Hilary M. Carey is a professor of history at the University of Newcastle, NSW, Life Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge and former Keith Cameron Professor of Australian History at University College Dublin. Her most recent books are God’s Empire: Religion and Colonialism in the British World (Cambridge University Press, 2010), and the edited collection God’s Empire (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). She also conducts research on this history of medieval astrology.John Gascoigne took his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 1981 and is a professor of history at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He is a former editor of the Journal of Religious History and his publications have dealt with the relations between science, religion and the Enlightenment. His most recent book, Captain Cook: Voyager between Worlds (Continuum, 2007), reflects his increasing interest in the history of exploration and culture contact in the age of the Enlightenment. Contributors include John Gascoigne, Jared van Duinen, David Garrioch, John Moses, Stewart Jay Brown, David Cahill, Hilary Carey, Rowan Strong, Frank Lambert, John Stenhouse, John Murphy and Bruce Kaye.

“A powerful and essential foundation for anyone wishing to understand the emergence of post-colonial churches … thoughtful and erudite.”Philip Jenkins, Baylor University. In: Church History, Vol. 81, No. 3 (September 2012), p. 696.“This volume […] is a mature and confident expression of the new historiography that takes religion and the Churches seriously both on their own terms and in their relations with the State.”Peter Doll, Norwich Cathedral. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 64, No. 4 (October 2013), p. 836.

• PrefaceNotes on contributors Introduction:The rise and fall of Christendom John Gascoigne and Hilary M. CareyPart I: Old WorldsThe ironies of English Erastianism: Puritanism and the outbreak of the English Civil WarsJared van DuinenThe Protestant problem and church–state relations in Old Regime France David GarriochChurch and state in post-Reformation Germany, 1530-1914John A. MosesThe broad church movement, national culture, and the established Churches of Great Britain, c. 1850-c. 1900 Stewart J. BrownPart II: Imperial StatesThe crisis of ecclesiastical privilege in Spain and Spanish America: The question of insurgent clergy, 1780-1820David CahillGladstone, the colonial Church, and imperial stateHilary M. CareyThe Church of England and the British imperial state: Anglican metropolitan sermons of the 1850sRowan StrongPart III: New WorldsDebating the US church–state boundary, then and now: Virginia as a case study Frank LambertChurch and state in New Zealand, 1835-1870: Religion, politics, and race John StenhouseChurch and state in the history of Australian welfare John MurphyFrom Anglican gaol to religious pluralism: Re-casting Anglican views of church and state in AustraliaBruce KayeSelect Bibliography Index