John Stenhouse
Biographic Data
| ID | 5234818 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Stenhouse |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Stenhouse |
| SIGNATURE | STENHOUSE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Otago |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-1902-3365 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reading Darwin during the New Zealand wars
Missionary Science
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, European thinkers created a powerful and enduring new scientific culture partly by forging close alliances with Christianity. Over the following centuries, as European empires burgeoned, science and Christianity spread round the world. Yet historians have only recently begun systematically to investigate the connections between science and missions in the modern world.
Empire, Environment and Religion
This article, using colonial New Zealand as a case-study, and integrating environment, empire and religion into a single analytic framework, contends that Christian and environmental discourses interpenetrated and interacted in irreducibly complex ways during the long nineteenth century. Many of the colony's mostly Protestant settlers interpreted the book of Genesis as giving them responsibility to 'subdue and replenish' the natural world; domini…
Christianity, Gender, and the Working Class in Southern Dunedin, 1880-19401
This article is a study of the southern suburbs of Dunedin, which during the late nineteenth century became the most industrialized and working class urban area of New Zealand. Analyzing the social composition of fifteen southern Dunedin churches, I question the idea, widely held by New Zealand historians, that the working classes had largely turned their backs on organized religion. In keeping with recent scholarship in the social history of Bri…
Imperialism, Atheism, and Race
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Antievolutionism in the Antipodes
Like other English-speaking peoples around the world, New Zealanders began debating Darwinism in the early 1860s, shortly after the publication of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species . Despite the opposition of some religious and political leaders – and even the odd scientist – biological evolution made deep inroads in a culture that increasingly identified itself as secular. The introduction of pro-evolution curricula and radio broadcasts provoke…
Onward and upward
Churches, State and the New Zealand Wars
Ever since the Enlightenment, scholars in a variety of disciplines have depicted the Western world as growing inexorably more secular. Modern, secular, and scientific modes of thought, they insist, have steadily driven religion out of the public square. Many have portrayed the secularization of the public sphere as not only inevitable but desirable—a Good Thing. In this article, a case study of the New Zealand wars of the 1860s, I question these …
Catholicism, Science, and Modernity
This is a case study of William Miles Maskell, an eminent entomologist, devout Roman Catholic, and the foremost scientific critic of evolutionary theory in nineteenth‐century New Zealand. Modern Western intellectual history, built on the assumption that secular, scientific modes of thought inexorably swept aside traditional metaphysical and religious ones, has generally written off such persons as ignorant reactionaries battling truth, enlightenm…
The Rev. Dr James Copland and the Mind of New Zealand ‘Fundamentalism’
Empire, Environment and Religion
This article, using colonial New Zealand as a case-study, and integrating environment, empire and religion into a single analytic framework, contends that Christian and environmental discourses interpenetrated and interacted in irreducibly complex ways during the long nineteenth century. Many of the colony's mostly Protestant settlers interpreted the book of Genesis as giving them responsibility to 'subdue and replenish' the natural world; domini…
Imperialism, Atheism, and Race
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Reading Darwin during the New Zealand wars
The Rev. Dr James Copland and the Mind of New Zealand ‘Fundamentalism’
The Rev. Dr James Copland and the Mind of New Zealand ‘Fundamentalism’
Onward and upward
Churches, State and the New Zealand Wars
Ever since the Enlightenment, scholars in a variety of disciplines have depicted the Western world as growing inexorably more secular. Modern, secular, and scientific modes of thought, they insist, have steadily driven religion out of the public square. Many have portrayed the secularization of the public sphere as not only inevitable but desirable—a Good Thing. In this article, a case study of the New Zealand wars of the 1860s, I question these …
Catholicism, Science, and Modernity
This is a case study of William Miles Maskell, an eminent entomologist, devout Roman Catholic, and the foremost scientific critic of evolutionary theory in nineteenth‐century New Zealand. Modern Western intellectual history, built on the assumption that secular, scientific modes of thought inexorably swept aside traditional metaphysical and religious ones, has generally written off such persons as ignorant reactionaries battling truth, enlightenm…
Antievolutionism in the Antipodes
Like other English-speaking peoples around the world, New Zealanders began debating Darwinism in the early 1860s, shortly after the publication of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species . Despite the opposition of some religious and political leaders – and even the odd scientist – biological evolution made deep inroads in a culture that increasingly identified itself as secular. The introduction of pro-evolution curricula and radio broadcasts provoke…
Imperialism, Atheism, and Race
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Christianity, Gender, and the Working Class in Southern Dunedin, 1880-19401
This article is a study of the southern suburbs of Dunedin, which during the late nineteenth century became the most industrialized and working class urban area of New Zealand. Analyzing the social composition of fifteen southern Dunedin churches, I question the idea, widely held by New Zealand historians, that the working classes had largely turned their backs on organized religion. In keeping with recent scholarship in the social history of Bri…
Empire, Environment and Religion
This article, using colonial New Zealand as a case-study, and integrating environment, empire and religion into a single analytic framework, contends that Christian and environmental discourses interpenetrated and interacted in irreducibly complex ways during the long nineteenth century. Many of the colony's mostly Protestant settlers interpreted the book of Genesis as giving them responsibility to 'subdue and replenish' the natural world; domini…
Missionary Science
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, European thinkers created a powerful and enduring new scientific culture partly by forging close alliances with Christianity. Over the following centuries, as European empires burgeoned, science and Christianity spread round the world. Yet historians have only recently begun systematically to investigate the connections between science and missions in the modern world.
Reading Darwin during the New Zealand wars
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