Building God's own country
Subtitle: historical essays on religions in New Zealand
By: edited by John Stenhouse and Jane Thomson.
Contributors: Stenhouse, John.; Thomson, Jane, 1944-
Publisher: University of Otago Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Dunedin, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Otago (N.Z.) -- Religion.; New Zealand -- Religion.
Other titles: Historical essays on religions in New Zealand
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-269) and index.
"This volume of essays is by postgraduate students at the University of Otago, 1975-2001"--Acknow.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Southern Presbyterians. Scottish piety : the Free Church settlement of Otago, 1848-1853 / R.R. McClean; title: The right man for his time : D.M. Smart D.D. / Margaret Morgan; title: A godly rhythm: keeping the sabbath in Otago, 1870-1890 / Alison Clarke; title: The "Whistling Kirk" : music at Knox Church, 1860-1990 / Jennifer M. Andrewes. pt. 2. Communities of faith. Moray Place Congregational Church : a social history, 1862-1966 / Keith Furniss; title: Chosen people : the Jewish Kehilah in nineteenth-century Dunedin / Maureen Kate Cooper; title: Good reading matter : the New Zealand Tablet, 1873-1895 / B.D. McLeod; title: "Onward Christian soldiers" : the Salvation Army in Milton, 1884-1894 / Michael F. Hay. pt. 3. Missionary encounters. Missionary printer : William Colenso at Paihia, 1834-52 / G.A. Phillipson; title: The trials of the Saints : Mormons in New Zealand, 1854-1940 / J. Henderson; title: 'Teacher' Don : the mission to the Chinese in Otago / Susan Irvine. pt. 4. Gender. 'Be strong and show thyself a man' : Christian masculinities in southern Dunedin, 1885-1925 / Kieran O'Connell; title: This game of living : the YMCA in Dunedin, 1933-1938 / Justine Smith; title: Patient and enduring love : the deaconess movement, 1900-1920 / Karyn-Maree Piercy; title: An easy passage? an Anglican female priesthood in New Zealand / Angela Matthews.