The Oxford History of Australia, Volume 3Late nineteenth-century Australia claimed one of the world's highest standards of living and was seen as one of the most successful examples of the transplantation of British culture. Yet beneath the surface prosperity, there lay a great deal of uncertainty and conflict, including clashes among churches, the crash of the 1890s, pressure for federation, and the challenging of traditional views of education, women's roles, and the family. This volume takes a skeptical look at many of the common perceptions of Australia in the Victorian era, concentrating on human values rather than on the rhetoric of national achievement. |
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... Christianity . It was not that people ceased to believe in God , or even that there was a marked decline in formal religious ... Christian groups had a spiritual , religious , or cultural home , somewhere they turned for inspiration or ...
... Christianity . It was not that people ceased to believe in God , or even that there was a marked decline in formal religious ... Christian groups had a spiritual , religious , or cultural home , somewhere they turned for inspiration or ...
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... Christianity discovered , such simplicity produced nothing but scorn . Two facts , however , were very influential on the religious belief of the majority of the population nominally Christian . Most were able to read , and did read the ...
... Christianity discovered , such simplicity produced nothing but scorn . Two facts , however , were very influential on the religious belief of the majority of the population nominally Christian . Most were able to read , and did read the ...
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... Christian's provision , per medium of an endowment policy endorsed by the whole community.'60 It was easy for good Catholics to fall in behind the advocates of what was essentially a secular version of Christianity . And that , to the ...
... Christian's provision , per medium of an endowment policy endorsed by the whole community.'60 It was easy for good Catholics to fall in behind the advocates of what was essentially a secular version of Christianity . And that , to the ...
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