God in the Landscape Studies in the Literary History of Australian Protestant Dissent
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Kerrie Handasyde is a Senior Lecturer in religious history at the University of Divinity, Australia.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 <i>God in the Landscape</i> 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