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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.
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.
This book presents and interpretation of Michael Oakeshott's
philosophy by paying close attention to his reading of Hobbes. It
offers and account of Oakeshott's political theory and examines the
way in which it changes and develops - from a broadly Hegelian to a
recognisably, if idiosyncratics, Hobbesian character.
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