Geoffrey Troughton
Biographic Data
| ID | 695451 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoffrey Troughton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Troughton |
| SIGNATURE | TROUGHTON G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria University of Wellington |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7423-0640 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Target Trial Emulation Shows That Supported Causal Effects of Religious Attendance on Well-Being Are Selective
Religious service attendance is associated with better well-being, but observational associations do not establish causation. We analyse six annual waves of the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study (N = 46, 377) to estimate causal effects of monthly attendance on 24 well-being indicators using target trial emulation. Deterministic 'make everyone attend' contrasts fail positivity: only 2-3% of non-attenders initiate attendance per year. We there…
The causal effects of religious service attendance on prosocial behaviours in New Zealand
We investigate the causal effects of religious service attendance on prosocial behaviours using longitudinal data from a nationally representative sample of 33,198 New Zealanders collected between 2018 and 2021. Our study innovates in three ways: (1) we use longitudinal rather than cross-sectional data; (2) we incorporate measures of help received alongside self-reported giving; and (3) our statistical models are designed to address causal questi…
An insecure secularity? Religion, decolonisation and diversification in Aotearoa New Zealand
The question of the location of religion in the public sphere is always a matter of the logics, practices, and politics of secularism.While mythologies of a linear secular teleology have been thoroughly critiqued, the ongoing trajectories for both religious and secular politics are contested and emergent.New Zealand provides an important context for examining these dynamics.While New Zealand is frequently referenced as among the most secular nati…
Studying Religion in the Land of the Long White Cloud
This article considers a career in religious studies, shaped by specialistinterests in New Zealand religious history and modern Christianity. Itexplores formative influences, and a pathway through history and theologyto religious studies as an unanticipated destination. The articleexpounds and contextualises research in the field of New Zealand religioushistory alongside consideration of challenges and opportunities forreligious studies in Aotear…
A national-scale typology of orientations to religion poses new challenges for the cultural evolutionary study of religious groups
Religious groups differ in theology, ritual, and modes of self-governance. However, the extent to which such differences capture the variation of religious individuals remains unclear. Latent Profile Analysis offers a powerful statistical method for obtaining typologies from the response profiles of religious individuals. Here, we draw on a national sample of religiously-identified New Zealanders (N = 1484) and use LPA to obtain typologies for di…
Scripture, Piety and the Practice of Peace in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand Missions
Nineteenth-century missionary activity is more commonly associated in historiography with the violence of colonisation and imperialism than with peace. Nevertheless, in some places, rhetoric proclaiming Christianity as a peace-bringer became tied more decisively with the preaching of peace as an ethical imperative. This article explores the emergence and cultivation of a peace gospel in the mission to Māori in nineteenth-century New Zealand. It a…
Christianity and Development in the Pacific
Although a significant literature has arisen examining the intersections of Christianity and development in the Pacific, these themes have yet to receive the full attention they deserve. This special issue seeks to encourage further scholarship on these important themes. In this introduction we trace some of the entanglements between religion and development in Pacific history and suggest some productive future research trajectories
To burn or to save? The opposing functions of reading scripture on environmental intentions
In a controversial Science article published in 1967, Lynn White blamed Judeo-Christian scriptures for the planet’s ecological crisis. White claimed that scriptural dogmas of human domination have too easily justified environmental exploitation. White’s critics responded that the Bible commends ecological stewardship, which potentially restrains otherwise ruinous human tendencies to exploit. Previous studies empirically assessing these apparently…
Methodism in Australia
Migrations
M. A.De La Torre and A.Hernández
Faith in welfare
This article analyses the origins of the Open Home Foundation (OHF), a Christian social service provider that commenced in New Zealand in 1977. It interprets the Foundation’s appeal, paying particular attention to the role of religious values and spirituality within the organisation. The article argues that OHF emerged and flourished from the late 1970s due to a confluence of personal, social, political and religious factors. Specifically, it ref…
Redeeming the Demon Drink
This article analyses responses to alcohol within the Presbyterian Church in New Zealand over the long period from early European settlement to the present. It focuses on attitudes to alcohol as a moral, political and religious question, especially in relation to Presbyterian policies and practices, and the Church’s role in alcohol campaigning. The article traces the rise of restrictive attitudes and campaigning in the nineteenth-century Church, …
