Studying Religion in the Land of the Long White Cloud
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/jasr.40130Keywords:
Religious history, theology, religious activism, global Christianity, New ZealandAbstract
This article considers a career in religious studies, shaped by specialistinterests in New Zealand religious history and modern Christianity. Itexplores formative influences, and a pathway through history and theologyto religious studies as an unanticipated destination. The articleexpounds and contextualises research in the field of New Zealand religioushistory alongside consideration of challenges and opportunities forreligious studies in Aotearoa/New Zealand, the Land of the Long WhiteCloud.
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Davidson, Allan K. 2000 New Zealand History and Religious Myopia. In Mapping the Landscape: Essays in Australian and New Zealand Christianity. Festschrift in Honour of Professor Ian Breward, edited by Susan Emilsen and William W. Emilsen, 205–21. Peter Lang, New York.
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Fountain, Philip, and Geoffrey Troughton (eds.) 2019 Special Issue: Christianity and Development in the Pacific. Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies16(1).
Harding, Susan 1991 Representing Fundamentalism: The Problem of the Repugnant Cultural Other. Social Research58(2): 373–93.
Hays, Richard B. 1989 Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
Lineham, Peter 1991 Religion. In The Future of the Past: Themes in New Zealand History, edited by Colin Davis and Peter Lineham, 3–28. Department of History, Massey University, Palmerston North.
2014 Trends in New Zealand Religious History: From Institutional to Social History. History Compass12(4): 333–43. https://doi.org/10.1111/hic3.12152
Martin, Dale B. 1999 The Corinthian Body. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
McLeod, W. H. 1968 Gur? N?nak and the Sikh Religion. Clarendon Press, Oxford.
NZAVS 2019 The New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study. Online: https://www.psych.auckland.ac.nz/en/about/new-zealand-attitudes-and-values-study.html(accessed October 30, 2019).
Pelikan, Jaroslav 1985 Jesus through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
Prothero, Stephen 2003 American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York.
Pursuing Peace 2019 Pursuing Peace in Godzone. Online: http://pursuingpeace.nz(accessed October 30, 2019).
Sanders, E. P. 1977 Paul and Palestinian Judaism. Fortress Press, Minneapolis.
1985 Jesus and Judaism. Fortress Press, Minneapolis.
Shinya, Michiharu 1979 The Path from Guadalcanal. Outrigger, Auckland.
Stenhouse, John 2004 God’s Own Silence: Secular Nationalism, Christianity and the Writing of New Zealand History. New Zealand Journal of History38(1): 1–17.
Troughton, Geoffrey 2003 Echoes in the Temple? Jesus, Nehemiah and Their Actions in the Temple. Journal of Biblical Studies3(2): 1–21.
2004 Religious Education and the Rise of Psychological Childhood in New Zealand. History of Education Review33(2): 30–44. https://doi.org/10.1108/08198691200400008
2005 Moody and Sankey Down Under: A Case Study in ‘Trans-Atlantic’ Revivalism in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand. Journal of Religious History29(2): 145–62. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9809.2005.00297.x
2006a Religion, Churches and Childhood in New Zealand, c. 1900–1940. New Zealand Journal of History40(1): 39–56.
2006b The Maoriland Worker and Blasphemy in New Zealand. Labour History91: 113–30.
2007 The Light of the Worldat the End of the World, 1906. Journal of New Zealand Art History28: 1–15.
2011a New Zealand Jesus: Social and Religious Transformations of an Image, 1890–1940. Peter Lang, Bern.
2011b Richard Booth and Gospel Temperance Revivalism. In The Spirit of the Past: Essays on Christianity in New Zealand History, edited by Geoffrey Troughton and Hugh Morrison, 112–25. Victoria University Press, Wellington.
2013a Redeeming the Demon Drink: New Zealand Presbyterians and the Question of Alcohol. Social History of Alcohol and Drugs27(2): 133–55. https://doi.org/10.1086/SHAD27020133
2013b Faith in Welfare: The Origins of the Open Home Foundation. Journal of Beliefs and Values34(2): 220–34. https://doi.org/10.1080/13617672.2013.801672
2014 Missionaries, Historians and the Peace Tradition in New Zealand. In Te Rongopai 1814, ‘Takoto te pai!’: Bicentenary Reflections on Christian Beginnings and Developments in Aotearoa New Zealand, edited by Allan K. Davidson, Stuart Lange, Peter Lineham and Adrienne Puckey, 228–45. General Synod of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa New Zealand and Polynesia, Auckland.
2017a Making Kiwi Christians: Children and Religion in the House of Reed. In Creating Religious Childhoods: Children and Religion in Anglo-World and British Colonial Contexts, 1850–1950, edited by Hugh Morrison and Mary-Clare Martin, 181–98. Routledge, London.
2019 Scripture, Piety and the Practice of Peace in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand Mission.Studies in World Christianity25(2): 128–44. https://doi.org/10.3366/swc.2019.0253
Troughton, Geoffrey (ed.) 2017b Saints and Stirrers: Christianity, Conflict, and Peacemaking in New Zealand, 1814–1945. Victoria University Press, Wellington.
Troughton, Geoffrey, and Philip Fountain (eds) 2018 Pursuing Peace in Godzone: Christianity and the Peace Tradition in New Zealand. Victoria University Press, Wellington.
Troughton, Geoffrey, and Stuart Lange (eds) 2016 Sacred Histories in Secular New Zealand. Victoria University Press, Wellington.
Troughton, Geoffrey, and Hugh Morrison (eds) 2011 TheSpirit of the Past: Essays on Christianity in New Zealand History.Victoria University Press, Wellington.
Wolterstorff, Nicholas 1983 Until Justice and Peace Embrace. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids.
Wright, N. T. 1996 Jesus and the Victory of God. Fortress, Minneapolis.
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2020-01-24
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Troughton, G. (2020). Studying Religion in the Land of the Long White Cloud. Journal for the Academic Study of Religion, 32(2-3), 220-233. https://doi.org/10.1558/jasr.40130
