Table of Contents

Introduction: English religion and empire to 1700
1: Anglicans and empire: historical interpretations
2: The construction of an Anglican Imperialism: British North America in the eighteenth century
3: Anglicanism in a resurgent imperialism: Bengal 1790-1830
4: A new Anglican imperial paradigm: the Colonial Bishoprics Fund 1840-1841
5: The new paradigm in the colonies: Australia and New Zealand 1820s-c.1850
Conclusion: Anglicanism and Empire 1700-c.1850

About the Author

Rowan Strong is Senior Lecturer in Church History, Murdoch University, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Reviews

This is a fine work, discerning, among the pomposities of eighteenth-century episcopal sermons and the pieties of the Missionary Register, a Christianity aspiring to be faithful in its time.
*Dan O'Connor, The Expository Times*

...an important and well-argued study...
*Ian Breward, Ormond College (Australia) Journal of Ecclesiastical History*

Rowan Strong's study deserves to be widely read
*Ormond College (Australia), Journal of Ecclesiastical History*

By defining the period 1700-1850 as a distinctive one in the history of the Anglican missions, Strong has made an important contribution to church history and the history of missions.
*Jeffrey Cox, Theology*