wives, and official correspondence with the colonial governments, and clergy correspondence to mission societies and their bishop, a number of features of cl…
Origins of Anglo-Catholic Missions: Fr Richard Benson and the Initial Missions of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1869–1882
This paper investigates the origins of Anglican Anglo-Catholic missions, through the missionary theology and practice of the founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, Fr Richard Benson, and an exploration of its initial missionary endeavours: the Twelve-Day Mission to London in 1869, and two missions in India from 1874. The Indian missions comprised an institutional mission at Bombay and Pune, and a unique ascetic enculturated mission at …
Pilgrims, Paupers or Progenitors: Religious Constructions of British Emigration from the 1840s to 1870s
This article examines the public attitudes of various religious commentators in Britain towards emigrants and emigration in the mid‐Victorian decades. These figures include bishops, Anglican clergy (but also those of some other denominations), those directly involved in ministry to emigrants, and lay proponents of emigration. It also contrasts their views with those of more secular commentators influenced by political economy. The article argues …
Emigrant Christianity 1880–c.1914
This chapter looks at emigrants’ religious experiences in the final decades of the Victorian and Edwardian periods, when emigration took place either in larger wooden sailing ships, or in steamships. These larger vessels made religious encounters across the various classes of passengers less common, but such encounters as did occur are found to be broadly similar to those in previous decades, with both the maintenance of religious difference and …
Religious Professionals in Emigrant Ships
This chapter looks at the religion of those emigrants, and others in emigrant ships, who earned their living from religion. These professionals were principally male clergy, but there were also some women who were nuns, deaconesses, or matrons supervising parties of single women. Among these religious professionals studied in the chapter are Anglicans emigrant chaplains, but also Nonconformists who acted unofficially as emigrant chaplains, and Ca…
Religious Constructions of British Emigration in the Nineteenth Century
A chapter on the understandings and constructions of emigration and emigrants propounded by the Victorian preachers and other clergy, emigration publicists, political economists, those working directly in emigrants’ ministry, and the Church of England. It finds that differences between the ways emigrants and emigration were viewed depended on the amount of direct contact the various groups had with emigrants themselves. The chapter also looks at …
Victorian Christianity and Emigrant Voyages to British Colonies c.1840 - c.1914
This volume looks at the religious dimensions of the nineteenth-century British and Irish emigration experience, examining 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. It examines a significant aspect of this emigration history that has been overlooked by scholars—the development of an international emigrants’ chaplainc…
Anglican Emigrant Chaplaincy in the British Empire and Beyond, c .1840–1900
In the 1840s the Church of England, through the agency of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG) and the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK), established an official chaplaincy to emigrants leaving from British ports. The chaplaincy lasted throughout the rest of the nineteenth century. It was revitalized in the 1880s under the direction of the SPCK in response to a surge in emigration from Britain to the colonies. This a…
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