Light at the end of the world
This article considers New Zealand responses to William Holman Hunt's painting The Light of the World in 1906 during its visit as part of a tour through the British Empire. Following similar success in Australia, the New Zealand tour was phenomenally popular. The tour is considered primarily with reference to its religious dimension, and provides a window into religion in New Zealand at the beginning of the twentieth century. In particular, it il…
Jesus and the Ideal of the Manly Man in New Zealand after World War One
This article investigates attempts to portray Jesus as a “manly Man” for “manly men” in the wake of World War One. The Jesus that emerged as a result of this enterprise was a heroic personality formed through interplay between ideals about soldiers and Christ. Whilst only some military virtues were valued — and only in particular forms — even these proved problematic in certain respects. In particular, attempts to integrate soldierly and moral ma…
The "Maoriland Worker" and Blasphemy in New Zealand
The 12 October 1921 issue of the New Zealand labour newspaper the Maoriland Worker included two poems by the noted British war poet Siegfried Sassoon. Three lines of 'Standto: Good Friday Morning' caught the authorities' attention. Consequently, on the advice of the Attorney General, a charge of blasphemous libel was laid against the paper's publisher John Glover. Glover was subsequently tried in the Supreme Court in 1922 in what remains New Zeal…
Moody and Sankey Down Under
This article examines the reception of revivalism inspired by the work of Dwight Moody and Ira Sankey in the Wanganui‐Manawatu region of New Zealand in the 1870s and 1880s. The success of Moody and Sankey's 1873–75 British campaign inspired interest in revivalism, and led to rapid and widespread adoption of their distinctive methods. Though it aroused opposition in some quarters, Moody and Sankey style revivalism became established as a significa…
An insecure secularity? Religion, decolonisation and diversification in Aotearoa New Zealand
The question of the location of religion in the public sphere is always a matter of the logics, practices, and politics of secularism.While mythologies of a linear secular teleology have been thoroughly critiqued, the ongoing trajectories for both religious and secular politics are contested and emergent.New Zealand provides an important context for examining these dynamics.While New Zealand is frequently referenced as among the most secular nati…
Scripture, Piety and the Practice of Peace in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand Missions
Nineteenth-century missionary activity is more commonly associated in historiography with the violence of colonisation and imperialism than with peace. Nevertheless, in some places, rhetoric proclaiming Christianity as a peace-bringer became tied more decisively with the preaching of peace as an ethical imperative. This article explores the emergence and cultivation of a peace gospel in the mission to Māori in nineteenth-century New Zealand. It a…
Light at the end of the world
This article considers New Zealand responses to William Holman Hunt's painting The Light of the World in 1906 during its visit as part of a tour through the British Empire. Following similar success in Australia, the New Zealand tour was phenomenally popular. The tour is considered primarily with reference to its religious dimension, and provides a window into religion in New Zealand at the beginning of the twentieth century. In particular, it il…
Jesus and the Ideal of the Manly Man in New Zealand after World War One
This article investigates attempts to portray Jesus as a “manly Man” for “manly men” in the wake of World War One. The Jesus that emerged as a result of this enterprise was a heroic personality formed through interplay between ideals about soldiers and Christ. Whilst only some military virtues were valued — and only in particular forms — even these proved problematic in certain respects. In particular, attempts to integrate soldierly and moral ma…
Moody and Sankey Down Under
This article examines the reception of revivalism inspired by the work of Dwight Moody and Ira Sankey in the Wanganui‐Manawatu region of New Zealand in the 1870s and 1880s. The success of Moody and Sankey's 1873–75 British campaign inspired interest in revivalism, and led to rapid and widespread adoption of their distinctive methods. Though it aroused opposition in some quarters, Moody and Sankey style revivalism became established as a significa…
Light at the end of the world
This article considers New Zealand responses to William Holman Hunt's painting The Light of the World in 1906 during its visit as part of a tour through the British Empire. Following similar success in Australia, the New Zealand tour was phenomenally popular. The tour is considered primarily with reference to its religious dimension, and provides a window into religion in New Zealand at the beginning of the twentieth century. In particular, it il…
Jesus and the Ideal of the Manly Man in New Zealand after World War One
This article investigates attempts to portray Jesus as a “manly Man” for “manly men” in the wake of World War One. The Jesus that emerged as a result of this enterprise was a heroic personality formed through interplay between ideals about soldiers and Christ. Whilst only some military virtues were valued — and only in particular forms — even these proved problematic in certain respects. In particular, attempts to integrate soldierly and moral ma…
The "Maoriland Worker" and Blasphemy in New Zealand
