Table of Contents

1. Looking Out Across the Terrain: Surveying the landscape and a map for the journey 2. The Story They Brought With Them: Dissent’s British Origins and Colonial Australian Experience 3. Landscape of Scepticism and Belief: Churches of Christ travelogues from the Holy Land to Australia, 1889 to 1896 4. Landscape of Urban Transformation: Salvation Army publicity and performance in the parish of the streets, 1890 to 1909 5. Landscape of Here and Elsewhere: Congregationalist poetry at home in war and peace, 1914 to 1920 6. Landscape of Adventure: Methodist novels and imagination on the mission fields, 1915 to 1948 7. Landscape of Timeless Beauty: Quaker essays on beauty in art and the painting of nature, 1922 to 1963 8. Conclusion. Writing the Australian Landscape Bibliography Index

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Tells the multi-stranded history of Protestant Dissent and Evangelicalism in Australia through the creative writing of women and men of faith as they engaged with their environment.

About the Author

Kerrie Handasyde is a Senior Lecturer in religious history at the University of Divinity, Australia.

Reviews

This imaginative exploration of spirituality and place is a notable contribution to the history of Christianity in Australia.
*David Hilliard, Research Fellow, Flinders University, Australia*

Kerrie Handasyde's account of God in the Landscape is beautifully written and elegantly conceived. It shows us how the human experience of faith is essentially 'placed'. This is a profound, challenging and evocative book.
*Professor Katharine Massam, University of Divinity, Australia*

From Balcatta Gospel Hall, to the Liquor Shops of Melbourne, and from The Friends’ School Archive, to the sculpture of William Ricketts, this book is a historically rich study of little-recognized Australians—the Protestant Dissenters of colonial Australia, Congregationalists, Salvationists, Churches of Christ, Quakers, and Methodists. It is the story of how men and women of Protestant faith, and of beliefs not known in Australia, learned to find ‘God in the landscape.’
*Lyn McCredden, Professor of Literary Studies, Deakin University, Australia*

Each of the Christian denominations of Australia possesses a distinct ethos, which is rarely evoked in standard accounts. By exploring how their members depict the phenomena of the landscape in various literary genres, Kerrie Handasyde has vividly revealed the character of a whole sector of Australian religion.
*David Bebbington, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Stirling, UK*

Kerrie Handasyde has made a distinctive contribution to Australian religious and literary historiography.
*History Australia*

Kerrie Handasyde’s historical work is fascinating in its focus on fiction, poetry, novels, travel writing and dramatic performance, rather than denominational histories, to get inside the lived experience of Protestant Dissent. In so doing, it uncovers insights that might otherwise go overlooked.
*Journal of Religious History*