Provincialising God

Anglicanism, Place, and the Colonisation of Australian Land

Bibliographic Data

ID10198522
AuthorsMeredith Lake (The University of Sydney, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume35
Issue1
Pages72-90
Publication date2011-02-23
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Religious History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-4227 • E-ISSN: 1467-9809
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9809.2010.00972.x
OpenAlexW1752201516
LanguageEN
Citations received4

This article investigates the importance of Anglican religion and the physical structures of faith to how some believers understood their surrounds in a British settler colony. Its central figure, William Grant Broughton, was head of the Church of England in Australia during the 1830s and 1840s. At the time when the position of the Church was changing both at home and abroad, it was his responsibility to establish the physical and spiritual presence of Anglicanism throughout the colony. He faced the particular challenges of negotiating the Church's formal relationship to the land and Anglicanism's cultural contribution to settler notions of local place and community. In meeting these challenges, Broughton “provincialised God” by articulating the Anglican faith with consequences specific to his Australian context and particularly to the British colonisation of Aboriginal territory

Archaeology · Colonisation · Colonization · Context (archaeology · Ethnology · Faith · Local church · Negotiation · Northern territory · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Theology · Australian History and Society · Gender Studies · History · Law · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies · Philosophy · Religious Tourism and Spaces

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