Evangelical Belief and Enlightenment Morality in the Australian Temperance Movement

This book explores the history of the Australian temperance movement and the ideas that informed it, offering a detailed examination of the beliefs of evangelicals involved.

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Nicole Starling is Academic Dean and Lecturer in Church History at Morling College, College, Sydney (a member college of the Australian College of Theology) and an honorary research fellow at Macquarie University.

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Introduction: Temperance, Improvement and the 'Moral Enlightenment' Project

1 Temperance in Australia, 1832-1930

2 John Saunders, Temperance, Enlightenment and The Gospel

3 George Washington Walker, Religion, Irreligion and The Hobart Town Total Abstinence Society

4 John Mcencroe and The Catholic Teetotal Movement

5 Alfred Stackhouse and the Rise of Church-Based Temperance

6 Mary Ann Thomas and the Rise of Third-Wave Gospel Temperance

7 Elizabeth Webb Nicholls, The Wctu and The Secularisation of Salvation

Conclusion: A 'New Faith'? Evangelicalism and Enlightenment in the Australian Temperance Movement