The 12 October 1921 issue of the New Zealand labour newspaper the Maoriland Worker included two poems by the noted British war poet Siegfried Sassoon. Three lines of 'Standto: Good Friday Morning' caught the authorities' attention. Consequently, on the advice of the Attorney General, a charge of blasphemous libel was laid against the paper's publisher John Glover. Glover was subsequently tried in the Supreme Court in 1922 in what remains New Zeal…
M. A.De La Torre and A.Hernández
Faith in welfare
This article analyses the origins of the Open Home Foundation (OHF), a Christian social service provider that commenced in New Zealand in 1977. It interprets the Foundation’s appeal, paying particular attention to the role of religious values and spirituality within the organisation. The article argues that OHF emerged and flourished from the late 1970s due to a confluence of personal, social, political and religious factors. Specifically, it ref…
Redeeming the Demon Drink
This article analyses responses to alcohol within the Presbyterian Church in New Zealand over the long period from early European settlement to the present. It focuses on attitudes to alcohol as a moral, political and religious question, especially in relation to Presbyterian policies and practices, and the Church’s role in alcohol campaigning. The article traces the rise of restrictive attitudes and campaigning in the nineteenth-century Church, …
Migrations
To burn or to save? The opposing functions of reading scripture on environmental intentions
In a controversial Science article published in 1967, Lynn White blamed Judeo-Christian scriptures for the planet’s ecological crisis. White claimed that scriptural dogmas of human domination have too easily justified environmental exploitation. White’s critics responded that the Bible commends ecological stewardship, which potentially restrains otherwise ruinous human tendencies to exploit. Previous studies empirically assessing these apparently…
Methodism in Australia
Scripture, Piety and the Practice of Peace in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand Missions
Nineteenth-century missionary activity is more commonly associated in historiography with the violence of colonisation and imperialism than with peace. Nevertheless, in some places, rhetoric proclaiming Christianity as a peace-bringer became tied more decisively with the preaching of peace as an ethical imperative. This article explores the emergence and cultivation of a peace gospel in the mission to Māori in nineteenth-century New Zealand. It a…
Christianity and Development in the Pacific
Although a significant literature has arisen examining the intersections of Christianity and development in the Pacific, these themes have yet to receive the full attention they deserve. This special issue seeks to encourage further scholarship on these important themes. In this introduction we trace some of the entanglements between religion and development in Pacific history and suggest some productive future research trajectories
Studying Religion in the Land of the Long White Cloud
This article considers a career in religious studies, shaped by specialistinterests in New Zealand religious history and modern Christianity. Itexplores formative influences, and a pathway through history and theologyto religious studies as an unanticipated destination. The articleexpounds and contextualises research in the field of New Zealand religioushistory alongside consideration of challenges and opportunities forreligious studies in Aotear…
A national-scale typology of orientations to religion poses new challenges for the cultural evolutionary study of religious groups
Religious groups differ in theology, ritual, and modes of self-governance. However, the extent to which such differences capture the variation of religious individuals remains unclear. Latent Profile Analysis offers a powerful statistical method for obtaining typologies from the response profiles of religious individuals. Here, we draw on a national sample of religiously-identified New Zealanders (N = 1484) and use LPA to obtain typologies for di…
An insecure secularity? Religion, decolonisation and diversification in Aotearoa New Zealand
The question of the location of religion in the public sphere is always a matter of the logics, practices, and politics of secularism.While mythologies of a linear secular teleology have been thoroughly critiqued, the ongoing trajectories for both religious and secular politics are contested and emergent.New Zealand provides an important context for examining these dynamics.While New Zealand is frequently referenced as among the most secular nati…
The causal effects of religious service attendance on prosocial behaviours in New Zealand
We investigate the causal effects of religious service attendance on prosocial behaviours using longitudinal data from a nationally representative sample of 33,198 New Zealanders collected between 2018 and 2021. Our study innovates in three ways: (1) we use longitudinal rather than cross-sectional data; (2) we incorporate measures of help received alongside self-reported giving; and (3) our statistical models are designed to address causal questi…
Target Trial Emulation Shows That Supported Causal Effects of Religious Attendance on Well-Being Are Selective
Religious service attendance is associated with better well-being, but observational associations do not establish causation. We analyse six annual waves of the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study (N = 46, 377) to estimate causal effects of monthly attendance on 24 well-being indicators using target trial emulation. Deterministic 'make everyone attend' contrasts fail positivity: only 2-3% of non-attenders initiate attendance per year. We there…
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