Building God's Own Country : Historical Essays On Religionsin New Zealand

Description

The essays in this book offer insights into New Zealand's religious past, often through the prism of one southern region, Otago. By graduate students of the University of Otago, the book considers many aspects of the country's ever-changing religious landscape, including the bishop who declared himself an Irishman first, Catholic second and a Christian third!

Table of contents

Introduction 1 Scottish piety: the Free Church settlement of Otago 2 The right man for his time: D.M. Stuart 3 A godly rhythm: keeping the Sabbath in Otago 4 The 'Whistling Kirk': a history of music at Knox Church 5 Moray Place Congregational Church: a social history 6 Chosen people: the Jewish Kehilah in nineteenth-century Dunedin 7 Good reading matter: the New Zealand Tablet 8 Onward Christian soldiers: the Salvation Army in Milton 9 Missionary printer: William Colenso at Paihia 10 The trials of the Saints: Mormons in New Zealand 11 'Teacher' Don: the mission to the Chinese in Otago 12 Christian masculinities in southern Dunedin 13 This game of living: the YMCA in Dunedin 14 Patient and enduring love: the deaconess movement 15 An easy passage? An Anglican female priesthood in New Zealand