Introduction: empires of religion

Title: Introduction: empires of religion
Creator: Carey, Hilary M.
Relation: Empires of Religion p. 1-21
Relation: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series
Relation: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=296952
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2008
Description: At the height of the imperial age church people liked to argue that religion and the British empire were inseparable - that the visible, commercial and political empire was woven into the fabric of another, invisible, country - a spiritual empire. But, then as now, historians and politicians have not been convinced that the empire had significant religious roots. Although religious interpretations of imperial history have undergone a revival in recent years, it is probably going too far to argue, with Tony Ballantyne, that religion can now be found at 'the very centre of understandings of British colonialism', and that this has come about because of the recent wave of post-colonial and ethnographic studies.
Subject: empires; Christianity; history; religion; politics; British colonialism
Identifier: uon:6611
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/804432
Identifier: ISBN:9780230208803

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