The ‘secular’ settlement and Australian political thought
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6233928 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen A Chavura (0000-0003-3099-1426, Independent Scholar, Sydney, Australia, corresponding author), Ian Tregenza (0000-0003-1902-5833, Macquarie University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 272-287 |
| Publication date | 2019-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1036-1146 • E-ISSN: 1363-030X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10361146.2019.1604944 |
| OpenAlex | W2947071425 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 19 |
This paper challenges the tendency among contemporary historians and political scientists to read secularism and religion in Australian political history in binary terms. It is argued that this framework is anachronistic, creating a barrier to a proper appreciation of religion in Australian political history. In keeping with much British Enlightenment thinking, religion through much of Australia’s history was deemed to have great social utility and its promotion was of central secular significance. This understanding framed the education debates of the second half of the nineteenth century as well as the social welfare reforms and institution building around the Federation period. Such developments cast doubt on claims that secularism of an exclusionary kind is a key element of the now widely invoked category of the Australian settlement
Economics · Environmental ethics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Secular variation · Settlement (finance · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Demography · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |