Reason, religion, and the Australian polity
Foundations: church and state in Ancien Régime Britain -- The brief rise and fall of the Australian colonial established church -- The coming of plural establishment -- The separation of church and state -- Education, religion, and citizenship -- A secular constitution? The Federation debates -- The...
| Summary: | Foundations: church and state in Ancien Régime Britain -- The brief rise and fall of the Australian colonial established church -- The coming of plural establishment -- The separation of church and state -- Education, religion, and citizenship -- A secular constitution? The Federation debates -- The moral economy of the early Australian commonwealth -- Civil religion: from civic Protestantism to the Anzac tradition -- Citizenship, the nation, and religion -- Christian Australia: resurgence and retreat -- Culture, gender, sexuality: dechristianising the secular? -- Conclusion: beyond the secular-religion divide -- Beyond the secular-religion Divide. |
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| ISBN: | 0429883471 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.4324/9780429467059 |