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Evangelical Belief and Enlightenment Morality in the Australian Temperance Movement 1832-1930

By Nicole Starling Copyright 2024
308 Pages
by Routledge

308 Pages
by Routledge

308 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores the history of the Australian temperance movement and the ideas that informed it, offering a detailed examination of the beliefs of evangelicals involved. The temperance movement in Australia was large and influential, and played a vital role in shaping the cultural and political life of the emerging nation across the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The study focuses... Read more

Introduction: Temperance, Improvement and the ‘Moral Enlightenment’ Project

1 Temperance in Australia, 1832–1930

2 John Saunders, Temperance, Enlightenment and The Gospel

3 George Washington Walker, Religion, Irreligion and The Hobart Town Total Abstinence Society

4 John Mcencroe and The Catholic Teetotal Movement

5 Alfred Stackhouse and the Rise of Church-Based Temperance

6 Mary Ann Thomas and the Rise of Third-Wave Gospel Temperance

7 Elizabeth Webb Nicholls, The Wctu and The Secularisation of Salvation

Conclusion: A ‘New Faith’? Evangelicalism and Enlightenment in the Australian Temperance Movement

Biography

Nicole Starling is Academic Dean and Lecturer in Church History at Morling College, College, Sydney (a member college of the Australian College of Theology) and an honorary research fellow at Macquarie University.