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Sacred Histories in Secular New Zealand Geoffrey Troughton and Stuart Lange (eds) Victoria University Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781776560950 My late grandmother was a Presbyterian, who had some Catholic friends. They lived in working-class Stanley Point (when it was working-class) in…
New Zealand Jesus: Social and Religious Transformations of an Image, 1890–1940 Geoffrey Troughton Peter Lang, US$78.95, ISBN 9783034310475 The figure of Jesus and the powerful ideas that are often associated with him have attracted men, women and children for centuries.…
The Spirit of the Past: Essays on Christianity in New Zealand History Geoffrey Troughton and Hugh Morrison (eds) Victoria University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9780864736543 Theology no longer forms part of a university education in the social sciences or humanities, where…