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 on the relationship between evangelicalism and 'Moral Enlightenment' ideas within the temperance movement between 1832 and 1930. It considers the complex and varied ways in which they interacted within the thinking of the movement’s leaders, enriches discussions regarding religion and secularisation, and offers new insight into the involvement of women. Against the larger horizon of global evangelicalism, the international temperance movement, and the evolution of Australian political culture, the chapters look at the reported words and actions of six key temperance leaders: John Saunders, George Washington Walker, John McEncroe, Alfred Stackhouse, Mary Ann Thomas and Elizabeth Webb Nicholls. The book will be relevant to scholars of religious history and those with an interest in the evangelical Protestant tradition.
By:
Nicole Starling
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 730g
ISBN: 9781032403847
ISBN 10: 1032403845
Series: Routledge Studies in Evangelicalism
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 13 March 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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
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.
