RT Book
T1 Reason, religion, and the Australian polity: a secular state?
T2 Routledge studies in modern history
JF Routledge studies in modern history
A1 Chavura, Stephen A.
A1 Gascoigne, John 1951-
A1 Tregenza, Ian
LA English
PP Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY
PB Routledge
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1663928142
AB 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.
AB "How did the concept of the secular state emerge and evolve in Australia and how has it impacted on its institutions? This is the most comprehensive study to date on the relationship between religion and the state in Australian history, focusing on the meaning of political secularity in a society that was from the beginning marked by a high degree of religious plurality. This book tracks the rise and fall of the established Church of England, the transition to plural establishments, the struggle for a public Christian-secular education system, and the eventual separation of church and state throughout the colonies. The study is unique in that it does not restrict its concern with religion to the churches but also examines how religious concepts and ideals infused apparently secular political and social thought and movements making the case that much Australian thought and institution building has had a sacral-secular quality. Social welfare reform, nationalism, and emerging conceptions of citizenship and civilization were heavily influenced by religious ideals, rendering problematic traditional linear narratives of secularisation as the decline of religion. Finally the book considers present day pluralist Australia and new understandings of state secularity in light of massive social changes over recent generations"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BR1480
SN 9781138603189
K1 Church and state : Australia
K1 Religious Pluralism : Australia
K1 Secularism : Australia
K1 Australia : Religion
K1 Australia : Politics and government
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